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Leaders' Questions (8 Apr 2009)

Pádraic McCormack: It is worth nothing.

Leaders' Questions (8 Apr 2009)

Pádraic McCormack: The Government should read its own document.

Leaders' Questions (8 Apr 2009)

Pádraic McCormack: The Government did not read its own document.

Supplementary Budget Statement 2009 (7 Apr 2009)

Pádraic McCormack: He should have got rid of them all.

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (2 Apr 2009)

Pádraic McCormack: Question 95: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the position in relation to the provision of a health campus (details supplied) in County Galway; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13912/09]

Order of Business (2 Apr 2009)

Pádraic McCormack: Where does the lie come in?

Order of Business (2 Apr 2009)

Pádraic McCormack: The Minister could do it in a second if he wanted to.

Order of Business (2 Apr 2009)

Pádraic McCormack: Is the Minister withdrawing it?

Order of Business (2 Apr 2009)

Pádraic McCormack: He is very innocent.

Order of Business (2 Apr 2009)

Pádraic McCormack: Will there be a next session?

Requests to move Adjournment of Dáil under Standing Order 32 (2 Apr 2009)

Pádraic McCormack: The Leas-Cheann Comhairle should take it for granted that he will have a matter to raise.

Order of Business (2 Apr 2009)

Pádraic McCormack: They all do that.

Order of Business (2 Apr 2009)

Pádraic McCormack: Did the Tánaiste want to get——

Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2008 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (1 Apr 2009)

Pádraic McCormack: I propose to share time with Deputy Clune. I welcome the publication of this Bill, which is a long time in gestation. For three years I have asked on the Order of Business when this Bill would come before the Dáil. In February 2007 I asked the then Tánaiste, Deputy Harney, who was taking the Order of Business. Deputy Harney assured me the Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill would...

Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2008 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (1 Apr 2009)

Pádraic McCormack: Part 3 deals with tenant purchase schemes. The delay in bringing forward this Bill has probably cost local authorities a considerable amount of money, possibly millions of euro in some cases. It is great for the applicant that the Bill is coming through at this stage because the tenant purchase scheme is based on the market value of a house when it is purchased. The market value of the...

Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2008 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (1 Apr 2009)

Pádraic McCormack: The Deputy is correct. When I inquired about this Bill three years ago and asked when it would come before the Dáil, I also queried the position of tenants in flats, maisonettes or apartments and if they would be entitled to buy out their apartments. There were many queries about this and I was assured the issue would be part of the Bill. I do not see it in the current Bill so I hope the...

Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2008 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (1 Apr 2009)

Pádraic McCormack: I will take the little bit then.

Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2008 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (1 Apr 2009)

Pádraic McCormack: Deputy Higgins referred to antisocial behaviour and this Bill strengthens the hand of the local authority in this regard. There is nothing in the Bill to strengthen authorities with regard to antisocial behaviour in rented houses in private estates that are part of the rent supplement scheme. Nothing can be done about those, no matter what antisocial behaviour occurs. It happens in some...

Order of Business (1 Apr 2009)

Pádraic McCormack: Apart from——

Order of Business (1 Apr 2009)

Pádraic McCormack: Irrespective of whether he answers.