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Order of Business (8 Oct 2008)

Brian Cowen: No, it is not. It is a promise of legislation.

Order of Business (8 Oct 2008)

Brian Cowen: I understand it will be published this week.

Order of Business (8 Oct 2008)

Brian Cowen: The forestry Bill will be next year.

Order of Business (8 Oct 2008)

Brian Cowen: I believe it is due this session. That term is used in conventions or other instruments. It a question I asked myself when I saw it.

Order of Business (8 Oct 2008)

Brian Cowen: Great minds work alike.

Order of Business (8 Oct 2008)

Brian Cowen: It is in the Seanad at the moment.

Order of Business (8 Oct 2008)

Brian Cowen: Until it is finished in the Seanad, we cannot say when it will be in this House. I am sure if the Deputy went up there it would keep him amused.

Order of Business (8 Oct 2008)

Brian Cowen: I understand that legislation is due next year.

Order of Business (8 Oct 2008)

Brian Cowen: The building society one.

Order of Business (8 Oct 2008)

Brian Cowen: A property services Bill is due this session.

Order of Business (8 Oct 2008)

Brian Cowen: The industrial development Bill is due this session. We have no date for the second Bill on animal welfare.

Order of Business (8 Oct 2008)

Brian Cowen: I commend the work the Deputy is doing in that committee. It is a matter for the Whips to decide whether to allow time, but I believe it should be brought to the floor of the House, with the agreement of everyone.

Order of Business (8 Oct 2008)

Brian Cowen: It is a matter for the Whips to decide whether to deal with the entire series of reports or the ones most recently published, the seventh and eighth reports. The report says what it says and I am not commenting on that. We should all reflect on it and prepare for the debate in due course. I would not ascribe partisanship.

Written Answers — Official Engagements: Official Engagements (8 Oct 2008)

Brian Cowen: I am unable to attend the ceremony to mark the United Nations International Day for the Eradication of Poverty. My colleague, the Minister for Foreign Affairs, who has primary responsibility for such matters will mark the day with an address to the Biennial Conference of the Irish Forum for Global Health in Cork on the same date. The eradication of extreme poverty and hunger is the central...

Leader's Questions (14 Oct 2008)

Brian Cowen: I do not regard the investments that have been made successively by Governments over the past ten years as wanton waste.

Leader's Questions (14 Oct 2008)

Brian Cowen: We now have 2.1 million people working compared to only 1 million before——

Leader's Questions (14 Oct 2008)

Brian Cowen: ——and we have increased the average industrial wage by €14,500——

Leader's Questions (14 Oct 2008)

Brian Cowen: ——in that period. Despite increasing the average industrial wage by €14,5000, the fact that we have reduced the tax take on those wages by €400 is an example of our pro-enterprise, pro-jobs and pro-investment policies which were far superior to those of any other member state of the European Union.

Leader's Questions (14 Oct 2008)

Brian Cowen: The particular issues affecting us now with regard to the downside risks that have come to pass, such as higher commodity prices and a global financial crisis, probably the worst we have seen since the 1930s, means an open economy such as ours cannot be immune from these developments. A particular issue on the domestic front also affects our performance, that is the reduction in residential...

Leader's Questions (14 Oct 2008)

Brian Cowen: Unfortunately, the Leader of the Opposition destroys the impact of his questions by his exaggeration. There are problems with the economy with which I will deal. This idea that it was wrong to double pensions for pensioners during the good times——