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Written Answers — Charities Legislation: Charities Legislation (16 Oct 2007)

Richard Bruton: Question 376: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs if his attention has been drawn to the high frequency of requests to householders to donate second hand goods to charities, where the requesting organisation offers no address and only a mobile phone number, leaving the suspicion that they are not true charities; if he will introduce legislation that would govern...

Written Answers — State Agencies: State Agencies (16 Oct 2007)

Richard Bruton: Question 381: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the remuneration package of each of the CEOs of State agencies reporting to his Department including pay, pension and ancillary benefits. [23724/07]

Written Answers — State Agencies: State Agencies (16 Oct 2007)

Richard Bruton: Question 395: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the remuneration package of each of the CEOs of State agencies reporting to her Department including pay, pension and ancillary benefits. [23721/07]

Written Answers — School Staffing: School Staffing (16 Oct 2007)

Richard Bruton: Question 437: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the reason she does not recognise the Montessori method as a valid system for teaching primary children; and the circumstances under which her Department would recognise a school (details supplied) in Dublin 13. [23468/07]

Written Answers — State Agencies: State Agencies (16 Oct 2007)

Richard Bruton: Question 446: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the remuneration package of each of the CEOs of State agencies reporting to her Department including pay, pension and ancillary benefits. [23726/07]

Written Answers — State Agencies: State Agencies (16 Oct 2007)

Richard Bruton: Question 475: To ask the Minister for Defence the remuneration package of each of the CEOs of State agencies reporting to his Department including pay, pension and ancillary benefits. [23725/07]

Written Answers — State Agencies: State Agencies (16 Oct 2007)

Richard Bruton: Question 520: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the remuneration package of each of the CEOs of State agencies reporting to his Department including pay, pension and ancillary benefits. [23732/07]

Written Answers — Local Authority Funding: Local Authority Funding (16 Oct 2007)

Richard Bruton: Question 561: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the formula used to distribute the local government fund to local authorities; and if he will amend this formula to make it more transparent and to make it reward local effort to raise matching finance as outlined in IBEC's publication, Vision for Dublin. [23403/07]

Written Answers — Waste Management: Waste Management (16 Oct 2007)

Richard Bruton: Question 562: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government his plans to resolve the conflict of interest that arises from local authorities having responsibility for planning, regulation and service provision in areas such as waste management in order to open up competition and reduce costs. [23405/07]

Written Answers — State Agencies: State Agencies (16 Oct 2007)

Richard Bruton: Question 575: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the remuneration package of each of the CEOs of State agencies reporting to his Department including pay, pension and ancillary benefits. [23728/07]

Written Answers — State Agencies: State Agencies (16 Oct 2007)

Richard Bruton: Question 606: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the remuneration package of each of the CEOs of State agencies reporting to his Department including pay, pension and ancillary benefits. [23723/07]

Financial Services Regulation. (16 Oct 2007)

Richard Bruton: Question 83: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance if he is satisfied Ireland has robust mechanisms in place to anticipate and deal with a crisis in an Irish financial institution; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23770/07]

Financial Services Regulation. (16 Oct 2007)

Richard Bruton: I think people will agree that in recent months we have seen the unthinkable happen — a run on a bank where many Irish people had deposits, a huge fall in the value of Irish financial institutions on the stock markets because of fears of excessive exposure to the property market and the collapse in value of the new securitised instruments. How would we deal with a crisis if it occurred? ...

Financial Services Regulation. (16 Oct 2007)

Richard Bruton: While I do not oppose working with EU colleagues, the greatest area of concern relates to the Irish property market. Financial institutions here have experienced the greatest fall in revenues. For this reason, rather than waiting for the slowest mover in the European Union, it behoves us to examine what action we can take to get our house in the best possible order. I ask the Minister...

Tax Yield. (16 Oct 2007)

Richard Bruton: Question 85: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance the extent of the deterioration in the public finances since budget 2007 was presented; and the implications for Government policy ambitions. [23771/07]

Tax Yield. (16 Oct 2007)

Richard Bruton: I wish to probe the issue in regard to housing as the cause of the fall in receipts. The Tánaiste predicted during the weekend that approximately 65,000 houses will be built, which represents a drop of almost 30,000 from the peak. Does his Department concur with the analysis that the impact on revenue of such a fall would be €1 billion for every 10,000 houses, or €3 billion? Are we...

Tax Yield. (16 Oct 2007)

Richard Bruton: I am sure the Minister is aware that while he says the shortfall in stamp duty is €400 million all of this occurred in the past four months. This is an indication of a rapid deterioration in stamp duty. The Minister has accepted the €1 billion per 10,000 new starts and this suggests there may be tax difficulties next year. Does he anticipate revising the manifesto commitments in some...

Decentralisation Programme. (16 Oct 2007)

Richard Bruton: Question 86: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance if the abandonment of a proposed decentralisation project by him represents a shift in Government policy on decentralisation; and the deadline he has set for implementation of the proposals on State agencies. [23772/07]

Decentralisation Programme. (16 Oct 2007)

Richard Bruton: It is an innovation to see a proposal on decentralisation being abandoned because the business case for the proposal did not stand up under examination. Does the Minister agree that one of the problems with the decentralisation proposals as published was that no business case was presented for any of the moves? Is that not, therefore, the reason we see zero progress with regard to the State...

Decentralisation Programme. (16 Oct 2007)

Richard Bruton: I wanted to ask a supplementary question.