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Written Answers — Unemployment Levels: Unemployment Levels (9 Mar 2010)

Joan Burton: Question 74: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the steps she will take to address the continuing employment crisis in view of the continuing high level of unemployment indicated by the live register figures; her plans to provide new training opportunities for persons who have lost their jobs and to encourage the creation of new employment opportunities;...

Written Answers — Banking Sector Regulation: Banking Sector Regulation (9 Mar 2010)

Joan Burton: Question 154: To ask the Minister for Finance if he was contacted and informed by a bank (details supplied) prior to the payment of bonuses to staff as reported in December 2009; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11231/10]

Written Answers — Financial Institutions Support Scheme: Financial Institutions Support Scheme (9 Mar 2010)

Joan Burton: Question 155: To ask the Minister for Finance if the salary and remuneration ceilings recommended by the report of the Covered Institution Remuneration Oversight Committee only apply to the most senior staff in the institutions covered by the bank guarantee scheme; if there is a prohibition on these institutions paying total remuneration packages well above the limits recommended to other...

Written Answers — Financial Institutions Support Scheme: Financial Institutions Support Scheme (9 Mar 2010)

Joan Burton: Question 156: To ask the Minister for Finance if the salary and remuneration ceilings recommended by the report of the Covered Institution Remuneration Oversight Committee apply to all related entities of the institutions covered by the bank guarantee scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11233/10]

Written Answers — Financial Institutions Support Scheme: Financial Institutions Support Scheme (9 Mar 2010)

Joan Burton: Question 157: To ask the Minister for Finance the number of senior staff in each of the institutions covered by the bank guarantee scheme who are subject to the salary and remuneration ceilings recommended by the report of the Covered Institution Remuneration Oversight Committee; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11234/10]

Written Answers — Banking Sector Regulation: Banking Sector Regulation (9 Mar 2010)

Joan Burton: Question 158: To ask the Minister for Finance if he has received a response from the industry and consumer panels of the Financial Regulator following the proposal by his Department to establish a joint panel group to examine the issue of corporate governance in the financial institutions; the progress made to date as a result of his request; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Tax Yield: Tax Yield (9 Mar 2010)

Joan Burton: Question 159: To ask the Minister for Finance the tax take on alcohol in respect of excise duty on beer, spirits, wine and cider in each month of 2009; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11236/10]

Written Answers — Liquor Licences: Liquor Licences (9 Mar 2010)

Joan Burton: Question 160: To ask the Minister for Finance the number of beer, spirit and wine off-licences issued in 2007, 2008 and 2009; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11237/10]

Written Answers — Tax Code: Tax Code (9 Mar 2010)

Joan Burton: Question 161: To ask the Minister for Finance the basis on which the projected loss of €90 million to the Exchequer in 2010 and in subsequent years arising from the reduction in excise duty on alcohol in budget 2010, as outlined in the summary of budget measures published on 9 December 2009, was calculated; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11238/10]

Written Answers — Tax Code: Tax Code (9 Mar 2010)

Joan Burton: Question 162: To ask the Minister for Finance the progress made to date on the implementation of the commitment in the 2007 programme for Government to use the taxation system to promote non-alcoholic and low alcoholic products; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11239/10]

Written Answers — Tax Code: Tax Code (9 Mar 2010)

Joan Burton: Question 167: To ask the Minister for Finance the legal position of the estate of an annuity holder upon that annuity holder's death; if the full outstanding value of the annuity accrues to the estate; if not, the reason for same; the way the framework for annuity holders here differs in this respect from those pertaining in other countries; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Leaders' Questions (9 Mar 2010)

Joan Burton: Not where it is a national emergency.

Leaders' Questions (9 Mar 2010)

Joan Burton: Another one - 900 and counting.

Death of Former Member: Expressions of Sympathy (9 Mar 2010)

Joan Burton: I would like to be associated with all the tributes that have been paid to Tomás. While knowing of Tomás MacGiolla over a long period of time, I really got to meet him when we went on a joint visit arranged by Senator Eoghan Harris during Mary Robinson's presidential election campaign in 1990. The visit was to the foundry in Inchicore where my father and grandfather had worked as iron...

Finance Bill 2010: Report Stage (9 Mar 2010)

Joan Burton: I move amendment No. 1: In page 13, line 5, after "ACT" to insert the following: "TO MAKE PROVISION IN RELATION TO A TAXPAYERS ADVOCATE OFFICE,". The purpose of this amendment, which I have proposed on previous occasions, is to have the remit of the Office of the Ombudsman extended to provide for a report in regard to taxpayers' rights and to have what exists in many countries, namely, a...

Finance Bill 2010: Report Stage (9 Mar 2010)

Joan Burton: I advise the Minister to read his legislation. In the case of a restriction on losses, they can be carried forward indefinitely but there is a cap on the amount which can be utilised in any one year. That is the form of restriction which the Minister has introduced. It is not the loss, ultimately, of any losses for tax purposes which will arise. It is a restriction on the amount of the...

Finance Bill 2010: Report Stage (9 Mar 2010)

Joan Burton: I am reading the legislation.

Finance Bill 2010: Report Stage (9 Mar 2010)

Joan Burton: That would be helpful.

Finance Bill 2010: Report Stage (9 Mar 2010)

Joan Burton: One offsets the other.

Finance Bill 2010: Report Stage (9 Mar 2010)

Joan Burton: Does the Minister agree that if the rate of corporation tax is 12.5%, means that the highest rate of corporation tax that they will suffer is 6.25%?