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Carbon Budget: Statements (16 Dec 2010)

Joanna Tuffy: On a point of order, I do not have the table to which the Minister referred in his statement.

Carbon Budget: Statements (16 Dec 2010)

Joanna Tuffy: Today's statements come from the agreement in the original programme for Government that there would be a carbon budget. Originally, the carbon budget was contained and announced in the Budget Statement and then followed up by a statement by the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the following day. This process has been watered down over the years to where it is now...

Carbon Budget: Statements (16 Dec 2010)

Joanna Tuffy: Thank you Minister. It is important to have the table before responding, however, I will not be able to analyse it very well now. Climate change has dropped down the agenda. The Green Party has responded and its members do not talk about climate change as much as they used to. They have become more low key. I do not lay blame for that because other priorities have come to the fore....

Written Answers — Waste Management: Waste Management (15 Dec 2010)

Joanna Tuffy: Question 187: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the steps that have been taken to ensure the Haulbowline site is in compliance with European Union directives; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48002/10]

Written Answers — Eating Disorders: Eating Disorders (14 Dec 2010)

Joanna Tuffy: Question 157: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if funding is being made available, in certain cases, to persons suffering from eating disorders to enable them to complete treatment programmes at a centre (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [47206/10]

Written Answers — Departmental Expenditure: Departmental Expenditure (14 Dec 2010)

Joanna Tuffy: Question 167: To ask the Minister for Transport the level of funding allocated to a scheme (details supplied) under the rural transport programme; if he will restate his commitment to continue funding this particular scheme into the future; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47099/10]

Written Answers — Environmental Policy: Environmental Policy (14 Dec 2010)

Joanna Tuffy: Question 263: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the position regarding moneys contributed to the Global Climate Change Alliance; the person to whom this money will be allocated and the amount of same; the projects on which the money will be spent; the way the moneys will be administered; the oversight of the expenditure of the moneys that will take place;...

Social Welfare Bill 2010: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Dec 2010)

Joanna Tuffy: It is an ideology of allowing some people to become very wealthy that is behind some of our economic problems. In terms of addressing those economic problems, we have an opportunity to re-balance the distribution of wealth in our society and to narrow the gap between rich and poor. If we were to take that approach, we would not cut social welfare, which is why the Labour Party opposed...

Social Welfare Bill 2010: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Dec 2010)

Joanna Tuffy: There are plenty of other options for the Government.

Social Welfare Bill 2010: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Dec 2010)

Joanna Tuffy: The Labour Party identified savings that could be made that did not involve social welfare cuts.

Social Welfare Bill 2010: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Dec 2010)

Joanna Tuffy: We will also reinvest a portion of those savings in job creation, which would hopefully reduce the social welfare budget even further.

Social Welfare Bill 2010: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Dec 2010)

Joanna Tuffy: The social welfare rates of payment should have been the last thing to go after. The point is that people on those payments spend their money in the economy. People who are wealthy will save their money and reduce their debt but those on social welfare spend their money in the domestic economy. We have lost an opportunity in this regard. Last year, when there was a flat rate cut to child...

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (8 Dec 2010)

Joanna Tuffy: Question 28: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when a person (details supplied) in County Meath will receive an appointment for a dental procedure; the reason for the delay in granting the appointment; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46552/10]

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (8 Dec 2010)

Joanna Tuffy: Question 29: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to the significant waiting times for dental appointments in County Meath; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46553/10]

Written Answers — Mental Health Services: Mental Health Services (8 Dec 2010)

Joanna Tuffy: Question 30: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will provide details for all mental health services and support services in each of the Health Service Executive administrative areas; the addresses and the services they provide; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46554/10]

Written Answers — Health Service Staff: Health Service Staff (8 Dec 2010)

Joanna Tuffy: Question 40: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if replacement staff will be provided for two orthodontists (details supplied) who are due to take maternity leave in the new year and if so, when will the replacement staff will take up their duties; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46625/10]

Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (8 Dec 2010)

Joanna Tuffy: Question 71: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if he will provide details of the number of persons in County Meath who have availed of the mortgage interest supplement in the years 2007, 2008, 2009 and to date in 2010; the level of funding for the mortgage interest supplement in County Meath in the aforementioned years in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Financial Resolution No. 18: Capital Acquisitions Tax (7 Dec 2010)

Joanna Tuffy: When the Government tinkered with stamp duty before the predicted consequences did not happen. What was said would happen did not transpire; very often the opposite effect was seen in the property market. We are being given very little information as to the reasoning of the Government in this respect and it would have been much more helpful, for example, had we been given a table with the...

Financial Resolution No. 18: Capital Acquisitions Tax (7 Dec 2010)

Joanna Tuffy: Are investors the needy group?

Financial Resolution No. 4: Excise (Vehicle Registration Tax) (7 Dec 2010)

Joanna Tuffy: May I ask why there is not-----