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Seanad: Postal Services: Motion (21 Nov 2007)

Dan Boyle: I read the motion. It concentrates on post office closures, the diminution of services and the failure of delivery within set times. It is negative throughout.

Seanad: Postal Services: Motion (21 Nov 2007)

Dan Boyle: It does not highlight the potential of the post office network.

Seanad: Postal Services: Motion (21 Nov 2007)

Dan Boyle: If Fine Gael wishes to be taken seriously as a potential party for government, it should have put forward a broader vision for the postal service, how it would use it to its maximum potential and how the service, which has served us well since the foundation of the State, can adjust to change and the new EU directive. Sadly, I have not heard this in the opening contributions or through the...

Seanad: Postal Services: Motion (21 Nov 2007)

Dan Boyle: Many of these closures were decided on commercial grounds and population levels. That is not necessarily how these decisions should be made. Ideally, I would like the Government to examine the possibility of a rural services Bill. It should not be the case that a service in a rural area must be justified by population level and viability. No citizen should have to live more than a certain...

Seanad: The Irish Market in a Globalised Economy: Statements (21 Nov 2007)

Dan Boyle: It is particularly useful to have a debate on the position of the Irish labour market in the globalised economy given the present state of the global economy and Ireland's position within it. Recently I listened with interest to Senator Quinn's observations in a radio programme on the role played by Dr. T. K. Whitaker in Ireland's economic development. Senator Quinn gave a fair treatise on...

Seanad: Order of Business (21 Nov 2007)

Dan Boyle: I support the calls made on yesterday's Order of Business and repeated today by Senator McCarthy that there should be a debate in this House on waste management in general and incineration in particular. Such a debate would be useful in a number of respects. Until the decision of An Bord Pleanála to give planning permission for an incinerator at Poolbeg, some members of the Opposition...

Seanad: Order of Business (21 Nov 2007)

Dan Boyle: I also would be interested to learn from such a debate what exactly is the Opposition parties' policy on incineration. Are they in favour of the technology or are they merely opposed to the particular locations in their own constituencies?

Seanad: Order of Business (21 Nov 2007)

Dan Boyle: I would particularly like to know the answer to that question.

Seanad: Order of Business (21 Nov 2007)

Dan Boyle: It is still the same policy. I would especially like an answer to that question. Despite the efforts of the Minister, Deputy Gormley, in pointing out how the policy was shifting since he came into office, An Bord Pleanála referred to policy documents from 1998, a waste management policy which was informed by the Waste Management Act 1996. This legislation enshrined incineration as a...

Seanad: Order of Business (21 Nov 2007)

Dan Boyle: If their policy is against incineration, are they, as Opposition parties, willing to recant that policy? Are they willing to admit they made a mistake then?

Seanad: Order of Business (21 Nov 2007)

Dan Boyle: Are they willing to use the opportunity offered today to state their policy on incineration was wrong——

Seanad: Order of Business (21 Nov 2007)

Dan Boyle: ——and they will support the policy of the Minister and of the Green Party in Government on incineration?

Seanad: Order of Business (21 Nov 2007)

Dan Boyle: We talk of nothing else.

Seanad: Order of Business (20 Nov 2007)

Dan Boyle: I will pass on to the Minister the Senator's concern about his reputation.

Seanad: Order of Business (20 Nov 2007)

Dan Boyle: The decision could not have been interfered with and if it had been, the Opposition would have complained.

Seanad: Order of Business (20 Nov 2007)

Dan Boyle: It was the policy of the Labour Party.

Seanad: Order of Business (20 Nov 2007)

Dan Boyle: What is the Labour Party's policy on incineration?

Seanad: Local Government (Roads Functions) Bill 2007: Second Stage (15 Nov 2007)

Dan Boyle: It is an essential principle of green politics that the Green Party should seek to be in Government in so far as possible to give power away. I am glad that the Minister, Deputy Gormley, has decided to live up to that principle. I did not expect him to do it so soon or to distribute the power in this precise way. The function of the Bill before us is to do precisely that. There is no doubt...

Seanad: Pension Provision: Motion (14 Nov 2007)

Dan Boyle: I welcome the tabling of this motion this evening. It is stark in its simplicity. I am more than a little surprised that an amendment to it has been tabled. I would have thought everyone in the House would have welcomed the publication of a Green Paper and the consultation process accompanying it. It is clear we must prepare for the future. Policies are in place which are beginning to...

Seanad: Community Child Care Subvention Scheme 2008-2010: Statements (Resumed) (14 Nov 2007)

Dan Boyle: I am a youth and community worker by profession and in the 1980s when I was thinking about progressing along that career path, I sought a professional qualification which would help me to do so. At the time there were not many standard educational qualifications in that area so the course I chose was one in child care at the then Regional Technical College in Cork which is now the Cork...