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- Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (26 Jan 2012)
Luke Flanagan: It has been stated that we have nothing to worry about, that the fee is only â¬50 and that the approval of the Dáil would be required to increase it to â¬500. Is that meant to put us at ease? The soldiers on the Government benches are so willing they put their hands up for â¬1,000. It is hardly reassuring.
- Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (26 Jan 2012)
Luke Flanagan: Is the Minister finished?
- Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (26 Jan 2012)
Luke Flanagan: How is that meant to reassure people? The Government can vote to increase it, if it so wishes. The Minister might not be in office at a later stage because all Ministers seem to move around for whatever reason. Perhaps they want to meet different civil servants.
- Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (26 Jan 2012)
Luke Flanagan: When that happens, the Minister will be in the clear. He will be able to say that when he was Minister, it did not happen. When a zero is added is on, the figure will be â¬500. More importantly, we are talking about environmental standards. The word "hypocrisy" was introduced to the debate. If the Minister really cares about water quality, what is his problem with the 2009 standards to...
- Order of Business (26 Jan 2012)
Luke Flanagan: The Minister of State, Deputy Sean Sherlock, indicated this morning on the radio in regard to the European copyright directive and what is called Ireland's SOPA that the wording of a statutory instrument would be published today and that there would be a debate on the matter today in the Dáil. What is the position in that regard? Did I misunderstand it?
- Promissory Notes: Motion (Resumed) (25 Jan 2012)
Luke Flanagan: The Government has advised us on several occasions that actions have consequences. I am well aware of that. If the bank were to give me â¬10,000 tomorrow morning and I decided to lose it all in a bookmaker's shop, I realise there will be consequences to my actions. If I lose, the bookmaker is not obliged to return my money. On the other hand, the people to whom â¬1.25 billion was repaid...
- Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (25 Jan 2012)
Luke Flanagan: Deputy Michael Creed made some interesting points about what we are trying to achieve. The sensible thing to do for the people in dealing with this potential pollution source - one of many but a minor one - would be to prevent it from happening. To do this, certain actions will require to be taken. However, because of the manner in which the Government is going about it, this will not...
- Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (25 Jan 2012)
Luke Flanagan: On standards, in telling us that whatever standard was acceptable previously will be okay, the Government has proved to me that this is not about water quality. I do not agree with this. We should have the highest standards possible. In 2005 contractors came to Castlerea, following a decision relating to pollution of watercourses in the area. They did not come to my house which is in an...
- Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (25 Jan 2012)
Luke Flanagan: The taxes of people living in Addergoole and Corrasluastia went towards meeting the cost of the urban scheme in my area and the same should happen in this case. There is money available. Regardless of how much money has been wasted, the Government still has â¬16 billion to spend on capital projects in the next four years. If even half the number of septic tanks in the country need to be...
- Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (25 Jan 2012)
Luke Flanagan: It should be 100%. That was the amount available in the town in which I live.
- Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (25 Jan 2012)
Luke Flanagan: Is there anything for south Leitrim?
- Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (25 Jan 2012)
Luke Flanagan: Given that nobody is to endure financial hardship, which is great news, how will this be achieved? I apologise if I am going on about funding again, but the Minister mentioned there would be no financial hardship. I am curious to know what the answer is.
- Written Answers — Local Authority Staff: Local Authority Staff (24 Jan 2012)
Luke Flanagan: Question 419: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the reason a traffic warden (details supplied) in New Ross, County Wexford, was forced to retire from their position; the reason that position was then filled by a Garda who retired just one week earlier; the reason the position was not advertised; if this position was not subject to the employment embargo...
- Written Answers — Telecommunications Services: Telecommunications Services (18 Jan 2012)
Luke Flanagan: Question 20: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will resolve the lack of broadband provision in the Moheraven area, Aughamore, County Leitrim; if he will make clear the reason persons of this area have been neglected by the national broadband scheme, forcing them to pay for a satellite broadband service which costs â¬100 to install and â¬300 per year...
- Private Members' Business. School Guidance Counsellors: Motion (Resumed) (18 Jan 2012)
Luke Flanagan: When talking about a subject, one should refer to the experts. I was contacted by an expert on this subject, a guidance counsellor. Her letter states: 1. The Guidance & Counselling Service was the first government funded counselling service in the state. For 35 years, the department of education has been funding this vital service to all second level students, those in further education...
- Private Members' Business. School Guidance Counsellors: Motion (Resumed) (18 Jan 2012)
Luke Flanagan: I did not use up my time.
- Private Members' Business. School Guidance Counsellors: Motion (Resumed) (18 Jan 2012)
Luke Flanagan: If what I said could be put on record, I would appreciate it. The Deputies opposite should not be crying crocodile tears in a few years when the number of people committing suicide goes up. It is quite clear that if they do not do something about this, they will be talking rubbish. They will be crying fake tears when this inevitably happens.
- Private Members' Business. School Guidance Counsellors: Motion (Resumed) (18 Jan 2012)
Luke Flanagan: There will be more touched by it because of this.
- Private Members' Business. School Guidance Counsellors: Motion (Resumed) (18 Jan 2012)
Luke Flanagan: He referred to me.
- Private Members' Business. School Guidance Counsellors: Motion (Resumed) (18 Jan 2012)
Luke Flanagan: I do not really give twopence what the Deputy says.