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Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (6 Oct 2009)

Seán Sherlock: Question 859: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the status of an application for rent allowance by a person (details supplied) in County Cork. [33109/09]

Written Answers — Local Authority Housing: Local Authority Housing (6 Oct 2009)

Seán Sherlock: Question 981: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if extra funding will be provided to Cork County Council for the number of idle local authority houses that require maintenance in view of the large housing waiting lists in north Cork; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33822/09]

Written Answers — Local Authority Charges: Local Authority Charges (6 Oct 2009)

Seán Sherlock: Question 982: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if there is discretion on the part of local authorities to grant rates exemptions to non for profit organisations including those that provide full day care services for children, specifically when those child care facilities are funded through the national development plan; and if he will make a statement...

Written Answers — Dairy Sector: Dairy Sector (6 Oct 2009)

Seán Sherlock: Question 1043: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the average age of a dairy farmer here; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32937/09]

Written Answers — State Examinations: State Examinations (6 Oct 2009)

Seán Sherlock: Question 1245: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if the grant for schools starting the leaving certificate applied programme will be re-instated; if assurances will be given that the leaving certificate applied programme will not be subject to further reductions in funding; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33889/09]

FÁS: Motion (Resumed) (7 Oct 2009)

Seán Sherlock: I wish to share time with Deputies Mary Upton, Ruairí Quinn, Kathleen Lynch and Jan O'Sullivan. The recent scandals at FÁS have taken the organisation to such new lows that its name alone evokes any number of negative connotations. Its unfortunate association with the Fianna Fáil Party has cast a further shadow over its reputation. Whether one argues that this patronage is real or...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Code: Social Welfare Code (7 Oct 2009)

Seán Sherlock: Question 146: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the reason for the delay in introducing legislation to provide for changes to the law in relation to social welfare benefits for lone parents. [34408/09]

Written Answers — Departmental Staff: Departmental Staff (7 Oct 2009)

Seán Sherlock: Question 209: To ask the Minister for Finance the terms of the severance package awarded to the former Financial Regulator (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34655/09]

Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (7 Oct 2009)

Seán Sherlock: Question 243: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the status of an appeal regarding the reduction of rental supplement for a person (details supplied) in County Cork; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34702/09]

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (7 Oct 2009)

Seán Sherlock: Question 245: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if a case has been expedited in respect of persons (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34630/09]

Written Answers — Rural Transport Services: Rural Transport Services (7 Oct 2009)

Seán Sherlock: Question 267: To ask the Minister for Transport the future of the rural transport scheme; if it will continue; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34696/09]

Order of Business (8 Oct 2009)

Seán Sherlock: I do not want to raise any hackles, but I ask the Tánaiste whether the animal health and welfare Bill will be published any time soon.

Communications (Retention of Data) Bill 2009: Second Stage (8 Oct 2009)

Seán Sherlock: That we are only now transposing a directive which was agreed in 2006 is typical of the manner in which the Government has been remiss in its obligations vis-À-vis the transposition of EU directives in general. Ireland is behind the curve again because our European counterparts, in some instances, are already preparing to undertake a review of the directive that we have yet to transpose....

Written Answers — Defence Forces Investigations: Defence Forces Investigations (8 Oct 2009)

Seán Sherlock: Question 43: To ask the Minister for Defence if he has received the report of the investigation into the incident at Kilworth Camp, when a young officer was seriously injured in a training accident. [34857/09]

Written Answers — Defence Forces Regulations: Defence Forces Regulations (8 Oct 2009)

Seán Sherlock: Question 52: To ask the Minister for Defence the number of positive results that have been obtained since the targeted drugs testing was introduced in April 2009. [34858/09]

Written Answers — Proposed Legislation: Proposed Legislation (8 Oct 2009)

Seán Sherlock: Question 177: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he will confirm his commitment to exclude registered hunt kennels from the Control of Dogs (Amendment) Act 1992; the input that was sought from people affected by the legislation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35019/09]

Requests to move Adjournment of Dáil under Standing Order 32 (13 Oct 2009)

Seán Sherlock: I seek the Adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 32 to raise a matter of national importance, namely, the issues raised in today's edition of the Irish Examiner, which reports on the worrying level of suicide in Ireland. I am seeking a debate in the House so that the Minister for Health and Children can say why little progress has been made in implementing the 33 recommendations made...

National Asset Management Agency Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (13 Oct 2009)

Seán Sherlock: Why did we nationalise it?

National Asset Management Agency Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (13 Oct 2009)

Seán Sherlock: While I have great respect for Deputy Michael McGrath's views, as a layman I still find it difficult to understand how the State can justify the investment of €4 billion of taxpayers' money in Anglo Irish Bank. To date, no one has been able to give me an economic rationale for allowing this bank to stay afloat. I have not heard it from a market perspective, nor have I heard a cogent...

Written Answers — Electricity Generation: Electricity Generation (13 Oct 2009)

Seán Sherlock: Question 6: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources his views on the options for investors in offshore and onshore wind farm applications outside the gate three process; the position regarding the wind applications to the grid; the position regarding the gate three process; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35518/09]