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Written Answers — Waste Disposal: Waste Disposal (27 Jan 2009)

Ruairi Quinn: Question 1075: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he personally, or any of his officials, have seen and read the contract for the waste-to-energy incinerator on the Poolbeg Peninsula in Dublin 4 as signed between Dublin City Council and a company (details supplied); if it is possible to alter the terms of the contract which oblige Dublin City Council to...

Written Answers — Educational Disadvantage: Educational Disadvantage (27 Jan 2009)

Ruairi Quinn: Question 1456: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if he will grant a school (details supplied) in County Louth DEIS status, in view of the fact that all other schools in the town have this status; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48090/08]

Written Answers — School Management: School Management (27 Jan 2009)

Ruairi Quinn: Question 1457: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the reason, when a school's patron changes, it loses all recognition with his Department; the procedures that exist to deal with transferring patronage of a school from one patron to another; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48091/08]

Written Answers — Schools Building Projects: Schools Building Projects (27 Jan 2009)

Ruairi Quinn: Question 1478: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the proportion of the funds allocated to the school building programme for 2008 which were drawn down by schools in order to pay for construction projects; the number of schools who were awarded funds for the school building programme but have been unable to use them; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1104/09]

Order of Business (28 Jan 2009)

Ruairi Quinn: It is not a debate.

Order of Business (28 Jan 2009)

Ruairi Quinn: What about last December?

The Economy: Statements (28 Jan 2009)

Ruairi Quinn: Hear, hear.

The Economy: Statements (28 Jan 2009)

Ruairi Quinn: Hear, hear.

The Economy: Statements (28 Jan 2009)

Ruairi Quinn: The advice is over there, on the Government benches.

The Economy: Statements (28 Jan 2009)

Ruairi Quinn: Exactly.

The Economy: Statements (Resumed) (28 Jan 2009)

Ruairi Quinn: This debate is taking place in a vacuum. The Government has put no proposals on the table. Is it any wonder that the country is frightened? The people are scared. They know that things are bad and believe they will get worse and they have been concerned since last July. Last July, the Sunday Independent invited me to put into an article comments that I had made on the radio. I published...

Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse Act 2000: Motion (28 Jan 2009)

Ruairi Quinn: We have got the message.

Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse Act 2000: Motion (28 Jan 2009)

Ruairi Quinn: I wish to share my time with Deputy Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin. I shall take four minutes and perhaps the Ceann Comhairle might let me know when one minute remains. I very much support the comments made by my colleague, Deputy Hayes. I will address my comments as quickly as I can in order to facilitate my colleague in Sinn Féin. This motion gives me the opportunity to discuss another State...

Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse Act 2000: Motion (28 Jan 2009)

Ruairi Quinn: Will the Minister give an undertaking that the Government will not press them?

Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse Act 2000: Motion (28 Jan 2009)

Ruairi Quinn: The Government will bankrupt this woman.

Written Answers — Sport and Recreational Development: Sport and Recreational Development (28 Jan 2009)

Ruairi Quinn: Question 119: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism if he has had discussions with the Department of Finance regarding the possible extension of the tax relief for sporting bodies to be extended to current expenditure for sporting organisations; his views on such a proposal and the extension; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2261/09]

Written Answers — FÁS Training Programmes: FÁS Training Programmes (28 Jan 2009)

Ruairi Quinn: Question 140: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment her views on whether the courses being offered on the FÁS e-college website fail to meet the latest and most recent standards in information technology and that they would not be widely accepted as sufficient qualifications within the IT industry; if she is planning to overhaul this on-line training system...

Written Answers — Inland Waterways: Inland Waterways (29 Jan 2009)

Ruairi Quinn: Question 30: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs his plans to extend the Dublin canal survey to the rest of the counties which the canals transgress; his views on whether the canals offer potential to these counties as regards tourism and recreation; his further views on extending the survey; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2592/09]

Expenditure Control and Economic Strategy: Statements (3 Feb 2009)

Ruairi Quinn: I hesitate to interrupt, and I apologise, but what the Taoiseach is saying is very important. Is the normal convention of the circulation of a script intended this afternoon? It would facilitate a meaningful response from this side of the House.

Stardust Fire Tragedy: Motion (3 Feb 2009)

Ruairi Quinn: Hear, hear.