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Written Answers — Garda Operations: Garda Operations (13 May 2010)

Leo Varadkar: Question 179: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if consideration has been given to requiring the Garda to give a reference number or complaint number to members of the public who call the gardaí to report a possible crime or disturbance; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19886/10]

Written Answers — Departmental Staff: Departmental Staff (12 May 2010)

Leo Varadkar: Question 121: To ask the Minister for Finance the number of new posts established in his Department or agencies under the aegis of his Department; the number of staff in his Department that have been promoted or awarded allowances of any description since the introduction by him of the moratorium on public service numbers; the objective justification for each of these new posts; the...

Written Answers — Financial Institutions Support Scheme: Financial Institutions Support Scheme (12 May 2010)

Leo Varadkar: Question 125: To ask the Minister for Finance if he received any representations from a Commissioner (details supplied) in August 2008, 1 to 19 September 2008 or October 2008 regarding the bank guarantee of Anglo Irish Bank and Irish Nationwide; the details of those representations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19634/10]

Departmental Properties (12 May 2010)

Leo Varadkar: I wish to ask three supplementary questions but on a point of clarification, if I understand his reply correctly, the Minister of State states the Government is spending €860,000 a year to maintain a disused site and building in Glasnevin.

Departmental Properties (12 May 2010)

Leo Varadkar: They are only using-----

Departmental Properties (12 May 2010)

Leo Varadkar: I have done some research and I have listened to the Minister of State's answer very carefully. He is saying that the national metrology laboratory is using a small part of the site at a cost of €140,000 a year. I have no problem with this. However, the remaining €1million - €860,000 in the difference - is being used to maintain a site that is not in use and has not been in use for...

Departmental Payments (12 May 2010)

Leo Varadkar: The majority of businesses would be happy enough when bills are paid within a month, the standard terms of credit. The key issue is extending the 30-day average to other public service bodies, a development I advocate. Will the Minister consider requiring public service bodies to pay interest, say 1% a week, on late payments?

Departmental Payments (12 May 2010)

Leo Varadkar: I do not believe it is law but just a draft directive.

Proposed Legislation (12 May 2010)

Leo Varadkar: I apologise for neglecting to congratulate the Minister, Deputy Batt O'Keeffe, on the occasion of his first Question Time, on his appointment to the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Innovation. I wish him the very best in his new role. However, there is one aspect of his appointment that has not been clarified for reasons unknown. The Minister did a reasonably good job as Minister for...

Proposed Legislation (12 May 2010)

Leo Varadkar: Vacancies occurred in other Departments due to illness and resignation, but we have no idea why the Minister, Deputy Batt O'Keeffe, and the Tánaiste switched Departments. It would be interesting to know the reason. I thank the Minister for his reply to these questions. Can he offer an assurance that the new legislation will not be used to weaken the Competition Authority in any way? One...

Enterprise Stabilisation Fund (12 May 2010)

Leo Varadkar: Question 40: To ask the Minister for Enterprise; Trade and Innovation the reason funding for the Enterprise Stabilisation Fund was cut without an announcement; the amount by which it was cut; the number of companies that were eligible for funding who will not receive support as a result of this decision; the amount paid in total in 2009 and the amount budgeted for in 2010; and if he will...

Enterprise Stabilisation Fund (12 May 2010)

Leo Varadkar: I was very concerned when I read the story in the newspaper about the reduction in the budget for the enterprise stabilisation fund, because the fund is one of the more effective measures introduced by the Government to stabilise viable companies during the recessionary period. Does the Minister agree that the Government has a budget strategy - with which I largely agree - and a banking...

Enterprise Stabilisation Fund (12 May 2010)

Leo Varadkar: With respect, I asked the Minister a specific question about the Government promise to introduce a PRSI holiday -----

Enterprise Stabilisation Fund (12 May 2010)

Leo Varadkar: My supplementary question is the same as the question I asked. The Government announced in the budget more than five months ago that it would introduce a PRSI holiday for employers who took on new employees, so that taking on a new employee would cost 10% less than previously, which would tip the balance in favour of job creation. This was my idea and was supported by the Labour Party.

Enterprise Stabilisation Fund (12 May 2010)

Leo Varadkar: The Government subsequently adopted the idea. Why, five months later, has it not been introduced?

Enterprise Stabilisation Fund (12 May 2010)

Leo Varadkar: I have asked the Minister to answer it.

Order of Business. (12 May 2010)

Leo Varadkar: I wonder whether the Ceann Comhairle or the Taoiseach can help me with a matter. I tabled a number of priority and oral questions today to the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Innovation. They were disallowed on the basis that, following a number of announcements, FÁS has now been transferred wholly to the purvey of the Minister for Education and Skills by ministerial order. I...

Order of Business. (12 May 2010)

Leo Varadkar: This is no way to treat Parliament.

Order of Business. (12 May 2010)

Leo Varadkar: To sign an order and bring it into effect two weeks before it is put it in the Oireachtas Library, before it appears in the Iris Oifigiúil and before we can even challenge it is no way to treat Parliament. Why have a Parliament at all if the Taoiseach is going to govern by decree as if he is the President of Russia? This is a Parliament and we are elected. The Taoiseach should not do this...

Order of Business. (12 May 2010)

Leo Varadkar: It is Government by decree.