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Written Answers — Schools Building Projects: Schools Building Projects (3 Dec 2009)

Michael D Higgins: Question 245: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the position regarding the need for recommencement of the plans to proceed with the development of the new building of a school (details supplied) in County Galway; if he is in receipt of appeals from the local community to advance plans for a new fit for purpose school for Connemara; his views on whether the need for this work is...

Order of Business (3 Dec 2009)

Michael D Higgins: On behalf of the Labour Party, I do not accept the guillotining of this Bill for slightly different reasons to those we have just heard. This Bill has some valuable suggestions to make on administrative expedition. I am not crossing into anything that I must say on Second Stage. The Bill responds to Acts on the foreshore, two of a major kind on planning and, in addition-----

Order of Business (3 Dec 2009)

Michael D Higgins: I will not get into detail.

Order of Business (3 Dec 2009)

Michael D Higgins: I will be blunt about it.

Order of Business (3 Dec 2009)

Michael D Higgins: It deals with 39,000 sq. km of asset that is in public ownership and if there was one Bill that should not be rushed through this House, it is a Bill about what the State owns and the most significant asset that the State will have in the development of energy, aquaculture, responding to the threat of climate change, and so on. It is not something that should have a guillotine on Second...

Order of Business (3 Dec 2009)

Michael D Higgins: -----with harbours legislation and ports legislation. It is a beautiful run-on of the chaos that caused the tragedy in north Mayo. We will oppose the guillotine and I will also oppose it on Second Stage. I oppose, in addition, any attempt to ram it through in an undemocratic way that does not provide transparency to those whom the foreshore belongs.

Order of Business (3 Dec 2009)

Michael D Higgins: It excludes representatives in the same way as-----

Order of Business (3 Dec 2009)

Michael D Higgins: By going straight to An Bord Pleanála.

Order of Business (3 Dec 2009)

Michael D Higgins: So the Government has had to guillotine it.

Report by Commission of Investigation into the Catholic Archdiocese of Dublin: Statements (Resumed) (3 Dec 2009)

Michael D Higgins: They are still at it.

Report by Commission of Investigation into the Catholic Archdiocese of Dublin: Statements (Resumed) (3 Dec 2009)

Michael D Higgins: It would be good to get a list of the schools that do not provide it.

Report by Commission of Investigation into the Catholic Archdiocese of Dublin: Statements (Resumed) (3 Dec 2009)

Michael D Higgins: The Murphy report is incredibly important. Its implications go far beyond examination of the institution on which it was focused, that is, the archdiocese of Dublin. It raises some fundamental issues. The response of all Deputies who have spoken thus far have begun, and rightly so, with the position of those who have suffered. There are some matters to which we should return. The...

Credit Institutions (Eligible Liabilities Guarantee) Scheme 2009: Motion (3 Dec 2009)

Michael D Higgins: It cost billions of euro.

Foreshore and Dumping at Sea (Amendment) Bill 2009 [Seanad]: Second Stage (3 Dec 2009)

Michael D Higgins: I wish to share time with Deputy Ferris, with the permission of the House.

Foreshore and Dumping at Sea (Amendment) Bill 2009 [Seanad]: Second Stage (3 Dec 2009)

Michael D Higgins: I welcome the opportunity of speaking on this legislation. I appreciate that there are many useful proposals in the Bill before us, but is it sufficient to deal with the possibilities and prospects of foreshore development? I have to conclude that it is not. I recognise and support many of the practical administrative proposals in the Bill, but it misses some fundamental issues of...

Foreshore and Dumping at Sea (Amendment) Bill 2009 [Seanad]: Second Stage (3 Dec 2009)

Michael D Higgins: But not the financing.

Foreshore and Dumping at Sea (Amendment) Bill 2009 [Seanad]: Second Stage (3 Dec 2009)

Michael D Higgins: And the public ownership having been defined.

Foreshore and Dumping at Sea (Amendment) Bill 2009 [Seanad]: Second Stage (3 Dec 2009)

Michael D Higgins: Yes.

Foreshore and Dumping at Sea (Amendment) Bill 2009 [Seanad]: Second Stage (3 Dec 2009)

Michael D Higgins: Will the process be completed within the lifetime of the Government?

Foreshore and Dumping at Sea (Amendment) Bill 2009 [Seanad]: Second Stage (3 Dec 2009)

Michael D Higgins: A single Department is needed.