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- Building Control Bill 2005: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (1 Mar 2007)
Ruairi Quinn: I move amendment No. 63: In page 27, to delete lines 44 to 46 and substitute the following: "(c) whether or not the applicant can demonstrate that he or she has acquired the competencies specified in Article 46 of the Directive, and in so assessing under the grandfather clause, due regard shall be taken of the skills acquired by experience and practical means, as demonstrated by the work...
- Building Control Bill 2005: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (1 Mar 2007)
Ruairi Quinn: I will withdraw it.
- Building Control Bill 2005: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (1 Mar 2007)
Ruairi Quinn: We will have a few such amendments now because they are connected to earlier debates.
- Building Control Bill 2005: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (1 Mar 2007)
Ruairi Quinn: I move amendment No. 64: In page 28, between lines 17 and 18, to insert the following: "(9) The Technical Assessment Board shall endeavour to ensure that all applications received by the Technical Assessment Board shall be adjudicated upon in the manner specified in column 2 and within the timeframe specified in column 3 of the Schedule.". The amendment relates to not having an open-ended...
- Building Control Bill 2005: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (1 Mar 2007)
Ruairi Quinn: I understand the reason the Minister of State has responded in this manner. However, this is the only intervention instrument available to us. The Minister of State indicated that when the boards are established and powers are conferred on them he will make a public and formal request that one of the things they will have to do is precisely what he just said. In effect, the times set out...
- Building Control Bill 2005: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (1 Mar 2007)
Ruairi Quinn: It is later on.
- Building Control Bill 2005: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (1 Mar 2007)
Ruairi Quinn: I move amendment No. 69: In page 29, lines 6 and 7, to delete "a solicitor, a barrister" and substitute "a practising solicitor, a practising barrister". We are fine-tuning the Bill. A series of amendments follow from this proposed amendment. Someone who is earning his or her livelihood as a solicitor or barrister can participate in this, but the tendency may be to have retired people...
- Building Control Bill 2005: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (1 Mar 2007)
Ruairi Quinn: I move amendment No. 70: In page 29, line 16, after "against" to insert the following: "or such longer period as may be allowed by the Appeals Board".
- Building Control Bill 2005: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (1 Mar 2007)
Ruairi Quinn: I thank the Minister and his staff. This has been a particularly difficult Bill because goalposts were changed in other places. I appreciate that a great deal of hard work has been done and I thank the Minister of State for accepting amendments in my name.
- Pension Provisions. (1 Mar 2007)
Ruairi Quinn: Question 164: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the cost to the Exchequer of increasing the basic State pension to â¬300 per week. [8164/07]
- Written Answers — Tax Code: Tax Code (1 Mar 2007)
Ruairi Quinn: Question 114: To ask the Minister for Finance the cost to the Exchequer of reducing the upper rate of tax from 41% to 38%. [8163/07]
- Written Answers — Fiscal Policy: Fiscal Policy (1 Mar 2007)
Ruairi Quinn: Question 115: To ask the Minister for Finance the cost to the Exchequer of adjusting the tax bands in order that a couple, both earning, could earn up to â¬100,000, while paying only tax at the standard rate. [8165/07]
- Written Answers — Fiscal Policy: Fiscal Policy (1 Mar 2007)
Ruairi Quinn: Question 116: To ask the Minister for Finance the cost to the Exchequer of increasing tax credits in order that couples earning up to â¬40,000 and a single person earning up to â¬20,000 will pay no tax. [8166/07]
- Written Answers — Fiscal Policy: Fiscal Policy (1 Mar 2007)
Ruairi Quinn: Question 117: To ask the Minister for Finance the cost to the Exchequer of abolishing stamp duty for all first time buyers. [8167/07]
- Written Answers — Child Care Services: Child Care Services (1 Mar 2007)
Ruairi Quinn: Question 119: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the cost to the Exchequer of increasing the early childcare supplement to â¬2,000. [8168/07]
- Written Answers — Child Care Services: Child Care Services (1 Mar 2007)
Ruairi Quinn: Question 120: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the cost to the Exchequer of providing 50,000 additional childcare places. [8169/07]
- Industrial Relations. (6 Mar 2007)
Ruairi Quinn: Question 92: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will make a statement on the Ryanair judgment in the Supreme Court; the implications for Irish industrial relations; and his views on whether corrective legislation will be needed. [8527/07]
- Industrial Relations. (6 Mar 2007)
Ruairi Quinn: Does the Minister regard the Chairman of the Labour Court as one of the most competent persons to hold the office? He has legal qualifications in his own right as well as industrial relations experience. When the Supreme Court judgment emanated, what was the reaction in the Department? Will it in effect render the 2001 and 2004 legislation defunct if the Supreme Court's interpretation of...
- Industrial Development. (6 Mar 2007)
Ruairi Quinn: The Minister is time-wasting.
- Industrial Development. (6 Mar 2007)
Ruairi Quinn: The Minister is a time-waster.