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Tax Code. (7 Feb 2007)

Dan Boyle: Question 108: To ask the Minister for Finance the existing available tax reliefs and the estimated tax foregone in the most recent annual period from which information is available. [4209/07]

Tax Code. (7 Feb 2007)

Dan Boyle: The Minister should be aware that my supplementary question is a development of the point that the most recent statistics relate to 2003. A significant amount of alteration has occurred in the tax reliefs available. The Minister has chosen to extend some but he has not renewed many and some have been brought in that have not been costed since 2003. The Minister has also indicated in the...

Tax Code. (7 Feb 2007)

Dan Boyle: I do not want circumstances to arise in which it becomes necessary to commission a further three-volume report examining the effects of particular tax reliefs. The massive Indecon report dealt only with property based tax reliefs. The information available to Deputies is out of date. We have still not been informed what type of public accountability mechanism the Minister has introduced...

Written Answers — Tax Yield: Tax Yield (7 Feb 2007)

Dan Boyle: Question 150: To ask the Minister for Finance if he is confident in mechanisms used to make Exchequer return projections which form an important basis of spending allocations in view of the inaccuracy by millions of the end of year Exchequer projections made at the time of the budget compared to the eventual returns. [4069/07]

Written Answers — Decentralisation Programme: Decentralisation Programme (7 Feb 2007)

Dan Boyle: Question 203: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will elaborate on the nature and need for four PPP projects worth €100 to €250 million being pursued by the Office of Public Works under the Government's decentralisation programme. [4068/07]

Written Answers — Residency Permits: Residency Permits (7 Feb 2007)

Dan Boyle: Question 207: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if a decision is forthcoming regarding the family reunification application made by a person (details supplied). [4219/07]

Order of Business (8 Feb 2007)

Dan Boyle: Given that the Tánaiste represents the San Marino of Irish politics, he is not in any position to judge anybody's performance. On today's Order Paper there is a proposal for a directive of the European Parliament and the Council amending a directive on the Community code relating to medicinal products for human use. Will the Government provide time, under a new Order of Business, to use...

Order of Business (8 Feb 2007)

Dan Boyle: This relates to the meaning of this House. This is an issue of concern to the Cork region——

Order of Business (8 Feb 2007)

Dan Boyle: ——and time must be provided in the House to discuss it.

Order of Business (8 Feb 2007)

Dan Boyle: It is an urgent issue and I ask the Tánaiste to respond to it.

Order of Business (8 Feb 2007)

Dan Boyle: I appreciate there are other ways through the Ceann Comhairle's office but I am asking the Tánaiste to respond.

Order of Business (8 Feb 2007)

Dan Boyle: I appreciate that.

Order of Business (8 Feb 2007)

Dan Boyle: The announcement has just been made.

Order of Business (8 Feb 2007)

Dan Boyle: If they are not sold, the jobs will be gone.

European Communities Bill 2006 [Seanad]: Second Stage (8 Feb 2007)

Dan Boyle: We could start by acknowledging the logistical problem that exists. There are several thousand legal instruments emanating from the European Union every year. The Bill is one approach, but as has been mentioned by other speakers, it is most certainly the wrong approach. We exist in what is meant to be a democracy and the principles that underline this Bill greatly undermine the central...

Foreign Conflicts. (8 Feb 2007)

Dan Boyle: Question 92: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs the recent diplomatic initiatives the Government has made in terms of the ongoing conflict in Sudan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4281/07]

Job Losses. (8 Feb 2007)

Dan Boyle: I am grateful to have the opportunity to raise this issue on the Adjournment, though I am saddened by the fact that issues of this type are becoming more frequent in the Cork region and in the constituency that the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment, Deputy Martin, and I represent. The Minister of State will be aware that Pfizer made an announcement today on employment at their...

Written Answers — Military Neutrality: Military Neutrality (8 Feb 2007)

Dan Boyle: Question 112: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs if he will make a statement following his 29 December 2006 interview (detail supplied) regarding what he has termed a third phase of Irish foreign policy based on active neutrality; the way this active neutrality will be implemented [4280/07]

National Development Finance Agency (Amendment) Bill 2006 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (13 Feb 2007)

Dan Boyle: The Bill before us indicates the extent to which the Government believes the debate on public private partnerships has finished and that it has become an acceptable method of financing public infrastructural projects. We have never had an adequate debate on why it is happening. Experience has shown that it is a flawed funding mechanism. Many projects have gone over budget and cost more...

Requests to move Adjournment of Dáil under Standing Order 31 (14 Feb 2007)

Dan Boyle: I seek the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 31 to raise a matter of national importance, namely, that the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government make a statement to the House in view of yesterday's vote in the European Parliament where an attempt was made to change the Waste Framework Directive to have incineration recognised as a recovery instead of a...