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Written Answers — Pupil-Teacher Ratio: Pupil-Teacher Ratio (29 Oct 2008)

Pat Breen: Question 550: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if he will review his decision to increase class sizes in the budget of 2009; if his attention has been drawn to the consequences of his proposal for the delivery of education in schools in County Clare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37400/08]

Written Answers — Pupil-Teacher Ratio: Pupil-Teacher Ratio (29 Oct 2008)

Pat Breen: Question 551: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if his attention has been drawn to the consequences of budgetary cutbacks for a school (details supplied) in County Clare; if he will ensure that the current number of teachers is retained at the school; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37403/08]

Written Answers — Schools Building Projects: Schools Building Projects (29 Oct 2008)

Pat Breen: Question 554: To ask the Minister for Education and Science, further to parliamentary Question No. 419 of 1 July 2008, if funding was allocated to a school (details supplied) in County Clare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37437/08]

Education Cuts: Motion (29 Oct 2008)

Pat Breen: Did the Minister get his e-mail?

Tax Code. (29 Oct 2008)

Pat Breen: I wish to share my time with my colleague, Deputy Joe Carey, who has an interest in this matter. I welcome the opportunity to raise this very important issue. Since the Minister for Finance's call to patriotic duty, proposals contained in his budget have been unravelling one by one. Last week we witnessed the grey revolution, today we witnessed the teachers' revolution and the farmers'...

Tax Code. (29 Oct 2008)

Pat Breen: What about the Dublin to Liverpool route? The Minister of State is being selective.

Housing Market. (23 Oct 2008)

Pat Breen: Question 13: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government his views on whether the home choice scheme will keep housing prices artificially inflated and risks luring first-time buyers into negative equity; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36488/08]

Financial Resolution No. 15: (General) (Resumed) (23 Oct 2008)

Pat Breen: Last night I spoke on the cuts affecting the elderly and today I will concentrate on the education cutbacks and how we have failed our children. Yesterday we saw a large protest against third-level fees, with 10,000 students assembling outside Leinster House. Every level of education has been affected by the budget, including second-level and primary education. To be parochial for a moment,...

Medical Cards: Motion (Resumed) (22 Oct 2008)

Pat Breen: I sent them up to the Deputy.

Medical Cards: Motion (Resumed) (22 Oct 2008)

Pat Breen: Today many of us witnessed scenes reminiscent of the French Revolution's storming of the Bastille. One could almost hear the tumbrels going down Kildare Street where people from all parts of the country were forced to take to the streets of Dublin. I congratulate them on taking part in today's march and I pay tribute to them for coming out in such great numbers. Many of them even travelled...

Medical Cards: Motion (Resumed) (22 Oct 2008)

Pat Breen: However, the Government cannot pull the wool over the eyes of the older people. No amount of tinkering with the scheme's income limits will mask how it got it so wrong. The only reason it was forced into a climb down was to save the blushes of the backbenchers.

Medical Cards: Motion (Resumed) (22 Oct 2008)

Pat Breen: When the tactic of confusion did not work, it sent out a south Tipperary Deputy on a national radio station looking for the head of the Minister for Health and Children in order to blame somebody else. Before the Taoiseach took the slow boat to China he said on RTE news on Friday night that he knew there would be a problem and defended the decision in the House. This was the Government's...

Financial Resolution No. 15: (General) Resumed (22 Oct 2008)

Pat Breen: I am delighted to speak on the budget. Many Ministers were not too happy in Government Buildings today when they read the report about what they thought would solve the problem of the medical cards. A political correspondent had three wise words in the Irish Independent, "listen, learn and inform". Unfortunately, this Government does not listen, does not learn and fails to inform the...

Written Answers — Tax Code: Tax Code (21 Oct 2008)

Pat Breen: Question 213: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will review the decision to introduce a €10 air travel tax; if he proposes to make changes to this tax to ensure that airports such as Shannon Airport are not commercially disadvantaged when passengers are flying to destinations like Manchester, Liverpool and so on compared with passengers travelling through Dublin Airport to those...

Written Answers — Residency Permits: Residency Permits (21 Oct 2008)

Pat Breen: Question 350: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform further to Parliamentary Question No. 1217 of 30 January 2008, the status of an application in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Clare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35680/08]

Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (21 Oct 2008)

Pat Breen: Question 551: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food when a slatted shed grant will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Clare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35916/08]

Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (21 Oct 2008)

Pat Breen: Question 552: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the position regarding young farmers who have completed and passed the course for the grant under the farm installation aid prior to his decision to abolish the scheme; if these farmers will receive payment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35926/08]

Written Answers — Schools Building Projects: Schools Building Projects (21 Oct 2008)

Pat Breen: Question 564: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if he will meet with a delegation from a school (details supplied) in County Clare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35447/08]

Written Answers — Tax Code: Tax Code (16 Oct 2008)

Pat Breen: Question 11: To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 143 of 2 July 2008, if progress has been made in agreeing an alternative scheme to replace the fuel excise refund scheme for bus transport operators which is due to terminate on 31 October 2008; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35208/08]

Farm Waste Management Scheme: Motion (16 Oct 2008)

Pat Breen: Deputy Behan got that from his boss.