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Order of Business (28 Jun 2011)

Pearse Doherty: The other issue is one of promised legislation.

Order of Business (28 Jun 2011)

Pearse Doherty: On promised legislation, a Cheann Comhairle-----

Order of Business (28 Jun 2011)

Pearse Doherty: EUROSTAT figures released today show that Irish consumer prices are 18% above the European average, with food prices 20% above average-----

Order of Business (28 Jun 2011)

Pearse Doherty: -----and restaurant and accommodation prices 29% above average. This is all happening in the context of cuts. What legislation does the Government intend to introduce to help support small businesses so they can reduce their prices, particularly in the area of food?

Order of Business (28 Jun 2011)

Pearse Doherty: Legislation has been promised on upward-only rent reviews. When will that legislation come before the House?

Order of Business (28 Jun 2011)

Pearse Doherty: Will the Government give a commitment that its own Department will cease to operate upward-only rent reviews, which are already putting companies under severe pressure or out of business?

Order of Business (28 Jun 2011)

Pearse Doherty: This Government is operating upward-only rent reviews.

Order of Business (28 Jun 2011)

Pearse Doherty: Government Departments are operating upward-only rent reviews.

Order of Business (28 Jun 2011)

Pearse Doherty: Departments are doing this and the Government can stop them immediately.

Written Answers — Proposed Legislation: Proposed Legislation (23 Jun 2011)

Pearse Doherty: Question 45: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the steps he will take to reduce the costs of rents for struggling businesses in order to help restore economic competitiveness. [14238/11]

Written Answers — Children in Care: Children in Care (23 Jun 2011)

Pearse Doherty: Question 146: To ask the Minister for Health the reason 145 applications to place a young person in special care were refused by the Health Service Executive's national special care admissions and discharge committee between 2008 and 2010. [16951/11]

Order of Business (Resumed) (23 Jun 2011)

Pearse Doherty: There is; the programme for Government commits to this.

Order of Business (Resumed) (23 Jun 2011)

Pearse Doherty: The markets are going crazy. Irish bond yields are at 11.7%.

Order of Business (23 Jun 2011)

Pearse Doherty: We oppose the imposition of a guillotine on this Bill, just as we have done previously. Yesterday, we opposed in principle the proposal to impose a guillotine on the Finance (No. 3) Bill 2011. We saw what happened at the end of that debate.

Order of Business (23 Jun 2011)

Pearse Doherty: When legislation is supported by the House, there is no need for Deputies to continue to waffle about it. There was no need to provide for a guillotine on yesterday's Order of Business. Similarly, we oppose in principle the imposition of a guillotine on this significant Bill. The Department and the Minister do not know the full outworking of the separation of the various Departments. We...

Order of Business (Resumed) (23 Jun 2011)

Pearse Doherty: Yesterday, the Government announced that it would not impose cuts on existing public sector workers earning in excess of €250,000. The Government also announced that-----

Order of Business (Resumed) (23 Jun 2011)

Pearse Doherty: This relates to-----

Order of Business (Resumed) (23 Jun 2011)

Pearse Doherty: I am asking about promised legislation.

Order of Business (Resumed) (23 Jun 2011)

Pearse Doherty: The programme for Government has a commitment to reduce the public sector wages of high earners. Will legislation be brought forward for existing public sector workers earning in excess of €250,000?

Order of Business (Resumed) (23 Jun 2011)

Pearse Doherty: I put it to the Tánaiste that there is a mechanism, used in the Finance Bill-----