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Order of Business (3 Feb 2010)

Bernard Durkan: Deputy Mattie McGrath will have to be called on.

Leaders' Questions (3 Feb 2010)

Bernard Durkan: The Taoiseach is deluding himself.

Leaders' Questions (3 Feb 2010)

Bernard Durkan: He must be in the "head shops".

Leaders' Questions (3 Feb 2010)

Bernard Durkan: The rate was coming down. That is the difference.

Leaders' Questions (3 Feb 2010)

Bernard Durkan: Deputy Mattie McGrath — alone he stands.

Order of Business (2 Feb 2010)

Bernard Durkan: Hear, hear.

Order of Business (2 Feb 2010)

Bernard Durkan: Hear, hear.

Order of Business (2 Feb 2010)

Bernard Durkan: Apropos of the issue raised by various other people, including the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources, Deputy Eamon Ryan, and arising from promised legislation, will the Taoiseach inform us, notwithstanding Deputy Ryan's intervention, whether it is intended to make any interim intervention to help people who are now seriously in arrears with their mortgages, as opposed...

Order of Business (2 Feb 2010)

Bernard Durkan: It was not asked previously. I ask the Taoiseach to provide me with an answer to that question. I have another one also.

Order of Business (2 Feb 2010)

Bernard Durkan: With all due respect, a Cheann Comhairle, I am not conducting a process of interrogation. The other question, however, is separate and unrelated to the first.

Order of Business (2 Feb 2010)

Bernard Durkan: The measures are not effective, because mortgage arrears are accumulating on a daily basis in a frightening fashion. My other question is about legislation that has been promised as often as the drainage of the Shannon and, therefore, the Taoiseach will recognise it readily. I refer to the Multi-Unit Developments Bill 2009, which, along with the landlord and tenant Bill, has been promised...

Written Answers — Economic Competitiveness: Economic Competitiveness (2 Feb 2010)

Bernard Durkan: Question 129: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the action she has taken or proposes to take to improve the industrial cost base here with particular reference to the need to restore competitiveness in the manufacturing, commercial and service sectors; the degree to which she has examined or proposes to address the costs deemed the most likely to impede...

Written Answers — Job Statistics: Job Statistics (2 Feb 2010)

Bernard Durkan: Question 141: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of jobs in the manufacturing sectors lost here in each of the past ten years to date in 2010 and deemed to have relocated to other economies; the reason for such relocation; the action she has taken to address the issues arising therefrom; the number of jobs created here through foreign direct...

Written Answers — Job Creation: Job Creation (2 Feb 2010)

Bernard Durkan: Question 202: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the steps she has taken or proposes to take to encourage job retention and job creation with particular reference to the need to create the climate for investment and the creation of jobs. [5285/10]

Written Answers — Cost Competitiveness: Cost Competitiveness (2 Feb 2010)

Bernard Durkan: Question 203: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the reason that newspapers here are available on the shelves in other jurisdictions at a considerably lower price; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5286/10]

Written Answers — Cost Competitiveness: Cost Competitiveness (2 Feb 2010)

Bernard Durkan: Question 204: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the extent to which she has engaged with the retail sector with a view to achieving some degree of equilibrium with adjoining jurisdictions; if she will address the issue of products produced here being freely available on shelves in other jurisdictions at a vastly reduced price; and if she will make a...

Written Answers — Imports and Exports: Imports and Exports (2 Feb 2010)

Bernard Durkan: Question 205: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the extent to which imports under various headings have fluctuated throughout the past five years and to date in 2010; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5288/10]

Written Answers — Imports and Exports: Imports and Exports (2 Feb 2010)

Bernard Durkan: Question 206: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the trend in respect of exports under the various headings throughout each of the past five years and to date in 2010; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5289/10]

Written Answers — Job Creation: Job Creation (2 Feb 2010)

Bernard Durkan: Question 207: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of jobs created in the service sectors throughout Ireland in each of the past five years and to date in 2010; the number of jobs last in the same period; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5290/10]

Written Answers — Job Creation: Job Creation (2 Feb 2010)

Bernard Durkan: Question 208: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of manufacturing jobs created here in each of the past five years and to date in 2010; the number of jobs lost in the same period; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5291/10]