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Social Welfare Bill 2011: Second Stage (8 Dec 2011)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Who sets the rates and-----

Social Welfare Bill 2011: Second Stage (8 Dec 2011)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: -----raises taxes? It is Westminster.

Social Welfare Bill 2011: Second Stage (8 Dec 2011)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: You have absolutely no idea what goes on.

Social Welfare Bill 2011: Second Stage (8 Dec 2011)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Good luck.

Social Welfare Bill 2011: Second Stage (8 Dec 2011)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I have answered already but you will not listen. Your hearing aid is broken and you will not be able to get it replaced now.

Social Welfare Bill 2011: Second Stage (8 Dec 2011)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Deputy Buttimer does not have a clue what he is talking about. Our only offices are constituency offices. If he wishes to debate it-----

Social Welfare Bill 2011: Second Stage (8 Dec 2011)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I would love if the Minister put the correct figures on the record.

Social Welfare Bill 2011: Second Stage (8 Dec 2011)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: They should not have been included in the first place.

Financial Resolutions 2012: Financial Resolution No. 13: General (Resumed) (7 Dec 2011)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Out of the Deputy's pocket.

Financial Resolution No. 3: Carbon Charge on Mineral Oils (6 Dec 2011)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: They will be disconnected in the summer.

Written Answers — Tax Yield: Tax Yield (6 Dec 2011)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Question 48: To ask the Minister for Finance the moneys to date paid to companies who under the Finance Act 2009 availed of tax relief for research and development here but who had not paid enough tax to avail of the full amount and who claimed the difference as a payment from the Exchequer. [38918/11]

Written Answers — Social Welfare Code: Social Welfare Code (6 Dec 2011)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Question 188: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she is currently using the definition of "cohabitation" in the new Civil Partnership and Certain Rights and Obligations of Cohabitants Act 2010, Part 15, section 172; and if the statement published on the website in the section, Civil Partnership FAQs, question 14, section A Paragraph([i]c[/i]), as updated 24 March 2011, is correct....

Written Answers — Employment Support Services: Employment Support Services (6 Dec 2011)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Question 199: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if any evaluation was carried out of the piloted part-time job opportunity programme between 1994 and 1998; the finding of same; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38919/11]

Prison Service (1 Dec 2011)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Question 11: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if his attention has been drawn to the fact that Ireland is the only Council of Europe member State in which work undertaken by prisoners is unpaid; his plans to address this; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37923/11]

Written Answers — Probation Service Staff: Probation Service Staff (1 Dec 2011)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Question 26: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of persons employed by the Probation Service as probation officers during each of the years since 2005; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37907/11]

Credit Institutions (Eligible Liabilities Guarantee) (Amendment) Scheme 2011: Motion (1 Dec 2011)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: As a teller, under Standing Order 69 I propose that the vote be taken by other than electronic means. I do so to give Labour Party Deputies an opportunity to reconsider in light of the consequences of the vote.

Order of Business (1 Dec 2011)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: No. I am opposed to this Bill being guillotined. I have a slight difficulty in that the meetings of the Whips are quite informal in nature and minutes are not taken in respect of what is discussed, opposed or agreed. On a number of recent occasions, my opposition to the schedule presented at such meetings has been misrepresented in the House. Earlier, the Tánaiste misrepresented me again.

Order of Business (1 Dec 2011)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: At the meeting of the Whips I objected to the previous proposal and to the time allocated in respect of it. I also objected to the guillotine being imposed in respect of the Health Insurance (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2011.

Order of Business (1 Dec 2011)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I do not want a situation to arise whereby meetings of the Whips would have to be held on a formal basis, thus obliging me to put my opposition to items on the schedule in writing. However, if people want to go down that road, I have no difficulty doing so. I presume the other Whips would have no such difficulty either. I do not like to be misrepresented and my party's opposition to some...

Order of Business (1 Dec 2011)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I am not objecting to the business that has been listed. However, I am objecting to being informed that I did not voice my opposition to it at the meeting of the Whips in respect of the time allocations involved.