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Written Answers — Departmental Expenditure: Departmental Expenditure (19 Jun 2012)

Timmy Dooley: Question 722: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide, in tabular form, all capital projects cancelled by his Department since he came to office; the associated projected cost of each project; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29350/12]

Written Answers — Rail Services: Rail Services (19 Jun 2012)

Timmy Dooley: Question 723: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when he expects the 51 railcars ordered in 2008 to be in operation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29351/12]

Official Engagements (19 Jun 2012)

Timmy Dooley: Will the Taosieach answer the question?

Official Engagements (19 Jun 2012)

Timmy Dooley: We have heard nothing from the Labour Party about extraordinary rendition since it went into government.

Order of Business (19 Jun 2012)

Timmy Dooley: Last week the Taoiseach indicated to the House that he would endeavour to establish when the Government proposes to bring forward guidelines in regard to the inspection of septic tanks and, in particular, the legislation underpinning that. Has he had any success in his endeavours in that regard?

Order of Business (13 Jun 2012)

Timmy Dooley: It is the civil war in the Labour Party that the Taoiseach should be more worried about.

European Communities (Amendment) Bill 2012: Motion to Instruct Select Committee (13 Jun 2012)

Timmy Dooley: The timing of this legislation is cruel in some respects given that it deals with Croatia after our loss to them on Sunday. Notwithstanding that, it is positive that the process has reached its final stages and we are now in a position to welcome Croatia into the family of European states. Perhaps we can look to Spain to bail us out on the football field before the end of the week. The...

Leaders' Questions (13 Jun 2012)

Timmy Dooley: Give an example.

Leaders' Questions (13 Jun 2012)

Timmy Dooley: His team must be playing at the weekend.

Independent Inquiries into Planning Irregularities: Motion (12 Jun 2012)

Timmy Dooley: The only reason the report appeared today is because the motion was tabled. It would have been helpful if the Government accepted the situation and used the time available to respond to the motion to put the report before the House. The Government took the opportunity to hold a press conference today and share it with the media in order to undermine the motion. I have no problem in...

Independent Inquiries into Planning Irregularities: Motion (12 Jun 2012)

Timmy Dooley: These were internal inquiries carried out by a Government on local authorities controlled by the Government parties. This allows for a perception to continue which undermines the confidence in the very process. I am not suggesting that the Minister of State does not wish to ensure that the prevailing view of planning is less than what it should be. I accept her bona fides in this regard....

Independent Inquiries into Planning Irregularities: Motion (12 Jun 2012)

Timmy Dooley: I accept that. However, if we are to get to the bottom of the problem in a collective manner and if we are to move on from the corrosive manner of dealing with planning in the past, we must turn over a new leaf and do things differently.

Independent Inquiries into Planning Irregularities: Motion (12 Jun 2012)

Timmy Dooley: I suggest that the Minister of State's Government is not supporting her in her desire to do so. How are members of the public to place their faith in an internal inquiry into local authorities controlled by the Government parties? One cannot but think that the Government, which had declared that the matters involved were "spurious mostly", as the Minister, Deputy Hogan, said, had already...

Independent Inquiries into Planning Irregularities: Motion (12 Jun 2012)

Timmy Dooley: The excuse that nothing had been done is completely refuted by the freedom of information material which my party has uncovered. It was a lazy excuse by a Government looking to cover up its own efforts to avoid the issue and to kick it to touch. This is disappointing. The matters dealt with by the inquiries were spurious, as the Minister, Deputy Hogan, put it at the time. Deputy Joanna...

Independent Inquiries into Planning Irregularities: Motion (12 Jun 2012)

Timmy Dooley: We can debate that point and we could deal with it county by county. I guarantee the Minister that-----

Independent Inquiries into Planning Irregularities: Motion (12 Jun 2012)

Timmy Dooley: -----councillor for councillor, members of the Minister's party will have been as implicated as others in some of the poor planning decisions-----

Independent Inquiries into Planning Irregularities: Motion (12 Jun 2012)

Timmy Dooley: There is plenty of evidence. There are plenty of people living in houses built on flood plains and in areas without proper transport links. Poor planning decisions arose as a result of land holders going to councillors and demanding rezoning of their land. This is quite apart from those cases where it has been proven that money changed hands. Much of the time it was done on a whim, on the...

Independent Inquiries into Planning Irregularities: Motion (12 Jun 2012)

Timmy Dooley: I want a stag hunt.

Independent Inquiries into Planning Irregularities: Motion (12 Jun 2012)

Timmy Dooley: I fully reject the Minister of State's assertion. It is outrageous that she should make that statement.

Independent Inquiries into Planning Irregularities: Motion (12 Jun 2012)

Timmy Dooley: So have I.