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Written Answers — FÁS Training Programmes: FÁS Training Programmes (9 Feb 2010)

Leo Varadkar: Question 150: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the full-time staffing and full-time trainee numbers within the FÁS training centre at Athlone, County Westmeath on 31 January in 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2010; the breakdown of the figures by persons engaged in centre management, manager, assistant managers and so on, administration, training instructors,...

Written Answers — FÁS Training Programmes: FÁS Training Programmes (9 Feb 2010)

Leo Varadkar: Question 151: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the full-time staffing and full-time trainee numbers within the FÁS training centre at Sligo, on 31 January in 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2010; the breakdown of the figures by persons engaged in centre management, manager, assistant managers and so on, administration, training instructors, general operatives,...

Written Answers — Departmental Agencies: Departmental Agencies (9 Feb 2010)

Leo Varadkar: Question 152: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of persons who applied for positions on the board of FÁS; the number short-listed; the number interviewed; the dates on which interviews took place; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6230/10]

Written Answers — Small Claims Court: Small Claims Court (9 Feb 2010)

Leo Varadkar: Question 164: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment, further to Parliamentary Question No. 213 of 26 January 2010, her views on creating an exemption to such a requirement in relation to usage of the Small Claims Court procedure by limited companies; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6782/10]

Written Answers — Community Employment Schemes: Community Employment Schemes (9 Feb 2010)

Leo Varadkar: Question 165: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if FÁS records the educational attainment of those individuals entering community employment schemes; if so, if she will detail the educational attainment of individuals entering community employment schemes in 2007, 2008 and 2009; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6792/10]

Written Answers — Public Sector Pay: Public Sector Pay (9 Feb 2010)

Leo Varadkar: Question 178: To ask the Minister for Finance his views on section 6 of the Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (No. 2) Act 2009 regarding the position of contract researchers in the higher education sector; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6225/10]

Written Answers — Ethics in Public Office: Ethics in Public Office (9 Feb 2010)

Leo Varadkar: Question 179: To ask the Minister for Finance the designated positions of employment added to the schedule since the Ethics in Public Office (Designated Position in Public Bodies) Regulations 2004; the designated positions of employment deleted by virtue of the Ethics in Public Office (Designated Position in Public Bodies) (Amendment) Regulations 2010; and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Civil Service Staff: Civil Service Staff (9 Feb 2010)

Leo Varadkar: Question 180: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will reintroduce the three year career break for civil servants; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6241/10]

Written Answers — Departmental Agencies: Departmental Agencies (9 Feb 2010)

Leo Varadkar: Question 181: To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to means, such as internal audit reports or risk registers, of an agency under his Department's remit that paid for travel for at least 52 non-staff members on a single trip that was referenced in a recent Comptroller and Auditor General report; the monitoring arrangements that are in place by his Department to...

Written Answers — Departmental Expenditure: Departmental Expenditure (9 Feb 2010)

Leo Varadkar: Question 204: To ask the Minister for Finance, further to Parliamentary Question No. 235 of 26 January 2010, regarding the payment to interview board members, the persons who were board members, the amount they were paid in each instance; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6795/10]

Written Answers — National Treasury Management Agency: National Treasury Management Agency (9 Feb 2010)

Leo Varadkar: Question 208: To ask the Minister for Finance further to his press release of 2 February 2010 regarding the delegation of banking functions to the National Treasury Management Agency, the legislative basis on which this order is or will be based; if this order has been signed; the date on which this occurred; if not, when he will sign such an order; the date when he expects to lay this...

Written Answers — Work Permits: Work Permits (9 Feb 2010)

Leo Varadkar: Question 337: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will assist a person (details supplied) in Dublin 15 to regain their Garda national immigration bureau stamp four; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6327/10]

Written Answers — Departmental Bodies: Departmental Bodies (9 Feb 2010)

Leo Varadkar: Question 671: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if he will extend the contract of the chief executive officer of the National Education Welfare Board; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6245/10]

Written Answers — Departmental Bodies: Departmental Bodies (9 Feb 2010)

Leo Varadkar: Question 672: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the steps he will take regarding the findings of the Comptroller and Auditor General in respect of the National Education Welfare Board. [6246/10]

Order of Business (4 Feb 2010)

Leo Varadkar: I thank the Ceann Comhairle's office for confirming that a question about a statutory instrument, which I asked in this House last week or the week before, was in order. It has since been answered. I would like to ask the Tánaiste about a Fingal County Council regulation, limiting the rate on valuation, which has been passed by means of statutory instrument. Under the relevant Act, which...

Order of Business (4 Feb 2010)

Leo Varadkar: No, we are talking about a statutory instrument that is before the House and which we have 21 days to challenge. It is absurd that at the current rate, it will take the Valuation Office at least 37 years to complete the revaluation of rates in Ireland.

Order of Business (4 Feb 2010)

Leo Varadkar: I would like to hear Tánaiste's response on what the Government intends to do about the statutory instrument.

Order of Business (4 Feb 2010)

Leo Varadkar: That is because it was based on 2005. The valuations in 2038 will also be based on 2005.

Order of Business (4 Feb 2010)

Leo Varadkar: Thirty years.

Employment Agency Regulation Bill 2009: Second Stage (4 Feb 2010)

Leo Varadkar: I welcome the Bill and I offer my broad support for it on behalf of the Fine Gael Party. This legislation updates the 1971 Act. I have been in contact with most of the stakeholders, including unions, employer bodies and employment agencies and there is broad support for the Bill, although a number of provisions may need to be refined or amended on Committee Stage. The purpose of the Bill is...