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Written Answers — Financial Services Regulation: Financial Services Regulation (4 Oct 2011)

Luke Flanagan: Question 190: To ask the Minister for Finance the new corporate structure that was put in place to facilitate the restructuring of the Quinn Group debt; if new companies were formed for the division of Quinn Group assets and liabilities when it was divided into manufacturing and non-core parts; the percentage of the €588 million now owed by Quinn Group under the non-core entity that has...

Written Answers — Garda Operations: Garda Operations (4 Oct 2011)

Luke Flanagan: Question 483: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the reason for the arrest of a person (details supplied) in County Clare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27501/11]

Order of Business. (5 Oct 2011)

Luke Flanagan: With regard to NewERA and the 100,000 jobs it is planned to create in the next five years, can the Taoiseach tell us what the other 350,000 people are to do?

Order of Business. (5 Oct 2011)

Luke Flanagan: No, he cannot, even if he tried.

Order of Business. (5 Oct 2011)

Luke Flanagan: I agree with you, a Cheann Comhairle. He cannot tell us.

Order of Business. (5 Oct 2011)

Luke Flanagan: I did not hear his answer.

Order of Business. (5 Oct 2011)

Luke Flanagan: Is it not relevant? It probably is not.

Recent Developments in the Eurozone: Statements (5 Oct 2011)

Luke Flanagan: With various EU referenda through the years, anybody in opposition would have acted because the changes would lead us to a European super-state. Such people were labelled lunatics and told that would never happen but it is happening now.. Is the Minister in favour of a European super-state and the end of the Republic of Ireland as it has been? That is what will happen. What is the point...

Recent Developments in the Eurozone: Statements (5 Oct 2011)

Luke Flanagan: There must be a super-state.

Recent Developments in the Eurozone: Statements (5 Oct 2011)

Luke Flanagan: It would be nice to have a say in the rules.

Written Answers — Pension Provisions: Pension Provisions (11 Oct 2011)

Luke Flanagan: Question 174: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide an actuarial breakdown of the extra yearly cost to the Exchequer for pensions awarded to those public servants who can retire at 50 years instead of 68 years; if these costs may be reconsidered due to the fact that civil servants retire at a much earlier age than ordinary workers; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Code: Social Welfare Code (11 Oct 2011)

Luke Flanagan: Question 250: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason she does not allow fuel allowance to be paid in a lump sum ahead of time, as an option other than the weekly payment which may not be available to all; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [28412/11]

Written Answers — State Property: State Property (12 Oct 2011)

Luke Flanagan: Question 117: To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the reasons for the delay in the transaction for lands (details supplied) which he wishes to purchase. [28990/11]

Common Agricultural Policy Reform Proposals: Statements (13 Oct 2011)

Luke Flanagan: I thank the Acting Chairman for her comments when she spoke on these proposals. As many other Deputies said, there is a lot in them and it will take time to digest them. On a first reading it seems a farmer's life is becoming fairly complicated in comparison to what it used to be. There is some confusion among farmers as to what has happened since we joined the EEC as it was then. If the...

Common Agricultural Policy Reform Proposals: Statements (13 Oct 2011)

Luke Flanagan: My question relates to the greening proposals, in particular to turf cutting, when the Common Agricultural Policy was being negotiated. Was it flagged that along the line farmers could potentially lose part of their single farm payment if they cut turf? The turf cutters cannot establish definitively whether their single farm payment would be affected next year if they went out and cut turf...

Common Agricultural Policy Reform Proposals: Statements (13 Oct 2011)

Luke Flanagan: Going back to the Minister's earlier answer, under the current single farm payment system, can the Minister find out if part of the payment can be taken off farmers, no matter what other penalties are imposed, if they cut turf next year in one of the 55 SAC bogs? The Minister will have to find that out because the Turf Cutters and Contractors Association is finding it very difficult to get a...

Written Answers — Electricity Generation: Electricity Generation (19 Oct 2011)

Luke Flanagan: Question 18: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will direct the ESB to consider the offer made by a person (details supplied) to have the proposed power line that is to cross their land buried underground instead of cutting down a 60-metre-wide avenue of mature trees through their land; if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the ESB has in...

Written Answers — Medical Inquiries: Medical Inquiries (19 Oct 2011)

Luke Flanagan: Question 128: To ask the Minister for Health, on behalf of the survivors of symphysiotomy, when the report commissioned in June will be completed and published; the steps he will take to speed up its delivery; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30231/11]

Order of Business (25 Oct 2011)

Luke Flanagan: With reference to No. 35 on the Order Paper, "That the European Communities (Birds and Natural Habitats) Regulations 2011 (S.I. No. 477 of 2011) be and are hereby annulled.", will the Government give time to discuss this matter and debate it, given the penal sanctions included in these new regulations? One of these sanctions could mean that a turf cutter could receive up to three years in...

Order of Business (25 Oct 2011)

Luke Flanagan: Has the Taoiseach tried both? There is no statute of limitations on the decision to prosecute.