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Order of Business. (20 Jun 2006)

Ruairi Quinn: Anyone who expects to buy his or her flat can kiss it goodbye until next year.

Order of Business. (20 Jun 2006)

Ruairi Quinn: When do we expect legislation to provide for the sell-off of Aer Lingus? Is additional legislation necessary?

Order of Business. (20 Jun 2006)

Ruairi Quinn: Will additional legislation be necessary to deal with pensions?

Leaders' Questions. (20 Jun 2006)

Ruairi Quinn: Did the Taoiseach get a receipt?

Leaders' Questions. (20 Jun 2006)

Ruairi Quinn: They are called ATMs.

Written Answers — Education Welfare Service: Education Welfare Service (15 Jun 2006)

Ruairi Quinn: Question 82: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the cost of employing an additional education welfare officer at the National Educational Welfare Board, including salary, pension and expenses; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23232/06]

Written Answers — Education Welfare Service: Education Welfare Service (15 Jun 2006)

Ruairi Quinn: Question 97: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the plans the Government has to increase the staff complement of the National Educational Welfare Board; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23231/06]

Written Answers — National Drugs Strategy: National Drugs Strategy (14 Jun 2006)

Ruairi Quinn: Question 51: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs if he has received the latest annual report from the national drugs strategy team; if not, when he expects to receive same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22746/06]

Written Answers — Proposed Legislation: Proposed Legislation (14 Jun 2006)

Ruairi Quinn: Question 136: To ask the Minister for Finance if he intends to amend the Betting Act 1931 or Section 85 of the Finance Act 1998 to alter the permitted opening hours of registered betting premises; the amendments he proposes to make; if he has had discussions with industry groups on the matter; if so, the groups with which he has discussed the matter. [22955/06]

Employment Permits Bill 2005: From the Seanad. (14 Jun 2006)

Ruairi Quinn: The record should show that clearly.

Employment Permits Bill 2005: From the Seanad. (14 Jun 2006)

Ruairi Quinn: I welcome the amendments and the response of the Government, as well as the fact that the Minister has indicated that before a decision is made by ministerial order on opening up the Irish labour market to both new countries, Bulgaria and Romania, it will be brought before the House and the House will have a chance to discuss it. It is appropriate we should do so. The postponement of the...

Written Answers — Waste Disposal: Waste Disposal (13 Jun 2006)

Ruairi Quinn: Question 65: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he is satisfied that the costings made in relation to the proposed Ringsend incineration plant in 1997 are still valid; and if he intends to reassess the financial analysis and costing model of the incineration process in view of the possibility that a range of costs may have been omitted from the original...

Written Answers — Departmental Schemes: Departmental Schemes (13 Jun 2006)

Ruairi Quinn: Question 124: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if the Government intends to replace rent supplement with housing benefit in view of the Comptroller and Auditor General expressing concern regarding the rise in the cost of rent supplement and the assertion of the report that there was little incentive in the scheme to keep rents low. [22484/06]

Written Answers — Unemployment Levels: Unemployment Levels (13 Jun 2006)

Ruairi Quinn: Question 157: To ask the Taoiseach the breakdown by gender, age and geographic location of those listed by the Central Statistics Office as long-term unemployed; the trends of note in these figures over the past three years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22309/06]

Written Answers — Departmental Properties: Departmental Properties (13 Jun 2006)

Ruairi Quinn: Question 237: To ask the Minister for Finance if, further to the undertaking given by the Office of Public Works in February 2006 to take remedial action to address excessive air temperatures in certain party offices in Leinster House 2000, the action that has been taken to date; the steps in place to address uncomfortable air temperature conditions caused by solar heating and heat generated...

Written Answers — Proposed Legislation: Proposed Legislation (8 Jun 2006)

Ruairi Quinn: Question 30: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform his proposals to reform the law relating to the protection of personal privacy; if the heads of a Bill have been approved by the Government; if so, if he will publish same; when he expects to bring a Bill before the Houses of the Oireachtas; the consultations he is planning prior to the publication of the Bill; and if he...

Written Answers — Chemicals Regulation: Chemicals Regulation (8 Jun 2006)

Ruairi Quinn: Question 138: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the Government's position on the mandatory substitution of hazardous chemicals by suitable safer alternatives where they already exist on the market; if he will report on discussions that have taken place at European level on this matter involving his Department; the position taken by his Department in votes or...

Written Answers — Chemicals Regulation: Chemicals Regulation (8 Jun 2006)

Ruairi Quinn: Question 139: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if, in view of the fact that the principle of mandatory substitution was upheld by the European Parliament in November of 2005 and is used in other European legislation such as the Biocide Directive, he will explain his Department's attempts to oppose mandatory substitution in the REACH directive; and if he will make a...

Deportation Orders. (8 Jun 2006)

Ruairi Quinn: Question 8: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of occasions since June 2002 on which aircraft have been chartered to facilitate the deportation of persons from this country; the cost involved in such charters; the number of persons deported in this way; the number who were children; the overall costs involved, including Garda man hours; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Public Transport: Public Transport (7 Jun 2006)

Ruairi Quinn: Question 73: To ask the Minister for Transport the level of funding provided for quality bus corridors in 2006; the information available to his Department on the way in which this is spent; the amount and percentage of such funding drawn down in each of the past five years; the information available to his Department on the total number of bus lane kilometres in greater Dublin; the...