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Financial Resolution No. 2: Stamp Duty (5 Dec 2007)

Seán Sherlock: Will Deputy Curran please stop talking rubbish?

Financial Resolution No. 2: Stamp Duty (5 Dec 2007)

Seán Sherlock: It is merely talk for talk's sake.

Financial Resolution No. 2: Stamp Duty (5 Dec 2007)

Seán Sherlock: What are the human and social implications?

Financial Resolution No. 2: Stamp Duty (5 Dec 2007)

Seán Sherlock: There is a generational issue at play here. If people only recently became used to dealing with cheque transactions, they cannot now be penalised. It is easy for people of my generation and that which immediately preceded it because we are used to electronic banking, on-line banking, using ATM cards etc., but not everybody is in a position to carry on their affairs in this way, particularly...

Financial Resolution No. 2: Stamp Duty (5 Dec 2007)

Seán Sherlock: ——this is the way to do it. We do not want to encourage people to return to acting in this way. We want to make it easier for them to make transactions.

Budget Statement 2008 (5 Dec 2007)

Seán Sherlock: It does not include spending on non-national roads either.

Competitiveness of the Economy: Motion (Resumed) (5 Dec 2007)

Seán Sherlock: In recent times, November has been one of the best months of the year for the Minister for Finance. Today, of all days, will tell a different story. The serious decline in the housing construction market clearly confirms the continuing fall in Exchequer receipts from taxes such as stamp duty. Exchequer figures for November show that total tax receipts are almost €2 billion behind the...

Competitiveness of the Economy: Motion (Resumed) (5 Dec 2007)

Seán Sherlock: I wish to share time with Deputy Michael D. Higgins.

Written Answers — Anti-Poverty Strategy: Anti-Poverty Strategy (4 Dec 2007)

Seán Sherlock: Question 83: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the way he will address the poverty traps identified in proposals for supporting lone parents; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32185/07]

Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (4 Dec 2007)

Seán Sherlock: Question 90: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the reforms that will be made to the back to school clothing and footwear allowance scheme for 2007; and if he will commit to amending legislation to disregard income from carer's allowance. [32186/07]

Written Answers — Hospital Staff: Hospital Staff (4 Dec 2007)

Seán Sherlock: Question 269: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if the process for appointing a senior radiographer for Mallow General Hospital has been expedited; if so, when the person will commence employment; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32432/07]

Written Answers — Telecommunications Services: Telecommunications Services (4 Dec 2007)

Seán Sherlock: Question 621: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if broadband exchanges are to be enabled by Eircom in areas (details supplied) in County Cork to provide broadband access; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32452/07]

Written Answers — North-South Ministerial Council: North-South Ministerial Council (29 Nov 2007)

Seán Sherlock: Question 39: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism the discussions he has had with the North-South Ministerial Council to bring about the merger of functions between Fáilte Ireland, Tourism Ireland and the Northern Ireland Tourist Board; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31451/07]

Confidence in Minister for Health and Children: Motion (Resumed) (28 Nov 2007)

Seán Sherlock: We have now reached a point where people have lost confidence in the system of delivering cancer care. That people's confidence in the system has been shaken to its foundations is putting it mildly. That thousands of women who are at risk of breast cancer face a cloud of uncertainty is a sad indictment of the Government. That a committee of this House was informed by the HSE that 97 women...

Confidence in Minister for Health and Children: Motion (Resumed) (28 Nov 2007)

Seán Sherlock: If the answer was "Yes", the Minister would not only have referred the matter to the HSE, she would have followed this issue to its proper conclusion and taken total responsibility. That conclusion should have been the restoration of confidencein a system upon which thousands of women rely. What is the culture that now pervades the politics of health? It is one where responsibility is...

Leaders' Questions (28 Nov 2007)

Seán Sherlock: The Taoiseach is acknowledging that the Labour Party position is correct.

Written Answers — Common Foreign and Security Policy: Common Foreign and Security Policy (27 Nov 2007)

Seán Sherlock: Question 69: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs the recent matters dealt with by the clearing house of COREPER in terms of foreign policy of the European Union. [30866/07]

Written Answers — Common Foreign and Security Policy: Common Foreign and Security Policy (27 Nov 2007)

Seán Sherlock: Question 93: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs his proposals for the improvement of accountability to parliaments of Member States of the European Union in relation to decision making on common, foreign and security policy and European security and defence. [30865/07]

Written Answers — Decentralisation Programme: Decentralisation Programme (27 Nov 2007)

Seán Sherlock: Question 427: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the position of the decentralisation of her Department's office from Cork city to Fermoy; the progress on the recruitment of staff for the facility; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30586/07]

Food Industry. (22 Nov 2007)

Seán Sherlock: Question 2: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the steps she will take to combat rising inflation in food prices; if her attention has been drawn to the latest FAO food facts report, which expects that many countries will pay more for importing cereals from world markets than they did previously; and if she will implement measures to ensure growth in the cereals sector...