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Written Answers — Ministerial Travel: Ministerial Travel (9 Dec 2008)

Joan Burton: Question 267: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the expenditure on the Ministers' car pool for 2008 and for 2009; if, in the context of current economic difficulties, he will make savings on the Ministers' car pool for 2009 and 2010 by postponing the purchase of new cars; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45095/08]

Written Answers — Garda Stations: Garda Stations (9 Dec 2008)

Joan Burton: Question 279: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he is satisfied with the level of service at Dunshaughlin Garda station, County Meath; if there are plans to enhance or upgrade this station in view of population trends; if he will provide details of other upgrades provided recently in County Meath; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44873/08]

Order of Business (10 Dec 2008)

Joan Burton: Were they eating ham sandwiches?

Written Answers — Social Partnership: Social Partnership (10 Dec 2008)

Joan Burton: Question 100: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the legislative measures she plans to introduce arising from the new social partnership agreement; the proposed timetable for each such piece of legislation; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44916/08]

Written Answers — Child Poverty: Child Poverty (10 Dec 2008)

Joan Burton: Question 178: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs her views on what the main policy interventions by Government were which were responsible for the significant reduction in consistent child poverty as reported in the European Union survey on income and living conditions 2007 published on 10 December 2007 from 100,000 in 2006 to 75,000 in 2007. [45405/08]

Order of Business (11 Dec 2008)

Joan Burton: It is entirely relevant.

Order of Business (11 Dec 2008)

Joan Burton: It is going on a long time. Can the Tánaiste tell us the number of posters?

Order of Business (11 Dec 2008)

Joan Burton: I would like to ask the Tánaiste about an area in which there is no regulation at all, in spite of five years of Government promises. I am talking about the tens of thousands of people who are living subject to management companies and who cannot even sell their apartment in many cases. The Tánaiste has promised us week after week that we would see this legislation, which is important to...

Order of Business (11 Dec 2008)

Joan Burton: The Tánaiste promised last week that we would get the heads of a Bill before Christmas. What is the story, with one sitting week left?

Estimates for Public Services 2008 (11 Dec 2008)

Joan Burton: I wish to share time with Deputy Ó Caoláin.

Estimates for Public Services 2008 (11 Dec 2008)

Joan Burton: WB Yeats wrote: "All changed, changed utterly". The presentation of the Estimates by the Government is in many ways the final paragraph on a chapter in the Government's history from the autumn which has been a disaster. It has been a disaster in political terms for the Government and its two parties, Fianna Fáil and the Green Party. However, more importantly it has been a disastrous...

Tax Yield. (11 Dec 2008)

Joan Burton: Question 2: To ask the Minister for Finance the expected tax revenue outturn and Exchequer borrowing requirement for 2008; his views on the November 2008 Exchequer returns and live register figures and their implications for the modification of his budget forecasts for 2009 tax revenue and average unemployment; his strategy to address Ireland's economic difficulties and get people back to...

Tax Yield. (11 Dec 2008)

Joan Burton: The Minister has made a number of important concessions in his reply. On budget day the Minister suggested the decline in GNP next year would be 1%. Four separate sets of very reputable economic forecasters have all indicated a 4% decline in the Irish economy in 2009. In his reply the Minister has accepted that it will be between 3% and 4%. This means that the Minister's budget day...

Tax Yield. (11 Dec 2008)

Joan Burton: The Minister has a nerve talking about people unwilling to take harsh medicine. Does he recall that many other reputable economists and I advised time and again that his predecessor, the Taoiseach, Deputy Cowen, was stoking a property bubble in land speculation and construction prices which was totally unsustainable? We warned him time and again. Last year and the year before the cost of...

Tax Yield. (11 Dec 2008)

Joan Burton: I did not say it is the sole, but the most significant, cause.

Tax Yield. (11 Dec 2008)

Joan Burton: Yes, it is.

Financial Institutions Support Scheme. (11 Dec 2008)

Joan Burton: Does the Minister not appreciate that there is a clear conflict of interest between a director's mandate under company law to act at all times in the interests of the shareholders and their public interest mandate which the Minister has outlined as assisting the banks to return to a more stable situation? How much money are these directors to be paid and who will pick up the tab? Are they...

Financial Institutions Support Scheme. (11 Dec 2008)

Joan Burton: Is that not heavily compromising them if they are paid by the bank?

Financial Institutions Support Scheme. (11 Dec 2008)

Joan Burton: Nobody has any query about the public interest credentials of all the people being offered for appointment to the banks. The Minister spoke about some kind of training course or briefing course being made available to these directors before they take up their appointment. What are they going to be trained or briefed on? Is this about the public interest or is it about modern financial...

Financial Institutions Support Scheme. (11 Dec 2008)

Joan Burton: The Minister is in a position to do so under the legislation.