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Written Answers — Market Rights: Market Rights (27 Oct 2010)

Róisín Shortall: Question 552: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Innovation if he will give an indication of when legislation, requested by Dublin City Council, will be passed to extinguish the market right of the Smithfield Horse Fair, without providing an alternative location; and if he will expedite this legislation. [39099/10]

Written Answers — Departmental Bodies: Departmental Bodies (27 Oct 2010)

Róisín Shortall: Question 566: To ask the Minister for Community, Equality and Gaeltacht Affairs in the context of the appointment of an Ordinary Member of the Council of the Dublin Docklands Development Authority, his role in the approval given on 24 October 2006 by the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government, with the consent of the Minister for Finance, for borrowing by the Dublin...

Macroeconomic and Fiscal Outlook: Statements (Resumed) (28 Oct 2010)

Róisín Shortall: When?

Macroeconomic and Fiscal Outlook: Statements (Resumed) (28 Oct 2010)

Róisín Shortall: The two-day Dáil sitting this week has been devoted exclusively to these statements on the macro-economic and fiscal outlook. I must ask why this is happening. We have been provided with none of the critical budgetary data and the Government has not provided any indication of the approach it intends to take to the budget, so why is it happening? The only explanation that makes any sense...

Macroeconomic and Fiscal Outlook: Statements (Resumed) (28 Oct 2010)

Róisín Shortall: How can they have confidence in the Government? That is the problem.

Macroeconomic and Fiscal Outlook: Statements (Resumed) (28 Oct 2010)

Róisín Shortall: We would not control health spending by cutting front-line services.

Macroeconomic and Fiscal Outlook: Statements (Resumed) (28 Oct 2010)

Róisín Shortall: The Minister is doing nothing to reduce the level of bureaucracy.

Macroeconomic and Fiscal Outlook: Statements (Resumed) (28 Oct 2010)

Róisín Shortall: When will the Minister reform the HSE?

Macroeconomic and Fiscal Outlook: Statements (Resumed) (28 Oct 2010)

Róisín Shortall: When will the Minister take action rather than cut services?

Macroeconomic and Fiscal Outlook: Statements (Resumed) (28 Oct 2010)

Róisín Shortall: Will the concept of fairness come into the equation?

Macroeconomic and Fiscal Outlook: Statements (Resumed) (28 Oct 2010)

Róisín Shortall: The Minister did not refer to fairness at all during her contribution.

Written Answers — Pension Provisions: Pension Provisions (28 Oct 2010)

Róisín Shortall: Question 28: To ask the Minister for Finance the savings to the Exchequer if the reckonable salary upon which maximum pension contributions are based were reduced to €10,000, €20,000, €30,000 and so on at intervals of €10,000 up to €100,000 and based on both employee and employer pension contributions in the case of a defined contribution plan and the value of the increase in the...

Written Answers — Departmental Staff: Departmental Staff (28 Oct 2010)

Róisín Shortall: Question 45: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will provide details of all staff in her Department with a breakdown by function and grade. [39569/10]

Written Answers — Departmental Schemes: Departmental Schemes (28 Oct 2010)

Róisín Shortall: Question 77: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the accumulative number of employees in each of the past five years availing of the part-time job incentive scheme and the number who joined the scheme in each of these years; the cost to the Exchequer in each of the years; the rationale for setting the qualifying criteria for a long-term unemployed person as 15 months unemployed instead...

Written Answers — Departmental Schemes: Departmental Schemes (28 Oct 2010)

Róisín Shortall: Question 82: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the cost of the technical assistance and training scheme in each of the past five years with a breakdown by categories of expenditure; the number of beneficiaries covered in each of these years and will he provide any information he has on any reviews of the effectiveness of the scheme [39601/10]

Marriages of Convenience (2 Nov 2010)

Róisín Shortall: Question 46: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the action he will take to address the problem of sham marriages [39266/10]

Marriages of Convenience (2 Nov 2010)

Róisín Shortall: Does the Minister accept that all of the indications are that this is a significant problem? The registrar suggested recently that as many as 15% of civil ceremonies could be sham marriages. We also know that there has been a huge increase in the number of non-EU citizens applying for residency based on marriage to an EU citizen. I understand the figure is over 1,000 in the first six...

Marriages of Convenience (2 Nov 2010)

Róisín Shortall: Minister-----

Marriages of Convenience (2 Nov 2010)

Róisín Shortall: I told the Minister that. I am asking him to answer the two specific questions I asked.

Marriages of Convenience (2 Nov 2010)

Róisín Shortall: Is it a criminal offence?