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Proposed Legislation. (8 Mar 2006)

Fergus O'Dowd: The Minister should not misunderstand me. My proposal was to preclude members of local authorities from making commitments to vote either one way or another before a matter is debated. That is the problem. Everyone has a right to form an opinion. In addition, the public interest should be the prime interest in every planning decision. Across the country, on the night before development plans...

Proposed Legislation. (8 Mar 2006)

Fergus O'Dowd: The law has not been changed.

Proposed Legislation. (8 Mar 2006)

Fergus O'Dowd: The Minister has not provided legal protection for them.

Proposed Legislation. (8 Mar 2006)

Fergus O'Dowd: He should introduce the planning code of practice.

Local Government Modernisation Programme. (8 Mar 2006)

Fergus O'Dowd: I welcome the increasingly efficient use local authorities make of the Internet. When the Minister entered office, his Department's website was advertising grants which had been abolished a year earlier. The Department's services have since improved, however. In light of longer commute times and the fact that people are less able to visit local authority offices during office hours, I welcome...

Census of Population. (8 Mar 2006)

Fergus O'Dowd: Given that so many people who reside in cities and urban areas live in apartments and gated apartments, is the Minister of State satisfied that there are sufficient funds available as the enumerators may have to go back five, ten, 15 or 20 times to contact these people? Will he consider contacting An Post to assist in getting the names of people to access households which are impossible to find?

Household Statistics. (8 Mar 2006)

Fergus O'Dowd: Question 2: To ask the Taoiseach the number of households here broken down by type of dwelling; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9494/06]

Leaders' Questions. (8 Mar 2006)

Fergus O'Dowd: Where are the Ministers?

Leaders' Questions. (8 Mar 2006)

Fergus O'Dowd: Only a piece of the Government has been dragged in.

Leaders' Questions. (8 Mar 2006)

Fergus O'Dowd: We have a skeleton Government.

Written Answers — Road Traffic Offences: Road Traffic Offences (7 Mar 2006)

Fergus O'Dowd: Question 107: To ask the Minister for Transport when the legislation to allow for the expansion of the speed camera network will be published; when this system will be fully operational on roads here; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9116/06]

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (7 Mar 2006)

Fergus O'Dowd: Question 258: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if the Louth child and adolescent psychiatric services will offer an appointment to a person (details supplied) in County Louth at the request of their family doctor and school principal. [9461/06]

Written Answers — Crime Levels: Crime Levels (7 Mar 2006)

Fergus O'Dowd: Question 480: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of crimes detected across all headings in Dundalk Garda division during 1997, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004 and 2005; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9361/06]

Written Answers — School Accommodation: School Accommodation (7 Mar 2006)

Fergus O'Dowd: Question 497: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the expected date for publication of the Murray report regarding primary and secondary education in Counties Louth and Meath; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8797/06]

Whistleblowers Protection Bill 1999: Motion. (7 Mar 2006)

Fergus O'Dowd: The Labour-Fine Gael motion is very important. It has come at an important time, following such a damning report on what happened in a hospital in my town. In the report, Judge Harding Clark asks whether this type of thing is happening in other maternity units throughout the country. On page 33, there is a long list of people who were qualified and working in the hospital who said nothing...

Order of Business. (7 Mar 2006)

Fergus O'Dowd: That is the best 45 minutes the House could have spent.

Written Answers — Youth Homelessness: Youth Homelessness (2 Mar 2006)

Fergus O'Dowd: Question 107: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the action she intends to take the reduce the figure of 492 homeless children; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5237/06]

Written Answers — Pharmacy Regulations: Pharmacy Regulations (2 Mar 2006)

Fergus O'Dowd: Question 44: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if her Department is considering legislation on the basis of the pharmacy review group and the serious consequences this will have on primary care centres already established or in the process of being built; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8365/06]

Order of Business. (2 Mar 2006)

Fergus O'Dowd: When will the building society amendment Bill, which is on the pink list, be published? As Minister for Health and Children, will the Tánaiste inquire into the reason for the delay in the publication of the report of an inquiry into the 95 deaths in Leas Cross, which has been sitting on a desk in the Health Service Executive since 7 February, to be checked for accuracy? In answer to a...

Further and Higher Education: Statements. (1 Mar 2006)

Fergus O'Dowd: All Members have their own perspective on this important debate. Last Monday morning, I was called to a local national school where an irate headmaster and teacher were trying to get a student assessed by the HSE. The teachers believed the student had serious behavioural problems and that the HSE and the psychology services ought to be involved, but they had refused to become involved. I made...