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Written Answers — Departmental Programmes: Departmental Programmes (9 Feb 2010)

Fergus O'Dowd: Question 647: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the number of civil and public servants that have signed up for the cycle to work scheme; the cost of the scheme to date in 2010. [7567/10]

Written Answers — Departmental Programmes: Departmental Programmes (9 Feb 2010)

Fergus O'Dowd: Question 721: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the number of civil and public servants that have signed up for the cycle-to-work scheme; the cost of the scheme to date in 2010. [7572/10]

Order of Business (9 Feb 2010)

Fergus O'Dowd: In view of the fact that the penalty points system has been brought into disrepute due to the fact that 20,000 drivers were handed down serious convictions in the District Courts for road traffic offences such as dangerous driving, driving without insurance, driving defective dangerous vehicles, etc., and the penalty points incurred cannot be applied to them because the law does not require...

Order of Business (4 Feb 2010)

Fergus O'Dowd: Hear, hear.

Legal Services Ombudsman. (4 Feb 2010)

Fergus O'Dowd: Question 9: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the reason for the delay in appointing the Legal Services Ombudsman; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5748/10]

Written Answers — Tribunals of Inquiry: Tribunals of Inquiry (4 Feb 2010)

Fergus O'Dowd: Question 30: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform his views on the progress of the Smithwick tribunal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5745/10]

Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (4 Feb 2010)

Fergus O'Dowd: Question 264: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the position regarding an application for jobseeker's allowance in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Louth; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5850/10]

Written Answers — Pension Provisions: Pension Provisions (4 Feb 2010)

Fergus O'Dowd: Question 285: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the position regarding an allocation for contributory State pension in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Louth; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5908/10]

Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2009 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (3 Feb 2010)

Fergus O'Dowd: This is an important debate that raises many serious issues. Politics and planning do not go together, certainly not when it comes to corruption, because the two seem to have been interlinked in this country for many years. Tribunals have sat for many years but we still do not know the outcome. Suffice it to say serious questions have been raised about the connection between members of...

Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2009 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (3 Feb 2010)

Fergus O'Dowd: He learned how to say "expletive deleted" anyway. My point is there is an incompatibility between the aims and the credibility of the Green Party which is now lumped in with the Fianna Fáil builders and developers and so on. I wish to address some points of local interest and the question of archaeology. When a developer knocked down a listed building in Drogheda in 1987 in the middle...

Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2009 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (3 Feb 2010)

Fergus O'Dowd: What individual did I identify? I ask the Acting Chairman to tell me.

Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2009 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (3 Feb 2010)

Fergus O'Dowd: The Acting Chairman should tell me. Is he telling me the people who knocked the building down were good people?

Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2009 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (3 Feb 2010)

Fergus O'Dowd: Would the Acting Chairman defend them because I would not?

Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2009 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (3 Feb 2010)

Fergus O'Dowd: What allegations?

Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2009 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (3 Feb 2010)

Fergus O'Dowd: They were identified in court. They were brought before the Circuit Criminal Court in Dublin and they were convicted, that is the point. Who is the Acting Chairman afraid of? We have to change the way we do things. People who break the law like that must never get away with it. I have not mentioned their names here but they are on the record of the court and on the record of the...

Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2009 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (3 Feb 2010)

Fergus O'Dowd: My argument is that there is too much corruption in politics. There has been too much corruption in politics and too much corruption in the Acting Chairman's party, under some of its leaders.

Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2009 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (3 Feb 2010)

Fergus O'Dowd: I am fed up to the teeth with this pussyfooting about.

Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2009 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (3 Feb 2010)

Fergus O'Dowd: I ask the Acting Chairman to please tell me when I am in breach of the rules but when I want to tell the truth there is one place to say it and that is here and nowhere else. I repeat we must fundamentally change our planning process and we must make that change now because if we do not do so, this will continue on for generations. The only way to do it is to expose the rank corruption that...

Order of Business (3 Feb 2010)

Fergus O'Dowd: In regard to the health information Bill, when will the Minister for Health and Children publish the non-statutory report into the death of Mr. Peter McKenna in Leas Cross nursing home, which was received by the Department last October but remains unpublished. The lessons we must learn from the Leas Cross case——

Order of Business (3 Feb 2010)

Fergus O'Dowd: Yes, it relates to the health information Bill. When will this report be laid before the House so that its lessons can be taken on board? This is particularly important in view of another report referred to in The Irish Times today indicating unacceptably low standards at the TLC nursing home in Maynooth whose chief executive officer is a highly placed officer in a medical organisation. It...