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Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (No. 2) Bill 2009: Committee and Remaining Stages (16 Dec 2009)

Seán Sherlock: ------I believe we need to start slaughtering a few sacred cows in this great Republic of ours. When somebody in the public service has to incur a cut of €1, 500 in his or her salary and a member of the Judiciary is exempt by virtue of a constitutional arrangement, that speaks volumes about the nature of the society in the Republic. If Ireland, as a republic, is to treat and cherish...

Written Answers — Higher Education Grants: Higher Education Grants (15 Dec 2009)

Seán Sherlock: Question 382: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the average waiting times for the processing of the third level grants available; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46694/09]

Written Answers — School Curriculum: School Curriculum (15 Dec 2009)

Seán Sherlock: Question 387: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if a person (details supplied) in County Cork must participate in Irish classes in second level education; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46747/09]

Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (No. 2) Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (15 Dec 2009)

Seán Sherlock: This Bill was drafted by a generation of politicians and mandarins who have their mortgages paid and have, for the most part, reared their children. It shows blatant disregard for people of my generation who will end up being saddled with the burden of the economic morass in which we find ourselves for the rest of their working lives. If we are to inject some equity into the process of...

Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (No. 2) Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (15 Dec 2009)

Seán Sherlock: What about our old people?

Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill: Committee and Remaining Stages (Resumed) (11 Dec 2009)

Seán Sherlock: There are approximately 69,500 people aged under 24 on the live register. The Minister for Finance claimed in his speech that he will make 26,000 training places available. Therefore, we cannot force all of those people into training schemes because there are simply not enough places. Many of those are graduates who will be over qualified for the type of training places I imagine will be...

Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2009: Committee and Remaining Stages (11 Dec 2009)

Seán Sherlock: Deputy Gogarty has now acquired a God complex.

Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2009: Committee and Remaining Stages (11 Dec 2009)

Seán Sherlock: On a point of order, if one is shoving somebody-----

Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2009: Committee and Remaining Stages (11 Dec 2009)

Seán Sherlock: That is not what the Minister indicated.

Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2009: Committee and Remaining Stages (11 Dec 2009)

Seán Sherlock: I wish to be helpful to the Minister and in no way to appear facetious, but the process was instigated by the former Minister for Social Welfare, Proinsias de Rossa.

Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2009: Committee and Remaining Stages (11 Dec 2009)

Seán Sherlock: A sum of €400,000 plus.

Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2009: Committee and Remaining Stages (11 Dec 2009)

Seán Sherlock: If those on jobseeker's benefit aged under 24 are residing with their parents, will there be a pro rata cut to reflect the parents' means? I have received more and more calls from parents whose sons or daughters recently left college and are living at home. They have a high dependency on the parental income to give them spending power. How will they be affected? The reduction in income for...

Written Answers — Detention Centres: Detention Centres (10 Dec 2009)

Seán Sherlock: Question 12: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will report on plans for a new national children's detention facility; when it is expected that such a detention facility will become operational; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46169/09]

Written Answers — Commissions of Investigation: Commissions of Investigation (10 Dec 2009)

Seán Sherlock: Question 46: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform when he expects to receive the Report of the Commission of Investigation into the Catholic Diocese of Cloyne; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46160/09]

Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (10 Dec 2009)

Seán Sherlock: I did not know Deputy Gogarty was a right winger.

Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (10 Dec 2009)

Seán Sherlock: The Deputy has just been advocating classic Tory policy.

Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (10 Dec 2009)

Seán Sherlock: We are being persecuted.

Written Answers — Public Transport: Public Transport (9 Dec 2009)

Seán Sherlock: Question 60: To ask the Minister for Transport if his attention has been drawn to the August 2009 report by the United Kingdom's Office of Fair Trade on local bus services in the deregulated UK bus market outside London and Northern Ireland; his views on whether further legislation may be necessary to ensure that predatory and private monopolistic practices such as salami slicing, gaming and...

Written Answers — Rural Transport Services: Rural Transport Services (9 Dec 2009)

Seán Sherlock: Question 77: To ask the Minister for Transport the action which is being taken to secure continued funding for the rural transport programme under budget 2010; the way the programme can be enhanced in 2010 and the expansion he envisages post 2013; if he will introduce legislation for rural transport services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45882/09]

Written Answers — Departmental Bodies: Departmental Bodies (9 Dec 2009)

Seán Sherlock: Question 85: To ask the Taoiseach the number of State boards, agencies, regulators or other bodies under his remit; the cost of these bodies; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46058/09]