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

Luke Flanagan: The Minister of State disputes what the staff are saying. I am not saying it. That would make a great headline, would it not, that I am saying that? I am not saying this.

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

Luke Flanagan: The Minister of State is not taking it seriously. There could be somebody dead out of this, so I have got to push it.

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

Luke Flanagan: They are the words from the Psychiatric Nurses Association.

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

Luke Flanagan: I cannot see how it is possible that she would not have known about this, and if she did not know about it that is even more worrying.

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

Luke Flanagan: What she said is appalling. She is not recognising the problem.

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

Luke Flanagan: I thank the Minister of State for the presentation. I am sure she remembers the Private Members' motion that the Technical Group moved in its first six months in the Dáil, which was not put to a vote. A marker was put down as to what we would like to see happen and we left it at that, although we indicated the issue would be revisited. I have an interest in this area from a personal...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Housing and Sustainable Communities Agency: Discussion with Chairman Designate (12 Jun 2013)

Luke Flanagan: Hear, hear.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Child Care Facilities and Inspections: Discussion (11 Jun 2013)

Luke Flanagan: We agree that staff need to be well qualified and that if they are to be well qualified, they will have to be well paid. Could someone suggest practically how this could be afforded? Why are there no men working in this sector?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Child Care Facilities and Inspections: Discussion (11 Jun 2013)

Luke Flanagan: It was a pleasure to listen to what everyone said, including elected representatives and officials. It is an ill wind that blows no good. We were all children at one stage so it is great to discuss the programme even though it was dire to watch. The ideas are getting out and hopefully something will come of it. We are talking about two sectors, although they overlap. Early education is...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: EU Funding (11 Jun 2013)

Luke Flanagan: 774. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if EU funds been used since 2008 to fund National Development Plan initiatives that are under the purview of the Department of Agriculture Food and the Marine; if EU funds been used since 2008 to fund National Development Plan initiatives related to horse breeding; if EU funds been used since 2008 to fund National Development Plan...

Social Welfare and Pensions (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (30 May 2013)

Luke Flanagan: Almost 500,000 people in this country are unemployed. I do not know who is responsible for it but there is an impression in the media that these individuals do not really want to work.

Social Welfare and Pensions (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (30 May 2013)

Luke Flanagan: The 500,000 people to whom I refer want to work. There is an impression that they are on the dole because they do not want to do anything else. It might have been possible to make statements to that effect in the 1980s without people being in a position to contradict it definitively. However, we can contradict them definitively now because the majority of those who are unemployed were...

Confidence in the Minister for Justice and Equality: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (29 May 2013)

Luke Flanagan: I would like to clarify again the position regarding the issuing of fixed charge notices to Members of the Oireachtas. Comments have been reported in the media to the effect that TDs are exempt from liability for road traffic offences on their way to or from Dáil Éireann. This assertion is simply incorrect. When the Minister was asked to give a breath test and failed to do so,...

Topical Issue Debate: Turf Cutting Compensation Scheme Issues (29 May 2013)

Luke Flanagan: The organisation that the Minister accuses of working against him is the only organisation in this country which, in the 17 years that this issue has gone on, has produced proposals for a solution. Less than 18 months ago, the chairman of our organisation, Mr. Michael Fitzmaurice, was described in a telephone call by the Taoiseach as a patriot. What has changed? Was there something to be...

Topical Issue Debate: Turf Cutting Compensation Scheme Issues (29 May 2013)

Luke Flanagan: Will the Minister call off the courts then?

Topical Issue Debate: Turf Cutting Compensation Scheme Issues (29 May 2013)

Luke Flanagan: Taking people to court is no way to negotiate.

Topical Issue Debate: Turf Cutting Compensation Scheme Issues (29 May 2013)

Luke Flanagan: We did not know the Minister was designating.

Topical Issue Debate: Turf Cutting Compensation Scheme Issues (29 May 2013)

Luke Flanagan: And the Minister can sue them.

Topical Issue Debate: Turf Cutting Compensation Scheme Issues (29 May 2013)

Luke Flanagan: Unfortunately, the way the Dáil is structured does not work very well at times and today we have seen it. I hope we will have another debate on the child care issue very soon. Everyone would like to have been involved in it. I have children and we were lucky we had excellent child care facilities.

Topical Issue Debate: Turf Cutting Compensation Scheme Issues (29 May 2013)

Luke Flanagan: I will but it must be said that the debate must be held again. Surely it is worth 30 seconds.