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Innovation Task Force. (19 Jan 2010)

Leo Varadkar: Question 1: To ask the Taoiseach the number of times the task force on innovation has met; the Ministers who attended in each case; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44505/09]

Innovation Task Force. (19 Jan 2010)

Leo Varadkar: Question 161: To ask the Taoiseach the date, time and location of meetings of the innovation task force in 2009 and to date in 2010; the Ministers who attended in each case; when the task force will report; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1476/10]

Written Answers — Departmental Agencies: Departmental Agencies (17 Dec 2009)

Leo Varadkar: Question 40: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if she will provide a breakdown of the budget allocated to FÁS in 2010; the way in which this compares to 2009; the way in which additional short-term training places announced in budget 2010 are being funded; her views on whether no efficiencies could be found in the FÁS administration and expenses budget...

Written Answers — Fraud Investigations: Fraud Investigations (17 Dec 2009)

Leo Varadkar: Question 41: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment when she expects the Office of the Director of Corporate Enforcement to conclude its investigation into a matter (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [48141/09]

Written Answers — Departmental Agencies: Departmental Agencies (17 Dec 2009)

Leo Varadkar: Question 42: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the budget and staff allocation of the Office of the Director of Corporate Enforcement every year since 2007; the number of investigations ongoing being conducted by the ODCE; her views on whether the office is adequately resourced to investigate alleged breaches of company law in the banking sector in a...

Written Answers — Pension Provisions: Pension Provisions (17 Dec 2009)

Leo Varadkar: Question 89: To ask the Minister for Finance, further to Parliamentary Question No. 111 of 9 December 2009, if he will provide the details of the 25 pensions with additional awards approved by him in tabular form including details such as job title, grade, value of additional notional payment in each case and date of award; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48132/09]

Written Answers — Social Welfare Appeals: Social Welfare Appeals (17 Dec 2009)

Leo Varadkar: Question 265: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if she will provide in respect of 2007, 2008 and to date in 2009 the number of appeals made under each scheme for all social welfare schemes under the remit of her Department; if she will further provide a breakdown of such appeals by those individuals who were already receiving benefits in which entitlement had been ended or...

Companies (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2009 [Seanad]: Report and Final Stages (17 Dec 2009)

Leo Varadkar: It is appropriate to comment on the Bill, as amended, at this point. Fine Gael will not be opposing the Bill but it is important to place a few reservations on record.

Companies (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2009 [Seanad]: Report and Final Stages (17 Dec 2009)

Leo Varadkar: I will be brief.

Companies (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2009 [Seanad]: Report and Final Stages (17 Dec 2009)

Leo Varadkar: The intention behind the Bill, namely, to facilitate companies which may wish to establish headquarters here, attract funds and other matters. Everyone in the House must support that intention. However, I wish to record my party's concerns in respect of the legislation. The first of these relates to the powers of the Minister. I have been a Member of the House for almost three years and I...

Written Answers — Rural Transport: Rural Transport (16 Dec 2009)

Leo Varadkar: Question 32: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the future of the rural transport night time scheme in 2010; the funding available to support this scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47109/09]

Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (16 Dec 2009)

Leo Varadkar: Question 262: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the number of persons in Dublin 15 in receipt of jobseeker's benefit, jobseeker's allowance, one parent family payment, transition pension, non-contributory State pension, contributory State pension, carer's allowance and disability benefit; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [47461/09]

Leaders' Questions (16 Dec 2009)

Leo Varadkar: On a point of order, the Minister for Transport, Deputy Noel Dempsey, used a term that is not permitted in the House under the salient rulings of this House.

Leaders' Questions (16 Dec 2009)

Leo Varadkar: The Ceann Comhairle should check the record. It might be a relatively mild term by modern standards but I do believe the term "scurrilous" is not permitted in this House.

Written Answers — Pension Provisions: Pension Provisions (15 Dec 2009)

Leo Varadkar: Question 85: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the details of the statutory instrument entitled the National Authority for Occupational Safety and Health Spouses and Children's Contributory Pension Scheme, 2000; the number of persons to whom the measures within this instrument apply; the cost of same; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46722/09]

Written Answers — Ministerial Remuneration: Ministerial Remuneration (15 Dec 2009)

Leo Varadkar: Question 133: To ask the Minister for Finance the gross salaries of the Taoiseach, Tánaiste, Cabinet Ministers and Ministers of State; the reduction effects the 10% pay reduction announced in October 2008, new levies, and any further pay reductions agreed since in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46967/09]

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (15 Dec 2009)

Leo Varadkar: Question 181: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if the D-DOC service in an area (details supplied) in County Dublin will close at midnight on Wednesdays and her views on whether one mobile general practitioner on-call is adequate for all of north Dublin; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46877/09]

Written Answers — Statutory Instruments: Statutory Instruments (15 Dec 2009)

Leo Varadkar: Question 205: To ask the Minister for Transport, further to Parliamentary Question No. 198 of 18 November 2009, the occasions over the past decade on which he signed a statutory instrument but that statutory instrument was subsequently not numbered in accordance with section 4(1) of the Statutory Instruments Act 1947; if, in each case, this was the result of an exemption sought under the act...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (15 Dec 2009)

Leo Varadkar: Question 292: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs her views on paying rent supplement directly to the landlord rather than to the tenant to ensure that the money is spent on rent; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46689/09]

Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (15 Dec 2009)

Leo Varadkar: Question 293: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the action taken against persons who retain their rent supplement and do not pay their landlord the rent owed; the number of occasions reported in the past two years in which this has occurred; the number of persons who have had benefit or payments suspended as a result; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46690/09]