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Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2009: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (25 Feb 2009)

Richard Bruton: Will the Minister indicate what issues a Minister or Attorney General might consider in making his or her determination? I note that according to sections 9(5)(d) and 9(5)(e) the Minister must examine the expenses and commitments of the people providing services and the impact on the State's ability to continue to provide whatever services the Department is providing. It would seem,...

Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2009: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (25 Feb 2009)

Richard Bruton: Should the Minister not have some test of reasonable value?

Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2009: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (25 Feb 2009)

Richard Bruton: A chiropodist looks after toes.

Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2009: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (25 Feb 2009)

Richard Bruton: What is the nature of the review? Will it encompass some sort of evaluation against criteria or will we simply hear what happened as a financial report?

Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2009: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (25 Feb 2009)

Richard Bruton: I mean subsection (13).

Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2009: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (25 Feb 2009)

Richard Bruton: Not being the Minister for Health and Children.

Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2009: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (25 Feb 2009)

Richard Bruton: Has the Attorney General been asked to comment on the robustness of these sections? Can the Minister assure us that they are robust?

Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2009: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (25 Feb 2009)

Richard Bruton: Does their robustness depend on the sort of citations at the beginning to establish public interest?

Written Answers — Detention Centres: Detention Centres (25 Feb 2009)

Richard Bruton: Question 75: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the position with regard to the development of the new national child detention facility for young offenders at Lusk, County Dublin; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7680/09]

Written Answers — Banking Sector Regulation: Banking Sector Regulation (25 Feb 2009)

Richard Bruton: Question 126: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will amend the regulations on fixed interest rates whereby people are being penalised for breaking out of them in order to change to lowering variable rates; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7803/09]

Written Answers — Tax Code: Tax Code (25 Feb 2009)

Richard Bruton: Question 128: To ask the Minister for Finance his views on whether the issuance of loans by banks receiving recapitalisation should be made conditional on evidence that building contractors used on the building works are tax compliant; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7831/09]

Written Answers — Pension Provisions: Pension Provisions (25 Feb 2009)

Richard Bruton: Question 190: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the assessment which she carried out of a scheme that would provide mutual insurance among pension funds in order to cover the situation where pension deficits threatened those people without pension cover; the cost and benefit of such a scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7804/09]

Written Answers — Company Closures: Company Closures (26 Feb 2009)

Richard Bruton: Question 64: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the progress made in finding an alternative owner for a company (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8117/09]

Written Answers — Banking Sector Regulation: Banking Sector Regulation (26 Feb 2009)

Richard Bruton: Question 75: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will introduce requirements on the banks covered by guarantee in order that people would not face stiff penalties on something with variable rates unless the bank could show that it had entered contractual commitments with other institutions which would impose commensurate penalties on it, if it permitted the switch. [8107/09]

Written Answers — Health Service Staff: Health Service Staff (26 Feb 2009)

Richard Bruton: Question 89: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the reason a doctor on reaching the age of retirement should be prevented from continuing public practice, while being allowed to continue their private practice; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8108/09]

Written Answers — School Accommodation: School Accommodation (26 Feb 2009)

Richard Bruton: Question 204: To ask the Minister for Education and Science when the funding for the replacement of four substandard prefabs at a school (details supplied) in Dublin 3 as set out in previous parliamentary questions will be formally approved and become payable; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8110/09]

Written Answers — Visitor Attractions: Visitor Attractions (3 Mar 2009)

Richard Bruton: Question 51: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism if he has had contact with the Office of Public Works in relation to opening hours and staffing levels at visitor attractions under the remit of the OPW; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8590/09]

Written Answers — Departmental Expenditure: Departmental Expenditure (3 Mar 2009)

Richard Bruton: Question 106: To ask the Minister for Finance the status of the plan to refurbish Iveagh House, Dublin; the planned cost of the refurbishment; if he will proceed with the refurbishment in view of the financial crisis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8319/09]

Written Answers — Departmental Property: Departmental Property (3 Mar 2009)

Richard Bruton: Question 107: To ask the Minister for Finance the buildings which have been vacated by Departments in Dublin to facilitate a move to another location within Dublin; the reasons for such moves; if he will indicate the use to which the vacant buildings will be put; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8284/09]

Written Answers — Tax Code: Tax Code (3 Mar 2009)

Richard Bruton: Question 112: To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to the National Roads Authority estimates that 3.5% of the cars in Dublin are foreign registered; the steps he will take to ensure that these cars are registered, and therefore taxed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8342/09]