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Written Answers — Environmental Policy: Environmental Policy (14 Nov 2006)

Trevor Sargent: Question 438: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food if her attention has been drawn to suggestions that forest brash should be removed from sensitive sites where the nutrients may be causing damage to the ecosystem; her views on whether this would be feasible or if there are difficulties in operating such a policy. [37410/06]

Written Answers — Pesticide Control: Pesticide Control (14 Nov 2006)

Trevor Sargent: Question 443: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the reason for the decline in the frequency of inspections by the pesticides control service of her Department in 2002; and the low frequency of inspections in subsequent years. [37775/06]

Written Answers — Pesticide Control: Pesticide Control (14 Nov 2006)

Trevor Sargent: Question 444: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food if she has plans to reform her Department's pesticides inspection regime. [37776/06]

Written Answers — Food Safety Standards: Food Safety Standards (14 Nov 2006)

Trevor Sargent: Question 445: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food if the Food Safety Authority has the authority to inspect foodstuffs for chemical residues; if and how frequently it has exercised this power; if and how frequently it has exercised this power to inspect mushrooms. [37777/06]

Written Answers — Food Safety Standards: Food Safety Standards (14 Nov 2006)

Trevor Sargent: Question 446: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food if she has satisfied herself that An Bord Bia's quality assurance scheme is a sufficiently rigorous mechanism for inspecting mushrooms and other foodstuffs for illegal chemical residues. [37778/06]

Written Answers — Food Safety Standards: Food Safety Standards (14 Nov 2006)

Trevor Sargent: Question 447: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food if a company (details supplied) has been in receipt of awards from An Bord Bia between 2000 and 2006; and if the company's produce was tested for pesticide residues by An Bord Bia during this time. [37779/06]

Written Answers — Food Safety Standards: Food Safety Standards (14 Nov 2006)

Trevor Sargent: Question 448: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the reason her Department first claimed to a television station that an inspection of a company's (details supplied) premises had been carried out on 24 October 2006, but in reply to Parliamentary Question Nos. 432 and 434 of 7 November 2006, said that, as there was no visible sign of activity at one of the premises, an inspection...

Written Answers — Food Safety Standards: Food Safety Standards (14 Nov 2006)

Trevor Sargent: Question 449: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food if her Department conducted chemical residue testing of mushrooms grown on the premises of a company (details supplied) since the claims of employees that illegal pesticides were sprayed on their produce were first aired on a radio station on 27 October 2006. [37781/06]

Written Answers — Milk Quota: Milk Quota (14 Nov 2006)

Trevor Sargent: Question 458: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food her plans to improve the transparency and consultation with milk quota owners before the new quota exchange schemes are announced; the legal status of milk quota; and to revise the decision to penalise those who sell their milk quota, including those who do so for reasons of ill health, old age or bereavement. [37892/06]

Written Answers — Special Educational Needs: Special Educational Needs (14 Nov 2006)

Trevor Sargent: Question 469: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if epilepsy is considered a disability or a medical condition by her Department; if its classification as a disability or medical condition has changed recently; the way her Department's special education needs organisers classify epilepsy; and the way this classification affects children's entitlements to educational supports....

Written Answers — Environmental Policy: Environmental Policy (14 Nov 2006)

Trevor Sargent: Question 533: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to suggestions that forest brash should be removed from sensitive sites where the nutrients may be causing damage to the ecosystem; his views on whether this would be feasible or if there are difficulties in operating such a policy. [37411/06]

Order of Business (14 Nov 2006)

Trevor Sargent: In light of the Ceann Comhairle's decision to refuse my request for the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 31, with promised legislation in mind, will it be possible for the Government to give any time to ensure the issue of the Atlantic Osprey shipment is immediately debated?

Order of Business (14 Nov 2006)

Trevor Sargent: I will tell the Ceann Comhairle. As taxpayers' money was spent on the case, the Government should have known about it, but apparently did not.

Order of Business (14 Nov 2006)

Trevor Sargent: There is no armed escort. The UK Government says al-Qaeda is seeking nuclear material.

Order of Business (14 Nov 2006)

Trevor Sargent: Certainly not, but this issue is urgent. The Ceann Comhairle said I could deal with it by parliamentary question next Wednesday. As this ship will be docked in Cherbourg next Tuesday, the Chair is making a mockery of parliamentary procedure.

Order of Business (14 Nov 2006)

Trevor Sargent: I could have, and that would not have been regarded as urgent in the eyes of those who see this matter as a threat to the health of this nation. The promised legislation that should at least refer to this is the British-Irish Agreement (Amendment) Bill. That will not be dealt with by next Tuesday. Will the Government promise a debate before then?

Requests to move Adjournment of Dáil under Standing Order 31 (14 Nov 2006)

Trevor Sargent: I seek the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 31 to deal with a matter of urgent national and international importance, the shipment of plutonium through the Irish Sea on the British Nuclear Group ship, Atlantic Osprey, the danger that this shipment could be targeted by those with malicious intent and the unsuitability of the ship in question for carrying such highly radioactive...

Task Force on Active Citizenship. (14 Nov 2006)

Trevor Sargent: Does the Taoiseach appreciate how frustrating it would be for someone involved in a voluntary group to hear him say that the sector is well staffed? The Remember Us group in my area is an organisation comprising 70 families with children with intellectual disabilities. It has depended entirely on voluntarism since 1998. For the sake of one administrator, those volunteers have been burning...

Task Force on Active Citizenship. (14 Nov 2006)

Trevor Sargent: Those volunteer trainers are gone. Does the Taoiseach not realise that there is a need for the staffing to which he refers to be targeted in a way that protects the bedrock of remaining volunteers? They should be supported in a tangible way. Is there any way that those organisations can appeal to what he called a well staffed sector so that staffing can be more targeted? These staff would...

Task Force on Active Citizenship. (14 Nov 2006)

Trevor Sargent: I agree with the Ceann Comhairle. I would not have raised this had the Taoiseach not said that the sector was well staffed. I felt I had to respond to that.