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Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (15 Dec 2011)

Paudie Coffey: Question 268: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a single farm payment will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Waterford; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40412/11]

Order of Business (14 Dec 2011)

Paudie Coffey: Another protest. That would suit the Deputy, all right.

Written Answers — Social Welfare Code: Social Welfare Code (13 Dec 2011)

Paudie Coffey: Question 254: To ask the Minister for Social Protection her plans to extend the limit of those in receipt of invalidity pensions and who are on community employment schemes beyond the current seven year limit; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39894/11]

Written Answers — Medical Cards: Medical Cards (6 Dec 2011)

Paudie Coffey: Question 362: To ask the Minister for Health when a medical card application will be issued in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Waterford; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38279/11]

Statements on Expenditure (5 Dec 2011)

Paudie Coffey: Fianna Fáil spent a long time in government without doing that.

Statements on Expenditure (5 Dec 2011)

Paudie Coffey: Because Fianna Fáil was the cause of it.

Statements on Expenditure (5 Dec 2011)

Paudie Coffey: You are good at that yourselves.

Statements on Expenditure (5 Dec 2011)

Paudie Coffey: Where?

Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (30 Nov 2011)

Paudie Coffey: The Government has inherited many legacies from the previous Government and we have seen the damage that has been done to our economy as a result of the economic and employment crises in which we find ourselves. This is an environmental legacy the previous Government knew about since 2009. The European Court of Justice made a ruling which found Ireland to be negligent. Despite the fact...

Written Answers — Medical Cards: Medical Cards (29 Nov 2011)

Paudie Coffey: Question 530: To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will have their medical card application processed; the position regarding this application; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37271/11]

Written Answers — Parking Regulations: Parking Regulations (29 Nov 2011)

Paudie Coffey: Question 578: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason a disabled parking permit was refused in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Waterford; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37356/11]

Order of Business (24 Nov 2011)

Paudie Coffey: I refer to the betting Bill and note that huge amounts of revenue are leaving Ireland by way of online betting and gambling. When will the Bill be introduced and will it capture that revenue to redress the imbalance, particularly given the current economic crisis?

Leaders' Questions (24 Nov 2011)

Paudie Coffey: They would not be in a mess only for Fianna Fáil in the first place.

Leaders' Questions (24 Nov 2011)

Paudie Coffey: That is what Fianna Fáil did.

Commercial Rates: Motion (22 Nov 2011)

Paudie Coffey: The Deputy is only realising this now.

Commercial Rates: Motion (22 Nov 2011)

Paudie Coffey: Time ran out for the Deputy.

Commercial Rates: Motion (22 Nov 2011)

Paudie Coffey: It is an opportune time to have this debate about businesses and the ways we can explore to assist them. There is no doubt that businesses have been put to the pin of their collar in the current economic climate. Businesses alone have carried the entire rates bill to run local services over the past number of years and there is no doubt that a fairer and more sustainable system of...

Commercial Rates: Motion (22 Nov 2011)

Paudie Coffey: It introduced an Act in 2001 but has not implemented a fraction of what was proposed.

Commercial Rates: Motion (22 Nov 2011)

Paudie Coffey: I listened to Deputy Seán Fleming earlier but when he contributed to the 2001 Bill he indicated that it was a new concept, and when it would become fully operational within one, two or three years of the enactment of the legislation, the country would see the full benefit. The benefit was a 50% increase in commercial rates since 2001. That is the legacy of Fianna Fáil and why businesses...

Commercial Rates: Motion (22 Nov 2011)

Paudie Coffey: We will take no lectures from a party which failed this country, its people and businesses while in government.