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Decentralisation Programme. (14 Dec 2005)

Bernard Allen: It has not been leased.

Decentralisation Programme. (14 Dec 2005)

Bernard Allen: Not at all. The Minister is filibustering now.

Decentralisation Programme. (14 Dec 2005)

Bernard Allen: The Minister is obviously filibustering. I asked specific questions.

Decentralisation Programme. (14 Dec 2005)

Bernard Allen: Of the seven senior specialist positions in DCI at present, how many people have indicated that they would like to be decentralised to Limerick? Will the Minister agree that no property has been bought or leased in the area for decentralisation?

Decentralisation Programme. (14 Dec 2005)

Bernard Allen: Has the Minister had any recent discussions with non-governmental organisations regarding this fiasco? Will he publish the most recent risk assessment conducted of decentralisation? The Minister should not use the trick of pretending that I am against decentralisation. I am in favour or well thought-out and well planned decentralisation, but the madcap idea that he has presented to us...

Decentralisation Programme. (14 Dec 2005)

Bernard Allen: The Minister should answer the question put to him.

Decentralisation Programme. (14 Dec 2005)

Bernard Allen: How many of the seven specialists——

Decentralisation Programme. (14 Dec 2005)

Bernard Allen: What about the risk assessment report? Has an up-to-date survey been conducted?

Conventional Weapons. (14 Dec 2005)

Bernard Allen: Based on my personal experience and the work I did as a chemical technologist before entering the Dáil, phosphorous is the dirtiest and nastiest chemical one can use in a laboratory. If it gets on one's finger the only remedy is to have the skin surrounding the affected area excised. The Minister referred to the CWC, to which the United States is a signatory. The Organisation for the...

Conventional Weapons. (14 Dec 2005)

Bernard Allen: Will the Minister say what response he got given that Mr. Peter Kaiser, spokesman for the OPCW, which monitors the use of phosphorous as a weapon, said that if it was used as a way of flushing out people from entrenched positions, it would be a weapon of terror. The Pentagon spokesman, Lieutenant-Colonel Barry Venable, said "illumination rounds were used in Fallujah to penetrate and destroy...

Conventional Weapons. (14 Dec 2005)

Bernard Allen: As regards the invitation to the US Ambassador to appear before the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs, it would be in all our interests to have these issues cleared up and to have a friendly exchange of views. Will the Minister use his good offices, as I am sure he will meet him for Christmas drinks or whatever? Perhaps he could ask him to deal with the committee on these...

Order of Business. (14 Dec 2005)

Bernard Allen: We will have to turn off the Christmas tree lights.

Order of Business. (14 Dec 2005)

Bernard Allen: Can the Taoiseach arrange for the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform to answer questions submitted to him in this House? I tabled two questions in mid-November, and they have yet to be answered. I raised this matter as regards a previous question in November, to the effect that it had been submitted in August, and I did not get an answer until November. Under Dáil reform——

Order of Business. (14 Dec 2005)

Bernard Allen: Is the Taoiseach bringing forward proposals as regards adequate Dáil reform to deal with issues such as that?

Order of Business. (14 Dec 2005)

Bernard Allen: It is a gross discourtesy to the Members of this House who put questions.

Order of Business. (14 Dec 2005)

Bernard Allen: In the immortal words of Father Jack.

Leaders' Questions. (14 Dec 2005)

Bernard Allen: The Taoiseach should answer one of them.

Leaders' Questions. (14 Dec 2005)

Bernard Allen: We cannot get an answer.

Leaders' Questions. (14 Dec 2005)

Bernard Allen: That is kicking the dead. It is ridiculous.

Written Answers — National Development Plan: National Development Plan (13 Dec 2005)

Bernard Allen: Question 91: To ask the Minister for Finance the preparations which have taken place regarding a replacement for the national development plan; and the way in which the inputs will be cobbled into a coherent programme. [38848/05]