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Written Answers — Department of Health: Water Fluoridation (17 Oct 2012)

Luke Flanagan: To ask the Minister for Health if he will confirm the exact dates on which the Health Service Executive started using hydrofluorosilicic/hexafluorisilicic acid that was sourced from industrial scrubbers from a supplier in the Netherlands; if he will confirm the date on which this contract was terminated and replaced with a supplier in Spain; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Health: Water Fluoridation (17 Oct 2012)

Luke Flanagan: To ask the Minister for Health the financial costs associated with capital infrastructure for the installation of over 250 fluoridation systems in water treatment facilities here; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45010/12]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Water Fluoridation (17 Oct 2012)

Luke Flanagan: To ask the Minister for Health the number of pollution incidences that have occurred from fluoride facilities that have resulted in the uncontrolled discharge of fluoride chemicals into the environment since 2000; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45029/12]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Water Fluoridation (17 Oct 2012)

Luke Flanagan: To ask the Minister for Health if either he or management within the Health Service Executive have read the history of fluoridation provided by BBC Journalist Christopher Byson's in his book The Fluoride Deception; in view of the fact that the Fluoride Deception was published in 2005, his views on whether the continued practice of water fluoridation here constitutes negligence; and if he will...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Building Regulations: Discussion (16 Oct 2012)

Luke Flanagan: That integrity is not very infectious.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Building Regulations: Discussion (16 Oct 2012)

Luke Flanagan: Yes, his bosses.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Building Regulations: Discussion (16 Oct 2012)

Luke Flanagan: I thank Mr. O'Connor, who has covered a lot of what I had intended to ask him. However, I wish to flag a problem I have in this regard to the board, which may be aware of it, namely, the lack of accountability at local authority level. Perhaps all that will change with today's announcement. I refer to my experiences in respect of individual jobs involving people who have approached me....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Building Regulations: Discussion (16 Oct 2012)

Luke Flanagan: How will this proposal improve that position? In my experience and that of many others, the absence of proper accountability at local government level means they can do whatever they wish.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Building Regulations: Discussion (16 Oct 2012)

Luke Flanagan: The previous speaker mentioned the regime north of the Border, where it appears as though they are not as dependent on self-certification. That is not a criticism; it simply is a phrase that is used. What does Mr. O'Connor think of the system that obtains in the North? Is he familiar with it and does it operate along the lines of having a clerk of works? What does he think of such a system?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Building Regulations: Discussion (16 Oct 2012)

Luke Flanagan: I note only three members are in attendance at this meeting.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Building Regulations: Discussion (16 Oct 2012)

Luke Flanagan: Are we going down this route because of a lack of resources, rather than because it is the best way to go about it?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Building Regulations: Discussion (16 Oct 2012)

Luke Flanagan: Mr. O'Connor should have been a politician.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teacher Redeployment (16 Oct 2012)

Luke Flanagan: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when voluntary applications for relocation of teachers from one educational institution to another will be introduced; if his attention has been drawn to the fact that this was agreed under the Croke Park Agreement; if he is committed to it's introduction; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44211/12]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Hydraulic Fracturing: Discussion (10 Oct 2012)

Luke Flanagan: Mr. Mitchell mentioned the effect hydraulic fracturing would have on farming. Was that in reference to pollution of the water supply, to the fact much of the land will end up under concrete or to the fact that farmers, instead of going about their daily work, will have to deal with trucks going up and down their roads and doing damage to them and making it more difficult to travel on them?...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Hydraulic Fracturing: Discussion (10 Oct 2012)

Luke Flanagan: I have been at many a farming meeting where I have seen the crowd stunned, but I have not seen the top table do anything about it. Have any of the farming organisations taken a position on hydraulic fracturing? Ordinary farmers to whom I have spoken are terrified of it, but this message does not seem to be making its way to the top for an official position to issue. Is there any official...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Hydraulic Fracturing: Discussion (10 Oct 2012)

Luke Flanagan: It should listen to what its members are saying.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Hydraulic Fracturing: Discussion (10 Oct 2012)

Luke Flanagan: There are cheap flights to Poland.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Hydraulic Fracturing: Discussion (10 Oct 2012)

Luke Flanagan: I thank the delegation for the excellent presentation. They have done the country a service and made my job much easier as they collated facts that I would not have been able to put together on my own. The witnesses have answered many of the questions I had. I suggest that people take up the invite to consider the case of Dimock, Pennsylvania, and view it with Google Earth, which I am...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Hydraulic Fracturing: Discussion (10 Oct 2012)

Luke Flanagan: It is a bit like having urinating and non-urinating sections in a swimming pool.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Hydraulic Fracturing: Discussion (10 Oct 2012)

Luke Flanagan: An important question was asked on whether representatives of the Environmental Protection Agency had visited fracking sites elsewhere in the world. Obviously, they will do so in the future or I hope they will. If they do, could they bring someone from Fáilte Ireland to ascertain whether he or she thinks it is a lovely place to visit? If someone from Fáilte Ireland does not think...