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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Environmental Issues and Irish EU Presidency: Discussion with EU Environment Commissioner (19 Nov 2012)
Luke Flanagan: I have two daughters.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Environmental Issues and Irish EU Presidency: Discussion with EU Environment Commissioner (19 Nov 2012)
Luke Flanagan: They might meet up some time.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Environmental Issues and Irish EU Presidency: Discussion with EU Environment Commissioner (19 Nov 2012)
Luke Flanagan: I thank the Commissioner and the Chairman. One of the main reasons I am pleased to see the Commissioner here today is that as well as being a Member of our Parliament I am also the public relations officer of the Turf Cutters and Contractors Association. We are keen to see a resolution to this issue. I believe the Commissioner is aware of the proposals we put forward earlier in the year....
- Credit Union Bill 2012 (Resumed): Second Stage (Resumed) (14 Nov 2012)
Luke Flanagan: I am sharing time with Deputies Mick Wallace, Stephen S. Donnelly and John Halligan. I welcome this important Bill which is being introduced at a pivotal time for the country. Ireland needs a strong and resilient credit union movement that is fit for purpose. The movement has been helping people for over 50 years. Credit unions have weathered the financial crisis much better than other...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Care Funding (14 Nov 2012)
Luke Flanagan: To ask the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) in County Galway has no allocated funding under the health care system; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50333/12]
- Education Funding: Motion [Private Members] (13 Nov 2012)
Luke Flanagan: I wish to share time with Deputy Mattie McGrath.
- Education Funding: Motion [Private Members] (13 Nov 2012)
Luke Flanagan: There are times when we in this country seem to go out of our way to make ourselves look stupid. There was a perception from some people around the world, unfortunately, that Irish people were stupid. I do not believe that but there are times when I think successive Governments go out of their way to prove it correct. In September 1989 I went to college and - some things never change - I...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: 2013 Allocations for Public Expenditure
Vote 25 - Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government (13 Nov 2012) Luke Flanagan: Put me on the job for a day and I will-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: 2013 Allocations for Public Expenditure
Vote 25 - Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government (13 Nov 2012) Luke Flanagan: If one is in private accommodation one seems to many more rights with regard to one's landlord than one does if one is in council accommodation.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: 2013 Allocations for Public Expenditure
Vote 25 - Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government (13 Nov 2012) Luke Flanagan: Stop wasting it.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: 2013 Allocations for Public Expenditure
Vote 25 - Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government (13 Nov 2012) Luke Flanagan: I apologise.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: 2013 Allocations for Public Expenditure
Vote 25 - Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government (13 Nov 2012) Luke Flanagan: I thank the Ministers for the information they have given members. An issue arises in my constituency and in some of the neighbouring constituencies whereby under the differential rent scheme many people's rents have increased above what it would cost them to rent a private house in our area. It is difficult for people to accept that they are paying more to the council than what they would...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: 2013 Allocations for Public Expenditure
Vote 25 - Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government (13 Nov 2012) Luke Flanagan: -----and that they are only borrowed. Last week, for example, a girl who takes very good care of her house and maintains the garden well who is paying a higher rent than she would pay for private rented accommodation came home to discover a mini-digger in her front garden had dug up her lawn. She was told too bad, it was not her house, she was only renting it.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: 2013 Allocations for Public Expenditure
Vote 25 - Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government (13 Nov 2012) Luke Flanagan: Given that we have no oversight at a local level because of our disastrous local government system, and the new one on the way does not appear to be much better, what can the Ministers do to make sure that does not happen again? Our local councillors cannot do anything about it and it is a very unsatisfactory situation. Are the Ministers aware that under the rental accommodation scheme in...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: 2013 Allocations for Public Expenditure
Vote 25 - Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government (13 Nov 2012) Luke Flanagan: Also, are the Ministers aware that many of the houses rented under the rental accommodation scheme are not fit for housing a dog because they are not insulated and there are numerous problems with them?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: 2013 Allocations for Public Expenditure
Vote 25 - Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government (13 Nov 2012) Luke Flanagan: What will the Minister do about that given that he is a socialist?
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Social Welfare Payments (13 Nov 2012)
Luke Flanagan: The new word is not "headline" or "primary" but "core". As I stated, when one cuts social welfare payments such as rent allowance or fuel allowance, it affects everyone in the same way. It is not as if different moneys are being withdrawn. A cut to one's rent allowance means the "core payment", as the Minister calls it, does not go as far. Given that the Minister mentioned being honest, I...
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Social Welfare Payments (13 Nov 2012)
Luke Flanagan: Put them all under the umbrella of "cul-de-sac".
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Social Welfare Payments (13 Nov 2012)
Luke Flanagan: I thank the Minister. Whether she calls them "primary" or "headline" rates, her commitment not to cut them is not, in reality, of much benefit to people on social welfare if she cuts the non-headline and non-primary rates. A cut in the fuel allowance has the same impact on recipients as a cut in the primary rate of social welfare. It might look better in the newspapers and members of the...
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Social Welfare Payments (13 Nov 2012)
Luke Flanagan: Yes - Fianna Fáil.