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Planning and Development Regulations: Motion. (29 Jun 2005)

Eamon Gilmore: Let us examine what is being proposed here. The Minister has found a formula to get around the judgment of the European Court of Justice and it is that an environmental impact assessment will be required where there is a significant impact on the environment. However, if one examines the criteria for that, one sees that they are wide open. Deputy Naughten is right. If this was a situation...

Planning and Development Regulations: Motion. (29 Jun 2005)

Eamon Gilmore: The Minister can depend on my party to see what is going on.

Planning and Development Regulations: Motion. (29 Jun 2005)

Eamon Gilmore: I expect that the Minister will confront a few angry public meetings on this issue in his own county. That is all in front of him, but what I want to nail here is the bit of political cleverality, to coin a phrase, that is being engaged in by the Minister to deflect the flak that will inevitably arise from this matter. Two issues have been used to dress this up and make it look like it we are...

Planning and Development Regulations: Motion. (29 Jun 2005)

Eamon Gilmore: The Minister has got it in one; bull's-eye.

Written Answers — Register of Electors: Register of Electors (28 Jun 2005)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 98: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the serious disparity between the numbers recorded in successive censuses and the numbers on the electoral register; his views on whether inaccuracies in the electoral register might give rise to risk of electoral fraud; the steps he intends to take to ensure that the...

Written Answers — Local Authority Housing: Local Authority Housing (28 Jun 2005)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 779: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the progress on the report, Housing Need Assessment 2005; the local authorities which have submitted their returns for the report; the local authorities which still have returns outstanding; when the completion of the report is expected; and when the report will be published. [23368/05]

Written Answers — Road Network: Road Network (28 Jun 2005)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 527: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs when it is proposed to allocate moneys towards improvements to accommodation roads on Aranmore Island, County Donegal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22656/05]

Electoral (Amendment) Bill 2005: Report Stage (Resumed). (28 Jun 2005)

Eamon Gilmore: Like the Minister, I was also struck by the degree to which Deputy Morgan was harking back to the days of the Free State for a formula for organising the constituencies. Deputy Harkin mentioned the issue of population change and population decline in particular. An analysis of the census of 2002 — the phenomenon may be replicated in the 2006 census — reveals that the areas where...

Electoral (Amendment) Bill 2005: Report Stage (Resumed). (28 Jun 2005)

Eamon Gilmore: Agreed.

Order of Business. (28 Jun 2005)

Eamon Gilmore: The Labour Party is opposed, on two grounds, to a guillotine being imposed on the Electoral (Amendment) Bill, which will revise Dáil constituencies. As a matter of principle, the Government should not use its majority, in the form of a guillotine, to enact legislation on the revision of constituencies because the latter are at the heart of our electoral and democratic system. Furthermore, we...

Order of Business. (28 Jun 2005)

Eamon Gilmore: Yes.

Electoral (Amendment) Bill 2005: Report Stage (Resumed). (28 Jun 2005)

Eamon Gilmore: We are very much in unknown territory. We have a Bill before us which will set down the constituency boundaries in line with the 2002 census and the report of the boundary commission arising from that. We know that there will be a census in 2006 and that the preliminary figures on that census will be published around July 2006. We expect, based on what is already known to the CSO, that the...

Electoral (Amendment) Bill 2005: Report Stage (Resumed). (28 Jun 2005)

Eamon Gilmore: I can do no more than raise the issue. If it becomes a problem, I will certainly return to it and have no doubt the House will revisit the exchanges in this debate.

Electoral (Amendment) Bill 2005: Report Stage (Resumed). (28 Jun 2005)

Eamon Gilmore: I move amendment No. 2: In page 3, between lines 20 and 21, to insert the following: 2.—Section 6(2)(b) of the Electoral Act 1997 is amended by the insertion after 'five' of '(or where necessary to avoid the breaching of a county boundary, six)'.". Amendment No. 2 arises from Committee Stage, on which we addressed in particular the issue of County Leitrim and the sense of grievance that it...

Planning Issues. (28 Jun 2005)

Eamon Gilmore: The final section of the M50 will at last open on Thursday. This has been 20 years coming, the first six or seven of which were taken up by the old Dublin County Council preparing an initial design. The next five years were taken up by the EIS process which was ordered by the Minister's Department to examine and change the different routes. It took three years from the time the Minister...

Planning Issues. (28 Jun 2005)

Eamon Gilmore: The Minister is not addressing the problem. He is only addressing part of it — the populist bit.

Planning Issues. (28 Jun 2005)

Eamon Gilmore: The consultants will not take five years, but one.

Planning Issues. (28 Jun 2005)

Eamon Gilmore: The greatest delays with regard to the M50 were outside the planning process.

Social and Affordable Housing. (28 Jun 2005)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 25: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the total number of affordable houses that have been constructed, provided and allocated to date under Sustaining Progress and Part V of the Planning and Development Act 2000; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22462/05]

Social and Affordable Housing. (28 Jun 2005)

Eamon Gilmore: The Minister of State indicated that 500 dwellings have been provided under Sustaining Progress, including some from Part V. How many houses under Sustaining Progress, excluding those provided under Part V, have been provided to date? Do I understand the Minister of State correctly that from the Part V initiative that was originally announced in 1999, only 508 affordable dwellings have been...