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- Written Answers — Ministerial Responsibilities: Ministerial Responsibilities (22 Mar 2011)
Billy Kelleher: Question 257: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the specific powers he intends to delegate to Ministers of State in his Department. [5245/11]
- Written Answers — Ministerial Responsibilities: Ministerial Responsibilities (22 Mar 2011)
Billy Kelleher: Question 332: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the specific powers he intends to delegate to Ministers of State in his Department. [5254/11]
- Written Answers — Ministerial Responsibilities: Ministerial Responsibilities (22 Mar 2011)
Billy Kelleher: Question 357: To ask the Minister for Transport the specific powers he intends to delegate to Ministers of State in his Department. [5259/11]
- Written Answers — Ministerial Responsibilities: Ministerial Responsibilities (22 Mar 2011)
Billy Kelleher: Question 370: To ask the Minister for Community, Equality and Gaeltacht Affairs the specific powers he intends to delegate to Ministers of State in his Department. [5247/11]
- Written Answers — Ministerial Responsibilities: Ministerial Responsibilities (22 Mar 2011)
Billy Kelleher: Question 378: To ask the Minister for Defence the specific powers he intends to delegate to Ministers of State in his Department [5248/11]
- Order of Business (23 Mar 2011)
Billy Kelleher: The Government should oppose it here too.
- Order of Business (24 Mar 2011)
Billy Kelleher: Has Moriarty increased the stress levels on that side of the House?
- Departmental Agencies (29 Mar 2011)
Billy Kelleher: Question 39: To ask the Minister for Enterprise; Trade and Innovation if the commitment in the Programme for Government to implement the recommendations of the Trading and Investment in the Smart Economy means that he will see through the Smart Economy strategy [5793/11]
- Departmental Agencies (29 Mar 2011)
Billy Kelleher: Question 60: To ask the Minister for Enterprise; Trade and Innovation when the new Export Trade Council will be established; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5346/11]
- Written Answers — Register of Lobbyists: Register of Lobbyists (29 Mar 2011)
Billy Kelleher: Question 71: To ask the Minister for Finance the instructions he has given to Ministers or officials regarding recording of lobbying activity or to limiting the lobbying access to Government of any persons or groups. [5728/11]
- Family and Child Income Supports (30 Mar 2011)
Billy Kelleher: Question 19: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will elaborate on the commitment in the Programme for Government to examine family and child income supports and if all cuts in child benefit are absolutely precluded by the Programme [6052/11]
- Family and Child Income Supports (30 Mar 2011)
Billy Kelleher: I wish the Minister well in her new portfolio and know she will embrace the work of the Department as much as she embraced her appointment. Notwithstanding my tongue in cheek, I wish her well. I welcome the Minister's response. However, will she clarify what is proposed with regard to the commission on social welfare, when it is expected to be established and when it is expected to report?...
- Family and Child Income Supports (30 Mar 2011)
Billy Kelleher: When does the Minister envisage the establishment of the commission and when does she envisage it reporting? Will the commission operate on a broad consultation basis or on the basis of the expertise of the appointees to it?
- Social Welfare Appeals (30 Mar 2011)
Billy Kelleher: Question 22: To ask the Minister for Social Protection her plans in relation to the commitment in the Programme for Government to divert staff from elsewhere in the public service to clear the social welfare appeals backlog; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6053/11]
- Social Welfare Appeals (30 Mar 2011)
Billy Kelleher: I welcome the decision to continue to avail of the services of retired appeals officers, which is a worthwhile practice. The Minister referred to the quasi-judicial nature and complexity of many of the cases with which the office deals. I understand that training is critical in that context. I am concerned that the proposal in the programme for Government to reduce by 25,000 the number of...
- Social Welfare Appeals (30 Mar 2011)
Billy Kelleher: Does the Minister accept that appeals officers should be considered as front line staff? In the context of the proposed reductions in the public sector and the Civil Service, will she make the case for appeals officers to be considered as front line staff, like doctors, teachers, nurses and gardaÃ?
- Child Support (30 Mar 2011)
Billy Kelleher: This issue has been used appallingly and with racist undertones by various groupings opposed to Europe and migration. I am concerned such an approach has become pervasive in our society. All politicians have heard those claims on the airwaves and elsewhere that billions in euro are paid out in social welfare payments to children not residing in the State when it is actually only â¬15...
- Child Support (30 Mar 2011)
Billy Kelleher: Nobody disagrees with the views expressed by the Minister on the matter of children raised outside the State receiving child benefit from the State. People canvassing during the general election came across the view that billions of euro are being transferred from the State to other states. These views are being encouraged by those who have ulterior motives in trying to promote dissent and...
- Child Support (30 Mar 2011)
Billy Kelleher: Do we have any idea how much money is coming into the State from other countries?
- Moriarty Tribunal Report: Statements (Resumed) (30 Mar 2011)
Billy Kelleher: I welcome the publication of the Moriarty report, the findings of which are quite disturbing on many fronts. While I would have preferred more time in which to speak, I will use the minute available to me to emphasise that although the Taoiseach has embraced the findings of the Moriarty report in this House, he has not really embraced the full report. He said that he was exonerated in the...