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Written Answers — Citizenship Applications: Citizenship Applications (7 Oct 2008)

Joan Burton: Question 282: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the status of an application for citizenship by a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33398/08]

Written Answers — Educational Disadvantage: Educational Disadvantage (7 Oct 2008)

Joan Burton: Question 454: To ask the Minister for Education and Science his views on whether addressing early childhood development is essential for tackling inequalities in education and that closing the Centre for Early Childhood Development and Education will negatively affect the potential educational development of young children here; the saving to the Exchequer by closing the CECDE; his proposals...

Written Answers — School Accommodation: School Accommodation (7 Oct 2008)

Joan Burton: Question 458: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if he will give the go ahead for construction to begin on an extension to a school (details supplied) in Dublin 15 as agreed with his Department in return for taking in extra pupils over the past three years and as confirmed by the schools planning section; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33399/08]

Written Answers — Departmental Staff: Departmental Staff (7 Oct 2008)

Joan Burton: Question 496: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the number and proportion of the increase in the number of public servants in or under the aegis of his Department from 67,845 in 2000 to 93,940 in 2008, accounted for by teachers, other teaching staff and other non-teaching staff respectively; the number and proportion of the staff as at both end 2000 and at end 2008 accounted for...

Order of Business (8 Oct 2008)

Joan Burton: On the same issue, the net point is that as a State we have effectively given an unlimited guarantee with regard to a series of classes of debt, as outlined this morning by the leader of the Labour Party, some of it risky. At the weekend the Government was to a degree celebrating the fact that the Irish arrangement had resulted in massive inflows into the banks benefiting from the guarantee....

Order of Business (8 Oct 2008)

Joan Burton: Those are precisely the questions I asked the Minister last Wednesday.

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Joan Burton: He said everything was fine.

Order of Business (8 Oct 2008)

Joan Burton: Yesterday, the Financial Regulator announced that the Irish Nationwide Building Society had been fined €50,000 after one of its employees touted for business following the Government's guarantee.

Order of Business (8 Oct 2008)

Joan Burton: It is in the context of the mouse roaring.

Order of Business (8 Oct 2008)

Joan Burton: Two Bills are promised, the financial services miscellaneous provisions Bill, which is to transfer the supervision of building societies from the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government to the Department——

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Joan Burton: This relates to billions of euro, some of it hot,——

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Joan Burton: ——going into Irish accounts.

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Joan Burton: A fine of €50,000 is derisory.

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Joan Burton: That employee would have made €50,000 in an hour for his building society.

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Joan Burton: I ask the Taoiseach to bring forward that legislation so that we can have some real regulation.

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Joan Burton: Next year.

Order of Business (8 Oct 2008)

Joan Burton: Those people would spend €50,000 in a weekend in Temple Bar.

Order of Business (8 Oct 2008)

Joan Burton: The Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government, Deputy Gormley, promised to do something about the matter.

Written Answers — Sports Funding: Sports Funding (8 Oct 2008)

Joan Burton: Question 149: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism the way he is liaising with the office for integration; if he has developed a policy to ensure funding criteria, together with those of his Department's subsidiary bodies to actively promote integration; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33767/08]

Written Answers — Departmental Bodies: Departmental Bodies (8 Oct 2008)

Joan Burton: Question 173: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism the semi-State bodies, boards or agencies for which his Department has responsibility, which it is intended to abolish or merge; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33758/08]