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- Written Answers — Higher Education Authority Funding: Higher Education Authority Funding (6 Oct 2009)
Arthur Morgan: Question 1130: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if the Higher Education Authority funding will be reduced as a result of the Special Group on Public Service Numbers and Expenditure Programmes proposal to merge the HEA and his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33227/09]
- Written Answers — Higher Education Authority Funding: Higher Education Authority Funding (6 Oct 2009)
Arthur Morgan: Question 1128: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the budget for the Higher Education Authority access funding for 2009; the budget for HEA access funding in each year for the past ten years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33225/09]
- Written Answers — Higher Education Authority Funding: Higher Education Authority Funding (6 Oct 2009)
Arthur Morgan: Question 1129: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the envisioned budget for the Higher Education Authority access funding for 2010; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33226/09]
- Written Answers — Higher Education Funding: Higher Education Funding (6 Oct 2009)
Arthur Morgan: Question 1131: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the initiatives that are in place to support international students in higher education; the funding that is in place to support international students in higher education; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33228/09]
- Written Answers — Special Educational Needs: Special Educational Needs (6 Oct 2009)
Arthur Morgan: Question 1250: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if his attention has been drawn to a situation (details supplied) whereby a pupil with Asperger's syndrome is not being facilitated in the school with the prescribed hours as set down by his Department. [33924/09]
- Written Answers — Agri-Food Sector: Agri-Food Sector (24 Sep 2009)
Arthur Morgan: Question 118: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the number of companies involved in the agri-food sector; the number of companies in the agri-food sector for each of the past ten years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32872/09]
- Written Answers — Agri-Food Sector: Agri-Food Sector (24 Sep 2009)
Arthur Morgan: Question 119: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the number of companies involved in food processing; the breakdown between large companies and smaller micro enterprises involved in food processing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32873/09]
- Written Answers — Agri-Food Sector: Agri-Food Sector (24 Sep 2009)
Arthur Morgan: Question 120: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the number of agrifood businesses that have been created over the past five years; the average size of new agrifood businesses; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32874/09]
- Written Answers — Agri-Food Sector: Agri-Food Sector (24 Sep 2009)
Arthur Morgan: Question 121: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the number of jobs created in the agrifood sector in the past five years; the number of job losses in the agrifood sector in the past five years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32875/09]
- Written Answers — Agri-Food Sector: Agri-Food Sector (24 Sep 2009)
Arthur Morgan: Question 122: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the number of food production companies that are involved in organic production; the number of companies that are involved in organic production in each of the past five years; the number of organic companies as a percentage of total companies involved in the agrifood sector; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Written Answers — Agri-Food Sector: Agri-Food Sector (24 Sep 2009)
Arthur Morgan: Question 123: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the number of agrifood companies as a percentage of total companies and businesses here; the number of export orientated agrifood companies as a percentage of export orientated companies here; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32877/09]
- Order of Business (23 Sep 2009)
Arthur Morgan: This is a highly important matter.
- Written Answers — Human Rights Issues: Human Rights Issues (23 Sep 2009)
Arthur Morgan: Question 29: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs the action he has taken in the past 12 months in support of efforts to rehouse the Roma refugees living near toxic waste dumps in Mitrovica, Kosova; the further action he will take; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31758/09]
- Written Answers — Human Rights Issues: Human Rights Issues (23 Sep 2009)
Arthur Morgan: Question 71: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs his views on whether the EU's Free Trade Agreement negotiations with Columbia should be halted in view of the increasing number of murders of trade unionists in that country; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31757/09]
- National Asset Management Agency Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (23 Sep 2009)
Arthur Morgan: Not with the state of Anglo Irish Bank. The Minister of State knows what happened in Anglo Irish Bank.
- National Asset Management Agency Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (23 Sep 2009)
Arthur Morgan: Nobody else would lend the money.
- National Asset Management Agency Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (23 Sep 2009)
Arthur Morgan: I welcome the opportunity to address the House on this legislation which I believe is the crime of the century. It will be unmatched in the history of this State or any State in Europe. The only reason the ECB is bailing out the banks here or putting up the money that the taxpayer is underwriting is because nobody else in the international financial markets will touch them. They know the...
- National Asset Management Agency Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (23 Sep 2009)
Arthur Morgan: They should not do that without going to the country by way of referendum to seek the permission of the people.
- National Asset Management Agency Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (23 Sep 2009)
Arthur Morgan: I welcome his intervention. I am happy to hear from the Minister of State at any time.
- National Asset Management Agency Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (23 Sep 2009)
Arthur Morgan: The Minister of State does not believe this is a bailout for bankers. It is a bailout for bankers and speculators, and I will explain why. I will deal with the bankers first. The estimation the Minister for Finance gave to this House last week was that there is approximately â¬88 billion in toxic loans but, of course, he used the atrocious term "hair cut". It is back down to a 47%...