Results 40,281-40,300 of 40,550 for speaker:Joan Burton

Written Answers — Consultancy Contracts: Consultancy Contracts (3 Mar 2005)

Joan Burton: Question 180: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the amount paid in fees or remuneration to a person (details supplied) for consultancy or other work carried out for or on behalf of his Department for each year since 1998; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7458/05]

Written Answers — Consultancy Contracts: Consultancy Contracts (3 Mar 2005)

Joan Burton: Question 210: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the amount paid in fees or remuneration to a person (details supplied) for consultancy or other work carried out for or on behalf of her Department for each year since 1998; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7459/05]

Written Answers — Consultancy Contracts: Consultancy Contracts (3 Mar 2005)

Joan Burton: Question 213: To ask the Minister for Defence the amount paid in fees or remuneration to a person (details supplied) for consultancy or other work carried out for or on behalf of his Department for each year since 1998; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7460/05]

Written Answers — Departmental Expenditure: Departmental Expenditure (3 Mar 2005)

Joan Burton: Question 221: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the amount paid in fees or remuneration to a person (details supplied) for consultancy or other work carried out for or on behalf of his Department for each year since 1998; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7461/05]

Fiscal Policy. (3 Mar 2005)

Joan Burton: Question 5: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will make a statement on his address to the lunch of Financial Services Ireland on 21 February 2005, particularly his reported statement that the compensation bill arising from the Supreme Court decision on the Health (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2004 would result in lower spending elsewhere; the anticipated amount by which spending will have to...

Fiscal Policy. (3 Mar 2005)

Joan Burton: Is the Minister aware of the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children's statement earlier that she has been advised 300,000 people affected by the Supreme Court ruling are likely to claim? Has the Minister estimated the cost of these claims? He commented on 21 February that the cost would be approximately €500 million. However, the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children's...

Fiscal Policy. (3 Mar 2005)

Joan Burton: Does the Minister accept the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children's statement earlier that there are 300,000 potential claimants? If so, does he agree the sum involved, regardless of whether everybody claims, will be significantly higher than first estimated? He stated this will have an impact on health spending. Has he identified the areas on which there will be an impact,...

Fiscal Policy. (3 Mar 2005)

Joan Burton: For 2005.

Banking Sector Regulation. (3 Mar 2005)

Joan Burton: Given the increase in cases identified compared with previous answers — it now stands at 466 as opposed to 452 and there are now 53 cases not yet dealt with — will the Minister reconsider his proposal in yesterday's discussion on the Finance Bill effectively to dilute the provisions that he promised to introduce in the Bill regarding those who aid and abet tax evasion? In particular, does...

Banking Sector Regulation. (3 Mar 2005)

Joan Burton: May I ask a brief supplementary?

Banking Sector Regulation. (3 Mar 2005)

Joan Burton: Will the Minister explain the reason for the increase in the number of cases under investigation from 452, the number he gave me on 1 February, to 466, an increase of 14? Will he explain also the increase from 40 to 53 of the unsettled cases he indicated in earlier replies are likely to be the ones which involved tax evasion and the possible commission of offences?

Tax Yield. (3 Mar 2005)

Joan Burton: There are no buses on the road. The Minister should try to get a bus or ask his colleague, the Minister for Transport, if he can get one. He might not suffer from car sickness then.

State Properties. (3 Mar 2005)

Joan Burton: What is the position regarding the current proposals for decentralisation? The Minister of State indicated that the bulk of the money raised will go to finance the decentralisation programme but no progress is being made on that programme at present. Even in Tullamore, in the constituency of the Minister and the Minister of State, FÁS has run into severe problems. The Minister of State may...

State Properties. (3 Mar 2005)

Joan Burton: He is the chairman of the Government's decentralisation body.

State Properties. (3 Mar 2005)

Joan Burton: I have asked the Minister of State those questions, specifically, because no progress appears to have been made. What is the effect of the resignation of Mr. Philip Flynn on the decentralisation programme?

State Properties. (3 Mar 2005)

Joan Burton: I said FÁS was told to acquire a property, which it did not do because the value had tripled.

State Properties. (3 Mar 2005)

Joan Burton: Will the Minister of State comment on the price of the sites?

Financial Services Regulation. (3 Mar 2005)

Joan Burton: Question 2: To ask the Minister for Finance if he has plans to extend the remit of the IFSRA or the Central Bank to regulate companies which advance money from their own resources secured on assets such as property, especially in view of the fact that the advisory group on this sector recommended in 1999 that such businesses be regulated and in view of the reported extensive activities of a...

Financial Services Regulation. (3 Mar 2005)

Joan Burton: Does the Minister agree that this type of company should be fully regulated by IFSRA and, therefore, the remit of the authority should be extended to cover this type of company? I do not know if the Minister shares the shock of most people who heard reference to a company, Chesterton Finance, in media reports concerning Garda investigations into money laundering and the Provisional IRA and...

Financial Services Regulation. (3 Mar 2005)

Joan Burton: That does not answer the point that this area is not regulated by IFSRA. We have set up an expensive and extensive regulation model. However, a letter in my possession from the Director of Consumer Affairs indicates that the only powers of oversight that exist are in regard to the Consumer Credit Act 1995. Will the Minister agree to extend the powers of IFSRA specifically to cover this area,...