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Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Standards (24 Oct 2013)

Luke Flanagan: 190. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the fact that Leitrim County Council is failing in its duty of care towards a disabled person (details supplied) in County Leitrim by failing to provide adequate heating facilities which will heat this person’s county council house in a manner which all medical advice prescribes...

Older Citizens: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (23 Oct 2013)

Luke Flanagan: I never thought I would come in here and say that I was going to sound like the Taoiseach, or Deputy Enda Kenny as he was known before the last election. However, I am coming in here to support the elderly. Unlike our Taoiseach, I would be supporting the elderly if I was in the Government as well, but unfortunately he is not doing so. If the Taoiseach thinks it is no big deal to take the...

Older Citizens: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (23 Oct 2013)

Luke Flanagan: No better man to allay the fears.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Special Areas of Conservation Designation (22 Oct 2013)

Luke Flanagan: I found it interesting that the Minister when answering Deputy McLellan's question referenced the fact that something was private property. I was delighted to hear him recognise that concept because the lands he is talking about are also private property. If he thinks that adopting an ostrich-style approach to this will solve it, it will not. Of of the 9,000 turbary rights holders on the...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Special Areas of Conservation Designation (22 Oct 2013)

Luke Flanagan: And the liability associated with them.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Special Areas of Conservation Designation (22 Oct 2013)

Luke Flanagan: The Minister should bring me to court then if he is so-----

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Special Areas of Conservation Designation (22 Oct 2013)

Luke Flanagan: Why not let us test the law?

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Special Areas of Conservation Designation (22 Oct 2013)

Luke Flanagan: Test the law.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Special Areas of Conservation Designation (22 Oct 2013)

Luke Flanagan: If the Minister was that sure about this he would have done that already.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Special Areas of Conservation Designation (22 Oct 2013)

Luke Flanagan: What law have I broken? Prosecute me if I have broken the law.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Special Areas of Conservation Designation (22 Oct 2013)

Luke Flanagan: The Minister should prosecute me if he thinks think I have broken the law.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Special Areas of Conservation Designation (22 Oct 2013)

Luke Flanagan: It is the Minister's duty to prosecute me if he believes I have broken the law.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Special Areas of Conservation Designation (22 Oct 2013)

Luke Flanagan: Clearly I have broken no law. That is the-----

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Special Areas of Conservation Designation (22 Oct 2013)

Luke Flanagan: -----only conclusion to which one can come.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Special Areas of Conservation Designation (22 Oct 2013)

Luke Flanagan: Prosecute, put up or shut up.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Special Areas of Conservation Designation (22 Oct 2013)

Luke Flanagan: Where is the law that I am breaking?

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Special Areas of Conservation Designation (22 Oct 2013)

Luke Flanagan: The Minister keeps referring to my having broken a law, which law have I broken?

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Special Areas of Conservation Designation (22 Oct 2013)

Luke Flanagan: 55. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht his views on whether the various restrictions now being placed on turf cutting here will lead to a situation where turf cutting will cease to exist. [44627/13]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Special Areas of Conservation Designation (22 Oct 2013)

Luke Flanagan: I can only conclude the Minister did not write that reply himself, because it does not tally with what turf cutters on Moanveanlagh bog in the Listowel area have told me he stated at a public meeting there on the future of turf cutting. According to five people who the Minister knows, who attended the meeting and to whom I have spoken, the Minister stated at that meeting that the State...

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Natural Heritage Areas Designation (22 Oct 2013)

Luke Flanagan: 309. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht his views on the impact of national heritage areas designations on areas in the buffer zones surrounding the NHAs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44643/13]