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Local Government (Household Charge) (Repeal) Bill 2012: Second Stage (Resumed) [Private Members] (20 Jun 2012)

Martin Ferris: How can the Minister of State, as a Labour Party Minister supposedly protecting and defending the working class, be associated with the household charge? How can she do that as a socialist?

Local Government (Household Charge) (Repeal) Bill 2012: Second Stage (Resumed) [Private Members] (20 Jun 2012)

Martin Ferris: How can she justify people who do not pay one cent in tax in this country and who have property worth millions of euro and people who are paupers paying €100? How can she justify that to the people of Limerick, Moyross and Southill and people who are struggling to put food on the table and to send their children to school? How can she call herself a Labour Party Minister? How can the...

Local Government (Household Charge) (Repeal) Bill 2012: Second Stage (Resumed) [Private Members] (20 Jun 2012)

Martin Ferris: How can the Minister of State justify that? How can Deputy Griffin justify it to the people of Keel, Castlemaine, Tralee and Cahirciveen?

Local Government (Household Charge) (Repeal) Bill 2012: Second Stage (Resumed) [Private Members] (20 Jun 2012)

Martin Ferris: How can Deputy Griffin justify it to those people and to low income families struggling to put bread on the table?

Local Government (Household Charge) (Repeal) Bill 2012: Second Stage (Resumed) [Private Members] (20 Jun 2012)

Martin Ferris: The Government will not attack the people who can afford to pay most but it will attack the most vulnerable, who are easy targets. It will attack the unemployed, old age pensioners, people who are struggling day in, day out and people with disabilities.

Local Government (Household Charge) (Repeal) Bill 2012: Second Stage (Resumed) [Private Members] (20 Jun 2012)

Martin Ferris: Deputy Griffin and the Minister of State should be ashamed of themselves coming in here and standing over and imposing this charge on people who are struggling on a daily basis. How can they defend the indefensible, because that is what everyone on that side of the House is trying to do? It is an absolute disgrace. Deputy Griffin, the Minister of State and I know people in our...

Written Answers — Disadvantaged Areas Scheme: Disadvantaged Areas Scheme (14 Jun 2012)

Martin Ferris: Question 15: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if there is an appeal system set up for farmers who lost payments under the disadvantaged areas scheme; if there will be a maximum turnaround timeframe for dealing with appeals; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28661/12]

Written Answers — Agri-Environment Options Scheme: Agri-Environment Options Scheme (14 Jun 2012)

Martin Ferris: Question 24: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the proposals he has for opening the agri environmental option scheme for land outside of special areas of conservation and commonage for farmers who have left the REP scheme 3; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28660/12]

Residential Institutions Statutory Fund Bill 2012: Second Stage (Resumed) (14 Jun 2012)

Martin Ferris: The Residential Institutions Statutory Fund Bill legislates for the provision of support for some of our most vulnerable citizens who, under the State-run institutions, suffered appalling mental, physical and sexual abuse. It left a harrowing legacy where lives were blighted and ruined, and the scars of the sadistic cruelty inflicted have never healed. The failure of successive Governments...

Residential Institutions Statutory Fund Bill 2012: Second Stage (Resumed) (14 Jun 2012)

Martin Ferris: His father was an alcoholic, his mother was dead and he was put into the institution.

Residential Institutions Statutory Fund Bill 2012: Second Stage (Resumed) (14 Jun 2012)

Martin Ferris: I have first-hand experience of visiting him in those institutions and at one stage seeing how his leg was broken but he did not even get hospital treatment. When he was 16 years of age, my mother took him out of the institution and he lived with us for the remainder of his teenage and early life. He has been dead for four years and he never sought compensation or went through any board...

Residential Institutions Statutory Fund Bill 2012: Second Stage (Resumed) (14 Jun 2012)

Martin Ferris: Sensitivity and care must be employed when engaging with anyone attempting to seek assistance under the statutory fund Bill. As has been stated in the past, no one wishes to see any individual deprived of his or her rights and consideration should be given to Deputy Brendan Smith's proposal that the Government incorporate into the Residential Institutions Statutory Fund Bill the residual...

Written Answers — Appointments to State Boards: Appointments to State Boards (13 Jun 2012)

Martin Ferris: Question 25: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his plans to legislate for reform of the appointment process of persons to the boards of statutory agencies. [28241/12]

Written Answers — State Agencies: State Agencies (13 Jun 2012)

Martin Ferris: Question 48: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide a list of the State agencies in which the Government has not made an appointment to a State body when a vacancy has arisen in view of the fact that it is clearly necessary to consider changes in the function or structure of the Board. [28240/12]

Written Answers — Special Educational Needs: Special Educational Needs (13 Jun 2012)

Martin Ferris: Question 70: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason the special resource available to a person (details supplied) has ceased. [28478/12]

Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (13 Jun 2012)

Martin Ferris: Question 208: To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will receive an MRI scan [28476/12]

Common Fisheries Policy: Statements (13 Jun 2012)

Martin Ferris: It is only right and proper to welcome what has happened in the past 24 hours and acknowledge the role of the Minister, on which I commend him. I understand from Conor Heaney, who works in the office of the Northern Ireland Minister, Michelle O'Neill, that an all-Ireland approach was taken during the negotiations on this. That is a welcome development. During any negotiations, it is...

Common Fisheries Policy: Statements (13 Jun 2012)

Martin Ferris: What happens if a country goes back to the Commission, but the Commission does not agree with it? Will the decision be imposed on it?

Job Losses (7 Jun 2012)

Martin Ferris: Question 41: To ask the Minister for Jobs; Enterprise and Innovation if the reduction of more than €1billion on exports in medical and pharmaceutical products to the United States of America in the first three months of 2012 as compared to the same period in 2011 has resulted or may result in job losses in this sector. [27331/12]

Written Answers — Job Statistics: Job Statistics (7 Jun 2012)

Martin Ferris: Question 18: To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the numbers of jobs lost or created in foreign direct investment companies since 2008; and the number lost in the domestic economy over the same period. [27332/12]