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Written Answers — Greenhouse Gas Emissions: Greenhouse Gas Emissions (22 Apr 2010)

Liz McManus: Question 50: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the amount of money estimated, allocated, owing or spent, on the purchase of carbon credits in respect of Kyoto Protocol commitments for the years 2008, 2009 and 2010; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15962/10]

Order of Business (22 Apr 2010)

Liz McManus: The climate change Bill was due to be introduced in 2010. It had been expected to be published by June. That was the commitment in last term's legislative programme. This term's legislative programme states it is not possible to indicate at this stage publication of the Bill at all. Environmental groups are being informed that the heads of the Bill have been drawn up and are due to go to...

Order of Business (22 Apr 2010)

Liz McManus: I do not want to labour the point, but the Government is not even able to indicate a year. Why is that? When going through the legislative programme it is most unusual to find that kind of long-term arrangement. Before the Copenhagen summit it was quite clear that we were to have legislation this year. What is going on?

Written Answers — Commemorative Events: Commemorative Events (21 Apr 2010)

Liz McManus: Question 60: To ask the Minister for Defence the progress reported regarding the projects relating to the 2016 commemoration of the 1916 rising; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15618/10]

Written Answers — Army Operations: Army Operations (21 Apr 2010)

Liz McManus: Question 63: To ask the Minister for Defence the number of occasions on which the Army Ordnance Corps has been called out to deal with suspicious devices during 2009 and to date in 2010; the number of cases which were actual explosive devices; the number of occasions on which these devices were hoaxes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15619/10]

Written Answers — Fuel Poverty: Fuel Poverty (20 Apr 2010)

Liz McManus: Question 87: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the steps he will take to combat fuel poverty. [15381/10]

Energy Security: Motion. (20 Apr 2010)

Liz McManus: Why are bus routes being cut?

Energy Security: Motion. (20 Apr 2010)

Liz McManus: I wish to share my time with Deputy Martin Ferris and Deputy Joanna Tuffy.

Energy Security: Motion. (20 Apr 2010)

Liz McManus: First, I want to congratulate the Minister of State, Deputy Ciarán Cuffe, and wish him well in his new position.

Energy Security: Motion. (20 Apr 2010)

Liz McManus: I find this debate quite puzzling. I have listened intently to both Ministers and after all their effusive compliments about the motion framed by Deputy Coveney, I did not get what their problem is with it and why they cannot support it. The Minister, Deputy Ryan, and the Minister of State, Deputy Cuffe, told us how they welcomed the motion, but the only inkling I got was a misunderstanding...

Energy Security: Motion. (20 Apr 2010)

Liz McManus: I did not propose it.

Energy Security: Motion. (20 Apr 2010)

Liz McManus: I did not talk about the Wicklow mountains.

Energy Security: Motion. (20 Apr 2010)

Liz McManus: I do not have to name a route.

Energy Security: Motion. (20 Apr 2010)

Liz McManus: If we were simply using our position in Opposition to oppose, it would do a great disservice to what Deputy Coveney has done, and we would not see such a well crafted motion before us. It is a classic example of the dog in the manger, that the Ministers cannot accept this motion deals with a serious problem. It is about security of supplies and the difficulties we need to address. They...

Order of Business (20 Apr 2010)

Liz McManus: I want to ask the Taoiseach about the climate change Bill. A proposed Bill was presented by the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Heritage and Local Government last year, and it included an explanatory memorandum for legislation. The Minister, Deputy Gormley, produced a framework document soon after that which set out his intentions on a climate change Bill. The indications then...

International Financial Services Centre. (20 Apr 2010)

Liz McManus: Question 1: To ask the Taoiseach the way he will fully support the creation of the proposed green IFSC; the details of the plan; the role his Department will take in conducting a feasibility study; the timeframe for same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3427/10]

Written Answers — Community Development: Community Development (1 Apr 2010)

Liz McManus: Question 18: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the amounts of grants provided under the two programmes of grants for community and voluntary organisations during the past three years; his plans to expand this funding; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14265/10]

Written Answers — Departmental Expenditure: Departmental Expenditure (1 Apr 2010)

Liz McManus: Question 40: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the amount of money provided under the dormant accounts fund in the past three years; the amount of money not drawn down by grantees; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14266/10]

Written Answers — Special Educational Needs: Special Educational Needs (31 Mar 2010)

Liz McManus: Question 208: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Science the reason seven special needs assistants at a school (details supplied) in Dublin 4 are being made redundant in view of the fact that class numbers in this school will increase to ten children from six children and that although the school is graded as a physically disabled school it caters for children with multiple...

Written Answers — Arms Trade: Arms Trade (30 Mar 2010)

Liz McManus: Question 84: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs his views on the latest report that there has been a 22% increase in arms sales by Germany in the past five years; the implications of this for the EU's foreign policy, and in particular, insofar as a very high proportion of these sales are to some of the poorest countries in the world, many with authoritarian regimes. [13347/10]