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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Climate Change: Discussion (20 Jun 2013)

Luke Flanagan: Anaerobic digestion has amazing potential. Experience has informed us that when someone decides to get into the business their first thought is to locate the system where there will be a minimal amount of objections. I am sure that the officials are aware of that happening. I have witnessed people attempt to build anaerobic digesters in areas where they presumed there would be a minimal...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Climate Change: Discussion (20 Jun 2013)

Luke Flanagan: I agree that it should not be but it is.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Climate Change: Discussion (20 Jun 2013)

Luke Flanagan: Nor me.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Climate Change: Discussion (20 Jun 2013)

Luke Flanagan: I concur with Deputy Mulherin's comments. We need to be a little careful before we rush into this because it might not be that simple for people in living in certain areas of the country. With regard to abatement in the agriculture industry, I have followed the issue of anaerobic digestion for ten years but nothing has happened in this regard, particularly in the use of animal slurry. The...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Climate Change: Discussion (20 Jun 2013)

Luke Flanagan: By closing it down.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Departmental Investigations (19 Jun 2013)

Luke Flanagan: 5. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the actions he is taking in view of the report on alleged fraud in Coillte which was delivered to him by this Deputy and members of the timber saw milling industry some weeks ago; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29587/13]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Departmental Investigations (19 Jun 2013)

Luke Flanagan: At the time the aforementioned meeting took place, for some reason I was under the impression that the Minister would be in the House for Question Time on 12 June. We were given a promise at the meeting by the departmental official that the Department would be carrying out an investigation and would revert to us within three to four weeks. As it only has been three weeks since 10 a.m....

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Departmental Investigations (19 Jun 2013)

Luke Flanagan: I can wait another week but I hope those involved get fair treatment, because it takes some bravery to come forward with the information with which they came forward.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Departmental Investigations (19 Jun 2013)

Luke Flanagan: I presume the Minister will not tell Members in advance. Obviously, everyone will be waiting with bated breath for that decision. Regardless of the decision the Government will take, I hope it takes into account everything that has been said on the subject, as well as the impact it will have on the sawmilling industry etc. This House is at times rightfully criticised because of an absence...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Communications (19 Jun 2013)

Luke Flanagan: 171. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will confirm that an Inspector acting on behalf of the Superintendent at that Garda Station (details supplied) in County Offaly has instructed a member of the public in writing on the 10 May 2013, that in future all correspondence should be forwarded here through your solicitor; if this is acceptable practice; if he will undertake to...

An Bille um an Dara Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Deireadh a Chur le Seanad Éireann) 2013: An Dara Céim (Atógáil) - Thirty-second Amendment of the Constitution (Abolition of Seanad Éireann) Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (18 Jun 2013)

Luke Flanagan: I will be voting in favour of abolishing the Seanad. If this Bill passes, with the help of my vote, I will certainly be voting in the referendum to abolish it. I have heard many saying that people should be given more of a choice, that it should not just be a straight choice between abolition or keeping it the way it is. I would agree with that point of view but if I was given that option,...

An Bille um an Dara Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Deireadh a Chur le Seanad Éireann) 2013: An Dara Céim (Atógáil) - Thirty-second Amendment of the Constitution (Abolition of Seanad Éireann) Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (18 Jun 2013)

Luke Flanagan: The rabble.

Trade Union Movement and Workers' Rights: Motion [Private Members] (18 Jun 2013)

Luke Flanagan: I thank Deputy Joe Higgins for an excellent motion, which I will be supporting. The 1913 Lock-out achieved something massive by establishing that ordinary people have power if they flex their muscles. They still have this power. It also established that the media, if left unchecked, can act as an instrument that destroys democracy and the people’s right to choose their own leaders....

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child Protection Issues (18 Jun 2013)

Luke Flanagan: 492. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she can account for the inadequate provisions made at a meeting (details supplied) which involved a convicted sex offender, for an Initial Child Protection Conference and where no Garda or probation officer attended as promised; the reason the sex offender, while not on the schedule of attendees as circulated, did attend; and if she...

Topical Issue Debate: Mental Health Services Provision (13 Jun 2013)

Luke Flanagan: She was here yesterday and on Tuesday.

Topical Issue Debate: Mental Health Services Provision (13 Jun 2013)

Luke Flanagan: I heard A Vision for Change mentioned. I love the idea that people can be treated in the community and are not stuck unnecessarily in large units. However, that is not happening, and there is no point in trying to cod people into thinking it is. In fact, the opposite is happening. In order to deal with the shortage of staff in the hospital services, staff are being taken from community...

Topical Issue Debate: Mental Health Services Provision (13 Jun 2013)

Luke Flanagan: For years it has been correctly said Governments do not give a damn about people with a mental illness. Eighteen or 19 months ago the Technical Group tabled a Private Members’ motion on the subject in which it outlined its concerns and what it would like to see done. We did not push the matter to a vote because we did not want to turn it into a political football. It is way too...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Northern Ireland Irish Language Act: Discussion (13 Jun 2013)

Luke Flanagan: I thank the witnesses for the presentation and I apologise for missing the beginning. The Irish language interests me but I also find it massively intimidating. One of the biggest problems is that a person can make an idiot of oneself when trying to speak it because there might not be much coherence. The word "náire", or embarrassment, comes to mind, and among my close friends, it is...

Finance (Local Property Tax Repeal) Bill 2013 [Private Members]: Second Stage (Resumed) (12 Jun 2013)

Luke Flanagan: I support the Sinn Féin Bill. Not for the first time, the Government has introduced a tax which does not do what it says on the tin. We have PRSI that does not provide one with anything and does not do what it says on the tin. The Government has introduced a carbon tax, the proceeds of which will not be spent on insulating people's homes or creating circumstances in which carbon...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Strategy on Suicide Awareness: Discussion (12 Jun 2013)

Luke Flanagan: I am not easily appalled. I am talking about a mother worried about the life of her child.