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Order of Business (29 Nov 2007)

Joan Burton: What is the position on carbon in next week's budget? Will the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance, Deputy Brian Cowen, make known his intentions regarding the format of the carbon budget and carbon report? Will the budget take account of the report of the Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, which shows we have dramatically exceeded our target on carbon emissions?

Order of Business (29 Nov 2007)

Joan Burton: This is part of the budget and no indication has been given of the Government's position. Will the Government be represented at the United Nations climate change conference in Bali?

Order of Business (29 Nov 2007)

Joan Burton: Can the Tánaiste give us the outline of the format carbon offsets will take in the budget as this is an important and expensive matter?

Order of Business (29 Nov 2007)

Joan Burton: Perhaps a search party is needed to find out who is going to Bali.

Confidence in Minister for Health and Children: Motion (Resumed) (28 Nov 2007)

Joan Burton: Yes, it is.

Confidence in Minister for Health and Children: Motion (Resumed) (28 Nov 2007)

Joan Burton: That sums it up.

Written Answers — Financial Services Regulation: Financial Services Regulation (28 Nov 2007)

Joan Burton: Question 96: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment his response to the recently submitted annual report from the stock exchange pursuant to Part V of the Companies Act 1990 in regard to insider trading; if he is satisfied that sufficient procedures are in place to deal with this practice; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31131/07]

Written Answers — Unemployment Levels: Unemployment Levels (28 Nov 2007)

Joan Burton: Question 110: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment his views on the slow but increasing levels of unemployment and the continuing closure of manufacturing and assembly enterprises here; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29595/07]

Written Answers — Departmental Offices: Departmental Offices (28 Nov 2007)

Joan Burton: Question 120: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance the purpose for which safes are installed in the offices of Ministers of the Government; the documents or things normally kept in those safes; if the safes are provided for the safe-keeping of ministerial or of purely private documents or things; if a written or unwritten protocol applies to the use of those safes, including their...

Written Answers — Services for People with Disabilities: Services for People with Disabilities (28 Nov 2007)

Joan Burton: Question 262: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the position in relation to support for subtitling services for deaf people in respect of films and other cinema and film material; if his Department has a policy in relation to the provision of such services as a way of boosting access for deaf people to services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31412/07]

Confidence in Minister for Health and Children: Motion (Resumed) (28 Nov 2007)

Joan Burton: It is just like the incinerator.

Confidence in Minister for Health and Children: Motion (Resumed) (28 Nov 2007)

Joan Burton: It occurs in poorer people too.

Departmental Bodies. (28 Nov 2007)

Joan Burton: The Taoiseach's description of the communications unit is rather charming. It sounds like a downtown library of which we would all like to be members. It sounds as if this service is better than the RTE website. If it is as innocuous and value free, as politically unloaded and unbiased as the Taoiseach suggests, what would be wrong with making it available to all Members of the House? In...

Order of Business (28 Nov 2007)

Joan Burton: Is the Taoiseach aware of the difficulties being experienced by numerous people, including young first-time buyers, in closing house sales because of difficulties with various banks, the credit crunch and the collapse of several solicitors' businesses? In that context, does the Government propose to bring forward the financial services regulation Bill? Several of these entities, although...

Order of Business (28 Nov 2007)

Joan Burton: The Ceann Comhairle used to answer our questions when he was Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism.

Confidence in Minister for Health and Children: Motion (27 Nov 2007)

Joan Burton: Dr. Naughton said he would not be happy for his own wife to use the service.

Written Answers — Foreign Conflicts: Foreign Conflicts (27 Nov 2007)

Joan Burton: Question 106: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs the contacts he has had with the Pakistani Ambassador in relation to current events in Pakistan. [30876/07]

Written Answers — Departmental Correspondence: Departmental Correspondence (27 Nov 2007)

Joan Burton: Question 139: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance if the Civil Service Personnel Code, An Cód Pearsanra is made available for public inspection by his Department; if so, the format in which it is made available; if not, the reason for same; if he will lay an up to date copy of the Civil Service Personnel Code before the Houses of the Oireachtas; and if he will make a statement on...

Written Answers — Housing Management Companies: Housing Management Companies (27 Nov 2007)

Joan Burton: Question 609: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if the high level interdepartmental committee on multi-unit developments, which is chaired by his Department, will be inviting submissions from interested parties; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30980/07]

Confidence in Minister for Health and Children: Motion (27 Nov 2007)

Joan Burton: I thank Deputy Jan O'Sullivan for moving this motion. The former US President Harry S. Truman had a sign on his desk which read "The buck stops here". This Government seems intent on ignoring that old-fashioned idea of accountability. The buck stops anywhere but with the Taoiseach and the Minister for Health and Children. The shameful goings-on in our cancer services are probably the...