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Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2009: Committee Stage (25 Feb 2009)

Joe Costello: These two amendments from Deputies Burton and Bruton are probably the most important on this Stage. The Bill is entitled the Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill. Anybody reading that Title would be led to believe there should be a sunset clause. There are in-built contradictions in the Title, but it gives the impression that what is intended is a measure introduced on...

Order of Business (25 Feb 2009)

Joe Costello: On the temporary agency workers directive from Brussels that the Government opposed for many years, now that it has gone through and we must implement it within three years, will the Taoiseach and Tánaiste ensure it is brought forward in order that it will be in place before the referendum? The Taoiseach mentioned assisting people who cut turf on bogs. Ireland is the only country in the...

Order of Business (25 Feb 2009)

Joe Costello: This was done out of the blue and without consultation. Will the issue be reopened because the European Union is imposing a total ban? It should be discussed.

Order of Business (25 Feb 2009)

Joe Costello: The second issue also involves legislation because it deals with a directive of the European Union that will put in place a total ban on eel fishing.

Order of Business (25 Feb 2009)

Joe Costello: There must be at least a statutory instrument to implement the directive.

Order of Business (25 Feb 2009)

Joe Costello: How can the Government ban something if we are not going to discuss the legislation to ban it here?

Order of Business (25 Feb 2009)

Joe Costello: Is there no legislation or is the Taoiseach unaware of any legislation on the issue?

Written Answers — Redundancy Payments: Redundancy Payments (24 Feb 2009)

Joe Costello: Question 110: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the amount of money paid out in statutory redundancy payments in respect of each year from 2002 to 2008; the projected figure for 2009; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7260/09]

Written Answers — Redundancy Payments: Redundancy Payments (24 Feb 2009)

Joe Costello: Question 111: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of redundancies notified to her Department in respect of each year from 2002 to 2008 and to date in 2009; the number of projected redundancies for 2009; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7259/09]

Schools Building Projects. (19 Feb 2009)

Joe Costello: I have raised this issue a number of times on the Adjournment and tabled various questions to the Minister for Education and Science. Gaelscoil Bharra, a scoil lán-Ghaelach, was founded in 1996 but has still not reached the planning process for a school building, even though the school has shown its viability from the beginning, with more pupils than it can cater for. All along the line,...

Written Answers — Vaccination Programme: Vaccination Programme (19 Feb 2009)

Joe Costello: Question 17: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she is reconsidering the decision to postpone the introduction of the proposed HPV vaccine programme for 12 year old girls; her views on whether the original estimate of its cost can be reduced and that it is a relatively small amount of money in the overall budget; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6537/09]

Written Answers — Child Care Services: Child Care Services (19 Feb 2009)

Joe Costello: Question 62: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the progress made in the availability of social workers at weekends for vulnerable children; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6536/09]

Written Answers — Register of Electors: Register of Electors (19 Feb 2009)

Joe Costello: Question 208: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he will ensure all the people in direct provision are facilitated in registering for the local elections; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6747/09]

Irish Economy: Motion (18 Feb 2009)

Joe Costello: The decision by the Fianna Fáil, Green Party and Progressive Democrats Government to impose a pension levy on all public sector workers and only on public sector workers is wrong and fundamentally unjust. It should be rescinded and the Government should go back to the drawing board. The public sector constitutes less than a quarter of the workforce. In the first instance, the equitable...

Irish Economy: Motion (18 Feb 2009)

Joe Costello: The Government has only targeted the most vulnerable and less well off in this measure. It is galling to hear the Bank of Ireland chief executive state nonchalantly on the airwaves that he expects to earn less than €2 million this year while his bank's shares and the pensions of so many people who invested their money, including redundancy money, are going through the floor and are...

Irish Economy: Motion (18 Feb 2009)

Joe Costello: Next come our developers and speculators who have made fortunes on tax breaks which were supposed to stimulate growth but were used instead to line the pockets of the already rich. They should cough up a few euro as well. These untapped sources should be targeted first before the Government moves to target either public or private sector workers. This is also good economics because the more...

Written Answers — Departmental Agencies: Departmental Agencies (18 Feb 2009)

Joe Costello: Question 68: To ask the Minister for Finance the proposals under development in his Department to establish a new State enterprise agency to provide financial support, whether through equity participation or otherwise, to companies adversely affected by the economic downturn; if there are similar proposals to channel such financial support through an existing State agency; and if he will...

Written Answers — Mental Health Services: Mental Health Services (18 Feb 2009)

Joe Costello: Question 158: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will implement the findings of the Mental Health Commission report, The Economics of Mental Health Care in Ireland, which estimates that poor mental health costs the country €3 billion each year; if she will find the promised €25 million for mental health services to achieve the goals of A Vision for Change; if she will...

Irish Economy: Motion (18 Feb 2009)

Joe Costello: He robbed the Irish Press at the same time. That is why it went to the wall.

Irish Economy: Motion (18 Feb 2009)

Joe Costello: The reckless people are the ones who ran the bank.