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Written Answers — Redundancy Payments: Redundancy Payments (11 May 2010)

Leo Varadkar: Question 95: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Innovation the costs of redundancy rebates awarded to an airline (details supplied) for each of the past five years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18743/10]

Written Answers — Redundancy Payments: Redundancy Payments (11 May 2010)

Leo Varadkar: Question 97: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Innovation the costs of redundancy rebates awarded to a company (details supplied) for each of the past five years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18747/10]

Written Answers — Redundancy Payments: Redundancy Payments (11 May 2010)

Leo Varadkar: Question 98: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Innovation the costs of redundancy rebates awarded to a company (details supplied) for each of the past five years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18748/10]

Written Answers — Redundancy Payments: Redundancy Payments (11 May 2010)

Leo Varadkar: Question 99: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Innovation the costs of redundancy rebates awarded to a company (details supplied) for each of the past five years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18749/10]

Written Answers — Redundancy Payments: Redundancy Payments (11 May 2010)

Leo Varadkar: Question 100: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Innovation the cost of redundancy rebates in 2009; the breakdown per employer when the total payment exceeded €0.5 million; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18751/10]

Written Answers — General Government Deficits: General Government Deficits (11 May 2010)

Leo Varadkar: Question 110: To ask the Minister for Finance further to Questions Nos. 92, 103 and 116 of 28 April 2010, if the interim deficit reduction targets for 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013 still apply; if they will be changed as a result of the EUROSTAT decision; if he expects they will make a similar determination regarding the money he plans to give to Anglo Irish Bank in 2010 and 2011; and if he will...

Written Answers — Proposed Legislation: Proposed Legislation (11 May 2010)

Leo Varadkar: Question 111: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will amend the Freedom of Information legislation to include An Garda Síochána, the vocational educational committees, the National Treasury Management Agency and the newly established National Asset Management Agency; if not, the reason for the failure to include these bodies; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18730/10]

Written Answers — Proposed Legislation: Proposed Legislation (11 May 2010)

Leo Varadkar: Question 112: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will amend the Freedom of Information legislation to include the enforcement functions of the Health and Safety Authority; the road safety functions now carried out by the Road Safety Authority; the functions of the Land Registry and Registry of Deeds now performed by the Property Registration Authority and the proposed removal of the...

Written Answers — Fiscal Policy: Fiscal Policy (11 May 2010)

Leo Varadkar: Question 113: To ask the Minister for Finance the reason self-catering apartments rented to tourists and university and college accommodation rented to tourists between college terms are not subject to local authority rates in the same way as hotels and bed and breakfasts; his plans to review and amend the Valuation Act on this matter; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18733/10]

Written Answers — Planning Issues: Planning Issues (11 May 2010)

Leo Varadkar: Question 303: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the position regarding a small child care business with fewer than ten children based in a private home, which now intends to relocate into a planned extension of the house; the circumstances under which the local authority might grant a relaxation or dispensation in accordance with section 4 of the Building...

Order of Business. (12 May 2010)

Leo Varadkar: I wonder whether the Ceann Comhairle or the Taoiseach can help me with a matter. I tabled a number of priority and oral questions today to the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Innovation. They were disallowed on the basis that, following a number of announcements, FÁS has now been transferred wholly to the purvey of the Minister for Education and Skills by ministerial order. I...

Order of Business. (12 May 2010)

Leo Varadkar: This is no way to treat Parliament.

Order of Business. (12 May 2010)

Leo Varadkar: To sign an order and bring it into effect two weeks before it is put it in the Oireachtas Library, before it appears in the Iris Oifigiúil and before we can even challenge it is no way to treat Parliament. Why have a Parliament at all if the Taoiseach is going to govern by decree as if he is the President of Russia? This is a Parliament and we are elected. The Taoiseach should not do this...

Order of Business. (12 May 2010)

Leo Varadkar: It is Government by decree.

Enterprise Stabilisation Fund (12 May 2010)

Leo Varadkar: Question 40: To ask the Minister for Enterprise; Trade and Innovation the reason funding for the Enterprise Stabilisation Fund was cut without an announcement; the amount by which it was cut; the number of companies that were eligible for funding who will not receive support as a result of this decision; the amount paid in total in 2009 and the amount budgeted for in 2010; and if he will...

Enterprise Stabilisation Fund (12 May 2010)

Leo Varadkar: I was very concerned when I read the story in the newspaper about the reduction in the budget for the enterprise stabilisation fund, because the fund is one of the more effective measures introduced by the Government to stabilise viable companies during the recessionary period. Does the Minister agree that the Government has a budget strategy - with which I largely agree - and a banking...

Enterprise Stabilisation Fund (12 May 2010)

Leo Varadkar: With respect, I asked the Minister a specific question about the Government promise to introduce a PRSI holiday -----

Enterprise Stabilisation Fund (12 May 2010)

Leo Varadkar: My supplementary question is the same as the question I asked. The Government announced in the budget more than five months ago that it would introduce a PRSI holiday for employers who took on new employees, so that taking on a new employee would cost 10% less than previously, which would tip the balance in favour of job creation. This was my idea and was supported by the Labour Party.

Enterprise Stabilisation Fund (12 May 2010)

Leo Varadkar: The Government subsequently adopted the idea. Why, five months later, has it not been introduced?

Enterprise Stabilisation Fund (12 May 2010)

Leo Varadkar: I have asked the Minister to answer it.