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Budget Statement 2010 (9 Dec 2009)

Joan Burton: I hear sports shops are doing a roaring trade in single golf clubs this Christmas. With a possible election next year, one never knows when a club might come in handy to deal with men who break their promises. The Minister should ask Tiger Woods about it.

Budget Statement 2010 (9 Dec 2009)

Joan Burton: I have read scores of articles by people who argue that child benefit payments are of little importance, including journalists and academics who argue it would make no difference if the payment were restricted. Most of these articles were written by men, none of whom could state absolutely that he spoke for his wife or partner. I have yet to meet a mother of young or teenage children who...

Budget Statement 2010 (9 Dec 2009)

Joan Burton: This gang has to be rescued and bailed out at any price. The Minister uses every device under the sun to hide the cost from angry citizens of the bailout of his gang. We have NAMA, special purpose vehicles, off-balance sheet borrowings and direct injections of scarce capital with no prospect of return. The National Pensions Reserve Fund has been raided to support the rescue and annual...

Budget Statement 2010 (9 Dec 2009)

Joan Burton: It is stunning. All told, the taxpayer could be on the hook for a cool €15 billion over the next two years to fulfil Fianna Fáil's strategy for the banks. This assumes NAMA breaks even and does not become a multi-billion euro drain on the taxpayer each year. The what may be termed the "washing one's face exercise" about NAMA is only for the first few months to the first year of its...

Written Answers — Health Service Regulation: Health Service Regulation (8 Dec 2009)

Joan Burton: Question 63: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when private medical facilities will be subject to regulation and inspection by the Health Information and Quality Authority; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45536/09]

Written Answers — Hospitals Building Programme: Hospitals Building Programme (8 Dec 2009)

Joan Burton: Question 74: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the proposed collocated hospitals that will go ahead with associated tax breaks; the tax implications for 2010; when construction will commence on each of the projects; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45535/09]

Written Answers — Tax Collection: Tax Collection (8 Dec 2009)

Joan Burton: Question 175: To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 127 of 1 December 2009, the total tax paid; the median tax paid; the mean tax paid and the standard deviation of tax paid for each quartile in the bracket over €100,000 for each of the sector categories. [45857/09]

Written Answers — Social Insurance: Social Insurance (8 Dec 2009)

Joan Burton: Question 319: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the annual cost of the PRSI allowance for each of the past five years; and the amount of revenue that would be raised in 2010 if the PRSI allowance was abolished. [45421/09]

Vote 41 - Office of the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs (Supplementary) (8 Dec 2009)

Joan Burton: People will not pay much attention to these Estimates in the context of what they fear will happen to them tomorrow. It is interesting to consider the content of some of the Estimates, particularly for health which is one of the bigger ones, a large part of which covers changes because people are retiring early. Is it true that most of those retiring are in the nursing grades and that only...

Vote 41 - Office of the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs (Supplementary) (8 Dec 2009)

Joan Burton: This is a great example of mental reservation.

Vote 41 - Office of the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs (Supplementary) (8 Dec 2009)

Joan Burton: That is a mentally reserved answer.

Vote 41 - Office of the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs (Supplementary) (8 Dec 2009)

Joan Burton: We already know the answer.

Vote 41 - Office of the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs (Supplementary) (8 Dec 2009)

Joan Burton: The Minister should move from denial to reality.

Vote 41 - Office of the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs (Supplementary) (8 Dec 2009)

Joan Burton: Could the Minister stop muttering through his moustache?

Order of Business (8 Dec 2009)

Joan Burton: Is it already written?

Leaders' Questions (8 Dec 2009)

Joan Burton: The Lenihans were out.

Leaders' Questions (8 Dec 2009)

Joan Burton: He was not so tough on the bankers.

Fiscal Policy. (3 Dec 2009)

Joan Burton: The Pre-Budget Outlook the Minister mentioned forecast that a further 75,000 jobs will be lost in 2010. In the context of the figures, has the Minister any plans to address the personal tragedies for many of those 75,000 persons? In particular, the Minister noted that income taxes are down significantly. Does he have any plans to get people back to work and thereby increase the income tax...

Fiscal Policy. (3 Dec 2009)

Joan Burton: Will the Minister set out the facts again? The deficit is €22 billion. There was almost €4 billion for Anglo Irish Bank and €1.5 billion concerning the National Pensions Reserve Fund. That would bring the total deficit for the year to €27.5 billion. Is the Minister not shocked at the sheer scale of the collapse that Fianna Fáil has reduced this country to? When Fianna Fáil came...

Fiscal Policy. (3 Dec 2009)

Joan Burton: He bequeathed a modest surplus to the incoming Fianna Fáil Minister for Finance, Mr. McCreevy. In 12 years, Fianna Fáil have managed to turn that modest surplus - when the country was doing well, employment was growing and manufacturing and competitiveness were never stronger - into a catastrophic deficit.