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Order of Business (26 Mar 2009)

Liz McManus: ——in order that the public interest will be served——

Written Answers — Student Councils: Student Councils (25 Mar 2009)

Liz McManus: Question 53: To ask the Minister for Education and Science further to parliamentary Question No. 27 of 26 February 2009, the reason his Department only understands that student councils have been established in the majority of post primary schools and that the remaining schools are in the process of establishing councils and cannot say with certainty what the current situation is; the reason...

Written Answers — Student Councils: Student Councils (25 Mar 2009)

Liz McManus: Question 64: To ask the Minister for Education and Science further to Parliamentary Question No. 27 of 26 February 2009, if his attention has been drawn to the view that some student councils regard the whole school inspection process as factually inaccurate because in some cases student councils are asked by the principal or their teachers to be less than frank and open with the school...

Written Answers — Tax Code: Tax Code (25 Mar 2009)

Liz McManus: Question 108: To ask the Minister for Finance his views on the proposal to tax text messages; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10531/09]

Pre-Budget Statements (Resumed) (25 Mar 2009)

Liz McManus: We all know this budget will be tough but we have no guarantee it will be fair. In fact, the record of this Government so far has been to attack the vulnerable and protect the powerful. It is a Government bloated with too many Ministers of State, but there is the honourable exception of the Minister of State at the Department of Foreign Affairs, Deputy Dick Roche who has a valuable task and...

Pre-Budget Statements (Resumed) (25 Mar 2009)

Liz McManus: I will hold the Minister of State to that.

Pre-Budget Statements (Resumed) (25 Mar 2009)

Liz McManus: One of the problems is that there are so many Ministers of State that they are falling over each other. Meanwhile, the Government has been using private consultants to a ludicrous degree but there is little to show for all the money spent. The Government flounders from action to reaction when its decisions prove inadequate to the task of leading us out of the quagmire in which we find...

Pre-Budget Statements (Resumed) (25 Mar 2009)

Liz McManus: I am aware of an 86 year old woman in my constituency who is ill but ambulant. She wishes to remain living in her home with her elderly husband. She has sought a grant to install a downstairs toilet, which is a fairly basis provision, because the existing bathroom in their old house is up three flights of stairs. I can do nothing for this woman. I am ashamed to live in a country in the...

Pre-Budget Statements (Resumed) (25 Mar 2009)

Liz McManus: We cannot provide the basic provisions to allow her to do so. There is something fundamentally obscene and offensive about this inability to protect the vulnerable. We must look at these types of yardsticks in seeking to measure Government performance and in assessing whether or not the forthcoming budget is fair. What is the impact on those who do not have the power of bankers or the...

Written Answers — Departmental Expenditure: Departmental Expenditure (24 Mar 2009)

Liz McManus: Question 63: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if the grant aid agreed during Budget 2009 will be upheld; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11997/09]

Written Answers — Inter-Country Adoptions: Inter-Country Adoptions (24 Mar 2009)

Liz McManus: Question 284: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will renew the bilateral adoption agreement between Ireland and Russia before the Adoption Bill is passed; if her attention has been drawn to the couples who are in the process of adopting children from Russia; their position if this agreement ceases; the way she will deal with this situation; and if she will make a statement...

Written Answers — Climate Change Strategy: Climate Change Strategy (24 Mar 2009)

Liz McManus: Question 857: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government his views on the merits of implementing a climate change Bill; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11230/09]

Written Answers — Climate Change Strategy: Climate Change Strategy (24 Mar 2009)

Liz McManus: Question 858: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he attended the most recent environment Ministers meeting at EU level; the position he took at that meeting regarding climate change targets; the steps he is taking at EU level to push for EU targets to be increased to 30%; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11231/09]

Written Answers — Offshore Exploration: Offshore Exploration (24 Mar 2009)

Liz McManus: Question 917: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if there are plans for an oral hearing on safety concerns, including danger of the valve station at Glengad, in relation to Corrib gas in County Mayo; his views on the impact on the local environment; his further views on the possible benefits to the economy arising from the gas coming on stream; and if he...

Written Answers — Fisheries Protection: Fisheries Protection (24 Mar 2009)

Liz McManus: Question 919: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will reconsider a total ban on eel fishing; if he will issue a comprehensive survey of eel stock here; his views on the eel fisheries that remain open across the EU; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11229/09]

Written Answers — Telecommunications Services: Telecommunications Services (12 Mar 2009)

Liz McManus: Question 11: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources his views on the merits of functional or structural separation of Eircom; his preference regarding same; the position regarding local loop unbundling here; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10497/09]

Written Answers — Proposed Legislation: Proposed Legislation (12 Mar 2009)

Liz McManus: Question 34: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources his intention to transfer the ownership of the transmission assets from ESB to EirGrid; the timeframe for publication of this legislation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10498/09]

Written Answers — Broadcasting Services: Broadcasting Services (12 Mar 2009)

Liz McManus: Question 207: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the possibility of the promised diaspora channel going ahead in 2010; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10559/09]

Broadcasting Legislation. (12 Mar 2009)

Liz McManus: Question 2: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources his views, in the context of the Broadcasting Bill, on setting up one regulator, combining ComReg and the authority, particularly in view of the economic climate and the convergence of technologies taking place in the communications area; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10717/09]

Broadcasting Legislation. (12 Mar 2009)

Liz McManus: Does the Minister of State accept that other countries are adopting a different approach by having one regulator dealing with content, communications and technologies? It is an affront to people who are being forced to pay a heavy price for the economic crisis to find that the Government is insisting on pursuing the establishment of another regulator in the communications area, which will...