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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Location of Wind Turbines: Discussion (8 Oct 2013)

Luke Flanagan: The Minister used the word "assuaged" - a word I would not use - that he had assuaged the fears of people in the area and that it was really just a matter of misunderstandings at this stage. What is the view of the group of what the Minister said? I am a legislator and in order to help the group I will support the Bill that would prescribe a distance of 1,500 m. These are not elastic...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Credit Unions Issues (3 Oct 2013)

Luke Flanagan: 71. To ask the Minister for Finance when the Credit Union owned CUSOP will receive its authorisation from the Central Bank; if the Government is fully supportive of this initiative; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41554/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Credit Unions Issues (3 Oct 2013)

Luke Flanagan: 72. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will instruct AIB, a State owned bank, to assist the credit union movement with access to the clearing system to enable credit unions to offer full account services to their members; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41555/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Credit Unions Issues (3 Oct 2013)

Luke Flanagan: 73. To ask the Minister for Finance the details of the strategy to underpin the solvency and viability of the credit union sector that was presented to the European Commission, the ECB and the IMF; the further discussions with the staff of the European Commission, the ECB and the IMF that will be necessary to clarify some aspects of the restructuring of the credit unions; and if he will make...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport Provision (3 Oct 2013)

Luke Flanagan: 101. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will explain what the item return to risk for Bus Éireann means as it appears in the Bus Éireann bill for school transport posted on his website; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41579/13]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport Provision (3 Oct 2013)

Luke Flanagan: 102. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason school transport is more expensive here than anywhere else in the western world; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41580/13]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport Provision (3 Oct 2013)

Luke Flanagan: 103. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason maintenance charges for buses in the school bus fleet owned by Bus Éireann are over five times higher than similar charges for maintenance in Northern Ireland; his views on whether his Department is being overcharged for maintenance; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41581/13]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport Issues (3 Oct 2013)

Luke Flanagan: 104. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will put the 45 year old school transport contract/agreement/arrangement out to public tender; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41582/13]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport Issues (3 Oct 2013)

Luke Flanagan: 105. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will inform the EU Commission on Competition that the 45 year old arrangement that costs the State €160 million per year is not a contract and should not be put out to public tender; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41583/13]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport Issues (3 Oct 2013)

Luke Flanagan: 106. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will publish the redacted version of the FGS Report on school transport administration charges which was agreed to be published in 2011 by his Department and Bus Eireann before the court case; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41584/13]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport Issues (3 Oct 2013)

Luke Flanagan: 107. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will publish a copy of the confidentiality agreement that was signed by FGS and Bus Éireann and referred to by him in responses to a parliamentary question of 18 September 2013; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41585/13]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Prisoner Releases (3 Oct 2013)

Luke Flanagan: 165. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of persons in a prison (details supplied) in County Roscommon that have breached the terms of their temporary release to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41552/13]

Mortgage Restructuring Arrangement Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) [Private Members] (2 Oct 2013)

Luke Flanagan: I commend Deputy Joan Collins for introducing the Bill. Having read and considered the Bill, it is the essence of the person who has introduced it, as it comes from the point of view of fairness. Fairness is supreme to Deputy Collins. That is the reason she introduced the Bill. She has put a considerable amount of work into the Bill. When one does that one would like people to hear what...

Mortgage Restructuring Arrangement Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) [Private Members] (2 Oct 2013)

Luke Flanagan: I will not bother then. I would say people can work it out. I would have thought they would have come to applaud Deputy Collins and to say that the approach worked for them. It worked to the extent that the head of one of the companies said the restructuring was a very positive development for the company and put it in a good place to deal with many challenges for the business. If we went...

Private Members' Business - Cuts in Education: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (25 Sep 2013)

Luke Flanagan: I imagine - in fact, I am definite - that this motion would be supported by the Minister were he in opposition. Whatever changes when one enters into government, one forgets all of one's ideals and, for some reason, it does not seem to matter that class sizes grow so large that they not only become impossible for the children, who were already finding it difficult, but even-----

Private Members' Business - Cuts in Education: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (25 Sep 2013)

Luke Flanagan: That is the direction we are heading. The Minister can pretend-----

Private Members' Business - Cuts in Education: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (25 Sep 2013)

Luke Flanagan: My children and their friends tell me that there are more pupils in their class. Either they and their teachers are imagining it or it is actually happening.

Private Members' Business - Cuts in Education: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (25 Sep 2013)

Luke Flanagan: A possible solution would have been for the Government to keep its promise on regaining the money that was pumped into the European banking system, but it has given up on that. It is often stated that if one wants more teachers on the available budget, one must examine wages, in that teachers in Ireland are paid more than is the case in other parts of Europe. We never hear the other side of...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Special Areas of Conservation Designation (18 Sep 2013)

Luke Flanagan: Was that the criminalisation of turf cutters?

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Special Areas of Conservation Designation (18 Sep 2013)

Luke Flanagan: The problem is that once we engage with such consultants, they say "We have consulted with you", regardless of what we say to them. To go back, the Minister has not solved the initial problem and to be moving on to a later stage does not make any sense. The Minister may tell the European Commission that a certain number of the bogs are solved but we know that is factually incorrect. I do...