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Order of Business (11 Mar 2010)

Joan Burton: -----a serious problem of male onset blankness in relation to women in the Labour Party.

Order of Business (11 Mar 2010)

Joan Burton: Perhaps the former Ceann Comhairle will take the Ceann Comhairle out for a few lessons.

Order of Business (11 Mar 2010)

Joan Burton: He, at least, seemed to be prepared to recognise women.

Order of Business (11 Mar 2010)

Joan Burton: I accept the Tánaiste is perhaps angry having missed the innovation task force launch.

Order of Business (11 Mar 2010)

Joan Burton: However, now that we have reached the end of the first 1,000 days of this dreadful, dysfunctional Government-----

Order of Business (11 Mar 2010)

Joan Burton: When Deputy Ó Caoláin speaks in paragraphs, it takes the Ceann Comhairle a while to even wake up. The Ceann Comhairle interrupts me almost immediately I complete two sentences.

Order of Business (11 Mar 2010)

Joan Burton: It is to Deputy Ó Caoláin's credit that he can speak in paragraphs.

Order of Business (11 Mar 2010)

Joan Burton: I want to ask the Tánaiste-----

Order of Business (11 Mar 2010)

Joan Burton: What plans does the Government have to have a debate on the innovation task force? The innovation task force is producing a series of recommendations which have been doing the rounds consistently for the entire first 1,000 days of this Government.

Order of Business (11 Mar 2010)

Joan Burton: Nothing has been done about any of it while we have 400,000 people unemployed. I feel sorry for the Tánaiste-----

Order of Business (11 Mar 2010)

Joan Burton: ----- because she inherited the mess from the now absent person in the South Island of New Zealand, the Antarctic or wherever she has gone to.

Order of Business (11 Mar 2010)

Joan Burton: Can we hear when the innovation task force-----

Order of Business (11 Mar 2010)

Joan Burton: -----will be debated in this House with a serious jobs plan? I am entitled-----

Order of Business (11 Mar 2010)

Joan Burton: The Tánaiste is willing to answer. I am entitled to ask about it.

Order of Business (11 Mar 2010)

Joan Burton: Thank you, for defending my rights.

Order of Business (11 Mar 2010)

Joan Burton: Will that be any time soon? Will it be before or after St. Patrick's Day when we will have another 300 people a day unemployed?

Written Answers — Tax Code: Tax Code (11 Mar 2010)

Joan Burton: Question 102: To ask the Minister for Finance the position regarding the application of VAT to e-books; the annual Exchequer revenue derived from the application of VAT on e-books; if he plans to bring forward legislation which would see equal treatment, as regards the application of VAT, between books and e-books; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12092/10]

Nomination of Members of the Government: Motion (Resumed) (23 Mar 2010)

Joan Burton: One would not even get scrappage for it.

Nomination of Members of the Government: Motion (Resumed) (23 Mar 2010)

Joan Burton: Deputy Gilmore does not mind tough competition.

Nomination of Members of the Government: Motion (Resumed) (23 Mar 2010)

Joan Burton: He said he sent a pre-dated letter operative today.