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Written Answers — Migrant Workers: Migrant Workers (10 Feb 2004)

Arthur Morgan: Question 178: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if she will investigate reports that a person (details supplied) in County Dublin is involved in charging migrant workers for work permits; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3711/04]

Written Answers — Tax Code: Tax Code (10 Feb 2004)

Arthur Morgan: Question 216: To ask the Minister for Finance , further to Parliamentary Question no 256 of 3 February 2004, if he will confirm that grave professional misconduct includes breaches of employment laws in respect of supplies to Departments or State bodies; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3902/04]

Written Answers — Northern Ireland Issues: Northern Ireland Issues (10 Feb 2004)

Arthur Morgan: Question 221: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs if his attention has been drawn to the construction work being carried out by the British Army at Forkhill Barracks, County Armagh, resulting in the erection of a large mast which is visible across north Louth; if he will raise the matter with the British Home Office to ascertain the purpose of this mast and obtain specific technical...

Written Answers — Organ Retention: Organ Retention (10 Feb 2004)

Arthur Morgan: Question 369: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the nature of relationship required to make representations to the Dunne inquiry in respect of organs of relatives retained without permission in this State; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3937/04]

Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (10 Feb 2004)

Arthur Morgan: Question 471: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if she will assess the restrictions as an expenditure cutback in view of the vulnerability of people likely to be affected by the restrictions on eligibility for rent supplement, and in view of the several meetings held with the Department of Finance ; if the failure to hold even a personal meeting with the Minister for the...

Requests to move Adjournment of Dáil under Standing Order 31. (17 Feb 2004)

Arthur Morgan: I seek the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 31 to debate the following urgent matter: the necessity for the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government to abandon his plans for imposing incineration on the people of this State. Given that the Government is unwilling to take on board the damaging effects of incineration on health, will it consider the voice of...

Order of Business. (17 Feb 2004)

Arthur Morgan: What is the position in respect of legislation to empower one of the all-Ireland implementation bodies established in 1999 under the terms of the Good Friday Agreement, namely, the Foyle, Carlingford and Irish Lights Commission? The commission requires primary legislation to facilitate its operation.

Order of Business. (17 Feb 2004)

Arthur Morgan: Is the legislation ready to proceed?

Motor Vehicle (Duties and Licences) Bill 2004: Second Stage. (17 Feb 2004)

Arthur Morgan: The Bill represents yet another attempt by the Government to raise revenue through inequitable taxes. This is strange given that this right-wing Government and its leading ideologues pride themselves on low levels of taxation. While the Government imposes low levels of taxation, this applies only to the very wealthy and speculators while crippling ordinary working people and the lower paid...

Written Answers — Work Permits: Work Permits (17 Feb 2004)

Arthur Morgan: Question 204: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the reason the refusal to issue new work permits in certain occupational sectors applies to employees already working in those sectors; if she agrees that this policy effectively prevents these workers from changing employers; when this policy will be changed; and if she will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Election Management System: Election Management System (17 Feb 2004)

Arthur Morgan: Question 490: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if all polling stations in the elections to local government and the European Parliament on 11 June 2004 will be wheelchair accessible; if all polling stations will be fully accessible; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5037/04]

Requests to move Adjournment of Dáil under Standing Order 31. (30 Mar 2004)

Arthur Morgan: I seek the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 31 to discuss the following urgent issue: the threat made by the Tánaiste that the PDs will collapse the Government unless the break-up of CIE and the privatisation of transport services goes ahead, regardless of discussions with the unions.

Requests to move Adjournment of Dáil under Standing Order 31. (30 Mar 2004)

Arthur Morgan: The fact that this threat has undermined the social partnership process; the necessity for the Tánaiste to be relieved of her responsibilities for employment, as her unbridled Thatcherite right-wing rant to party zealots illustrate that she is——

Requests to move Adjournment of Dáil under Standing Order 31. (30 Mar 2004)

Arthur Morgan: ——unsuitable to have responsibility for workers' rights; the necessity for the Tánaiste to apologise to workers in CIE and Aer Rianta for proclaiming the destruction of their jobs as her number one political objective; and the need to debate the issue in this House.

Confidence in the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government: Motion. (30 Mar 2004)

Arthur Morgan: Sinn Féin supports this motion of no confidence in the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government, Deputy Cullen. I thank the Green Party for the opportunity to address this Minister's record. The Minister is a deeply right wing free-marketeer with an anti-working class, individualistic and pro-privatisation agenda. His ideological position means that he can never be a...

Confidence in the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government: Motion. (30 Mar 2004)

Arthur Morgan: He shares that ideological territory with a number of Cabinet colleagues.

Confidence in the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government: Motion. (30 Mar 2004)

Arthur Morgan: How a person with such an agenda can ever be expected to deliver on social and affordable housing, the implementation of an environment-first waste management policy and empowering people through a reformed and inclusive system of local government is beyond comprehension? I specifically wish to address the Minister's intentional mishandling of housing, waste management and local government. I...

Confidence in the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government: Motion. (30 Mar 2004)

Arthur Morgan: That so much progress has been made by residents in those areas through developing their communities is no credit to this or any other Government but a credit to those communities' endurance, will-power and resilience. We, as a society, need to build on what has been done by these communities which have pulled themselves out of the gutter, where successive Governments had thrown them, and...

Confidence in the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government: Motion. (30 Mar 2004)

Arthur Morgan: The Minister is not preying on people's fears but playing on the backs of the large speculators and developers, which has us where we are now.

Confidence in the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government: Motion. (30 Mar 2004)

Arthur Morgan: If Deputy Cullen is not swiftly removed from his ministerial position, there will be a network of incinerators throughout this State pumping toxic ash into the environment.