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Written Answers — Farm Waste Management: Farm Waste Management (14 May 2009)

Seán Fleming: Question 138: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food when an inspection under the farm waste management scheme will be carried out for a person (details suppled) in County Carlow. [19429/09]

Finance Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (13 May 2009)

Seán Fleming: I welcome the opportunity of speaking on the Finance Bill 2009. It is significant enough to be dealing with a supplementary budget which was introduced on 1 April 2009. I congratulate my colleague, Deputy Áine Brady, on her recent promotion as Minister of State at the Department of Health and Children and wish her every success in that post. In my 12 years in the Dáil, I have never seen...

Finance Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (13 May 2009)

Seán Fleming: We agree. This is the second time I have referred to Sky Television. On Sky Television and a good many American television programmes it seems every night that people are being led away in handcuffs, even for a parking offence. As a result, most people in Ireland work on the basis that if one does anything wrong but is not led away in handcuffs, it is no good. There is a different way of...

Finance Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (13 May 2009)

Seán Fleming: Perhaps it is better or worse, but we have a different way, which may require a cultural change over the course of some decades. However, we have not yet reached that point. Most believe every time there is wrongdoing a person should be paraded along what is termed "the perpetrators walk" in handcuffs in front of television crews even before a case is put before them.

Finance Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (13 May 2009)

Seán Fleming: I accept that is an issue and recognise it would be a populist move. Although it might make us feel happy for an hour or two, it would not put bread on anyone's table at the end of an evening.

Finance Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (13 May 2009)

Seán Fleming: Most would take a certain amount of glee from it and I understand the Deputy's point.

Finance Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (13 May 2009)

Seán Fleming: I understand; it is a human reaction. However, I am serious about this issue. Let us consider a calculation. If the banks have a write-down of €8 billion in their property portfolio and the corporation tax rate is 12%, that is the equivalent of €1 billion in tax which need not be paid if the write-downs can be carried forward. That would make it very attractive to a potential...

Finance Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (13 May 2009)

Seán Fleming: Some 100% of the local businesses represented in my office last Monday evening had been refused credit or loan facilitates which they might otherwise have been granted. We can use all the fancy words we wish, but the simple, basic stimulus needed in the economy is cash flow from the banks to businesses. Businesses seek additional finance by way of loans and overdrafts because they are owed...

Finance Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (13 May 2009)

Seán Fleming: There is a vicious circle and the banks are starving companies of funding. I understand they are nervous and that they do not know where they are going. However, there are good and viable businesses which are vulnerable. They should not be but they are because the banks will not provide the normal source of credit to companies. Any business producing a product has the intellectual ability...

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (12 May 2009)

Seán Fleming: Question 231: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when a person (details supplied) in County Laois will receive orthodontic treatment. [18835/09]

Written Answers — Schools Refurbishment: Schools Refurbishment (12 May 2009)

Seán Fleming: Question 442: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the position regarding the plans for school improvement works to be carried out at a school (details supplied) in County Laois. [18834/09]

Written Answers — Residency Permits: Residency Permits (7 May 2009)

Seán Fleming: Question 99: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform when the long-term residency in respect of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 8 will be dealt with; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18395/09]

Written Answers — Tax Code: Tax Code (7 May 2009)

Seán Fleming: Question 152: To ask the Minister for Education and Science, further to a previous parliamentary question, if the college in question meets the definition of an approved college for the purposes of section 473A of the Tax Consolidation Act 1997; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18394/09]

Written Answers — Health Service Staff: Health Service Staff (6 May 2009)

Seán Fleming: Question 278: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the level of nursing support provided by the Health Service Executive to a centre (details supplied) in County Laois for 2009; if this is agreed with the board of the centre as being adequate for its purposes; the cost to the HSE; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18077/09]

Written Answers — School Discipline: School Discipline (6 May 2009)

Seán Fleming: Question 635: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the reporting arrangements that apply in second level schools to the National Education Welfare Board or otherwise in respect of the number of students suspended and the number of days to which the suspensions relate in the most recent year for which information is available; if the information is available on a school by school...

Written Answers — Social and Affordable Housing: Social and Affordable Housing (22 Apr 2009)

Seán Fleming: Question 586: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the number of voluntary housing organisations here that have purchased sites for housing and other related matters in each of the past six years where these sites were not developed and where these sites were subsequently sold on by the organisation concerned; the level of profit generated in each of these...

Cystic Fibrosis: Motion (9 Apr 2009)

Seán Fleming: I am grateful for the opportunity to contribute, albeit briefly, to this important debate on the provision of services for people with cystic fibrosis in Ireland. While I strongly support the Government motion, I thank Fine Gael for providing us with an opportunity to discuss what is for many young Irish citizens - just over 1,000 of them - an issue of life and death. Given the prevalence...

Written Answers — Local Authority Funding: Local Authority Funding (8 Apr 2009)

Seán Fleming: Question 51: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the allocation on a local authority basis from his Department for 2008 and the recoupment by each local authority in 2008 in respect of the disabled persons grant scheme, essential repairs grant scheme, disability housing grant, mobility aid grant and housing aid for older people; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — School Enrolments: School Enrolments (8 Apr 2009)

Seán Fleming: Question 65: To ask the Minister for Education and Science his position in relation to a child (details supplied) born in a marriage in which one of the parents has joint and equal guardianship and custody and this parent has not given consent for their child to be enrolled in a particular school and the child has been enrolled without the signature of the said parent; his views and...

Written Answers — Schools Building Projects: Schools Building Projects (7 Apr 2009)

Seán Fleming: Question 394: To ask the Minister for Education and Science when invitations for tender are expected to be issued in respect of a school (details supplied) in County Laois; if it is his Department or the board of management which will be inviting the tenders; and the way a suitable qualified contractor can apply to be considered to build this school. [14605/09]