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Written Answers — Departmental Funding: Departmental Funding (30 Mar 2006)

Jerry Cowley: Question 191: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs if there is funding available from his Department for youth groups and organisations; if his attention has been drawn to a group (details supplied) and the fact that the youth of Westport town have no place to meet; his views on whether this is an essential area which needs funding in many small towns across County...

Written Answers — Departmental Funding: Departmental Funding (30 Mar 2006)

Jerry Cowley: Question 210: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if his attention has been drawn to the fact that his Minister of State told the Fathers for Justice group that it would receive essential funding in January 2006; if his attention has been drawn to the fact that cross-party Deputies constantly send constituents to this group which is finding it impossible to provide the...

Order of Business. (30 Mar 2006)

Jerry Cowley: The Minister, Deputy Cowen, kindly told me that there was no plan for the disbursement of catch-up national development plan funds for the BMW region. I thank him for his honesty in stating that no plan is in place to allow the under-spend to be addressed. I raised this matter one year ago and was given to understand that the Government would take action. In 1997, a group of Ministers from...

Order of Business. (30 Mar 2006)

Jerry Cowley: There is no plan for the west. It is in black and white in the Minister's reply.

Order of Business. (30 Mar 2006)

Jerry Cowley: There is geographical apartheid. That is the problem.

Requests to move Adjournment of Dáil under Standing Order 31. (30 Mar 2006)

Jerry Cowley: I seek the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 31 to raise a matter of national importance, namely, the reason people's lives are being put at risk in west Mayo due to the continuing failure of Government to set up an ambulance base in the Achill, Mulranny and Ballycroy areas of County Mayo using minimum international recommended standards of ambulance availability, that of having...

Criminal Justice Bill 2004: Motion (Resumed). (29 Mar 2006)

Jerry Cowley: I am pleased to speak on this Bill. An MRBI survey on crime and law enforcement in March 2006 commissioned by the Department of Justice, Equality and Law Reform shows that people are much more concerned about crime than they used to be. At the top of the list is drug abuse at 68%, followed by violent crime at57%, juvenile and teenage crime at 50%, disorderly conduct in public at 43% and so on...

Criminal Justice Bill 2004: Motion (Resumed). (29 Mar 2006)

Jerry Cowley: I wish to share time with Deputies Healy and Boyle.

Road Traffic (Mobile Telephony) Bill 2006: Second Stage (Resumed). (29 Mar 2006)

Jerry Cowley: I support the Bill and congratulate Deputy Olivia Mitchell on introducing it. Everybody agrees that it is unsafe to drive and use a hand-held mobile phone at the same time. I have heard many Deputies speak of their experiences in that regard. I know of two fatal accidents in which it is reputed that the use of a mobile phone in this way was the cause. Those of us who spend considerable time...

EU Directives. (29 Mar 2006)

Jerry Cowley: Question 32: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the reason sheep farmers in the Ballycroy, Tiernaur, Bangor and Keenagh areas of County Mayo are being asked to remove stock for six months of the year and to de-stock up to 70% when this will mean the total extinction of their farming livelihood; if her attention has been drawn to the fact that the overwhelming majority of those...

EU Directives. (29 Mar 2006)

Jerry Cowley: I thank the Minister for her detailed reply. There are 300 sheep farmers who farm commonage in this area of Mayo. The big problem is there has been a significant lack of information from the State about what is happening. People just came down and made assessments and the farmers had no input at all. The result is these severe measures which will sound the death knell for these farmers. If...

EU Directives. (29 Mar 2006)

Jerry Cowley: The 60% of farmers who participate in REPS have done their best and have farmed in an environmentally friendly way, so no fault can attach to them. The remaining 40% have no plan whatsoever. As the Minister noted, a heated meeting took place about three weeks ago which was attended by officials from the Departments of Agriculture and Food and the Environment, Heritage and Local Government....

EU Directives. (29 Mar 2006)

Jerry Cowley: How could it have worked, given that no plan was put in place for the other 40%? If the Department had acted properly eight years ago, the mountain would be different now.

European Council: Statements. (29 Mar 2006)

Jerry Cowley: Is that agreed? Agreed.

European Council: Statements. (29 Mar 2006)

Jerry Cowley: I ask Deputies, including the Minister to address their remarks through the Chair.

European Council: Statements. (29 Mar 2006)

Jerry Cowley: Other Deputies are waiting to ask questions.

Requests to move Adjournment of Dáil under Standing Order 31. (29 Mar 2006)

Jerry Cowley: I seek the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 31 to debate a matter of national importance, namely that the Government save 200 women from dying of breast cancer by making the facilities of the Galway Clinic available, through the National Treatment Purchase Fund, to provide a temporary breast check screening service to women living in the south and west pending the full rollout of...

Leaders' Questions. (29 Mar 2006)

Jerry Cowley: The waiting time is still seven years and it is five years at least for urology.

Written Answers — Rural Environment Protection Scheme: Rural Environment Protection Scheme (28 Mar 2006)

Jerry Cowley: Question 341: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the reason sheep farmers in the Ballycroy, Tiernaur, Bangor and Keenagh areas of County Mayo are being asked to remove stock for six months of the year and to destock up to 70%, when this will mean the total extinction of their farming livelihoods; if her attention has been drawn to the fact that the overwhelming majority of those...

Written Answers — EU Directives: EU Directives (28 Mar 2006)

Jerry Cowley: Question 342: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the Government's stance on the nitrates directive; if her Department is willing to change the current parameters; her views on whether the nitrates directive, along with destocking directive in the west and the beef directives in the south, will guarantee an end to farming here; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11984/06]