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Written Answers — National Cancer Strategy: National Cancer Strategy (26 Apr 2006)

Ruairi Quinn: Question 80: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children her views on claims that the best medical care for prostate cancer depends on where one is treated for the disease; if her attention has been drawn to calls from the Irish Cancer Society for the Government to commission a report to examine hospitals and specialists currently providing prostate cancer treatment, the...

Written Answers — Tax Code: Tax Code (26 Apr 2006)

Ruairi Quinn: Question 195: To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to the representations from persons in receipt of a State disability payment expressing concern at the impact that VAT charges have on equipment and support services which they must purchase due to their disability; if he will put a system in place whereby the VAT on such equipment and utility charges such as the...

Order of Business. (27 Apr 2006)

Ruairi Quinn: It is fortuitous that the Minister for Finance is taking the Order of Business today because under promised legislation it is necessary for him to move rather urgently. I do not know if he is aware that he is the main creditor of a construction company that has gone into liquidation owing the Revenue Commissioners €2.5 million and the workers more than €300,000. This relates to No. 41,...

Order of Business. (27 Apr 2006)

Ruairi Quinn: It does arise for the Minister for Finance. He is being defrauded of money. I thought we had got rid of this kind of cowboy operation where the same company could transfer from one name to another. I am referring to the PSK construction company defraud as reported in yesterday's newspapers.

Health (Repayment Scheme) Bill 2006: Second Stage (Resumed). (27 Apr 2006)

Ruairi Quinn: Is that a reference to his predecessors?

Health (Repayment Scheme) Bill 2006: Second Stage (Resumed). (27 Apr 2006)

Ruairi Quinn: I wish to deal with this measure under a number of headings, namely, the history of the saga which goes back to the early 1970s, the hand-over between the former Minister, Deputy Martin, and the Tánaiste, the first Bill which was deemed unconstitutional and the one we are now discussing and the prospects for administration. It is important to state at the outset that if anybody wanted to do...

Asylum Applications. (27 Apr 2006)

Ruairi Quinn: Question 6: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of applications for asylum received in each year from 2002 to 2005 and to date in 2006; the number of applications approved by the Refugee Appeals Commission; the number of appeals submitted to the Refugee Appeals Tribunal; the number of such appeals upheld; the number of applications for leave to remain; the...

Written Answers — Proposed Legislation: Proposed Legislation (27 Apr 2006)

Ruairi Quinn: Question 15: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform his proposals to reform the law relating to the protection of personal privacy; if the heads of a Bill have been approved by the Government; if so, if he will publish same; when he expects to bring a Bill before the Houses of the Oireachtas; the consultations he is planning prior to the publication of the bill; and if he...

Leaders' Questions. (3 May 2006)

Ruairi Quinn: The Taoiseach could have instructed them.

Leaders' Questions. (3 May 2006)

Ruairi Quinn: The Taoiseach could have instructed them. They are answerable to the Government.

Leaders' Questions. (3 May 2006)

Ruairi Quinn: The Ceann Comhairle does not have to stand for re-election.

Employment Permits Bill 2005: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage. (3 May 2006)

Ruairi Quinn: Do I take it that, for the purpose of consistency, where the use of the word "non-national" appeared in the original text it is now being transposed to "foreign national"?

Employment Permits Bill 2005: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage. (3 May 2006)

Ruairi Quinn: We have moved from the tradition where we had Catholics and non-Catholics in this country to Catholics and other denominations. I always found the non-national nomenclature quite offensive but we know its origin.

Employment Permits Bill 2005: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage. (3 May 2006)

Ruairi Quinn: Could we temporarily recommit the Bill to allow us to deal with the amendment?

Employment Permits Bill 2005: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage. (3 May 2006)

Ruairi Quinn: We could go into committee now to deal with the specific issue and then revert to Report Stage.

Employment Permits Bill 2005: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage. (3 May 2006)

Ruairi Quinn: I move amendment No. 110: In page 13, to delete lines 4 to 11.

Employment Permits Bill 2005: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage. (3 May 2006)

Ruairi Quinn: I move amendment No. 130: In page 14, between lines 29 and 30, to insert the following: "(5) A decision on appeal under this section may be the subject of an application to the Ombudsman.".

Employment Permits Bill 2005: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage. (3 May 2006)

Ruairi Quinn: I wish the Minister luck.

Employment Permits Bill 2005: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage. (3 May 2006)

Ruairi Quinn: The Department of Justice, Equality and Law Reform will seek a period of eight hours.

Employment Permits Bill 2005: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage. (3 May 2006)

Ruairi Quinn: I have some experience of dealing with the Department of Justice, Equality and Law Reform which regards every Irish citizen as a potential criminal, if not today, tomorrow. It is an extremely difficult body with which to deal. I am indicating this formally, as I have elsewhere. I urge the Minister to make the law exact, to give himself a period of eight weeks in order that he will have...