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Order of Business (4 Feb 2009)

Joan Burton: It was €50,000.

Order of Business (4 Feb 2009)

Joan Burton: An extra €50,000.

Order of Business (4 Feb 2009)

Joan Burton: Each of whom will obtain an extra €50,000.

Leaders' Questions (4 Feb 2009)

Joan Burton: That will not help our——

Written Answers — Pension Provisions: Pension Provisions (3 Feb 2009)

Joan Burton: Question 158: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if she will review funding and employer contribution or top-up requirements in respect of private sector defined benefit employee pension funds; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45345/08]

Written Answers — Pension Provisions: Pension Provisions (3 Feb 2009)

Joan Burton: Question 161: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the correspondence she has received with respect to the possible insolvency or collapse of private sector defined benefit pension funds; her views on whether the failure of such funds would be unacceptable; if she has prepared a contingency plan in the event that such funds were to collapse; and if she will make a statement on...

Written Answers — Financial Services Regulation: Financial Services Regulation (3 Feb 2009)

Joan Burton: Question 195: To ask the Minister for Finance the status of the Financial Legislation Advisory Forum. [3366/09]

Written Answers — Financial Services Regulation: Financial Services Regulation (3 Feb 2009)

Joan Burton: Question 198: To ask the Minister for Finance the status of the Financial Legislation Advisory Forum in view of recent developments in the financial services sector; if he plans to amend the terms of reference, focus and work of the form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3369/09]

Written Answers — Deposit Guarantee Scheme: Deposit Guarantee Scheme (3 Feb 2009)

Joan Burton: Question 196: To ask the Minister for Finance the period for which bank depositors would have to wait for payment in the event that the deposit guarantee scheme was invoked arising out of the dissolution of a financial institution; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3367/09]

Written Answers — Deposit Guarantee Scheme: Deposit Guarantee Scheme (3 Feb 2009)

Joan Burton: Question 197: To ask the Minister for Finance if the payout delay period for depositors in the deposit guarantee scheme for banks and building societies has been reduced from three months to three days in line with the proposals of the EU Commission on 15 October, 2008; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3368/09]

Written Answers — Financial Services Regulation: Financial Services Regulation (3 Feb 2009)

Joan Burton: Question 199: To ask the Minister for Finance the measures and actions he will take to examine the reasons behind the regulatory failure in the financial services sector here to determine the changes that are required; if he will give a commitment to engage a broad range of stakeholders, such as academics, consumer representatives and social partners; and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Tax Yield: Tax Yield (3 Feb 2009)

Joan Burton: Question 200: To ask the Minister for Finance when he expects the report which he has requested the Revenue Commissioners to undertake into the cost of cross-Border shopping to the Exchequer to be completed and published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3371/09]

Written Answers — Departmental Staff: Departmental Staff (3 Feb 2009)

Joan Burton: Question 277: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of staff in his Department, including whole-time equivalent numbers from clerical officer grade to assistant secretary at October 2008. [3346/09]

Written Answers — Departmental Staff: Departmental Staff (3 Feb 2009)

Joan Burton: Question 278: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of staff the Courts Service employ including whole-time equivalent numbers from clerical officer grade to assistant secretary at October 2008. [3347/09]

Written Answers — Early Childhood Education: Early Childhood Education (3 Feb 2009)

Joan Burton: Question 434: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the nature of both the recruitment process, and contracts offered, within his Department to the former director and assistant director of the Centre of Early Childhood Development and Education; if the posts were advertised through a public recruitment process; if the new posts were created on a permanent basis; and if he will make...

Order of Business (3 Feb 2009)

Joan Burton: I wish to ask the Tánaiste about a couple of issues. The Taoiseach in his statement describes the legislation on the pensions levy as being urgent. He suggested that one part of it will be for the general Civil Service and the other part for the local authorities. Does this mean that the Minister for Finance, Deputy Brian Lenihan, will be bringing in one piece of legislation and the...

Order of Business (3 Feb 2009)

Joan Burton: Will the levy be introduced by the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government, Deputy Gormley? We have just received the Exchequer figures, as of 31 January, but no profiles of tax receipts and expenditure have been produced. Every other year the profiles have been given——

Order of Business (3 Feb 2009)

Joan Burton: ——on 26 or 27 January in order that we can understand the figures. Today the Taoiseach said the drop of €900 million in tax revenue and an increase in expenditure of €600 million were in line with the profiles but we did not receive them.

Order of Business (3 Feb 2009)

Joan Burton: That is a breach of precedent.

Order of Business (3 Feb 2009)

Joan Burton: I have the dates for several years on which we received the profiles.