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Written Answers — EU Directives: EU Directives (5 May 2011)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Question 34: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Innovation the role he is playing in the audit of the transposition of EU directives; the directives that are under scrutiny by him; if this audit will incorporate an analysis of the transposition of EU directives on an all-Ireland basis in order that there is cross-border harmonisation thus reducing barriers to enterprise; and if he...

Suicide Prevention: Statements (Resumed) (5 May 2011)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Cosúil le daoine eile, gabhaim comhghairdeas leis an Aire Stáit, an Teachta Kathleen Lynch, as ucht an post nua atá faighte aici. Ní bhfuair mé seans é sin a rá go dtí seo. Tá a fhios agam, ón obair a dhein sí roimhe seo, gur duine maith í. Tá súil agam go mbeidh sí in ann obair de réir a mbriathar nuair a bhí sí ar an taobh seo den Teach. Baineann an díospóireacht seo...

EU-IMF Programme: Statements (Resumed) (5 May 2011)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Measaim go bhfuil sé tábhachtach go bhfuilimid ag labhairt ar an gceist ríthábhachtach seo agus go bhfuil deis againn páirt a ghlacadh sa díospóireacht seo. Gan aird ar an méid atá daoine ag iarraidh a chur trasna, níl mé míréasúnta. I am reasonable in my approach. Sinn Féin has put forward reasonable and costed alternatives in the past. This Government and the previous...

EU-IMF Programme: Statements (Resumed) (5 May 2011)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: They were costed. A stimulus package was put forward, which used the Department of Finance's model at the time. I and my party accept that things have moved on since then. However, at the time it was put forward based on figures presented by the previous Government. This Government has continued the policy of Fianna Fáil and has committed to the black hole of the banks some of the money...

EU-IMF Programme: Statements (Resumed) (5 May 2011)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: ----- over a period of three years using the Department of Finance's stimulus projections would have returned a profit. One invests to return a profit.

EU-IMF Programme: Statements (Resumed) (5 May 2011)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I can argue that point.

EU-IMF Programme: Statements (Resumed) (5 May 2011)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I am not disputing that there is a huge amount of waste and that we need savings. However, the savings in terms of the money that will be raised will be a pittance in comparison to the €60 billion or the €120 billion or whatever figure one takes. Yes, savings will be made, but savings alone will not dig us out of a hole which was created by the previous administration, and I accept...

EU-IMF Programme: Statements (Resumed) (5 May 2011)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: They are by virtue of the fact that they are working. However-----

EU-IMF Programme: Statements (Resumed) (5 May 2011)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: -----they are not benefiting from increased profits. These profits are not being translated into increased wages.

EU-IMF Programme: Statements (Resumed) (5 May 2011)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I am not making an argument. I am stating that companies in Ireland are increasing their export levels which means their profits are increasing but no new jobs have been created in these fields. I am not giving out about these companies; I welcome that fact. What I am stating is that the workers in these companies are not benefiting additionally. They are benefiting by the fact that they...

EU-IMF Programme: Statements (Resumed) (5 May 2011)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: This has always been a problem and I am surprised at the Labour Party. The whole idea is that workers have-----

EU-IMF Programme: Statements (Resumed) (5 May 2011)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Yes, and we also like that the workers, those who create the profits, should benefit most from it and not just through jobs.

EU-IMF Programme: Statements (Resumed) (5 May 2011)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: If profits increase, wages should also increase. This is the definition of socialism and I am surprised-----

EU-IMF Programme: Statements (Resumed) (5 May 2011)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: We have seen previous forecasts for growth rates last year and this year which were totally off the mark. We might be advised to take the current forecast of modest growth in the economy in the coming years with a grain of salt. Again, this will be determined by budgets and whatever proposal the Minister for Finance brings to the House on Tuesday. I think that prediction of modest growth...

EU-IMF Programme: Statements (Resumed) (5 May 2011)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: There is a lot more than €75 billion being invested abroad by Irish pension and investment funds. However, whatever the figure, it is unpatriotic at a time of crisis. We must find a system to encourage Irish money to be invested in Ireland rather than being invested in Germany or elsewhere. If such moneys are not invested in this country we must find a way to impose a levy so the Irish...

EU-IMF Programme: Statements (Resumed) (5 May 2011)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I may have missed it and I look forward to the day it is introduced.

EU-IMF Programme: Statements (Resumed) (5 May 2011)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: It came from the ECB.

Pupil-Teacher Ratio (4 May 2011)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I hope the Minister will not have any difficulty in responding to this matter, which is with regard to a quite specific change which occurred under the Fianna Fáil and Green Party Government which changed the pupil-teacher ratio for gaelscoileanna and applied it retrospectively. Changing the pupil-teacher ratio would be a problem in itself, but by applying it retrospectively Gaelscoil Inse...

Pupil-Teacher Ratio (4 May 2011)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Tá sin ceart go leor.

Written Answers — Psychological Service: Psychological Service (4 May 2011)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Question 27: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to reverse the cut to the number of psychologists in the National Education Psychological Service in budget 2011. [9853/11]