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Written Answers — Ministerial Travel: Ministerial Travel (24 Mar 2009)

Lucinda Creighton: Question 904: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he or his advisers has used the Government helicopter between June 2007 and March 2009; if so, the dates and the purpose of same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10904/09]

Pre-Budget Statements (Resumed) (25 Mar 2009)

Lucinda Creighton: I am pleased to have the opportunity to address the House in this crucial debate where we have an opportunity to put forward ideas. We must also critically assess some of the proposals which have been already floated by Government and try to get to grips with the type of reforms required to get the public finances back on track. More important, in the long term we must examine ways in which...

Pre-Budget Statements (Resumed) (25 Mar 2009)

Lucinda Creighton: Right across it. I will give a specific example. My biggest problem with what has occurred over three successive Fianna Fáil-led Governments——

Pre-Budget Statements (Resumed) (25 Mar 2009)

Lucinda Creighton: I am about to tell the Minister of State. Hang on a second. The Government has allowed a situation to develop where deals were struck behind closed doors through the social partnership process——

Pre-Budget Statements (Resumed) (25 Mar 2009)

Lucinda Creighton: I am trying to make a point here without interruption.

Pre-Budget Statements (Resumed) (25 Mar 2009)

Lucinda Creighton: I am so frustrated at what has been allowed to happen. The Government engaged in deals which led to government by stealth. Benchmarking deals were struck behind closed doors which led to inordinate and unjustifiable pay increases in the public sector without any demands for increased productivity or public sector reforms.

Pre-Budget Statements (Resumed) (25 Mar 2009)

Lucinda Creighton: Our public sector has grown to 20% of all employed people. How could any government worth its salt contemplate that this could be considered sustainable?

Pre-Budget Statements (Resumed) (25 Mar 2009)

Lucinda Creighton: The Minister of State's Government commissioned a benchmarking report headed up by Mr. Jim O'Leary, who in frustration resigned from the process because the Government completely ignored all the recommendations in the report. That is just one element of where the Fianna Fáil Government sought to buy and curry the favour of public sector unions when faced with the reality that our public...

Pre-Budget Statements (Resumed) (25 Mar 2009)

Lucinda Creighton: We have seen tens of thousands of people forced to sign on the live register over the last six months. What has the Minister of State's Government done about it? Absolutely nothing. We face into the Government's fourth attempt in six or seven months to come to grips with the gaping hole in the public finances and we still see no commitment to reform in the public sector or any measures put...

Pre-Budget Statements (Resumed) (25 Mar 2009)

Lucinda Creighton: I have outlined precisely what the Government has been doing. We see no recovery plan to stimulate employment or small and medium-sized enterprises, no credit flow opening up to SMEs in this country. The Government is walking us into another budget with no solutions to stimulate our economy and get us out of the crisis we are in. It is an abdication of leadership and responsibility and the...

Planning Issues. (26 Mar 2009)

Lucinda Creighton: I thank the Minister of State at the Department of Transport for coming to the House to deal with these matters. I am disappointed, however, that the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government has neither attended here whenever this matter has been raised, nor in his constituency when local meetings have been held over recent months. It shows a certain contempt for the...

Planning Issues. (26 Mar 2009)

Lucinda Creighton: ——and fanciful transport plans that will never happen. Already we have had two matters raised on the Adjournment with regard to transport plans that will not happen under Transport 21.

Planning Issues. (26 Mar 2009)

Lucinda Creighton: These plans are not even contained in that. There is a Luas line that will never be built. We need answers and I am sorry that the Minister is not here to give them.

Planning Issues. (26 Mar 2009)

Lucinda Creighton: I certainly do.

Planning Issues. (26 Mar 2009)

Lucinda Creighton: The Minister has the responsibility to investigate these issues.

Planning Issues. (26 Mar 2009)

Lucinda Creighton: I thank the Minister of State. I hope that the Minister, Deputy Gormley, has better luck with his second stab at the appointment.

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

Lucinda Creighton: Question 20: To ask the Minister for Finance if, in view of the revelations regarding irregular lodgements between Anglo Irish Bank and another bank (details supplied) in the accounting year from September 2007 to September 2008, there were similar lodgements between Anglo Irish Bank and that bank or any of their subsidiaries or associated companies in the previous accounting year; and if he...

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

Lucinda Creighton: Question 30: To ask the Minister for Finance if, in view of the revelations regarding irregular lodgements between Anglo Irish Bank and a bank (details supplied) in the accounting year from September 2007 to September 2008, there were similar lodgements between Anglo Irish Bank and another bank or any of their subsidiaries or associated companies in the previous accounting year; and if he...

Written Answers — Garda Investigations: Garda Investigations (26 Mar 2009)

Lucinda Creighton: Question 129: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the reason there has been no proper investigation into the case of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 6. [12644/09]

Written Answers — Care of the Elderly: Care of the Elderly (31 Mar 2009)

Lucinda Creighton: Question 86: To ask the Minister for Health and Children her views on whether the new charge levied against nursing home beds for inspection far exceeds the cost of conducting inspections and that this levy is instead a stealth tax aimed at gathering revenue for the deteriorating Exchequer finances; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13129/09]