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Written Answers — Departmental Expenditure: Departmental Expenditure (3 Mar 2009)

Richard Bruton: Question 218: To ask the Minister for Transport the planned Exchequer expenditure for additional buses under Transport 21 and the national development plan for the period 2009 to 2012. [8928/09]

Written Answers — Citizenship Applications: Citizenship Applications (3 Mar 2009)

Richard Bruton: Question 256: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the delays that currently apply to persons applying for naturalisation who are the non-national spouse of an Irish citizen married and living together here for more than three years; and the steps necessary to complete the application of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 9. [8713/09]

Written Answers — Social Insurance: Social Insurance (3 Mar 2009)

Richard Bruton: Question 322: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the estimate of the proceeds from an elimination in the employee PRSI ceiling. [8917/09]

Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (3 Mar 2009)

Richard Bruton: Question 323: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the Exchequer savings in 2010 by reducing all social welfare payments by 3%. [8918/09]

Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (3 Mar 2009)

Richard Bruton: Question 324: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if she has investigated the modalities of applying a means test to eligibility for child benefit and the early childhood supplement; if so, the expected savings from such a means test if applied at various income thresholds; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8946/09]

Written Answers — Social and Affordable Housing: Social and Affordable Housing (3 Mar 2009)

Richard Bruton: Question 333: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the amount of the 2009 and 2010 Exchequer capital programmes allocated to social and affordable housing programmes. [8926/09]

Written Answers — Special Educational Needs: Special Educational Needs (3 Mar 2009)

Richard Bruton: Question 442: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the reason the special class at a school (details supplied) in Dublin 5 is being removed; the assessment which has been carried out of the educational needs of each child who is being displaced; and if he has identified alternative placements for the children affected. [8442/09]

Written Answers — Company Closures: Company Closures (26 Feb 2009)

Richard Bruton: Question 64: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the progress made in finding an alternative owner for a company (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8117/09]

Written Answers — Banking Sector Regulation: Banking Sector Regulation (26 Feb 2009)

Richard Bruton: Question 75: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will introduce requirements on the banks covered by guarantee in order that people would not face stiff penalties on something with variable rates unless the bank could show that it had entered contractual commitments with other institutions which would impose commensurate penalties on it, if it permitted the switch. [8107/09]

Written Answers — Health Service Staff: Health Service Staff (26 Feb 2009)

Richard Bruton: Question 89: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the reason a doctor on reaching the age of retirement should be prevented from continuing public practice, while being allowed to continue their private practice; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8108/09]

Written Answers — School Accommodation: School Accommodation (26 Feb 2009)

Richard Bruton: Question 204: To ask the Minister for Education and Science when the funding for the replacement of four substandard prefabs at a school (details supplied) in Dublin 3 as set out in previous parliamentary questions will be formally approved and become payable; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8110/09]

Written Answers — Detention Centres: Detention Centres (25 Feb 2009)

Richard Bruton: Question 75: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the position with regard to the development of the new national child detention facility for young offenders at Lusk, County Dublin; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7680/09]

Written Answers — Banking Sector Regulation: Banking Sector Regulation (25 Feb 2009)

Richard Bruton: Question 126: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will amend the regulations on fixed interest rates whereby people are being penalised for breaking out of them in order to change to lowering variable rates; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7803/09]

Written Answers — Tax Code: Tax Code (25 Feb 2009)

Richard Bruton: Question 128: To ask the Minister for Finance his views on whether the issuance of loans by banks receiving recapitalisation should be made conditional on evidence that building contractors used on the building works are tax compliant; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7831/09]

Written Answers — Pension Provisions: Pension Provisions (25 Feb 2009)

Richard Bruton: Question 190: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the assessment which she carried out of a scheme that would provide mutual insurance among pension funds in order to cover the situation where pension deficits threatened those people without pension cover; the cost and benefit of such a scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7804/09]

Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2009: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (25 Feb 2009)

Richard Bruton: I move amendment No. 26: In page 9, between lines 45 and 46, to insert the following subsections: "(2) Any regulation made under subsection (1) shall be approved by both Houses of the Oireachtas before it may take effect. (3) Any regulation made under subsection (1) shall not take effect for a period of 45 days from its approval by both Houses of the Oireachtas and notice shall be served on...

Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2009: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (25 Feb 2009)

Richard Bruton: I am sorry, deductions. If we are breaking new legal ground, it is important that such measures be approved by both Houses of the Oireachtas before they are adopted. It seems to me, although I am not a lawyer, that it would give them more legal authority. I am sure the Minister will respond to this. It would seem advisable that the Oireachtas sees what is being proposed and vote for it...

Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2009: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (25 Feb 2009)

Richard Bruton: Sections 9 and 10 are relevant as we are discussing two amendments together. There are wider provisions in section 10 applying to any service rendered.

Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2009: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (25 Feb 2009)

Richard Bruton: The amendments are grouped.

Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2009: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (25 Feb 2009)

Richard Bruton: The way I read this section, I do not see any definition that confines the services concerned to professional services of the nature described by the Minister. The Minister said earlier in the debate that home help services provided by people under contract to the HSE could not be touched by this. My reading of section 10 is that these provisions could apply to a person providing a home...