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Written Answers — Social and Affordable Housing: Social and Affordable Housing (8 Dec 2009)

Kathleen Lynch: Question 353: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if the Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2009 replaces the clawback provision with the State taking an equity share in the property and allowing the purchaser to buy out the remaining equity in steps or at the end of a fixed period, in view of the current economic climate; if this measure will be...

Health Service Staff. (8 Dec 2009)

Kathleen Lynch: Question 37: To ask the Minister for Health and Children her plans to change the governance of the Health Service Executive on the retirement of the Chief Executive Officer; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45548/09]

Requests to move Adjournment of Dáil under Standing Order 32 (3 Dec 2009)

Kathleen Lynch: I seek the adjournment of the Dáil to discuss a matter of national importance: today, which is the international day of persons with disabilities, more than 300 people with an intellectual disability are inappropriately placed in our psychiatric hospitals. It is now more than 25 years since Government policy first stated the need for separate facilities for people with intellectual or...

Written Answers — Fiscal Policy: Fiscal Policy (3 Dec 2009)

Kathleen Lynch: Question 66: To ask the Minister for Finance his views on the record levels of deflation recorded by the Central Statistics Office in October 2009; his further views on the long-term effects of continued deflation on the economy; if he has conducted an impact study on the effects that cutting €4 billion from the economy will have on continued deflation; and if he will make a statement on...

Written Answers — Job Losses: Job Losses (3 Dec 2009)

Kathleen Lynch: Question 78: To ask the Minister for Finance his views on the projection, set out in the pre-budget outlook, that 75,000 jobs will be lost in 2010; the expected cost to the Exchequer, in terms of increased welfare payments and reduced tax revenue, of these 75,000 job losses; his further views on whether the live register will peak above 500,000 in 2010; and if he will make a statement on the...

Order of Business (2 Dec 2009)

Kathleen Lynch: Regarding legislation for the protection of children, we must start doing something very practical. We all agree that parents, or those in charge of children, cannot be with them 24 hours a day and therefore things happen.

Order of Business (2 Dec 2009)

Kathleen Lynch: Concerning such legislation and a referendum in respect of children, will the Taoiseach consider putting in place an advertising campaign, such as those that featured measles, swine flu and other such matters?

Order of Business (2 Dec 2009)

Kathleen Lynch: We must start moving forward with regard to protecting our children. Such a campaign should be about allowing children to have information by which they would be able to protect themselves. I ask-----

Order of Business (2 Dec 2009)

Kathleen Lynch: Might it be inserted into legislation as it is being worked on? Every right-minded person-----

Order of Business (2 Dec 2009)

Kathleen Lynch: -----thinks we should move on and ensure our children can be protected-----

Order of Business (2 Dec 2009)

Kathleen Lynch: -----better than they are at present.

Child Benefit: Motion (Resumed) (2 Dec 2009)

Kathleen Lynch: What did the children of this country ever do to the Government?

Child Benefit: Motion (Resumed) (2 Dec 2009)

Kathleen Lynch: The Government is only now discovering there is a problem having caused it.

Child Benefit: Motion (Resumed) (2 Dec 2009)

Kathleen Lynch: It is not the Government's fault.

Child Benefit: Motion (Resumed) (2 Dec 2009)

Kathleen Lynch: The Government is handing child benefit-----

Child Benefit: Motion (Resumed) (2 Dec 2009)

Kathleen Lynch: I wish to share time with Deputy Gilmore. To make a correction, not a single person mentioned fraud in regard to child benefit. While the Minister of State did not write his speech, I make that point for the benefit of those who did.

Child Benefit: Motion (Resumed) (2 Dec 2009)

Kathleen Lynch: It is important to make the point that nobody mentioned fraud with regard to child benefit. It is probably the only area where there should be no concern.

Child Benefit: Motion (Resumed) (2 Dec 2009)

Kathleen Lynch: Some people in here would know more about fraud than others. Despite the fact that I was not around in the 1920s and did not have a great deal of interest in pensions when I was a child, I used to hear my mother talking continuously about Ernest Blythe taking the shilling from old age pensioners. I am reliably told it was in the 1920s. If this Government cuts child benefit, as it intends,...

Child Benefit: Motion (Resumed) (2 Dec 2009)

Kathleen Lynch: Thank God for his officials.

Written Answers — Enterprise Stabilisation Fund: Enterprise Stabilisation Fund (2 Dec 2009)

Kathleen Lynch: Question 57: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of companies that have applied to date for assistance under the €100 million Enterprise Stabilisation Fund; the number of applications accepted; the amount paid out to date in 2009; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44600/09]