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Housing Output. (13 Apr 2005)

Eamon Gilmore: Sure.

Housing Output. (13 Apr 2005)

Eamon Gilmore: How many of the 77,000 houses built in 2004 were one-off dwellings in rural areas?

Housing Output. (13 Apr 2005)

Eamon Gilmore: I express surprise that, on the day the Government announces its new planning guidelines for one-off housing, we cannot be told how many houses being built are one-off dwellings. It is a basic piece of information on which policy might be made. How many additional houses does the Minister of State expect will be built over the next year as a result of today's announcement?

Housing Output. (13 Apr 2005)

Eamon Gilmore: Will the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government, who is sitting beside the Minister of State, answer my question?

Housing Output. (13 Apr 2005)

Eamon Gilmore: This question is addressed to the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government and concerns the number of houses. On the day the Government is announcing its new planning guidelines for one-off housing, are both the Minister and the Minister of State serious when they say they cannot tell the House how many one-off dwellings were built in 2004 and how many additional such...

Housing Output. (13 Apr 2005)

Eamon Gilmore: ——this morning about new planning guidelines but the Government does not know how many one-off houses were built in the first place and how many additional houses will result from these guidelines. What sort of policy-making is this?

Housing Output. (13 Apr 2005)

Eamon Gilmore: Then they are of no real benefit.

Housing Output. (13 Apr 2005)

Eamon Gilmore: This is no help. It is a bag of wind.

Housing Output. (13 Apr 2005)

Eamon Gilmore: I would like to see what the Minister would have to say if he were not embarrassed by this.

Environmental Policy. (13 Apr 2005)

Eamon Gilmore: I think the Minister paid me a compliment towards the end of the last question.

Environmental Policy. (13 Apr 2005)

Eamon Gilmore: Until I read what it was in the Official Report, I reserve the right to return it in kind at some suitable opportunity. How much of the reduction in emissions is attributable to the closure of the Nítrigin Éireann Teoranta plants in Arklow and Cork?

Written Answers — Immigration Policy: Immigration Policy (12 Apr 2005)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 95: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform his views on his reported statement that the immigration system could not be run on arbitrary sentimentality; his policy in ensuring that the immigration policy, especially in regard to deportation, is informed by a humane and compassionate approach; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10766/05]

Written Answers — Prison Committals: Prison Committals (12 Apr 2005)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 114: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of persons committed to prisons during 2004 for alleged breaches of immigration laws without having been charged with a specific offence; if his attention has been drawn to concerns expressed by the Irish Refugee Council that in some cases such persons were being held for weeks or months; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Gas Terminal Safety: Gas Terminal Safety (12 Apr 2005)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 408: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources if the Government will guarantee the safety of the Corrib gas refinery project in north Mayo; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10522/05]

Written Answers — Offshore Gas Processing: Offshore Gas Processing (12 Apr 2005)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 409: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources the reason the Corrib gas refinery will not be treating and cleaning gas offshore, as is being done in Kinsale and elsewhere throughout the world; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10523/05]

Written Answers — Natural Gas Grid: Natural Gas Grid (12 Apr 2005)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 424: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources the reason and the way in which the onshore section of the high-pressure upstream gas pipeline between landfall and the proposed refinery at Ballinaboy in north County Mayo, which is above high water mark, was subsumed by his Department under the former Minister of State, Deputy Fahey; the further reason the...

Written Answers — Natural Gas Grid: Natural Gas Grid (12 Apr 2005)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 432: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources if he will move to clarify the legal limbo that appears to exist along the 9 km onshore section of the proposed upstream gas pipeline in Rossport in north County Mayo along which no State body is prepared to take responsibility for the health and safety of the residents who are compulsorily obliged to live...

Written Answers — Natural Gas Grid: Natural Gas Grid (12 Apr 2005)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 425: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources if his attention has been drawn to the contents of the quantified risk assessment commissioned by and carried out on behalf of the developers of the Corrib gas project concerning the onshore section of the unprecedented high-pressure upstream gas pipeline between landfall and the proposed refinery at Ballinaboy...

Written Answers — Offshore Exploration: Offshore Exploration (12 Apr 2005)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 427: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources if officials of his Department briefed his predecessor, the Minister, Deputy Dermot Ahern, on the contents of the qualified risk assessment commissioned and carried out on behalf of the developers of the Corrib gas project in County Mayo; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10969/05]

Written Answers — Offshore Exploration: Offshore Exploration (12 Apr 2005)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 428: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources if his officials briefed the Minister of State at his Department on the contents of the quantified risk assessment carried out on the onshore section of the unprecedented high-pressure upstream gas pipeline between landfall and the proposed refinery at Ballinaboy in north County Mayo; and if so, if this...