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Order of Business (21 Oct 2010)

Joan Burton: Consensus is about the sharing of reliable information.

Order of Business (21 Oct 2010)

Joan Burton: Can I ask the Tánaiste a third question about next week? At the end of the debate will the Government agree to take questions for a period of an hour or two in order to refine and give the Opposition and the citizens of this country knowledge about the plan with which the Government is going to Brussels the week afterwards? That is just simple information not particularly for the...

Order of Business (21 Oct 2010)

Joan Burton: I have a second issue that I want to raise.

Order of Business (21 Oct 2010)

Joan Burton: It is a much happier issue. The weekend after next is Hallowe'en. No. 36 on the Government's legislative programme is the sale of alcohol Bill. There are two issues in this respect. The first one relates to home deliveries. The Minister has promised to include in that legislation restrictions on home deliveries to under age drinkers.

Order of Business (21 Oct 2010)

Joan Burton: There is no mechanism in place in that respect.

Order of Business (21 Oct 2010)

Joan Burton: The second issue is that the Minister for Justice and Law Reform-----

Order of Business (21 Oct 2010)

Joan Burton: -----has promised for ten years that there would be identification of who sells alcohol and information on where the alcohol originates on bottle labels.

Order of Business (21 Oct 2010)

Joan Burton: Will the Tánaiste tell us when this legislation will come before the House?

Order of Business (21 Oct 2010)

Joan Burton: Can I have a reply to my question?

Order of Business (21 Oct 2010)

Joan Burton: Its assessment but we want the Government's.

Order of Business (21 Oct 2010)

Joan Burton: Will the Tánaiste provide us with the Government's figures?

Order of Business (21 Oct 2010)

Joan Burton: Is the Tánaiste going to answer my other questions? She did not address them.

Order of Business (21 Oct 2010)

Joan Burton: There is a ray of sunshine.

Written Answers — Irish Red Cross: Irish Red Cross (21 Oct 2010)

Joan Burton: Question 36: To ask the Minister for Defence if his attention has been drawn to claims made on a television programme (details supplied) on 26 August regarding the Irish Red Cross; his views on whether these claims require independent investigation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38089/10]

Written Answers — Irish Red Cross: Irish Red Cross (21 Oct 2010)

Joan Burton: Question 17: To ask the Minister for Defence the discussions he has had with the new chairman of the Irish Red Cross; the advice and instructions he gave the new chairman; the way he perceives the chairman's remit; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38088/10]

Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (21 Oct 2010)

Joan Burton: Question 152: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if, in considering deductions to the carer's allowance, he has taken account of the additional costs to the Exchequer which would follow from persons, currently in the care of their families, transferring to institutional care and if he will put an estimate on the amount [38231/10]

Macro-Economic and Fiscal Outlook: Statements (27 Oct 2010)

Joan Burton: So was our friend, President Sarkozy.

Macro-Economic and Fiscal Outlook: Statements (27 Oct 2010)

Joan Burton: Like many Members of the House, when parents and citizens stop me in the street, they generally tell me about their worries for the future. They worry for the future of the country but, above all else, they worry for the future of their children. Most of us here are parents and we all went to see the best for our children. We want to believe and we want our children to believe that they...

Macro-Economic and Fiscal Outlook: Statements (27 Oct 2010)

Joan Burton: It depends on how it is counted. Like the hamster on the wheel, people have given all that sacrifice to find out that after all the promises of green shoots and turnarounds from this Minister, and all the bag of tricks in regard to the cheapest bank bailout in the world and everything looking rosy in the garden, this particular gardener did not really do the spade work of laying the ground...

Macro-Economic and Fiscal Outlook: Statements (27 Oct 2010)

Joan Burton: The Cabinet will make the budget decisions and will have to live with their consequences. Nobody can have any sympathy for the plight of this Cabinet. Members should read the report by Messrs Regling and Watson. Mr. Regling is now the man with the money in the stabilisation fund. He said that our problems were "home-grown". He has laid out the scale of the policy errors of the years...