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Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (22 Mar 2011)

Martin Ferris: Question 231: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food when REP scheme 4 payment will issue in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry. [4850/11]

Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (22 Mar 2011)

Martin Ferris: Question 232: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food when REP scheme payment will issue in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry. [4851/11]

Written Answers — Forestry Sector: Forestry Sector (22 Mar 2011)

Martin Ferris: Question 240: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if Coillte has sold trees to any pension companies; and if so, the value and the extent of the trees sold to date. [5004/11]

Written Answers — Semi-State Bodies: Semi-State Bodies (22 Mar 2011)

Martin Ferris: Question 241: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he will provide a guarantee that Coillte land or other assets will not be sold off in whole or in part to private investors; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5011/11]

Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (22 Mar 2011)

Martin Ferris: Question 244: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food when a grant for a milk parlour will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Kerry. [5130/11]

Written Answers — Semi-State Bodies: Semi-State Bodies (22 Mar 2011)

Martin Ferris: Question 269: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if the proposed merger of Coillte and Bord na Móna in a new biotechnology company will entail either company selling any of the land currently under its control; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5003/11]

Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (22 Mar 2011)

Martin Ferris: Question 329: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when a person (details supplied) in County Kerry may expect to have a scan carried out at Kerry General Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5225/11]

Requests to move Adjournment of Dáil under Standing Order 32 (23 Mar 2011)

Martin Ferris: Under Standing Order 32 I seek to adjourn the House in order to debate the need to revisit the Lost at Sea issue and act on the Ombudsman's report in order to discover the circumstances in which some individuals were granted compensation while other families such as the Byrne family from County Donegal were turned down in circumstances which have not yet been fully investigated and to examine...

Written Answers — Departmental Reports: Departmental Reports (23 Mar 2011)

Martin Ferris: Question 33: To ask the Minister for Finance when the McCarthy Review Group on State Assets will publish their report; if he has received a copy of this report; when it is envisioned that he will target the €2 billion in sales of State assets; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5401/11]

Written Answers — Expenditure Reviews: Expenditure Reviews (23 Mar 2011)

Martin Ferris: Question 36: To ask the Minister for Finance when the comprehensive spending review will be undertaken; the persons who will make up this comprehensive spending review; the deadline for the review to be completed; the terms of reference for the review; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5402/11]

Requests to move Adjournment of Dáil under Standing Order 32 (24 Mar 2011)

Martin Ferris: Under Standing Order 32, I seek to adjourn the House to discuss the apparent contradiction between the Taoiseach's statement on Tuesday that the Government has no intention of selling Coillte and replies from the Ministers for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food and Finance that no decision has yet been made and that the decision will be informed by the McCarthy report on State assets. I call...

Written Answers — School Patronage: School Patronage (24 Mar 2011)

Martin Ferris: Question 28: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the forum on patronage and pluralism in the primary sector, as per the programme for Government, will be undertaken; when the terms of reference will be available; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5504/11]

Order of Business (29 Mar 2011)

Martin Ferris: I refer to a matter raised in the House last week that, to my knowledge, was not answered. I refer to the serious industrial relations issue with regard to staff in the House from a health and safety point of view and enforced working hours due to the public sector embargo. No Dáil tours can take place after 4 p.m. due to the lack of staff. Alterations have been made to the contracts of...

Order of Business (29 Mar 2011)

Martin Ferris: Is it intended to set up the Houses of the Oireachtas Commission to deal with this issue urgently?

Moriarty Tribunal Report: Statements (29 Mar 2011)

Martin Ferris: At the end of George Orwell's Animal Farm there is a scene where the animals who thought they were being liberated discovered that they could no longer tell the difference between the old masters and those who had replaced them. Sitting here, less than half an hour ago, when Deputy Martin stated that it was not credible for us to believe that Lowry and O'Brien met and did not discuss the...

Universal Service Charge: Motion (29 Mar 2011)

Martin Ferris: In her speech on budget day, the Minister of State, Deputy Róisín Shortall, correctly described the universal social charge as a tax on the working poor. It is another tax on the working poor. For many of those working poor, it is literally the difference between being able to make ends meet or not. During the course of the election I had the experience of going to the house of a woman, a...

Universal Service Charge: Motion (29 Mar 2011)

Martin Ferris: The Deputy should get his facts right.

Written Answers — Work Permits: Work Permits (29 Mar 2011)

Martin Ferris: Question 42: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Innovation if he will ratify the UN Convention on the Protection of the Rights of all Migrant Workers and Members of their Families; if he will change the employment permits system to grant permits to workers within designated job categories with the right to freely change employer; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Employment Rights: Employment Rights (29 Mar 2011)

Martin Ferris: Question 46: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Innovation his plans to strengthen the protections available for domestic workers against abusive employers; his plans to criminalise forced labour; if he plans to opt into Directive 2009/52/EC which provides protection for undocumented third party nationals against exploitative employers; and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Appeals: Social Welfare Appeals (29 Mar 2011)

Martin Ferris: Question 122: To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a decision will be made on a social welfare appeal in respect of a person (details supplied). [5749/11]