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Written Answers — Departmental Expenditure: Departmental Expenditure (9 Jun 2009)

Fergus O'Dowd: Question 414: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs the amount his Department and its agencies spent on the use of taxis in 2007, 2008 and to date in 2009; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22669/09]

Written Answers — Departmental Expenditure: Departmental Expenditure (9 Jun 2009)

Fergus O'Dowd: Question 431: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism the amount his Department and its agencies spent on the use of taxis in 2007, 2008 and to date in 2009; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22661/09]

Written Answers — Departmental Expenditure: Departmental Expenditure (9 Jun 2009)

Fergus O'Dowd: Question 447: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the amount his Department and its agencies spent on the use of taxis in 2007, 2008 and to date in 2009; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22663/09]

Written Answers — Departmental Expenditure: Departmental Expenditure (9 Jun 2009)

Fergus O'Dowd: Question 474: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the amount her Department and its agencies spent on the use of taxis in 2007, 2008 and to date in 2009; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22672/09]

Written Answers — Departmental Expenditure: Departmental Expenditure (9 Jun 2009)

Fergus O'Dowd: Question 494: To ask the Minister for Defence the amount his Department and its agencies spent on the use of taxis in 2007, 2008 and to date in 2009; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22664/09]

Written Answers — Departmental Expenditure: Departmental Expenditure (9 Jun 2009)

Fergus O'Dowd: Question 520: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the amount his Department and its agencies spent on the use of taxis in 2007, 2008 and to date in 2009; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22667/09]

Written Answers — Departmental Expenditure: Departmental Expenditure (9 Jun 2009)

Fergus O'Dowd: Question 544: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the amount his Department and its agencies spent on the use of taxis in 2007, 2008 and to date in 2009; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22662/09]

Written Answers — Departmental Expenditure: Departmental Expenditure (9 Jun 2009)

Fergus O'Dowd: Question 583: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the amount his Department and its agencies spent on the use of taxis in 2007, 2008 and to date in 2009; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22660/09]

Written Answers — Departmental Expenditure: Departmental Expenditure (9 Jun 2009)

Fergus O'Dowd: Question 682: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the amount his Department and its agencies spent on the use of taxis in 2007, 2008 and to date in 2009; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22665/09]

Confidence in Government: Motion (9 Jun 2009)

Fergus O'Dowd: I wish to share my time with Deputy Reilly. This is an important debate. We speak really out of the fire of an election, out of the anger of the people who have been hurt grievously by this Government, and facing a winter of discontent with a Government that has no mandate and no policies and does not know where it is going. The people are extremely angry. They showed that to Fianna Fáil,...

Confidence in Government: Motion (9 Jun 2009)

Fergus O'Dowd: You have become the green mulch rather than the Green Party. You are caught in the grips of a party, Fianna Fáil, which some of them have opposed in the past. Some years ago during a debate here Deputy Gormley went to the Fianna Fáil side of the House and stated that he wanted to sit there so he could see what it is like to speak from the side with the stench of corruption in building and...

Confidence in Government: Motion (9 Jun 2009)

Fergus O'Dowd: I was in tune with Green Party policies for many years. When I came into the Seanad, Deputy Gormley and I had a good friendship. On many occasions I was in your office where we debated openly and frankly-----

Confidence in Government: Motion (9 Jun 2009)

Fergus O'Dowd: -----nuclear power issues and all of the green environmental issues about which you and I were both equally concerned. As Opposition spokespersons on the environment, Deputy Cuffe and I agreed on many core issues such as planning and climate change policy

Confidence in Government: Motion (9 Jun 2009)

Fergus O'Dowd: Hold on a second, I want to get this exactly right. The reason those guys are sitting there with no friends is that they have sold their souls to Fianna Fáil. They have lost all credibility. All they must think about is people like me who would always vote Fine Gael, Labour and Green. I would always vote Green. This time I said, "No way, no chance," because they have no credibility....

Confidence in Government: Motion (9 Jun 2009)

Fergus O'Dowd: Let us face facts. Let us look at what this Government and the Greens have delivered in terms of transport policy. In the programme for Government they stated they would cut travelling times, improve safety, deliver real commuting choice, reduce congestion and protect the environment. Instead of cutting travelling times, they cut bus services. There are more than 200 fewer buses in the...

Confidence in Government: Motion (9 Jun 2009)

Fergus O'Dowd: The Minister, Deputy Gormley, is cutting the buses.

Confidence in Government: Motion (9 Jun 2009)

Fergus O'Dowd: Not alone are they doing that, but they are driving private operators, who would provide that choice, off the streets of Dublin. Why are there 30 buses lying idle outside the city? A decent honourable company was run off the streets of Dublin because Dublin Bus competed unfairly with it. Dublin Bus abused its position in the marketplace. That is what the Department of Transport found and...

Confidence in Government: Motion (9 Jun 2009)

Fergus O'Dowd: The facts are the potholes are there. The roads are crumbling and the Green Party made it happen.

Confidence in Government: Motion (9 Jun 2009)

Fergus O'Dowd: What is happening with Garda overtime? What is happening with the Garda traffic corps?

Confidence in Government: Motion (9 Jun 2009)

Fergus O'Dowd: It cannot do its job because the Government is not allowing its members to do overtime to police the roads at night.