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Order of Business (5 Oct 2010)

Joan Burton: The statement also anticipated that Ireland would possibly return to the bond markets in January. Is it possible to return to the bond markets -----

Order of Business (5 Oct 2010)

Joan Burton: -----before this legislation is introduced?

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (5 Oct 2010)

Joan Burton: Question 16: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the waiting times for orthodontic treatment for children in each of the Health Service Executive regions; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34670/10]

Written Answers — Departmental Staff: Departmental Staff (5 Oct 2010)

Joan Burton: Question 65: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the progress which has been made in the transfer of community welfare officers from her Department to the Department of Social Protection; the number of such staff who will continue to serve under her Department; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34671/10]

Written Answers — Road Safety: Road Safety (6 Oct 2010)

Joan Burton: Question 129: To ask the Minister for Transport if he will outline his timescale for implementing the new proposals from the Road Safety Authority regarding young persons which he launched last month; the legislative proposals that will be required; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35043/10]

Written Answers — Programmes for Government: Programmes for Government (6 Oct 2010)

Joan Burton: Question 249: To ask the Minister for Justice and Law Reform in view of the relevant commitment given in the revised programme for Government, when he will bring forward proposals for an extra judicial debt settlement mechanism; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34039/10]

Order of Business (7 Oct 2010)

Joan Burton: The Tánaiste should acknowledge that.

Order of Business (7 Oct 2010)

Joan Burton: I understood from the comments of the Minister for Finance some weeks ago that there is to be a pre-budget outlook published by the middle of this month. Is the Government committed to publishing the pre-budget outlook for next year by the middle of October? In respect of the agreement made on a four-year budgetary plan with the European Union, can the Tánaiste tell us the date of...

Order of Business (7 Oct 2010)

Joan Burton: -----the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment, suggested workers in Aer Lingus may be facing quite serious tax issues for individual workers-----

Order of Business (7 Oct 2010)

Joan Burton: There has been a promise by Government to transfer redundancy matters fully to the Department of Social Protection and to remove it from the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Innovation. Will one of the Ministers arrange to make a statement about the impact on the Aer Lingus workers? It sounds very odd that the tax arrangements were not dealt with.

Order of Business (7 Oct 2010)

Joan Burton: With respect to the Tánaiste, the pre-budget outlook-----

Written Answers — Prison Building Programme: Prison Building Programme (7 Oct 2010)

Joan Burton: Question 11: To ask the Minister for Justice and Law Reform the progress on the Thornton Hall project; if he will confirm that no prisoners will be accepted in Thornton Hall before 2014 at the earliest; and the total amount spent on the project to date [35358/10]

Written Answers — Commercial Rent Reviews: Commercial Rent Reviews (7 Oct 2010)

Joan Burton: Question 48: To ask the Minister for Justice and Law Reform if he has now received the report of the working group to look at the issue of commercial rent reviews which was to report by 30 June 2010; the main findings of the group; when it is intended to publish the report; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35359/10]

Written Answers — Millennium Development Goals: Millennium Development Goals (12 Oct 2010)

Joan Burton: Question 110: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs, on foot of the UN Human Rights Council declaring the right to water and sanitation to be legally binding, to outline Ireland's position in this matter and the positive steps the Government will take to ensure universal vindication of this right [36090/10]

Written Answers — Human Rights Issues: Human Rights Issues (12 Oct 2010)

Joan Burton: Question 124: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs his views on the present situation in Sri Lanka [36089/10]

Written Answers — Fiscal Policy: Fiscal Policy (12 Oct 2010)

Joan Burton: Question 213: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide a net figure on the difference between the overall indebtedness of the State to the banks covered by the guarantee scheme, by reason of their purchasing of Government debt, and the overall indebtedness of the covered banks to the State; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35753/10]

Written Answers — Fiscal Policy: Fiscal Policy (12 Oct 2010)

Joan Burton: Question 220: To ask the Minister for Finance the date on which he will publish the 2011 pre-budget outlook [35895/10]

Written Answers — National Asset Management Agency: National Asset Management Agency (12 Oct 2010)

Joan Burton: Question 227: To ask the Minister for Finance if loans scheduled for transfer to National Asset Management Agency (NAMA) are to be limited to those where the borrower owes in excess of €20 million, an increase on the original €5 million limit; the nominal value of loans scheduled for transfer to NAMA and the total value of the senior and subordinated NAMA bonds he expects to issue in...

Written Answers — National Asset Management Agency: National Asset Management Agency (12 Oct 2010)

Joan Burton: Question 228: To ask the Minister for Finance the breakdown of the non-NAMA loan book of the soon-to-be-nationalised Allied Irish Banks by geography, by sector, by loan type (details supplied); the extent to which each of these segments of the bank's loan book are already subject to write-downs; the extent these loan books are in arrears; and if he will make a statement on the matter. ...

Written Answers — Medical Cards: Medical Cards (12 Oct 2010)

Joan Burton: Question 256: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will expedite an appeal against a decision to refuse a medical card in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Dublin; the reason for the delay; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35791/10]