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Seanad: Report on Dublin and Monaghan Bombings: Motion. - Local Authority Funding: Motion. (10 Dec 2003)

James Bannon: I agree with my colleague that the Minister should take some initiative on this and try to eliminate the poor quality housing built in the 1930s. The Government did not even consider providing money for a lick of paint or allowing them to be bought under a tenant purchase scheme. I hope the Minister takes note of this aspect and comes back to this House with proposals thereon. On the question...

Seanad: Report on Dublin and Monaghan Bombings: Motion. - Local Authority Funding: Motion. (10 Dec 2003)

James Bannon: —to get involved in the maintenance and improvement of their estates but the initiative has been snookered by lack of funding from the Government. The Government encourages such initiatives in its policy document but it then starves the relevant local authorities of cash and nothing happens.

Seanad: Report on Dublin and Monaghan Bombings: Motion. - Local Authority Funding: Motion. (10 Dec 2003)

James Bannon: The tenants have lost confidence in local authorities. We are back to square one in that the whole structure of tenant committees, etc. has fallen asunder. The Minister should consider bringing forward a proper housing document that will be fair to local authority tenants throughout the country. There was no fair play in what the Minister said earlier. He has played games with the electorate—

Seanad: Report on Dublin and Monaghan Bombings: Motion. - Local Authority Funding: Motion. (10 Dec 2003)

James Bannon: —but the electorate will give him its message next year in both the local and European elections.

Seanad: Adjournment Matters. - Disabled Person's Grant. (10 Dec 2003)

James Bannon: I welcome the Minister of State to the House and thank him for taking this matter on the Adjournment. Disabled persons in the midland region are caught in an impasse between the Government and general practitioners about the payment of a €65 fee which the Irish Medical Organisation has requested on behalf of its members for the completion of the required medical certificates for disabled...

Seanad: Adjournment Matters. - Disabled Person's Grant. (10 Dec 2003)

James Bannon: I thank the Minister, but nobody has taken responsibility for this problem and the most vulnerable are suffering.

Seanad: Adjournment Matters. - Disabled Person's Grant. (10 Dec 2003)

James Bannon: I thank the Minister. The Seanad adjourned at 6.40 p.m. until 10.30 a.m. on Thursday, 11 December 2003.

Seanad: Order of Business. (9 Dec 2003)

James Bannon: I never heard such gibberish from my constituency colleague in all my life.

Seanad: Order of Business. (9 Dec 2003)

James Bannon: I would welcome a debate on decentralisation, which has given a bad deal to the constituency of Longford-Roscommon that returned three Government Deputies in the last general election. We got the scrapings of the pot in Longford-Roscommon – fewer than 300 jobs.

Seanad: Order of Business. (9 Dec 2003)

James Bannon: Yes, I have. The Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government should attend the House for a debate on the report on better local government. I want to find out whether a better service has been delivered to communities and the public. In my opinion, layers of bureaucracy have been developed since the report's publication. It is important that we have a debate on that issue. On...

Seanad: Order of Business. (9 Dec 2003)

James Bannon: It is important that we have a debate on that issue in the near future.

Seanad: Order of Business. (9 Dec 2003)

James Bannon: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business. (3 Dec 2003)

James Bannon: I call for a debate on the stealth taxes being imposed on local authorities throughout the country, namely development levies. A number of confidential letters went to county managers in May, July and October this year, over the heads of elected representatives. The development levies are both unjust and unfair and will have a negative effect on our competitiveness. Young people trying to...

Seanad: Order of Business. (3 Dec 2003)

James Bannon: I did.

Seanad: Order of Business. - Budget Statement: Motion. (3 Dec 2003)

James Bannon: It was due to the cutbacks.

Seanad: Order of Business. - Budget Statement: Motion. (3 Dec 2003)

James Bannon: Is the Senator being serious? What about the cutbacks?

Seanad: Order of Business. - Budget Statement: Motion. (3 Dec 2003)

James Bannon: The Senator's husband must be as shocked as she is over the cutbacks.

Seanad: Order of Business. - Budget Statement: Motion. (3 Dec 2003)

James Bannon: There was all-round shock. The Senator is playing to the gallery.

Seanad: Order of Business. - Budget Statement: Motion. (3 Dec 2003)

James Bannon: There are some other goodies there, though.

Seanad: Order of Business. - Budget Statement: Motion. (3 Dec 2003)

James Bannon: Roscommon is the second worst county in the midlands region after Longford.