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Written Answers — Deportation Orders: Deportation Orders (20 Apr 2005)

Paul Kehoe: Question 279: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the way in which a person previously deported from Ireland to Romania can now legally re-enter the country to live with his spouse and child; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11988/05]

Written Answers — Deportation Orders: Deportation Orders (20 Apr 2005)

Paul Kehoe: Question 280: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the status of the application for the revocation of the deportation order regarding a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11990/05]

Written Answers — Third Level Funding: Third Level Funding (20 Apr 2005)

Paul Kehoe: Question 301: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the amount of funding provided to the institutes of technology over the past ten years; the level of funding provided per student to the different ITs; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11669/05]

Social and Affordable Housing: Motion (Resumed). (20 Apr 2005)

Paul Kehoe: I congratulate my colleague Deputy O'Dowd for tabling this motion. I am maddened that those Members who will vote with the Government amendment tonight are the ones who gave out about the former Minister for Finance, Mr. McCreevy, for abolishing the first-time buyer's grant. Those Members now have an opportunity to re-introduce the first-time buyer's grant. The Minister of State at the...

Social and Affordable Housing: Motion (Resumed). (20 Apr 2005)

Paul Kehoe: The housing list in County Wexford gets longer by the day. First-time buyers cannot afford to buy homes because of the abolition of the first-time buyer's grant and increases in VAT and development charges. These are stealth taxes on every young house buyer. Last week, the Government had the audacity to publish new planning guidelines. One would think it had produced the Bible.

Social and Affordable Housing: Motion (Resumed). (20 Apr 2005)

Paul Kehoe: I am glad the Minister of State said so because the Minister of State at the Department of Agriculture and Food, Deputy Browne, went on Wexford local radio to rubbish the guidelines. Does the Minister of State, Deputy Batt O'Keeffe, understand the significance of this?

Social and Affordable Housing: Motion (Resumed). (20 Apr 2005)

Paul Kehoe: The Minister of State, Deputy Browne, claimed the new guidelines will make no difference. On Monday afternoon I telephoned a senior planner in Wexford County Council regarding 13 pending planning applications. I know they will not get approval due to the hypocrisy within the planning departments. However when I asked the senior planner if the new guidelines might make a difference, he replied...

Social and Affordable Housing: Motion (Resumed). (20 Apr 2005)

Paul Kehoe: Many Fianna Fáil backbenchers felt like rubbishing them but do not have the neck to do so. The guidelines are only a bloody vote-getter.

Social and Affordable Housing: Motion (Resumed). (20 Apr 2005)

Paul Kehoe: Deputy McCormack spoke about the disabled person's grant. I am aware of applications for that grant in County Wexford that are three to four years old. One dates from a month or two before the general election in 2002. The elderly couple concerned are in failing health. By the time they get the disabled person's grant it will be no good because they will have gone to their eternal reward....

Social and Affordable Housing: Motion (Resumed). (20 Apr 2005)

Paul Kehoe: There are no surprises to pull out of the hat.

Social and Affordable Housing: Motion (Resumed). (20 Apr 2005)

Paul Kehoe: The Department has brainwashed the Minister.

Social and Affordable Housing: Motion (Resumed). (20 Apr 2005)

Paul Kehoe: What about the homeless?

Social and Affordable Housing: Motion (Resumed). (20 Apr 2005)

Paul Kehoe: What about homeless people?

Social and Affordable Housing: Motion (Resumed). (20 Apr 2005)

Paul Kehoe: Will the Minister give way for a question?

Social and Affordable Housing: Motion (Resumed). (20 Apr 2005)

Paul Kehoe: What about the comments of the Minister of State, Deputy Browne?

Social and Affordable Housing: Motion (Resumed). (20 Apr 2005)

Paul Kehoe: The Minister should say that to his party Members, including Deputy Browne.

Garda Síochána Bill 2004 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed). (20 Apr 2005)

Paul Kehoe: I am delighted with the opportunity to speak on this Bill. I hope when it is implemented there will be some major changes within the Garda Síochána. They are badly needed. The manner in which the Garda protects the people is close to my heart. Fine Gael welcomes the Bill and the prospect of community policing. Our society has changed dramatically in recent years. Crimes that were crimes...

Order of Business. (14 Apr 2005)

Paul Kehoe: The Tánaiste is probably aware of the bed crisis in Wexford General Hospital over the past number of years. Are any Bills being brought forward that will improve the position in Wexford General Hospital because——

Order of Business. (14 Apr 2005)

Paul Kehoe: I have gone through the legislative programme and I cannot find anything——

Order of Business. (14 Apr 2005)

Paul Kehoe: I will not sit down until I get an answer because the crisis in Wexford General Hospital has gone out of control.