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Order of Business (5 Jul 2007)

Richard Bruton: Give us your guidance, Tánaiste.

Written Answers — Sport and Recreational Development: Sport and Recreational Development (5 Jul 2007)

Richard Bruton: Question 16: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism when the nationwide audit of sports facilities will be completed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19303/07]

Written Answers — Sport and Recreational Development: Sport and Recreational Development (5 Jul 2007)

Richard Bruton: Question 32: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism if he will have early talks with his counterpart in the Northern Ireland Assembly to explore the potential for all island co-ordination in the development of the horse and greyhound racing sectors; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19304/07]

Written Answers — Hospital Staff: Hospital Staff (5 Jul 2007)

Richard Bruton: Question 71: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if the estimated extra man hours needed to implement the 37 hour week for nurses has been calculated; the details of the plan to implement same; if she has decided on an implementation date; the cost of the plan; and the number of people who will need to be recruited. [19409/07]

Written Answers — Hospital Acquired Infections: Hospital Acquired Infections (5 Jul 2007)

Richard Bruton: Question 72: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to the fact that certain hospitals (details supplied) refuse to publish data on MRSA cases as there is no agreed basis for measuring; and if she will take steps to ensure all hospitals publish data in accordance with a suitable system of measurement as established by her. [19410/07]

Written Answers — Nursing Home Subventions: Nursing Home Subventions (5 Jul 2007)

Richard Bruton: Question 75: To ask the Minister for Health and Children further to Parliamentary Question No 305 of 26 June 2007, if she will direct the Health Service Executive to make contact with all persons who have recently been refused or who are on reduced subventions in order that people will receive their rights; and if she will make the 15% cap retrospective to cover payments at least to the date...

Written Answers — School Accommodation: School Accommodation (5 Jul 2007)

Richard Bruton: Question 175: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the schools which are gaelscoileanna or which are multidenominational which have applications with her Department to secure long term accommodation for the school; the duration that has elapsed since the application was first made; and her views on the opinion that her Department's policy for dealing with such cases requires an...

Written Answers — Pupil-Teacher Ratio: Pupil-Teacher Ratio (5 Jul 2007)

Richard Bruton: Question 180: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the number of children in class sizes under 20, 25 to 30 and over 30 in primary schools (details supplied); and if she will provide the same information for these schools in respect of infant classes. [19427/07]

Confidence in Taoiseach: Motion (26 Sep 2007)

Richard Bruton: Standards in public matter a great deal to this House. One of our core jobs is to uphold standards with regard to people who take high office. We must ask at what stage do we believe an office holder crosses the threshold and state this person is no longer fit for office. Is it when an office holder accepts huge sums without any documentary evidence of the source of those sums even though...

Confidence in Taoiseach: Motion (26 Sep 2007)

Richard Bruton: Would the Minister, Deputy O'Dea, accept donations of huge sums and have no documentary record?

Confidence in Taoiseach: Motion (26 Sep 2007)

Richard Bruton: Would he fail to co-operate with the tribunal and believe that he should continue to remain in the high office which he holds? I believe he would not. He is happy to defend and abuse the tribunal but is not happy with those standards.

Confidence in Taoiseach: Motion (26 Sep 2007)

Richard Bruton: We must uphold standards in this House and that is why I back this motion 100%. We must set out standards that we expect——

Confidence in Taoiseach: Motion (26 Sep 2007)

Richard Bruton: This issue goes back to the root case we are putting to the public. There are allegations out there of wrongdoing.

Confidence in Taoiseach: Motion (26 Sep 2007)

Richard Bruton: These are allegations that the tribunal has always forensically pursued by following the money trail. Those approaches that have been adopted by the tribunal are tried and tested and they have been used frequently in other investigations. The onus is on people to produce credible explanations of where huge unexplained sums arrive in their accounts. That is the onus that has to be...

Confidence in Taoiseach: Motion (26 Sep 2007)

Richard Bruton: ——to set aside the public office he holds and deal with these issues in the tribunal. That would allow the Government to be led by someone in whom the public can have full trust.

Confidence in Taoiseach: Motion (26 Sep 2007)

Richard Bruton: The Tánaiste should read the rest of the transcript.

Written Answers — Pension Provisions: Pension Provisions (26 Sep 2007)

Richard Bruton: Question 164: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the reason for the delay in the publication of the Green Paper on Pensions; the date he will publish same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20772/07]

Written Answers — Anti-Poverty Strategy: Anti-Poverty Strategy (26 Sep 2007)

Richard Bruton: Question 128: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the details of his plan to assist the 290,000 people who, according to The Combat Poverty 2006 Annual Report, are deprived of one or more basic necessities such as adequate food, clothes or heating; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20771/07]

Written Answers — Tax Code: Tax Code (26 Sep 2007)

Richard Bruton: Question 229: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance if he has costed a proposal whereby the stamp duty paid by first time buyers in the past would be treated as a credit against the liabilities for stamp duty going forward; the expected cost of the proposal; if he has asked the Revenue Commissioners to undertake a study of this form of relief; and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Asylum Support Services: Asylum Support Services (26 Sep 2007)

Richard Bruton: Question 242: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of separated children seeking asylum who have been provided with accommodation by the State; the nature of this accommodation; and the person who supervises and supports the provision of this accommodation to ensure that it is appropriate to the needs of these children and ensures that these children are not subject to...