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Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (2 Nov 2011)

Martin Ferris: Question 402: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a single farm payment will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Kerry. [31973/11]

Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (2 Nov 2011)

Martin Ferris: Question 409: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a single farm payment and a disadvantaged area grant will be issue to a person (details supplied) in County Kerry. [32014/11]

Written Answers — Noise Pollution: Noise Pollution (20 Oct 2011)

Martin Ferris: Question 22: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the date on which he will publish noise pollution legislation; the reason for the delay in its publication; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30315/11]

Written Answers — Local Authority Charges: Local Authority Charges (20 Oct 2011)

Martin Ferris: Question 46: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the date on which he will publish his strategy to implement his proposals to impose water charges on households. [30316/11]

Written Answers — Fuel Poverty: Fuel Poverty (19 Oct 2011)

Martin Ferris: Question 22: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the progress that has been made on tackling fuel poverty as promised in the programme for Government; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30085/11]

Written Answers — Arts Funding: Arts Funding (18 Oct 2011)

Martin Ferris: Question 59: To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht his plans to prioritise supports and funding for independent art centres here into the future in view of the important role that such centres play within communities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29862/11]

Written Answers — Broadcasting Services: Broadcasting Services (18 Oct 2011)

Martin Ferris: Question 320: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the procedures in place for members of the public to make complaints regarding television licence inspectors. [29962/11]

Common Agricultural Policy Reform Proposals: Statements (13 Oct 2011)

Martin Ferris: I propose to share time with Deputy Seamus Healy.

Common Agricultural Policy Reform Proposals: Statements (13 Oct 2011)

Martin Ferris: The proposals contained in the CAP document published yesterday in Brussels, if accepted and implemented in full, will be hugely damaging to the agricultural sector in Ireland. They will damage the viability of family farms and undermine the potential within the agricultural and farming community. As such, I welcome the Minister's commitment that he will seek to ensure that no changes to...

Leaders' Questions (13 Oct 2011)

Martin Ferris: By attacking the poor and the less well off.

Community and Voluntary Sector: Motion (Resumed) (12 Oct 2011)

Martin Ferris: I wish to share time with Deputy Healy-Rae. Build 4 Life is a voluntary organisation founded and run by the families and friends of cystic fibrosis patients in Kerry and Cork. It is one of the few registered charities, if not the only one, in this country in which every penny donated goes to the intended project. The volunteers who run the organisation do not even claim expenses, and no...

Community and Voluntary Sector: Motion (Resumed) (12 Oct 2011)

Martin Ferris: I ask everyone here tonight to put pressure on the Minister to ensure he gives the funding necessary to finish this project, which is well worthwhile.

Written Answers — Consultancy Contracts: Consultancy Contracts (12 Oct 2011)

Martin Ferris: Question 26: To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the amount that was spent on consultants in his Department in 2009 and 2010; and the amount that will be spent on consultants in 2011. [28882/11]

Community and Voluntary Sector: Motion (Resumed) (12 Oct 2011)

Martin Ferris: He is only journeying down for a number of weeks.

Community and Voluntary Sector: Motion (Resumed) (12 Oct 2011)

Martin Ferris: How far back does it go?

Community and Voluntary Sector: Motion (Resumed) (12 Oct 2011)

Martin Ferris: Will you give us your CV as you are up there, along with your previous CV?

Community and Voluntary Sector: Motion (Resumed) (12 Oct 2011)

Martin Ferris: Give us the rest of your CV.

Business Supports (12 Oct 2011)

Martin Ferris: Question 7: To ask the Minister for Jobs; Enterprise and Innovation if he will develop financial supports to businesses to encourage them to keep staff gainfully employed instead of having to let them go. [28881/11]

Written Answers — Sale of State Assets: Sale of State Assets (11 Oct 2011)

Martin Ferris: Question 72: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his rationale for selling off a stake in the ESB to private interests, a self-financing critical component of the State's strategic infrastructure that has paid €4.5 billion over the past ten years to the State in taxes and dividends, for a fraction of the latter figure. [28643/11]

Industrial Relations (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2011: Second Stage (7 Oct 2011)

Martin Ferris: As I pointed out at the time the Duffy-Walsh report on the JLCs was published, there was a myth that the system in place is somehow protecting vastly overpaid members of the workforce. In fact, as a statistic cited in the report proves, the vast majority of those covered are working in sectors where the set rate is extremely low and in some cases, such as the clothing and catering sectors,...