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Written Answers — Departmental Agencies: Departmental Agencies (9 Dec 2009)

Leo Varadkar: Question 103: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of ongoing and completed investigations regarding irregularities in the granting of certificates, examinations and other qualifications by FÁS; if she will provide a list of same; if, in each case, they pertain to training provided directly by FÁS or by an outsourced provider; and if she will...

Written Answers — Pension Provisions: Pension Provisions (9 Dec 2009)

Leo Varadkar: Question 110: To ask the Minister for Finance if he was briefed before the awarding of a pension package to the former chief executive of the financial regulator; if he approved of the extra payments granted; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46151/09]

Written Answers — Pension Provisions: Pension Provisions (9 Dec 2009)

Leo Varadkar: Question 111: To ask the Minister for Finance the number of pension packages he has approved since June 2007; the number of these that involved extra payments for time not served; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46152/09]

Order of Business (10 Dec 2009)

Leo Varadkar: It is under constant review.

Prison Staff. (10 Dec 2009)

Leo Varadkar: There are a lot more murders now.

Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (No. 2) Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (15 Dec 2009)

Leo Varadkar: The Deputy is from Galway.

Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (No. 2) Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (15 Dec 2009)

Leo Varadkar: The Minister of State does not really.

Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (No. 2) Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (15 Dec 2009)

Leo Varadkar: Deputy Roche can have it.

Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (No. 2) Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (15 Dec 2009)

Leo Varadkar: I apologise for the delay earlier. I have lost my script but I remember what I have to say. My party has discussed the issue of public sector pay for a considerable period. In 2003 we stated that we were not in favour of benchmarking unless it delivered real reform. The pay increases were introduced at a cost of €14 billion over seven years, but not the reform. It is something I have...

Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (No. 2) Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (15 Dec 2009)

Leo Varadkar: Yes, we will.

Written Answers — Pension Provisions: Pension Provisions (15 Dec 2009)

Leo Varadkar: Question 85: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the details of the statutory instrument entitled the National Authority for Occupational Safety and Health Spouses and Children's Contributory Pension Scheme, 2000; the number of persons to whom the measures within this instrument apply; the cost of same; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46722/09]

Written Answers — Ministerial Remuneration: Ministerial Remuneration (15 Dec 2009)

Leo Varadkar: Question 133: To ask the Minister for Finance the gross salaries of the Taoiseach, Tánaiste, Cabinet Ministers and Ministers of State; the reduction effects the 10% pay reduction announced in October 2008, new levies, and any further pay reductions agreed since in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46967/09]

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (15 Dec 2009)

Leo Varadkar: Question 181: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if the D-DOC service in an area (details supplied) in County Dublin will close at midnight on Wednesdays and her views on whether one mobile general practitioner on-call is adequate for all of north Dublin; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46877/09]

Written Answers — Statutory Instruments: Statutory Instruments (15 Dec 2009)

Leo Varadkar: Question 205: To ask the Minister for Transport, further to Parliamentary Question No. 198 of 18 November 2009, the occasions over the past decade on which he signed a statutory instrument but that statutory instrument was subsequently not numbered in accordance with section 4(1) of the Statutory Instruments Act 1947; if, in each case, this was the result of an exemption sought under the act...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (15 Dec 2009)

Leo Varadkar: Question 292: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs her views on paying rent supplement directly to the landlord rather than to the tenant to ensure that the money is spent on rent; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46689/09]

Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (15 Dec 2009)

Leo Varadkar: Question 293: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the action taken against persons who retain their rent supplement and do not pay their landlord the rent owed; the number of occasions reported in the past two years in which this has occurred; the number of persons who have had benefit or payments suspended as a result; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46690/09]

Leaders' Questions (16 Dec 2009)

Leo Varadkar: On a point of order, the Minister for Transport, Deputy Noel Dempsey, used a term that is not permitted in the House under the salient rulings of this House.

Leaders' Questions (16 Dec 2009)

Leo Varadkar: The Ceann Comhairle should check the record. It might be a relatively mild term by modern standards but I do believe the term "scurrilous" is not permitted in this House.

Written Answers — Rural Transport: Rural Transport (16 Dec 2009)

Leo Varadkar: Question 32: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the future of the rural transport night time scheme in 2010; the funding available to support this scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47109/09]

Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (16 Dec 2009)

Leo Varadkar: Question 262: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the number of persons in Dublin 15 in receipt of jobseeker's benefit, jobseeker's allowance, one parent family payment, transition pension, non-contributory State pension, contributory State pension, carer's allowance and disability benefit; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [47461/09]