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Other Questions: Obesity Levels (19 Dec 2012)

Luke Flanagan: One cannot turn on the radio without hearing about how much money we would save if we could do something about the promissory notes. It would not save us as much as some people claim. It is only approximately €1.3 billion, but we hear about it all the time. However, alcohol abuse is costing us €3.7 billion, the Minister says obesity costs us €1.13 billion while not doing...

Other Questions: Obesity Levels (19 Dec 2012)

Luke Flanagan: -----one is using up some of those calories. The problem nowadays is that there is unlimited access to food and one need not put any energy into getting it.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Medicinal Products (19 Dec 2012)

Luke Flanagan: To ask the Minister for Health when he will introduce legislation for the provision of cannabis derived products for the relief of pain, spasticity and other effects of ailments such as Multiple Sclerosis, Glaucoma and so on will be coming before Dáil Éireann; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57362/12]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Medicinal Products (19 Dec 2012)

Luke Flanagan: I welcome the undertaking that legislative proposals in this area will be brought forward early in the new year. We now have a situation where 22 separate national authorities in Europe and around the world have granted approval for the cannabis-derived product, Sativex, having recognised the important benefits it provides to multiple sclerosis patients with spasticity. Mr. Ed Holloway,...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Medicinal Products (19 Dec 2012)

Luke Flanagan: The people contacting me will be waiting with bated breath for progress on the matter. It is an issue that should have been dealt with a long time ago. Unlike the Minister, Deputy James Reilly, I am not a medical expert. Perhaps he will undertake to look into the claims by certain individuals that tetrahydrocannabinol, or THC, which is the principal component in cannabis, can have...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Drug Treatment Programmes (19 Dec 2012)

Luke Flanagan: To ask the Minister for Health if he will allocate €100,000 to the mother and child facility at Coolmine Therapeutic Community, Dublin, in order that 20 young women, who have overcome their addiction and urgently need therapeutic care, can enter the residential therapy with their babies; if his attention has been drawn to the fact that if they cannot get the therapy the majority of...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Household Charge Exemptions (19 Dec 2012)

Luke Flanagan: To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will consider removing executors of wills from the Local Government (Household Charge) Act 2011 [57176/12]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (18 Dec 2012)

Luke Flanagan: Ms O'Driscoll said an EIA would not need to be done unless the site was above 30 hectares.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (18 Dec 2012)

Luke Flanagan: The important point she made was about deciding that there will not be a particularly negative impact, but who decides that? Who pays for that study? My father?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (18 Dec 2012)

Luke Flanagan: It is supposed to be doing it at the moment. However, I know otherwise. When the Government puts serious effort into relocating people into new bogs, they will run into that problem because they will need that amount of bog and environmental studies will need to be done on it. Those studies will not allow people to cut turf on them. They will be told they are destroying the planet or...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (18 Dec 2012)

Luke Flanagan: I am learning from experience.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (18 Dec 2012)

Luke Flanagan: I thank the witnesses.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (18 Dec 2012)

Luke Flanagan: I thank Mr. Nugent for his explanation. What is his understanding of the impact of the initial directive on turf cutting and the way it is at present and, in practical terms, what will this mean for turf cutters afterwards? The reason I ask this is that Mr. Nugent talked about projects and private people doing X, Y and Z. In many cases that would be people like my father. The project he...

Finance (Local Property Tax) Bill 2012: Second Stage (14 Dec 2012)

Luke Flanagan: That was inspirational.

Finance (Local Property Tax) Bill 2012: Second Stage (14 Dec 2012)

Luke Flanagan: Hear, hear.

Finance (Local Property Tax) Bill 2012: Second Stage (14 Dec 2012)

Luke Flanagan: Unless one is the Minister, Deputy Hogan.

Finance (Local Property Tax) Bill 2012: Second Stage (14 Dec 2012)

Luke Flanagan: I listened to the speech of the Minister for Finance, Deputy Noonan, this morning and I thought it was interesting how he contradicted himself. Someone put it down on paper but no one seems to have spotted that he contradicted himself. He said:The introduction of a property tax has been a condition of the programme since it was first negotiated in November 2010, under the previous Fianna...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Land Reclassification (13 Dec 2012)

Luke Flanagan: I do not often come into the House and praise the previous Government. I hope I can do likewise for this Government. The former Minister of State, Deputy Michael Finneran, stated in this House: "The ... trust does not appear to be answerable to anybody, is not elected, refuses to discuss the business of the town demesne with any local representative group". That was possibly the first time...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Land Reclassification (13 Dec 2012)

Luke Flanagan: The purpose of the trust has ceased. As such, an opportunity to revoke it exists. It is hoped the Minister will do this. People in my town are united on their right to have a say in their own future and destiny. I hope the Minister will facilitate that.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Land Reclassification (13 Dec 2012)

Luke Flanagan: I thank the Minister for what he has done thus far.