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Written Answers — Electricity Generation: Electricity Generation (25 Feb 2009)

Liz McManus: Question 206: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if the Commission for Energy Regulation refused permission to the ESB to reduce prices; his views on whether the ESB is being refused permission to lower prices in order to allow competitors to be profitable; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7832/09]

Order of Business (25 Feb 2009)

Liz McManus: The question was when it will be completed. Perhaps the Taoiseach can answer that. I have questions on two pieces of legislation. Yesterday, I asked the Taoiseach not to proceed with the Broadcasting Bill. He suggested that I should table an amendment which, with all due respect to the Taoiseach, is not an adequate response to what is needed, particularly in the current economic...

Order of Business (25 Feb 2009)

Liz McManus: That is one question. The other question concerns postal services. This morning the Joint Committee on Communications, Energy and Natural Resources had a meeting with An Post. The EU directive that requires liberalisation of the market has serious implications for such services, particularly in rural Ireland. It would clearly require legislation, which is long overdue. I do not think we...

Order of Business (25 Feb 2009)

Liz McManus: In the meantime, we squander money.

Written Answers — Retail Sector: Retail Sector (24 Feb 2009)

Liz McManus: Question 62: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the steps she will take to require retailers to explain price differentials in view of her recent address to the Checkout Conference 2009; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7270/09]

Written Answers — Retail Sector: Retail Sector (24 Feb 2009)

Liz McManus: Question 94: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment her views on the Forfás report published in December 2008, which found that while retail costs are higher here, this differential could not account for the significantly higher prices being charged for many key consumer goods here; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7269/09]

Order of Business (24 Feb 2009)

Liz McManus: It is worth noting that at long last the Minister has announced a new RTE authority to fill a vacuum that has lasted for several months. This is an unusual request but it relates to legislation and we live in extraordinary times. Is it possible that the Broadcasting Bill could be reviewed before its completion because it sets out to establish a new quango with all the attendant apparatus...

Order of Business (24 Feb 2009)

Liz McManus: Will the Taoiseach consider the alternative, which is to have one regulator, including ComReg——

Order of Business (24 Feb 2009)

Liz McManus: ——and the broadcasting regulator?

Order of Business (24 Feb 2009)

Liz McManus: This would enable us to be cost effective and to deal with the changes in technologies which we face.

Order of Business (24 Feb 2009)

Liz McManus: An bord snip nua is examining ways to reduce the costs of government.

Order of Business (24 Feb 2009)

Liz McManus: Will the Taoiseach reconsider the whole issue of the Broadcasting Bill in light of the circumstances in which we now find ourselves?

Written Answers — Cancer Screening Programme: Cancer Screening Programme (19 Feb 2009)

Liz McManus: Question 68: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when the proposed national bowel cancer screening programme will commence; if the funding promised for 2009 to commence work on the planning of the programme is in place; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6547/09]

Written Answers — Departmental Staff: Departmental Staff (19 Feb 2009)

Liz McManus: Question 66: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she is seeking voluntary redundancies and early retirements from staff in her Department; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6546/09]

Irish Economy: Motion (18 Feb 2009)

Liz McManus: We are debating a defining motion. It defines the fundamental principles that are necessary to underpin a national plan of recovery. None of us in this House underestimate the gravity of the economic crisis we face. The banking scandal, the international economic downturn and the level of Government incompetence shown so far all combine to collapse public confidence. Unemployment is...

Written Answers — Financial Institutions Support Scheme: Financial Institutions Support Scheme (18 Feb 2009)

Liz McManus: Question 76: To ask the Minister for Finance if he is considering mechanisms by which the impaired assets of financial institutions covered by the bank guarantee could be quarantined; the options being considered; his views on whether such isolation of these impaired assets is essential, if the banking system here is to be put on a sound footing, able to channel credit to credit worthy...

Written Answers — Financial Institutions Regulation: Financial Institutions Regulation (18 Feb 2009)

Liz McManus: Question 105: To ask the Minister for Finance his views on whether one of the biggest mistakes made by the Japanese authorities in the face of their banking crisis in the 1990s was to delay and prevaricate over the identification and write-down of impaired assets on banks balance sheets; if he is committed to avoiding repeating this mistake in the context of the ongoing banking crisis here;...

Written Answers — Cabinet Committees: Cabinet Committees (18 Feb 2009)

Liz McManus: Question 114: To ask the Taoiseach the last time the Cabinet Committee on Climate Change met; the timeframe for the next meeting; and the schedule for meetings in 2009. [6523/09]

Order of Business (18 Feb 2009)

Liz McManus: Our energy bills are among the highest in Europe. We all welcome today's announcement by Bord Gáis that it is to enter the domestic electricity market, which hopefully will provide some relief. However, businesses and domestic consumers are still being crippled by unnecessarily high electricity bills. The Taoiseach in recognising this made a commitment to ensure that energy prices would...

Order of Business (18 Feb 2009)

Liz McManus: I am asking about promised legislation.