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Written Answers — National Genotyping Programme: National Genotyping Programme (8 Mar 2007)

Joan Burton: Question 86: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food her views on introducing legislation here to deal with the issues it raises while she awaits the EU Commissioner for Health and Consumer Protection to deal with the issue of the importation of embryos from cloned animals; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9090/07]

Written Answers — Departmental Reports: Departmental Reports (8 Mar 2007)

Joan Burton: Question 106: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food when the annual progress report on the implementation of Agri Vision 2015 Action Plan will be made available; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9093/07]

Price Inflation. (20 Mar 2007)

Joan Burton: Question 87: To ask the Minister for Finance his views on the risk posed to the Irish economy by continued high inflation; his further views on the resulting loss of competitiveness in the Irish economy and the significant number of redundancies particularly in traditional manufacturing jobs, and the fact that Ireland lags behind other EU member states on a number of indices including...

Price Inflation. (20 Mar 2007)

Joan Burton: The policy initiatives the Minister has announced to improve competitiveness are too little too late. I do not know if the Minister has had a chance to read the annual reports of the National Competitiveness Council and Forfás. According to that data, Ireland performs poorly across a range of infrastructural areas, including energy, waste and broadband, to mention but three. How does the...

Price Inflation. (20 Mar 2007)

Joan Burton: I will repeat the figures in this regard. In 1996, before the creation of the regulator, electricity prices here were 15% below the+European-15 average. The Government's attempt at regulation was supposed to benefit industrial, commercial and domestic consumers but since it began electricity prices have risen to 13% above the European average. Talk of regulators is well and good but the...

Interest Rates. (20 Mar 2007)

Joan Burton: Question 90: To ask the Minister for Finance his views on the fact that monthly mortgage repayments have increased by approximately €40 to €50 on a €300,000 variable mortgage as a result of the latest quarter point increase by the ECB on 8 March 2007; if he is aware that this is the seventh successive such increase since December 2005, that sub-prime mortgage holders are reported to...

Interest Rates. (20 Mar 2007)

Joan Burton: The Minister referred three times today to the additional mortgage interest relief provided in the budget. Does he agree that the latest increase in mortgage interest rates, the seventh since December 2005, means the impact of the increase in mortgage relief has been fully absorbed for most mortgage holders? Welcome as the increased relief was, it is now effectively used up. Has the...

Interest Rates. (20 Mar 2007)

Joan Burton: I recall that when the Minister introduced the extra mortgage interest relief in the budget in December, he told us it would compensate for the increase in interest costs on a typical mortgage. Mortgage costs had risen in October and have gone up again since he made that announcement in December, and the bulk, if not all, of the extra interest relief has been absorbed by both interest rate...

Tax Collection. (20 Mar 2007)

Joan Burton: I thank the Minister for his response. Following these successes of the Revenue Commissioners, does he agree that the statement of the former Minister, Mr. McCreevy, that there were no pots of gold with regard to unpaid taxes, was untrue? There was always a special situation for particular people who were not subject to the same tax regime as the PAYE sector. I congratulate the Revenue...

Tax Collection. (20 Mar 2007)

Joan Burton: Is the Minister aware of the comments of his colleague the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government, Deputy Roche, that the Government was going to impose an additional tax on traditional light bulbs? Is the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government correct in saying that? What details of this additional tax has he worked out with the Minister for...

Tax Collection. (20 Mar 2007)

Joan Burton: Has he not told the Minister about this tax? He announced it.

Tax Collection. (20 Mar 2007)

Joan Burton: He received a great deal of publicity on announcing it.

Tax Collection. (20 Mar 2007)

Joan Burton: I do. I am dying to hear it. I would love for the other Minister to be here too.

Tax Collection. (20 Mar 2007)

Joan Burton: The Minister for Finance did not hear about it. The Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government did not even send him a note.

Leaders' Questions (20 Mar 2007)

Joan Burton: The sale.

Leaders' Questions (20 Mar 2007)

Joan Burton: What does that mean?

Leaders' Questions (20 Mar 2007)

Joan Burton: The Government will now subsidise the private——

Leaders' Questions (20 Mar 2007)

Joan Burton: What is the Taoiseach talking about?

Pupil-Teacher Ratio: Motion (20 Mar 2007)

Joan Burton: What is another year in terms of primary school education, particularly in Dublin West? It is another period of agony for parents and children as they wait to find out whether they will get a school place at primary or second level. Last August the Minister made her first visit to Dublin West in a formal capacity to see a primary school. I noticed that she came when the school was empty...

Asset Covered Securities (Amendment) Bill 2007: Second Stage (20 Mar 2007)

Joan Burton: As I understand it, this legislation refers to facilitating banks to avail of secured long-term funding by issuing covered bonds and using certain types of assets such as residential mortgages and some of the assets of public sector loans in a covered assets pool and then issuing bonds secured under the covered bond legislation against the pool. Like other Deputies, I received a note from the...