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Written Answers — Water and Sewerage Schemes: Water and Sewerage Schemes (19 Dec 2007)

Joan Burton: Question 384: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the proposals to run an additional sewer alongside and at the Tolka River in Dublin 15 to provide for additional storm water drainage and so on and concerns regarding the environmental impact of such development on the flora and fauna of the River Tolka and particularly...

Written Answers — Decentralisation Programme: Decentralisation Programme (19 Dec 2007)

Joan Burton: Question 405: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the number to date of civil servants and employees of State bodies transferred from Dublin to decentralised locations; the number transferred from outside of Dublin to other decentralised locations; and the number transferred in post to decentralising Departments in Dublin pending planned decentralisation...

Written Answers — Decentralisation Programme: Decentralisation Programme (19 Dec 2007)

Joan Burton: Question 427: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the number to date of civil servants and employees of State bodies transferred from Dublin to decentralised locations; the number transferred from outside of Dublin to other decentralised locations; and the number transferred in post to decentralising Departments in Dublin pending planned decentralisation to...

Fiscal Policy. (30 Jan 2008)

Joan Burton: Question 78: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance if he is satisfied that the budgetary framework of revenues and expenditures set out by him in budget 2008 remains viable in view of the changed international financial environment and the revised downward projection of housing construction here and output for 2008; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2387/08]

Fiscal Policy. (30 Jan 2008)

Joan Burton: I thank the Minister for that reply. Does the Minister agree that last week was a bit of a train wreck for the Irish economy in terms of billions knocked off the value of Irish shares, particularly Irish pension funds? We have had a string of job loss announcements, including the most recent one in Wicklow, of several hundred jobs over the next year and a half. Every financial forecast...

Fiscal Policy. (30 Jan 2008)

Joan Burton: Is the Tánaiste trying to have it both ways? In the run-up to the election, he was happy to portray himself as the person responsible for Irish economic growth. Now that we are facing into difficulties, another set of bodies and factors is to blame such as the international financial situation, the European Central Bank and the Council of Ministers. The Minister has no hands-on approach,...

Greenhouse Gas Emissions. (30 Jan 2008)

Joan Burton: Question 80: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance the action he will take to meet the budgetary cost of the proposed revision of the EU emissions trading scheme as set out by the European Commission; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2388/08]

Greenhouse Gas Emissions. (30 Jan 2008)

Joan Burton: Does the Tánaiste accept the widely-held view that the EU proposals will probably result in costing Ireland €1 billion per annum? How will this be done without very significant increases in the price of electricity and fuel? Is he proposing to contribute to the emissions trading scheme in order to buy our way out of this and that consumers and business will pay those costs? Where is the...

Greenhouse Gas Emissions. (30 Jan 2008)

Joan Burton: Now that the Tánaiste has received this report, does he regret that in the budget in December he put so little emphasis on public transport investment in the here and now, not in 2016 and 2020? Almost all the emphasis in the budget on transport investment was in regard to roads, with public transport in the here and now getting very little. We do not have enough buses, trains or carriages....

Greenhouse Gas Emissions. (30 Jan 2008)

Joan Burton: Mr. Todd Andrews closed most of the railways, if the Tánaiste wants to go into——

Greenhouse Gas Emissions. (30 Jan 2008)

Joan Burton: ——political archaeology.

Greenhouse Gas Emissions. (30 Jan 2008)

Joan Burton: Where is it?

Greenhouse Gas Emissions. (30 Jan 2008)

Joan Burton: What about the promises regarding public transport to Swords?

Greenhouse Gas Emissions. (30 Jan 2008)

Joan Burton: I thought the holidays would have made the Tánaiste better humoured.

Anti-Poverty Strategy. (30 Jan 2008)

Joan Burton: When the Governor of the Central Bank attended a recent meeting of the Joint Committee on Finance and the Public Service, he said that rents in the private housing sector have increased by 11% over the past year. The Tánaiste is aware that many people are being forced into renting because they cannot afford to buy a house. They might be able to afford to spend €1,600 or €1,700 a month...

Anti-Poverty Strategy. (30 Jan 2008)

Joan Burton: I was talking about rents.

Social Welfare Fraud. (30 Jan 2008)

Joan Burton: Given that the number of people working in the public service has been soaring in recent years, does the Minister agree that it is an indictment of the Government that the number of officials assigned to these important joint investigations has decreased so dramatically? I remind the House of some of the areas which are investigated. Some rogue employers who are not properly registered do...

Banking Sector Regulation. (30 Jan 2008)

Joan Burton: I wish to ask the Minister about a new area of charging under which people are being fleeced by financial institutions. A number of operators have given loans to people living in local authority estates and affordable housing, encouraging them to extend their existing mortgages to include car loans, credit card debts and other financial commitments and including some money left over to spend...

Leaders' Questions (30 Jan 2008)

Joan Burton: They must be because of the budget.

Tribunals of Inquiry: Motion (30 Jan 2008)

Joan Burton: The Minister is simply reading the explanatory memorandum.