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Order of Business. (28 Jun 2006)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I know.

Order of Business. (28 Jun 2006)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: It will be taken tomorrow and concluded by guillotine on Friday, which is unacceptable. I agree with the position——

Order of Business. (28 Jun 2006)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: ——of the various groups that have lobbied and campaigned for many years on that legislation, namely, that the Bill should be withdrawn.

Order of Business. (28 Jun 2006)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: When does the Taoiseach intend that the work of the all-party committee will get under way? He referred earlier to the summer period. We do not have a firm proposal for a meeting to launch the committee's deliberations. When is it intended to hold such a meeting? Is this issue running loose or can the Taoiseach firm it down and indicate to the House when he intends that work will commence?...

Order of Business. (28 Jun 2006)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Deputy McManus's call is valid and I fully support her.

Order of Business. (28 Jun 2006)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I do not know to which vote the Ceann Comhairle refers.

Order of Business. (28 Jun 2006)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: On the same matter——

Order of Business. (28 Jun 2006)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Surely it is appropriate——

Order of Business. (28 Jun 2006)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: The people with whom the Government was supposed to be in consultation——

Cross-Border Projects. (28 Jun 2006)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 26: To ask the Minister for Finance the measures in relation to increased north south co-operation that he envisages will be included in the National Development Plan 2007-2013; and the discussions he has had to date with the relevant Departments or other interested groups in the Six Counties in relation to this matter. [25070/06]

Cross-Border Projects. (28 Jun 2006)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I thank the Minister for his reply. Will he confirm that his Department and all others have been requested by the Minister for Foreign Affairs, Deputy Dermot Ahern, to incorporate the all-Ireland dimension in their submissions for the next National Development Plan 2007-2013? I assume the Minister can refer directly only to his own Department, but as it is the anchor Department regarding...

Cross-Border Projects. (28 Jun 2006)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I thank the Minister for reflecting so positively. I share his hope that we will see the devolved administration back up and running very shortly, since we both recognise that it will be the critical catalyst for delivery of much of the content of the NDP and plans North and South. The Minister stated in his first response that he was not able to speculate on specific content, but perhaps I...

Industrial Disputes. (28 Jun 2006)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Does the Minister believe that because of the Labour Court hearings, there is now established a clear distinction between the employees of agencies as against those who are civil servants employed within the Departments which were signalled for relocation? Does that not warrant a different approach across the board in regard to the agencies?

Written Answers — Tax Code: Tax Code (28 Jun 2006)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 48: To ask the Minister for Finance the percentage in 2005, or the latest available figures, of persons who avail of tax relief in respect of pension contributions who are from the lowest decile of income earners; and the percentage which are from the highest decile of income earners. [24833/06]

Written Answers — Tax Code: Tax Code (28 Jun 2006)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 84: To ask the Minister for Finance his views on whether the high proportion of Government revenue which is raised through VAT, places an unfair burden on low income families; and if he will carry out a review of the impact of VAT on low income families. [24832/06]

Order of Business. (29 Jun 2006)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: It is not agreed.

Order of Business. (29 Jun 2006)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: After years of campaigning and lobbying by the Irish Haemophilia Society, the Irish Kidney Association, Positive Action and Transfusion Positive, we find that representatives of these organisations had to come here yesterday, on the eve of the introduction of this Bill, to make representations and to appeal to Members of all parties to seek the withdrawal of this proposal. After all the years...

Order of Business. (29 Jun 2006)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: ——whose shameful disposition towards these victims of State neglect was always to be his epitaph.

Order of Business. (29 Jun 2006)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: We are not playing politics.

Order of Business. (29 Jun 2006)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Not all of them.