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- Written Answers — Pension Provisions: Pension Provisions (16 Feb 2010)
Michael Ring: Question 474: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs further to Parliamentary Question No. 269 of 4 February 2010, when a reply will issue. [7973/10]
- Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (16 Feb 2010)
Michael Ring: Question 477: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs, further to Parliamentary Question No. 318 of 3 February 2010, when a reply will issue. [7976/10]
- Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (16 Feb 2010)
Michael Ring: Question 478: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs, further to Parliamentary Question No. 316 of 3 February 2010, when a reply will issue. [7977/10]
- Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (16 Feb 2010)
Michael Ring: Question 479: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs, further to Parliamentary Question No. 541 of 9 February 2010, when a reply will issue. [7978/10]
- Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (16 Feb 2010)
Michael Ring: Question 484: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if a review will take place in relation to the household benefits package in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Mayo. [8003/10]
- Written Answers — Water and Sewerage Schemes: Water and Sewerage Schemes (16 Feb 2010)
Michael Ring: Question 521: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the position regarding the Belmullet sewerage works in County Mayo; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7790/10]
- Written Answers — Rural Environment Protection Scheme: Rural Environment Protection Scheme (16 Feb 2010)
Michael Ring: Question 554: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food when a person (details supplied) in County Mayo will receive their REPS four payment. [7635/10]
- Written Answers — Higher Education Grants: Higher Education Grants (16 Feb 2010)
Michael Ring: Question 581: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if there is funding available from the European Union for an Irish student attending private college in England; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7951/10]
- Written Answers — Schools Building Projects: Schools Building Projects (16 Feb 2010)
Michael Ring: Question 582: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if funding will be granted to replace a prefab at a school (details supplied) in County Mayo. [7590/10]
- Order of Business (18 Feb 2010)
Michael Ring: Currently, people can be employed through agencies for 22 months. Multinationals employ people for 22 months before letting them go. They are not entitled to statutory redundancy-----
- Order of Business (18 Feb 2010)
Michael Ring: The legislation to which I refer concerns the temporary agency workers directive. When will be that be transposed into law to prevent multinationals abusing our workers?
- Decentralisation Programme. (18 Feb 2010)
Michael Ring: Question 1: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the cost involved in acquiring a permanent site for the proposed decentralisation of his Department to County Mayo; his views on the fact that this move has now been postponed until 2011 at the earliest; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8487/10]
- Decentralisation Programme. (18 Feb 2010)
Michael Ring: Deputy McGinley and I are having great difficulty tabling questions to the Minister. This week, a number of our priority questions were again ruled out of order. This makes life difficult for Deputies who prepare for a discussion on their questions only to be informed on the day before Question Time that their questions are not in order. Some of the questions ruled out of order relate to...
- Decentralisation Programme. (18 Feb 2010)
Michael Ring: I appreciate the Leas-Cheann Comhairle's suggestion.
- Decentralisation Programme. (18 Feb 2010)
Michael Ring: Perhaps the Leas-Cheann Comhairle will say a prayer for me in Irish. On the decentralisation of the Department to County Mayo, people in Claremorris, Charlestown and Knock are disappointed by recent developments. While I accept that planning objections were lodged, with political will a building could have been completed. More than â¬1 million has been spent on decentralisation to the...
- Decentralisation Programme. (18 Feb 2010)
Michael Ring: Has the Minister engaged in discussions with the Minister of Finance on lifting the embargo and advancing the decentralisation project? The Minister is one of the exceptions in the Cabinet in that decentralisation of his Department reached the planning stage before being held up by objections. If the delay continues, I am afraid decentralisation to Claremorris and Charlestown will not take...
- Decentralisation Programme. (18 Feb 2010)
Michael Ring: No.
- Decentralisation Programme. (18 Feb 2010)
Michael Ring: No. We were in favour of planned decentralisation, not the political stroke the Government pulled with McCreevy. That was a political stroke.
- Decentralisation Programme. (18 Feb 2010)
Michael Ring: It did not happen because of the nonsense with the stroke politics.
- Decentralisation Programme. (18 Feb 2010)
Michael Ring: That is right.