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Written Answers — Higher Education Grants: Higher Education Grants (16 Dec 2010)

Arthur Morgan: Question 32: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills if she will reverse the decision in Budget 2011 to cut the student maintenance grant by 4%; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [47676/10]

Written Answers — Departmental Funding: Departmental Funding (16 Dec 2010)

Arthur Morgan: Question 237: To ask the Minister for Transport the date on which the winning towns will be awarded the funding of €50 million under the smarter travel initiative launched by him and due for decision in July 2010; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47701/10]

Fiscal Policy (12 Jan 2011)

Arthur Morgan: The period for adjustment for meeting the Stability and Growth Pact target has been extended by one year to five years. The original period the Government agreed with the European Union institutions was four years. Does the Minister accept that the EU having to arbitrarily extend the period by one year demonstrates a complete failure of the Government's negotiations with the EU...

Fiscal Policy (12 Jan 2011)

Arthur Morgan: The facts. The EU gave the Government an extra year.

Written Answers — Fiscal Policy: Fiscal Policy (12 Jan 2011)

Arthur Morgan: Question 131: To ask the Minister for Finance when he intends to draw down the first instalment of the International Monetary Fund/EU package; if he will provide a timeline for planned drawdowns from this package; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1407/11]

Written Answers — Fiscal Policy: Fiscal Policy (12 Jan 2011)

Arthur Morgan: Question 101: To ask the Minister for Finance the total interest that, under current conditions, will need to be repaid in 2011; the projected interest costs for 2011 if money is drawn down under the EU/International Monetary Fund loan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1406/11]

Written Answers — Tax Code: Tax Code (12 Jan 2011)

Arthur Morgan: Question 218: To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to an anomaly that exists whereby an unmarried couple are assessed as a couple for the purposes of social welfare but are not recognised as a couple for the purposes of Revenue; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48092/10]

Written Answers — Banks Recapitalisation: Banks Recapitalisation (12 Jan 2011)

Arthur Morgan: Question 256: To ask the Minister for Finance the funding that has gone into the recapitalisation of each of the guaranteed institutions to date; the extent of funds provided to each financial institution on foot of the Credit Institutions (Stabilisation) Bill 2010; the full extent of future funds likely to be required by each institution; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1000/11]

Written Answers — Tax Code: Tax Code (12 Jan 2011)

Arthur Morgan: Question 288: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will describe the new business investments targeting employment schemes that are replacing the business expansion scheme; the way the two schemes differ; when European Commission approval for the scheme will be received; when the new scheme will be operational; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45500/10]

Written Answers — Social Welfare Code: Social Welfare Code (12 Jan 2011)

Arthur Morgan: Question 648: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if his attention has been drawn to an anomaly that exists whereby an unmarried couple are assessed as a couple for the purposes of social welfare but are not recognised as a couple for the purposes of Revenue; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48091/10]

Written Answers — Local Authority Housing: Local Authority Housing (12 Jan 2011)

Arthur Morgan: Question 771: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the number of persons on housing waiting lists in each local authority on a county basis; the length of time they have been on the waiting list; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1001/11]

Order of Business (13 Jan 2011)

Arthur Morgan: On the same issue-----

Order of Business (13 Jan 2011)

Arthur Morgan: I know the Ceann Comhairle did.

Order of Business (13 Jan 2011)

Arthur Morgan: The Ceann Comhairle's advices are generally good. On the same subject, I suggest to the Tánaiste that there are very serious matters here. We need some information from the Government on the renegotiation of the excessive interest rate that is being applied to this bailout loan from the EU institutions.

Order of Business (13 Jan 2011)

Arthur Morgan: Can the Tánaiste advise if the Minister for Finance would come in here-----

Order of Business (13 Jan 2011)

Arthur Morgan: -----and perhaps allow us to give him some advice in a negotiation strategy in terms of how to achieve this rather than a roll-over which is has been the case with the Government to date?

Order of Business (13 Jan 2011)

Arthur Morgan: They should not be widening the initiative. They should be taking initiative.

Order of Business (13 Jan 2011)

Arthur Morgan: Censorship.

Hospital Accommodation (13 Jan 2011)

Arthur Morgan: The Minister tells us she will not reopen closed hospital wards or bring acute beds back into service because there is not enough money to do so. Does she regard additional beds as essential in view of the numbers - 569 nationwide the other morning - on trolleys, with 50 alone in Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital in Drogheda? If not, why not? Does she regard herself as having a duty of care to...

Hospital Accommodation (13 Jan 2011)

Arthur Morgan: I want a more realistic response from the Minister than the ones she has given to the House thus far. The situation in accident and emergency wards is a scandal and it is disgraceful that the Minister is getting away with it. She can do what she wants because there is no accountability whatsoever in this bloody Government. It is long past time that she and her colleagues were thrown the...