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Rights of People with Disabilities: Motion. (18 May 2004)

Tommy Broughan: Two and a half years ago I asked the then Minister of State, Deputy Mary Wallace, the reason four and a half years had passed without the House seeing the long promised disabilities Bill. I asked if the reason was that the Minister for Finance, Deputy McCreevy, and the Taoiseach, Deputy Bertie Ahern, were not prepared to commit the money necessary to deliver a full needs assessment service...

Rights of People with Disabilities: Motion. (18 May 2004)

Tommy Broughan: That Minister called me a liar. She said I was misleading the House. That Minister was dismissed but it turned out that she was misleading the House because——

Rights of People with Disabilities: Motion. (18 May 2004)

Tommy Broughan: ——you have had numerous chances to do this. This is one of the three or four richest countries——

Rights of People with Disabilities: Motion. (18 May 2004)

Tommy Broughan: He is not prepared to address the fundamental issue we seek to address this evening. I recall the disgraceful situation early in this Government's term of office and in the budget of 2003. The Government was victorious in the general election and had an overall majority. It could do what it wished and deliver its programme. What happened? The Minister for Finance, Deputy McCreevy, slashed...

Rights of People with Disabilities: Motion. (18 May 2004)

Tommy Broughan: In 2006, Fianna Fáil will be in power for almost 20 years, with just a slight interruption.

Rights of People with Disabilities: Motion. (18 May 2004)

Tommy Broughan: They were 20 long years.

Rights of People with Disabilities: Motion. (18 May 2004)

Tommy Broughan: The most disingenuous statement I have seen in a long time is contained in the Minister's proposed amendment to this motion, in which the Government "acknowledges the complexity and cross-cutting nature of the issues involved in preparing the Disability Bill". It took the Government seven long years to realise that but there is still no end in sight. There was a conference recently in the...

Order of Business. (18 May 2004)

Tommy Broughan: The Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism, Deputy O'Donoghue, has been resting in his Department for the past couple of years.

Order of Business. (18 May 2004)

Tommy Broughan: The constituency of Kerry South received 12 times the amount of national lottery sports grants as the Taoiseach's constituency and mine. Will the Taoiseach consider the establishment of an independent disbursement agency?

Written Answers — Sunday Trading: Sunday Trading (13 May 2004)

Tommy Broughan: Question 28: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if her attention has been drawn to the call from the trade union MANDATE for action to outlaw trading by major stores on Easter Sunday, Christmas Day and St. Stephen's Day, particularly in view of the decision of one chain to open on Easter Sunday in 2004, which had been one of the few days on which all major...

Written Answers — Health and Safety Regulations: Health and Safety Regulations (13 May 2004)

Tommy Broughan: Question 72: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the maximum distance and time span for a replacement vessel to be available if a company (details supplied) replaces the current two vessel standby/supply boat cover at the Kinsale Head gas field with a single self-relieving dual purpose standby/supply boat, in the event of a breakdown of this single vessel...

Maritime Security Bill 2004 [Seanad]: Second Stage. (13 May 2004)

Tommy Broughan: The Bill before us, based on United Nation principles, is clearly a necessity. Members may remember the suicide bombing by al-Qaeda in 2002 in the Gulf of Aden of the French supertanker Limburg which was bound for Asia with 400,000 barrels of Saudi crude oil. That, together with the earlier attack on the US destroyer Cole, were some of the events that spurred countries to give effect to the...

Maritime Security Bill 2004 [Seanad]: Second Stage. (13 May 2004)

Tommy Broughan: On behalf of the Labour Party I welcome the Maritime Security Bill 2004, which gives effect to the Rome Convention of March 1988, the UN Convention for the Suppression of Unlawful Acts Against the Safety of Maritime Navigation, and the associated Protocol for the Suppression of Unlawful Acts against the Safety of Fixed Platforms Located on the Continental Shelf. It is incumbent on us to pass...

Written Answers — Drink Driving Convictions: Drink Driving Convictions (4 May 2004)

Tommy Broughan: Question 127: To ask the Minister for Transport the position in regard to the use of intoximeters by gardaí following the successful case of seven drivers who had drink driving convictions quashed after claiming there was no means of independent analysis of a breath specimen; if he has plans to allow independent analysis of breath specimens; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Speed Limits: Speed Limits (4 May 2004)

Tommy Broughan: Question 67: To ask the Minister for Transport the position in regard to motorists who received endorsements, penalty points and fines for speeding in urban areas in south Dublin in which new speed limits were imposed without proper by-laws; the number of motorists who received endorsements, penalty points, and fines in these areas who may be entitled to appeal the punishment; the timeframe...

Written Answers — School Management: School Management (30 Mar 2004)

Tommy Broughan: Question 183: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the reason his Department chose to cut funding to the Congress of Catholic Secondary Schools Parents Association; his response to the CSPA's claims that it will not be able to train parental representatives on school boards as a result of the decision; the alternative training he will provide to parental representatives on school...

Confidence in the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government: Motion. (30 Mar 2004)

Tommy Broughan: There is an equally good Minister present.

Early School Leavers. (30 Mar 2004)

Tommy Broughan: Question 123: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if his attention has been drawn to a new study by a person (details supplied) which reveals that, based on recent data from the Central Statistics Office, almost 380,000 of today's adult population left school with only a primary education, that half of these early school leavers are neither employed nor looking for work, and that...

Written Answers — Tax Code: Tax Code (17 Feb 2004)

Tommy Broughan: Question 120: To ask the Minister for Finance the progress which has been made by the Revenue Commissioners in their discussions with the Portuguese authorities with a view to closing off a tax loophole which allows those who sell off assets here to avoid tax by taking up residence in such countries as Portugal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4744/04]

Written Answers — Tax Code: Tax Code (17 Feb 2004)

Tommy Broughan: Question 130: To ask the Minister for Finance the progress made to date with regard to the negotiations between the Revenue Commissioners and the authorities in the Cayman Islands with a view to the conclusion of a tax information exchange agreement; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4745/04]