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Written Answers — Consumer Protection: Consumer Protection (2 Apr 2008)

Leo Varadkar: Question 512: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment when he will order the commencement of the credit card surcharge provision in the Consumer Protection Act 2007; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11679/08]

Written Answers — School Accommodation: School Accommodation (2 Apr 2008)

Leo Varadkar: Question 724: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she has received a request from Educate Together to allow the classrooms that will not be used in a school (details supplied) in Dublin 15 to be used by another school on a temporary basis; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11456/08]

Written Answers — School Accommodation: School Accommodation (2 Apr 2008)

Leo Varadkar: Question 725: To ask the Minister for Education and Science her views on a request from a school to allow them to use the classrooms that will be vacant in a new school (details supplied) in Dublin 15; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11457/08]

Written Answers — Site Acquisitions: Site Acquisitions (2 Apr 2008)

Leo Varadkar: Question 751: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she will confirm that a permanent site has been acquired for the construction of primary school buildings for Tyrellstown, Dublin 15; when she will submit a planning application for this site; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11675/08]

Written Answers — Schools Building Projects: Schools Building Projects (2 Apr 2008)

Leo Varadkar: Question 752: To ask the Minister for Education and Science when she will permit a school (details supplied) in Dublin 15 to apply for planning permission for the planned refurbishment and extension; if the delay in doing so is connected to plans to build a new VEC national school in the vicinity; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11676/08]

Unemployment Rate: Motion (2 Apr 2008)

Leo Varadkar: It cannot do miracles.

Unemployment Rate: Motion (2 Apr 2008)

Leo Varadkar: I move: That Dáil Éireann: recognising that the largest ever increases in the number of people on the live register were recorded in January and February 2008, with 16,300 more people signing on during this period, bringing the total to 187,900; noting that the unemployment rate has increased by 0.5% and that the live register has increased by 20,605 since the current Minister for...

Unemployment Rate: Motion (2 Apr 2008)

Leo Varadkar: In a debate on competitiveness last December, the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment, Deputy Micheál Martin, told us the best test of a Government's policies was the ability of the economy to retain and create new jobs. I agree with that assessment and if the current Minister and Government are to be judged by their own criteria, their economic enterprise and employment policies...

Order of Business (2 Apr 2008)

Leo Varadkar: The legislative programme states that the property services regulatory authority Bill will give effect to the report of the auctioneering review group, but it does not mention the regulation of property management agents. Will the Bill provide for the regulation of such agents? Can I take it from the legislative programme that no legislation will be introduced in this session to deal with...

Written Answers — Tax Yield: Tax Yield (13 Mar 2008)

Leo Varadkar: Question 56: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance if he will provide a county breakdown of income tax, VAT, stamp duty and corporation profit tax for 2007; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11186/08]

Written Answers — Human Rights Issues: Human Rights Issues (13 Mar 2008)

Leo Varadkar: Question 106: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs if he will raise the case of a person (detail supplied) with the Chinese Government to seek their release on humanitarian grounds; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11199/08]

Written Answers — Human Rights Issues: Human Rights Issues (13 Mar 2008)

Leo Varadkar: Question 107: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs if he will protest to the Egyptian Government about its refusal to allow citizens who have converted to Christianity to have this noted on their state identity papers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11200/08]

Written Answers — School Enrolments: School Enrolments (13 Mar 2008)

Leo Varadkar: Question 174: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she has received a request from a school (details supplied) in Dublin 15 for resources to accept a second class of junior infants in 2008; the response she has given to the school; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11185/08]

Written Answers — Departmental Staff: Departmental Staff (13 Mar 2008)

Leo Varadkar: Question 175: To ask the Minister for Defence the number of civil servants in his Department; the reason so many civil servants are needed in view of the fact that the Defence Forces are self-regulating; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11184/08]

Programmes for Government. (12 Mar 2008)

Leo Varadkar: Question 26: To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the implementation of An Agreed Programme for Government; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10731/08]

Written Answers — EU Treaties: EU Treaties (11 Mar 2008)

Leo Varadkar: Question 136: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs the effect the ratification of the Lisbon Treaty will have on Irish neutrality; if after ratification Ireland could be forced into a common defence; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10347/08]

Written Answers — EU Treaties: EU Treaties (11 Mar 2008)

Leo Varadkar: Question 146: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs the proposals for a common consolidated tax base being proposed by the European Commission; the position of the Irish Government; and if any proposal could be approved by the European Council, if the Lisbon Treaty is ratified. [10346/08]

Written Answers — Fraud Offences: Fraud Offences (11 Mar 2008)

Leo Varadkar: Question 494: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if there still exists an offence called fraudulent conversion under the Larceny Act 1916; if it would apply to a person who, as a member of a club or society having had funds entrusted to them for the club or society, converted it to their own use; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10523/08]

Written Answers — Pharmacy Regulations: Pharmacy Regulations (6 Mar 2008)

Leo Varadkar: Question 92: To ask the Minister for Health and Children further to a previous parliamentary question that it is open to any party to make a submission to the Competition Authority under Section 4(5) of the Competition Act 2002 to request that the Authority make a declaration under Section 4(3) of the Act in relation to negotiations between parties which may be in breach of the Act, the...

Written Answers — Pharmacy Regulations: Pharmacy Regulations (6 Mar 2008)

Leo Varadkar: Question 93: To ask the Minister for Health and Children further to a previous parliamentary question, if she will make a submission to the Competition Authority under Section 4 (5) of the Competition Act 2002 seeking that the Authority make a declaration under Section 4(3) of the Act in respect of negotiations by the Health Service Executive with pharmacists and general practitioners; and...