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Cancer Vaccine: Statements (6 Nov 2008)

Joan Burton: The €600 cost per child of the vaccination referred to by the Minister this morning on "Morning Ireland" is dishonest. That the Minister and the Health Service Executive are seriously considering a cost of €600 per girl for the three-stage vaccine is not only dishonest, it is incompetent. The Minister's figure is approximately €115 and 21% VAT per vaccine shot, with three shots of the...

Cancer Vaccine: Statements (6 Nov 2008)

Joan Burton: I want to Minister to explain the breakdown that results in the figure of 12,000 girls per year at a cost of €600 each. I understand from a radio broadcast this morning that this is where the figure of €15 million is derived. The figure simply does not stand up to analysis. Although we have the tables from the Health Information and Quality Authority, HIQA, I rang a family planning...

Cancer Vaccine: Statements (6 Nov 2008)

Joan Burton: Is the cost of each shot of vaccine not €115 plus VAT at a rate of 21%? The vaccines are provided by private companies.

Order of Business (6 Nov 2008)

Joan Burton: I ask the Minister for Finance — the previous Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform — what the timeframe is for legislation relating to property management companies. This issue is very difficult for tens of thousands of people who are in properties subject to property management companies. They cannot even address matters where there are serious defects in a property, as there...

Order of Business (6 Nov 2008)

Joan Burton: The Minister is concerned about the property market. Many people sitting in property managed by companies——

Order of Business (6 Nov 2008)

Joan Burton: ——cannot sell their properties because of defects in the structures.

Order of Business (6 Nov 2008)

Joan Burton: This is——

Order of Business (6 Nov 2008)

Joan Burton: He should do so because he was in the Department of Justice, Equality and Law Reform, so it would be appropriate to hear his reply. Can the Minister tell Members what he intends to do?

Order of Business (6 Nov 2008)

Joan Burton: I asked the Minister specifically for a timeline for the legislation.

Order of Business (6 Nov 2008)

Joan Burton: Members know what they want to see in the legislation. They know it is complicated. They know the Government finds it difficult to do two things at once. It now is being asked to bring forward either three items of legislation or a single item of legislation.

Order of Business (6 Nov 2008)

Joan Burton: Members were told, in respect of a recent election, that it should be possible for politicians to think about two things at once. The Minister should tell Members when the Government intends to address this issue.

Order of Business (6 Nov 2008)

Joan Burton: The Minister should go on a FÁS course to learn how to do a couple of things at once because he is not addressing them.

Order of Business (6 Nov 2008)

Joan Burton: If they would have him on a FÁS course. He probably would not pass.

Order of Business (6 Nov 2008)

Joan Burton: What is ten years?

Order of Business (6 Nov 2008)

Joan Burton: That is another year.

Order of Business (6 Nov 2008)

Joan Burton: He does not do a lot.

Order of Business (6 Nov 2008)

Joan Burton: The Minister did.

Written Answers — UN Reform: UN Reform (5 Nov 2008)

Joan Burton: Question 108: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs the progress that has been made on the agenda for reform of the United Nations, which was initiated by the previous Secretary General Mr. Kofi Anan. [38365/08]

Written Answers — UN Personnel: UN Personnel (5 Nov 2008)

Joan Burton: Question 139: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs the posts at senior level within the United Nations administration held by Irish citizens; and the procedure for nomination, secondment, and general filling of such vacancies as arise at the UN and its agencies. [38366/08]

Written Answers — Tax Code: Tax Code (5 Nov 2008)

Joan Burton: Question 188: To ask the Minister for Finance if, with respect to the proposed increase in capital gains tax from 20% to 22%, he envisaged an inverse relationship between the rate increase and declarations and receipts accruing from the tax as was purported when the rate was cut from 40% to 20%; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38850/08]