Results 1,021-1,040 of 32,583 for speaker:Richard Bruton
- Written Answers — : (27 Oct 2005)
Richard Bruton: Question 164: To ask the Minister for Finance the number of employees in the private sector obtaining relief; the value of relief on employer contributions; the value of relief on employee contributions to private sector pension funds and his estimate of the aggregate value of those funds. [31293/05]
- Written Answers — : (27 Oct 2005)
Richard Bruton: Question 165: To ask the Minister for Finance the number of self-employed persons obtaining relief; and the value of tax relief on pension contributions. [31294/05]
- Written Answers — : (27 Oct 2005)
Richard Bruton: Question 166: To ask the Minister for Finance the contribution of multinational companies to the total corporation tax yield in each year 1997 to 2005 based on best estimates. [31296/05]
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Richard Bruton: Question 167: To ask the Minister for Finance the number of persons who are taxed as married one earner households and as married two earner households. [31297/05]
- Written Answers — Employee Protection Legislation: Employee Protection Legislation (27 Oct 2005)
Richard Bruton: Question 192: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of breaches uncovered by the labour inspectorate in April to September 2005 and April to September 2004 which involved treatment of non-national workers; and the types of breaches involved. [31181/05]
- Written Answers — Public Transport: Public Transport (27 Oct 2005)
Richard Bruton: Question 226: To ask the Minister for Transport the number of new buses purchased by Dublin Bus with funding from his Department in each of the past five years; the present age structure of the Dublin Bus fleet and his estimate of the efficient life of bus. [31163/05]
- Written Answers — Special Educational Needs: Special Educational Needs (27 Oct 2005)
Richard Bruton: Question 284: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the requirements for supervision of children with autism when travelling on a school bus; and the person who has responsibility for funding the cost of helpers and ensuring that the required supervision ratio is observed. [31162/05]
- Written Answers — Water Quality: Water Quality (27 Oct 2005)
Richard Bruton: Question 308: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if the survey of houses with leaded connections carried out in 1996 demonstrated any level of non-compliance with the interim 2003 requirements of Council Directive 98/83/EC. [31180/05]
- Written Answers — Local Authority Funding: Local Authority Funding (27 Oct 2005)
Richard Bruton: Question 313: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the Government payment to local authorities in lieu of domestic rates and the other Exchequer contribution to local authority current spending for each year 1997-2005. [31295/05]
- Leaders' Questions. (2 Nov 2005)
Richard Bruton: A transport plan was launched yesterday after what we were told was 11 months of planning. I have a slim volume of it here. It consists of four speeches, three maps, two lists and one repackaged transport plan designed to get the Government's neck off the line.
- Leaders' Questions. (2 Nov 2005)
Richard Bruton: The plan will cost â¬34.4 billion. Maps were produced that were virtually identical to those produced previously. A total of 35 of the 40 projects were announced previously. Every householder will be asked to pay â¬25,000 through taxes or road tolls but they were not given any detailed costings, evaluations of the key items or prioritisation of projects based on the rates of return. Why is...
- Leaders' Questions. (2 Nov 2005)
Richard Bruton: The Ceann Comhairle is generous.
- Leaders' Questions. (2 Nov 2005)
Richard Bruton: The Taoiseach's answer is an elaborate sham. We know the National Roads Authority published what it projected various projects would cost time and again. That did not result in commercial folly. It resulted in finding that many of those projects ran massively over cost and embarrassed the Government. The Government is not willing to commit itself to any costing. The Taoiseach has not done due...
- Leaders' Questions. (2 Nov 2005)
Richard Bruton: Let us be honest. The national development plan was published in 2000. It was to cost â¬8 billion. Twelve months before the end of that plan, we see that half of the projects will not be completed on time and the cost will be three times what was originally stated. The public is asking how can it have more confidence in this plan than in the previous one, when the Government and the...
- Leaders' Questions. (2 Nov 2005)
Richard Bruton: Deputy McGinley mentioned decentralisation. We now find that less than 5% of the jobs to be moved through decentralisation will be moved within the schedule of the three year plan. The Taoiseach described it as an issue of essential political commitment on which Ministers would be judged. On all of these issues the Taoiseach looks for a card to get him out of jail. Like many of the great...
- Tribunals of Inquiry. (2 Nov 2005)
Richard Bruton: The terms of reference made provision for the publication of an interim report not later than three months from the date of establishment of the tribunal. Was such a report presented to the House? Has the Taoiseach asked for any subsequent reports that would give some indication of the tribunal's thinking, bearing in mind that some of the issues, apart from the investigative side, concern...
- Tribunals of Inquiry. (2 Nov 2005)
Richard Bruton: Was a first interim report presented?
- Freedom of Information. (2 Nov 2005)
Richard Bruton: I note that prior to the date when the fees were introduced, the rate of requests to the Taoiseach's Department was running at 17 per month and, since that date, the rate has dropped to four per month. Less than a quarter of the earlier number of requests is being made. Were those other 13 requests per month frivolous? Did the Taoiseach's Secretary General advise that there were many...
- Freedom of Information. (2 Nov 2005)
Richard Bruton: What is the Taoiseach's policy on the â¬75 review fee? In how many instances has the decision gone the whole way, where the person has had to go to the Information Commissioner to appeal his Department's decisions? In such cases, â¬230, which is non-refundable, becomes the total cost of the request. Is that a frequent occurrence in the Taoiseach's Department?
- Order of Business. (2 Nov 2005)
Richard Bruton: I am not sure whether it is three, four or five years since the Planning and Development (Strategic National Infrastructure) Bill was initiated as a high priority Bill. As we come to the end of the national development plan, we have not seen the Bill and most likely will not see it before the national development plan expires. In the context of the new transport plan, is this Bill regarded as...