Results 241-260 of 40,550 for speaker:Joan Burton

Written Answers — Employment Rights: Employment Rights (24 Feb 2005)

Joan Burton: Question 24: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he intends to publish the report of the review group on the employment rights bodies; the main recommendations in the report; if he intends to implement these recommendations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6146/05]

Written Answers — Consultancy Contracts: Consultancy Contracts (24 Feb 2005)

Joan Burton: Question 109: To ask the Minister for Finance the total amount paid in fees in remuneration to a person (details supplied) for consultancy or other work carried out for or on behalf of his Department in respect of each year since 1998; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6436/05]

Overseas Missions. (1 Mar 2005)

Joan Burton: Question 107: To ask the Minister for Defence if military operations carried out by an EU battlegroup on the authority of the UN Security Council falls within the definition of a UN peacekeeping force for the purposes of the State's triple lock mechanism; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6693/05]

Leaders' Questions. (2 Mar 2005)

Joan Burton: It is a bureaucratic nightmare. Community representatives cannot even fill in the forms as they are so difficult.

Leaders' Questions. (2 Mar 2005)

Joan Burton: It is a joke.

Leaders' Questions. (2 Mar 2005)

Joan Burton: Answer the question.

Written Answers — Sugar Beet Industry: Sugar Beet Industry (2 Mar 2005)

Joan Burton: Question 106: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the information available to her Department on the proposed closure of a plant (details supplied) in County Carlow; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6953/05]

Written Answers — Sugar Beet Industry: Sugar Beet Industry (2 Mar 2005)

Joan Burton: Question 135: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the position with regard to discussions within the EU on proposed reforms of the EU sugar regime; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6954/05]

Order of Business. (3 Mar 2005)

Joan Burton: The Minister of State at the Department of Health and Children, Deputy Tim O'Malley, was here.

Order of Business. (3 Mar 2005)

Joan Burton: Or on a trolley, he is so sick.

Financial Services Regulation. (3 Mar 2005)

Joan Burton: Question 2: To ask the Minister for Finance if he has plans to extend the remit of the IFSRA or the Central Bank to regulate companies which advance money from their own resources secured on assets such as property, especially in view of the fact that the advisory group on this sector recommended in 1999 that such businesses be regulated and in view of the reported extensive activities of a...

Financial Services Regulation. (3 Mar 2005)

Joan Burton: Does the Minister agree that this type of company should be fully regulated by IFSRA and, therefore, the remit of the authority should be extended to cover this type of company? I do not know if the Minister shares the shock of most people who heard reference to a company, Chesterton Finance, in media reports concerning Garda investigations into money laundering and the Provisional IRA and...

Financial Services Regulation. (3 Mar 2005)

Joan Burton: That does not answer the point that this area is not regulated by IFSRA. We have set up an expensive and extensive regulation model. However, a letter in my possession from the Director of Consumer Affairs indicates that the only powers of oversight that exist are in regard to the Consumer Credit Act 1995. Will the Minister agree to extend the powers of IFSRA specifically to cover this area,...

Fiscal Policy. (3 Mar 2005)

Joan Burton: Question 5: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will make a statement on his address to the lunch of Financial Services Ireland on 21 February 2005, particularly his reported statement that the compensation bill arising from the Supreme Court decision on the Health (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2004 would result in lower spending elsewhere; the anticipated amount by which spending will have to...

Fiscal Policy. (3 Mar 2005)

Joan Burton: Is the Minister aware of the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children's statement earlier that she has been advised 300,000 people affected by the Supreme Court ruling are likely to claim? Has the Minister estimated the cost of these claims? He commented on 21 February that the cost would be approximately €500 million. However, the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children's...

Fiscal Policy. (3 Mar 2005)

Joan Burton: Does the Minister accept the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children's statement earlier that there are 300,000 potential claimants? If so, does he agree the sum involved, regardless of whether everybody claims, will be significantly higher than first estimated? He stated this will have an impact on health spending. Has he identified the areas on which there will be an impact,...

Fiscal Policy. (3 Mar 2005)

Joan Burton: For 2005.

Banking Sector Regulation. (3 Mar 2005)

Joan Burton: Given the increase in cases identified compared with previous answers — it now stands at 466 as opposed to 452 and there are now 53 cases not yet dealt with — will the Minister reconsider his proposal in yesterday's discussion on the Finance Bill effectively to dilute the provisions that he promised to introduce in the Bill regarding those who aid and abet tax evasion? In particular, does...

Banking Sector Regulation. (3 Mar 2005)

Joan Burton: May I ask a brief supplementary?

Banking Sector Regulation. (3 Mar 2005)

Joan Burton: Will the Minister explain the reason for the increase in the number of cases under investigation from 452, the number he gave me on 1 February, to 466, an increase of 14? Will he explain also the increase from 40 to 53 of the unsettled cases he indicated in earlier replies are likely to be the ones which involved tax evasion and the possible commission of offences?