Results 13,121-13,140 of 15,268 for speaker:Kathleen Lynch
- Challenges facing the Health Service: Statements (10 Mar 2009)
Kathleen Lynch: In fairness, there were more questions asked in a half an hour than is normal.
- Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (5 Mar 2009)
Kathleen Lynch: Question 27: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the steps she is taking to ensure that the qualifying criteria for mortgage interest supplement are altered to ensure that they do not discourage people from moving from welfare to work. [9269/09]
- Written Answers — Departmental Expenditure: Departmental Expenditure (5 Mar 2009)
Kathleen Lynch: Question 44: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the amount in extra overtime spent in 2008 and in 2009 to deal with the backlog in processing jobseeker claims. [9268/09]
- Written Answers — Drugs Use: Drugs Use (4 Mar 2009)
Kathleen Lynch: Question 56: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs if he or his Department had consultations with the Department of Health and Children, any health organisations such as the World Health Organisation, or any of his fellow EU Ministers or at EU level in regard to research of the effects of a created drug (details supplied) on those who use cocaine and alcohol; and if...
- Written Answers — Drugs Task Forces: Drugs Task Forces (4 Mar 2009)
Kathleen Lynch: Question 80: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the number of drugs task forces in place; the areas covered by such; the reports received by his Department from each group; the resultant actions taken as a result of such reports; the liaison or action taken between his Department and the Department of Justice, Equality and Law Reform as a result of such reports;...
- Written Answers — Tax Yield: Tax Yield (4 Mar 2009)
Kathleen Lynch: Question 89: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will estimate the revenue that would be gained and lost in a full year by a 1% change in the standard rate of tax; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9051/09]
- Written Answers — Tax Yield: Tax Yield (4 Mar 2009)
Kathleen Lynch: Question 90: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will estimate the revenue that would be gained and lost in a full year by a 1% change in the higher rate of tax; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9052/09]
- Written Answers — Tax Yield: Tax Yield (4 Mar 2009)
Kathleen Lynch: Question 91: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will estimate the revenue that would be gained and lost in a full year by a â¬100 change in the standard rate band; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9053/09]
- Written Answers — Tax Yield: Tax Yield (4 Mar 2009)
Kathleen Lynch: Question 92: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will estimate the revenue that would be gained and lost by a 1% change in the higher rate of VAT; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9054/09]
- Written Answers — Tax Yield: Tax Yield (4 Mar 2009)
Kathleen Lynch: Question 93: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will estimate the revenue that would be gained and lost in a full year by a 1% change in the lower rate of VAT; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9055/09]
- Written Answers — Tax Yield: Tax Yield (4 Mar 2009)
Kathleen Lynch: Question 94: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will estimate the revenue that would be gained and lost in a full year by a â¬1 increase in excise duties on 20 cigarettes and corresponding increases in other tobacco products; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9056/09]
- Written Answers — Tax Yield: Tax Yield (4 Mar 2009)
Kathleen Lynch: Question 95: To ask the Minister for Finance the yield in each of the past five years from taxes on inheritances; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9057/09]
- Written Answers — Tax Yield: Tax Yield (4 Mar 2009)
Kathleen Lynch: Question 96: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will estimate the revenue that would be gained and lost in a full year by a 1% change in the rate of capital gains tax. [9058/09]
- Written Answers — Tax Yield: Tax Yield (4 Mar 2009)
Kathleen Lynch: Question 97: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will estimate the revenue that would be gained and lost in a full year by a 1% change in the rate of inheritance tax. [9059/09]
- Written Answers — Tax Yield: Tax Yield (4 Mar 2009)
Kathleen Lynch: Question 98: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will estimate the revenue that would be gained by a 10% reduction and by a 20% reduction in the thresholds for all groups of inheritance tax. [9060/09]
- Written Answers — Decentralisation Programme: Decentralisation Programme (4 Mar 2009)
Kathleen Lynch: Question 99: To ask the Minister for Finance the current and capital expenditure provided for in 2009 to progress decentralisation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9061/09]
- Written Answers — Departmental Bodies: Departmental Bodies (4 Mar 2009)
Kathleen Lynch: Question 169: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the names of those on the panel of the staffing appeals board; the number of times the number of times the board has met; the number of successful and unsuccessful appeals heard each year over the past five years on a county basis by the staffing appeals board; the criteria determined by him for decisions by the board; and if he...
- Departmental Strategy Statements. (4 Mar 2009)
Kathleen Lynch: When the history of this period of Government is written, I am not certain the headline will be the downturn in the economy but how the Government set out to attack the most vulnerable in society. It started with the over 70s and then moved on to people on disability allowance, with the stipulation that they could not receive it until they were 18. Both of these measures were reversed but...
- Order of Business (4 Mar 2009)
Kathleen Lynch: It is difficult to get a word in between two heavyweights. While I would not normally get involved in this matter, the country needs someone with vision, not historians, but that is all to be found on the other side of the House.
- Order of Business (4 Mar 2009)
Kathleen Lynch: As we speak, a man called John Scannell is being buried in Cork. This matter relates to legislation. The man spent a year in a coma after being pulled out of a river. Due to severe brain damage, he never regained consciousness. He threw himself into the river because he had been discharged from a psychiatric unit despite the fact that he told those running the unit he was suicidal....