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Order of Business. (3 Nov 2005)

Joan Burton: A hospice has been promised at Abbotstown. I want to know if the Bill will include that.

Order of Business. (3 Nov 2005)

Joan Burton: Abbotstown has already moved on this map by 20 miles.

Order of Business. (3 Nov 2005)

Joan Burton: The Minister, Deputy Roche, was on the radio yesterday.

Order of Business. (3 Nov 2005)

Joan Burton: Let the Minister make a personal statement.

Written Answers — Defence Forces Medical Services: Defence Forces Medical Services (3 Nov 2005)

Joan Burton: Question 50: To ask the Minister for Defence his views on claims made by the president of PDFORRA that medical services within the Defence Forces are totally inadequate; if his attention has been drawn to claims made at the PDFORRA conference that members of the Defence Forces must use their own money to pay for medical treatments to protect their careers and contracts; his plans to address...

Written Answers — Special Educational Needs: Special Educational Needs (8 Nov 2005)

Joan Burton: Question 130: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the action she intends to take to ensure that all post-primary schools welcome and support children with special educational needs; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32755/05]

Written Answers — School Staffing: School Staffing (8 Nov 2005)

Joan Burton: Question 161: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if her attention has been drawn to the fact that many primary schools with high numbers of children with special learning needs have lost teachers as a result of the introduction of the weighted system; if teachers will be restored to those schools; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32756/05]

Tax Code. (9 Nov 2005)

Joan Burton: Question 102: To ask the Minister for Finance the number and percentage of income earners who are paying tax at the higher rate and the standard rate for 2005; the comparative figures for each year since 1998; when the Government will honour the commitment given in An Agreed Programme for Government that 80% of all earners will pay tax only at the standard rate; and if he will make a...

Tax Code. (9 Nov 2005)

Joan Burton: The Government made solemn promises in its partnership agreement for Government and in Sustaining Progress agreements with the social partners that 80% of tax payers would pay at the standard rate or below. The figures in the Minister's earlier answer show that this year only 67% of tax payers will be at the standard rate or below. Is this not the biggest smash and grab raid on ordinary PAYE...

Tax Code. (9 Nov 2005)

Joan Burton: Social partnership is under strain at present. The commitments by the Government in the programme for Government and in Sustaining Progress, to have 80% of taxpayers paying at the standard rate, have been breached repeatedly. On the other hand, millionaires can pay no tax and the top 400 earners pay little or no tax, according to the Revenue Commissioners. A worker just above the average...

Tax Code. (9 Nov 2005)

Joan Burton: I quoted the Minister's statistics.

Official Engagements. (9 Nov 2005)

Joan Burton: During the course of the ECOFIN meeting, did Ministers have opportunities to discuss, formally or otherwise, the prospect of rising interest rates in Europe and, in particular, the problem that such a situation poses for economies such as Ireland's, where there are high levels of personal indebtedness and mortgage debt? A 1% interest rate increase over the next year will have disastrous...

Official Engagements. (9 Nov 2005)

Joan Burton: During the course of the ECOFIN meeting, did Ministers formally or informally discuss the prospect of rising interest rates?

Tax Code. (9 Nov 2005)

Joan Burton: What is the current situation in the Department and the Revenue Commissioners with regard to refunds for taxpayers in the building industry? The Comptroller and Auditor General made a detailed comment on this matter. It has also been the subject of a number of reports of ongoing fraud cases, including one involving 294 contractors and another involving 22 taxpayers in the building industry....

Tax Code. (9 Nov 2005)

Joan Burton: Is it true that the refunds have been suspended?

Written Answers — Departmental Agencies: Departmental Agencies (9 Nov 2005)

Joan Burton: Question 174: To ask the Minister for Finance the role of the Centre for Management Organisation and Development within his Department; if CMOD has any role in regard to the development of the PPARS and FISP computer systems; if it is intended that the role of CMOD will be expanded or developed in any way to prevent waste of public money on such projects in the future; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Departmental Staff: Departmental Staff (10 Nov 2005)

Joan Burton: Question 12: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs the number of new staff members who came from the existing pool of civil servants among the intake of staff into Development Co-operation Ireland over each of the past five years; the persons who are contract staff; and if he will further indicate the number of consultancies undertaken by DCI in the same period. [33484/05]

Written Answers — Departmental Staff: Departmental Staff (10 Nov 2005)

Joan Burton: Question 31: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs the number of staff who have been recruited in each of the past ten years; the projected numbers for the next five years; and the number of staff suggested by reports commissioned by his Department or the advisory committee on development co-operation in the staffing needs of Development Co-operation Ireland. [33483/05]

Written Answers — Social Welfare Code: Social Welfare Code (10 Nov 2005)

Joan Burton: Question 163: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the threshold for the calculation of secondary benefits for retention purposes for community employee participants; when the threshold was last increased; if his attention has been drawn to the failure to increase the threshold is causing a great deal of hardship to participants on community employment places; if his further...

Written Answers — Road Network: Road Network (10 Nov 2005)

Joan Burton: Question 165: To ask the Minister for Transport the position in relation to the upgrading promised of the M50; the schedule for the upgrade of the intersections on the M50 and in particular the expected dates for the work to be carried out in relation to the Blanchardstown-Castleknock area of the M50 including the toll gate. [33614/05]