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- Written Answers — Broadcasting Services: Broadcasting Services (29 Oct 2008)
Liz McManus: Question 172: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources his views on reports that the Minister for Finance contacted the director general of RTE to complain about the State broadcaster's coverage of the global banking crisis; his views on such intervention; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37117/08]
- Written Answers — Housing Aid for the Elderly: Housing Aid for the Elderly (29 Oct 2008)
Liz McManus: Question 380: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the grants available to older people for roof insulation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36998/08]
- Education Cuts: Motion (29 Oct 2008)
Liz McManus: Last week, pensioners and students stood in their thousands outside the gates of this Parliament. Tonight parents and teachers are standing in the cold to defend the thousands of children throughout the country who are under attack. A budget that promised to protect the vulnerable has turned into a blunderbuss directed towards the young and the elderly. It is no wonder that the anger is...
- Fisheries Boards. (29 Oct 2008)
Liz McManus: Question 106: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the way he will maintain a strong regional structure in the management of the regions with regard to proposals to absorb the regional fisheries boards into a central board; the way the reporting structures to the central board will function in practice; if he will provide delegated powers to regional staff;...
- Fisheries Boards. (29 Oct 2008)
Liz McManus: I thank the Minister of State for his reply. Perhaps he is not aware that, in 2006, the Minister sitting beside him, Deputy Eamon Ryan, described the postponement of elections to regional fisheries boards as "a cowardly act" by the then Government and "a serious indictment of Government policy". Here we are again, in 2008, facing yet further delays in elections to boards and prevarication...
- Fisheries Boards. (29 Oct 2008)
Liz McManus: I must have missed something here.
- Fisheries Boards. (29 Oct 2008)
Liz McManus: What is the make-up of this implementation group? Last month, there was an advertisement for the CEO of the Northern Regional Fisheries Board, which seems peculiar if the Minister of State is trying to centralise those boards. Will that post be filled?
- Fisheries Boards. (29 Oct 2008)
Liz McManus: Is the Minister of State filling the post for the normal regional boards?
- Fisheries Boards. (29 Oct 2008)
Liz McManus: So the post will be filled.
- Fuel Poverty. (29 Oct 2008)
Liz McManus: Question 108: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the measures he is taking to combat fuel poverty; the number of people experiencing fuel poverty; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37474/08]
- Fuel Poverty. (29 Oct 2008)
Liz McManus: Will the Minister accept that establishing another interdepartmental committee is not reassuring? Will he agree that real change requires resourcing and money? Will he accept that increasing the fuel allowance by â¬2 and providing it for two extra weeks is marginal in terms of benefits that will be felt by the 60,000 people living in fuel poverty? Is the Minister aware that the Institute...
- Fuel Poverty. (29 Oct 2008)
Liz McManus: I am sure the Minister is a man of good intention. However, will he accept that, when the only scheme targeting the poor, namely, the warmer homes scheme, receives only â¬5 million whereas people who can well afford to install energy saving devices are subvented to the tune of 30% through the greener homes scheme, he has his priorities wrong?
- Fuel Poverty. (29 Oct 2008)
Liz McManus: The price of coal has doubled.
- Telecommunications Services. (29 Oct 2008)
Liz McManus: I have a brief question. The Minister spoke of the National Roads Authority and the Railway Procurement Agency. Is he including the local authorities as road authorities? I presume, they have a certain role to play in this. Perhaps he would comment on that. What has he done in the case of local authorities?
- Telecommunications Services. (29 Oct 2008)
Liz McManus: Is it going to happen? Is the Department doing it?
- Telecommunications Services. (29 Oct 2008)
Liz McManus: What kind of contact has the Minister had with local authorities across the country? What arrangements has he made with them?
- Telecommunications Services. (29 Oct 2008)
Liz McManus: What has the Department done?
- Regional Fisheries Boards. (29 Oct 2008)
Liz McManus: Can I ask the Minister of State if all the reports from 2006 have been laid before the Houses because I am having difficulty in getting information? Does the Minister accept that the system is incredibly slow if we are waiting on the 2007 reports? I was asking about 2006 and 2007. I do not know how the question refers to 2007 and 2008 but that is my fault. I should have been careful about...
- Regional Fisheries Boards. (29 Oct 2008)
Liz McManus: That is incredible.
- Regional Fisheries Boards. (29 Oct 2008)
Liz McManus: Does the Minister of State accept that this is ludicrous? He is about to engage in a radical alteration of the structures of the fisheries boards but the reports relating to 2006 have not yet been laid before the House. The purpose of this alteration is to save money and make the system more efficient. I do not know how it will be possible to do so if even the most basic information has...