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Jobs Initiative 2011: Statements (Resumed) (11 May 2011)

Timmy Dooley: How many €2 would one have to save to buy an extra dinner? That is how it will be measured, by money in people's pockets.

Jobs Initiative 2011: Statements (Resumed) (11 May 2011)

Timmy Dooley: I eat most days, thank you.

Jobs Initiative 2011: Statements (Resumed) (11 May 2011)

Timmy Dooley: This may, ultimately, become a subsidy for the entertainment sector. Sadly, many of these operators are under pressure and they have told us about that. I am concerned that the reduction will not be passed on to the consumer. Even if it is, it will not make an appreciable or measurable difference to their capacity to spend more. At best, the reduction is a gimmick. There were ways of...

Jobs Initiative 2011: Statements (Resumed) (11 May 2011)

Timmy Dooley: I do not know if the Minister for Transport, Deputy Varadkar, intends to retain it or if the new measure will be added to it. It was a considerable incentive to increase traffic, based on 2009 levels. Perhaps we will get further clarity on that. With regard to capital expenditure measures, the Government talks about shovel-ready projects. This gives movement to the retrofit programme,...

Jobs Initiative 2011: Statements (Resumed) (11 May 2011)

Timmy Dooley: The same should happen with regard to the €75 million set aside for the transport Vote and the €60 million for local roads. Where will that come from? There is not new money. Of the more than €135 million that has been earmarked, some €106 is coming from existing programmes and projects. We would like a list of the projects that will be shelved as a result of this...

Jobs Initiative 2011: Statements (Resumed) (11 May 2011)

Timmy Dooley: He is redundant.

Jobs Initiative 2011: Statements (Resumed) (11 May 2011)

Timmy Dooley: They knew this for a long time. They got elected on the back of it.

Jobs Initiative 2011: Statements (Resumed) (11 May 2011)

Timmy Dooley: Does the Minister accept the drop in numbers had more to do with the fact that Irish people were not travelling?

Jobs Initiative 2011: Statements (Resumed) (11 May 2011)

Timmy Dooley: I thought the parish pump was gone under this new Government.

Jobs Initiative 2011: Statements (Resumed) (11 May 2011)

Timmy Dooley: Is that so?

Order of Business (12 May 2011)

Timmy Dooley: In the course of the past year, the Tánaiste and his party made much of the need to abolish upward-only rent reviews for existing leases. The jobs initiative appears to be silent on that matter. I would be grateful if the Tánaiste would inform the House whether legislation is due on that issue as there are many people who expect him to deliver on it.

Order of Business (12 May 2011)

Timmy Dooley: We are back to that.

Order of Business (12 May 2011)

Timmy Dooley: That would be a first.

Order of Business (12 May 2011)

Timmy Dooley: Is the Deputy not left-wing?

Order of Business (12 May 2011)

Timmy Dooley: The Labour Party has moved to the right.

Order of Business (12 May 2011)

Timmy Dooley: Do not be embarrassed by your own party.

Order of Business (12 May 2011)

Timmy Dooley: I am not the Ceann Comhairle, a Cheann Comhairle. I do not get your salary.

Written Answers — Sale of State Assets: Sale of State Assets (12 May 2011)

Timmy Dooley: Question 29: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources his views on the recommendation on the report of the McCarthy review group on State assets and liabilities to dispose of ESB's overseas interest and to prevent further expansion outside Ireland. [10941/11]

Written Answers — School Staffing: School Staffing (12 May 2011)

Timmy Dooley: Question 55: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding the proposed suppression of a resource teacher for Travellers at a primary school (details supplied) in County Clare. [11028/11]

Requests to move Adjournment of Dáil under Standing Order 32 (17 May 2011)

Timmy Dooley: It is not a party, it is a Technical Group.