McCormack, PádraicThursday, 4 May 2006 |
Dáil Eireann Debate
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Energy Resources: Motion (Resumed).
Amendment put.
Voted No 
Priority Questions - Social and Affordable Housing.
Asked the minister: the action he intends to take to ensure that local authorities construct more social and affordable housing; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
I thank the Minister for reading out that script. I do not know whether it makes sense to anybody other than himself. Has the Government any plans to revert to what was its original intention in the P...
That is right.
I thank the Minister of State for his reply. I knew everything he said prior to him saying it. He has passed the buck back to the local authority which has made decisions in cases. I can quote cases w...
The Minister of State is standing up because he is very anxious to prevent me from speaking. The Minister and the Minister of State are now standing up to prevent me from speaking because they are emb...
I wish the Minister would listen because he might learn from somebody who has served on a local authority. I was a member of both Galway City Council and Galway County Council so I know exactly what i...
Other Questions - Election Management System.
It was the way he was born.
I welcome the Minister’s acknowledgement that he does not know how much money is available. Does he accept that local authorities do not have the staff, facilities, resources and, in some cases, the w...
And busier.
Some of them.
I am sure that they are shaking in their boots.
Given that the Minister, Deputy Cullen, insisted on purchasing the electronic voting machines, despite the opposition of Deputy O’Dowd, Deputy Gilmore and me at the Joint Committee on Environment and ...
What about Wicklow?
What was the cost per machine?
I will give them to the Minister.
It was €172,000——
What is the cost of the analysis the Minister is now carrying out?
Why?
Written Answers - Local Authority Playgrounds.
Asked the minister: the number of local authority playgrounds here on a local authority basis; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
Written Answers - Departmental Press Facilities.
Asked the minister: his views on whether it is appropriate to use his Department’s press facility and website to issue a party political statement; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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