Results 301-320 of 1,043,587 for in 'Dáil debates' OR in 'Committee meetings' (speaker:Ciarán Cuffe OR speaker:Jennifer Whitmore OR speaker:Willie O'Dea OR speaker:Ciarán Cannon OR speaker:Seán Crowe)

Planning Issues. (3 Feb 2004)

Martin Cullen: Yes, 1,100 houses. I answer questions in the House every day of the week about our efforts to build houses. I took the view that there should be a balance between protection of the heritage on one side and other Government policy issues on the other.

Planning Issues. (3 Feb 2004)

Eamon Gilmore: The decision was only toappeal.

Planning Issues. (3 Feb 2004)

Martin Cullen: The Deputy is not saying that, in several of the cases to which he refers, we sent the proposal back to the local authority concerned and said that we would not accept the scale of the facility in question but that if it were substantially scaled back, it would meet the requirements of heritage. That was what happened. Some officials met those requirements after doing that and taking account...

Planning Issues. (3 Feb 2004)

Séamus Pattison: That concludes Priority Questions.

Planning Issues. (3 Feb 2004)

Martin Cullen: I am not a rubber stamp and I will not be one for anyone.

Planning Issues. (3 Feb 2004)

Eamon Gilmore: The Minister is accountable. He should not get tetchy with me.

Planning Issues. (3 Feb 2004)

Martin Cullen: I am not doing so. However, the point was why I engaged in this. I discovered that objections were made in my name about which I knew nothing.

Planning Issues. (3 Feb 2004)

Séamus Pattison: The time for Priority Questions has now expired.

Other Questions. (3 Feb 2004)

Other Questions. (3 Feb 2004)

Nuclear Plants.

Nuclear Plants. (3 Feb 2004)

Róisín Shortall: Question 142: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the position regarding his request to the British authorities to allow Irish experts to inspect the Sellafield nuclear plant; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2886/04]

Nuclear Plants. (3 Feb 2004)

Emmet Stagg: Question 197: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the concern expressed by the Radiological Protection Institute of Ireland that it has become more difficult to obtain information on Sellafield from the British authorities since 11 September 2001; if he has raised those concerns with the British Government; the response...

Nuclear Plants. (3 Feb 2004)

Martin Cullen: I propose to take Questions Nos. 142 and 197 together. Access to Sellafield by Irish experts has been sought by the Irish Government on an ongoing basis and in February 2000 staff of the RPII received permission for a formal visit to the site. Based on its examination of the safety documentation, in December 2000 the RPII produced a report on the storage of liquid high-level radioactive waste...

Nuclear Plants. (3 Feb 2004)

Emmet Stagg: Plutonium in children's teeth is double the normal level in the area around Sellafield, according to the British Minister for Health. There is a leaking roof on a storage tank in Sellafield and a strike took place among workers at the plant which put it at risk. Waste pipes from the facility have recently been washed up on the shore and more are missing. A new storage facility for additional...

Nuclear Plants. (3 Feb 2004)

Martin Cullen: I do not accept that. There is, and has been, fairly strong consensus in this House. As a former Minister with some responsibility in the area, the Deputy knows the difficulties first hand. However, we have advanced matters quite far under two cases, OSPAR and UNCLOS — the Deputy referred only to one. The situation regarding the European Court of Justice and the Commission believing that it...

Nuclear Plants. (3 Feb 2004)

Séamus Pattison: Before I call Deputy Allen, I remind the House that supplementary questions and answers are subject to a one-minute time limit.

Nuclear Plants. (3 Feb 2004)

Bernard Allen: I will deal specifically with the question on the Order Paper. I asked a question on the lock-up policy of the British Government regarding our nuclear experts from the Radiological Protection Institute of Ireland and suggested that, at prime ministerial level, Mr. Blair might give the Taoiseach details of the security systems in place in Sellafield to assure us that there is no risk in the...

Nuclear Plants. (3 Feb 2004)

Martin Cullen: The Deputy knows this is an issue in which the Taoiseach engages in a fulsome way and which is always on his agenda. I think he has confirmed to the House that he raised this matter with the British Prime Minister. I do not have the details but I am confident he has confirmed it to the House.

Nuclear Plants. (3 Feb 2004)

Bernard Allen: May we have the details?

Nuclear Plants. (3 Feb 2004)

Martin Cullen: Following the cases, serious discussions are going on as to how we implement and improve substantially the relationship between Ireland and the UK covering the full range of issues which the Deputy, Deputy Stagg, others and I have raised. However, these are not complete. I am anxious for them to be completed and when they are, I will give a full account to the House as to what the position...