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Availability of Credit. (11 Dec 2008)

Richard Bruton: What is the Minister's strategy for success two and a half months on?

Availability of Credit. (11 Dec 2008)

Richard Bruton: There is no mention of credit in that solution.

Tax Yield. (11 Dec 2008)

Richard Bruton: Question 4: To ask the Minister for Finance if he has assessed the extent of the expected shortfall in tax revenue in 2009 and the additional cuts in current spending which he is targeting. [45545/08]

Order of Business (11 Dec 2008)

Richard Bruton: It is two and a half months since the Government intervened in the banking crisis to provide guarantees for depositors. As the Minister will be aware, credit has effectively dried up for many small businesses in the intervening period and sound businesses are going to the wall for lack of credit. Proposals have been made to extend the guarantee to longer term deposits to allow banks to...

Order of Business (11 Dec 2008)

Richard Bruton: I refer to regulations which would be validly presented to the House if initiatives were to be taken.

Order of Business (11 Dec 2008)

Richard Bruton: If Ministers spent a little more time in their constituencies listening to businesses, they would know people are struggling just to survive.

Order of Business (11 Dec 2008)

Richard Bruton: It is a serious problem and the presence of the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance in the House is an opportunity. Ryanair has made an offer for Aer Lingus whose board has treated it as a hostile bid and indicated it will not contact any of its shareholders with respect to it. What is the Government's position on this matter which would require new legislation? Is it continuing to consider...

Order of Business (11 Dec 2008)

Richard Bruton: Both the issues I raise would involve legislative proposals being presented to the Dáil.

Order of Business (11 Dec 2008)

Richard Bruton: In the long period I have attended the House on Thursday mornings I have not seen such a strict interpretation of the rules.

Estimates for Public Services 2008 (11 Dec 2008)

Richard Bruton: I suppose we should be grateful that the curtain is finally coming down on a year in which the Government's chaotic management of the public finances has been on display. There has been an unprecedented deterioration in the condition of the public finances over the course of 2008. It is hard to believe that the Government, having been in surplus just two years ago, will have to borrow €12...

Order of Business (11 Dec 2008)

Richard Bruton: I heard on the news today that the Government has approved a €180 million package to get the pig industry going again. Will there be a Supplementary Estimate for this year to meet the cost of that? How is it intended to fund it, whether from general taxpayers' resources or through a levy on the sector? Will there be an opportunity for the multiple systems failures that have been exposed...

Order of Business (11 Dec 2008)

Richard Bruton: This relates to money that——

Order of Business (11 Dec 2008)

Richard Bruton: This is not agreed. This proposal was probably the most controversial element of the budget that was introduced two months ago. We assumed the Minister for Health and Children would be in a position to introduce legislation at an early date and allow Members on all sides of the House to debate it thoroughly. Instead, the legislation has been introduced at the very last minute, with Second...

Written Answers — Financial Institutions Support Scheme: Financial Institutions Support Scheme (9 Dec 2008)

Richard Bruton: Question 170: To ask the Minister for Finance if he is satisfied that the financial advisers and the legal advisers to Government in the current banking crisis do not overlap with advisers to the various institutions and interested investors; and the measures being taken to ensure that there are no conflicts of interest. [44759/08]

Written Answers — Financial Institutions Support Scheme: Financial Institutions Support Scheme (9 Dec 2008)

Richard Bruton: Question 184: To ask the Minister for Finance the expertise being recruited to help manage the new relationship and protect the taxpayer in view of the dramatically changed relationship between banks and the Government. [45229/08]

Written Answers — Departmental Staff: Departmental Staff (9 Dec 2008)

Richard Bruton: Question 185: To ask the Minister for Finance if the Departmental schemes of performance related rewards have in all cases taken up the entire pool of 10% of the pay bill in each Department since it was instituted; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45230/08]

Written Answers — Tax Yield: Tax Yield (9 Dec 2008)

Richard Bruton: Question 186: To ask the Minister for Finance if the unexpected shortfall in taxation has led to the placing of additional loans by the National Treasury Management Agency during 2008; the volume and cost premium over the European Central Bank rate in each case; and the schedule of loan placing planned over the next 12 months. [45231/08]

Order of Business (4 Dec 2008)

Richard Bruton: The time allocation motion has only come to my notice now. Effectively, the allocation the Tánaiste is proposing is putting in the first three hours of the debate, which is to run for perhaps 16 hours, most of the things that would be of interest to the committee to tease out. I suggest that fewer sections should be dealt with in the first three hours of debate and that time should be made...

Order of Business (4 Dec 2008)

Richard Bruton: In terms of the time allocation, the general order is fine but too many sections have been assigned to the first three hours where the bulk of the interest will be, so we will not get to debate many of the Government's proposals.

Written Answers — Departmental Schemes: Departmental Schemes (3 Dec 2008)

Richard Bruton: Question 142: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food further to parliamentary Question No. 331 of 13 November 2007, if he is in a position to state the number of applications and the amount applied for in grants under the farm improvement grants scheme received by each of the offices and sub-offices of his Department by 22 October 2007; if applications received by the end of...