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Financial Resolution No. 8: Excise Duty (Betting Tax) (14 Oct 2008)

Kathleen Lynch: Cars are only a luxury.

Budget Statement 2009 (14 Oct 2008)

Kathleen Lynch: It might buy a box of firelighters.

Budget Statement 2009 (14 Oct 2008)

Kathleen Lynch: There is no public transport.

Budget Statement 2009 (14 Oct 2008)

Kathleen Lynch: That will never happen. It was promised five years ago.

Order of Business (14 Oct 2008)

Kathleen Lynch: The last list of legislation contained the mental capacity Bill, which was to allow people with an intellectual disability to give evidence in court cases where they are the victim. It seems to have slipped off the list and I wonder whether it will be dealt with at all. It is urgent.

Written Answers — State Airports: State Airports (14 Oct 2008)

Kathleen Lynch: Question 150: To ask the Minister for Transport the status of the business plan submitted by the Cork Airport Authority to the Dublin Airport Authority; if he has received a response from the DAA to the business plan; when he will make his views known on the plan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34905/08]

Written Answers — National Spatial Strategy: National Spatial Strategy (14 Oct 2008)

Kathleen Lynch: Question 254: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he will confirm that the finance promised for the eastern gateway bridge of the Cork Dockland project will come on stream as scheduled; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34906/08]

Written Answers — Foreign Conflicts: Foreign Conflicts (9 Oct 2008)

Kathleen Lynch: Question 57: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs his views on the statement made by the departing Israeli Prime Minister, Ehud Olmert, that in order to effect a lasting and peaceful settlement in Israel and the Palestinian areas, the Israeli State will have to revert to its pre-1967 borders and that the city of Jerusalem will have to be administered divisionally by both Israeli and...

Written Answers — Overseas Development Aid: Overseas Development Aid (9 Oct 2008)

Kathleen Lynch: Question 63: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs if his attention has been drawn to the food crisis in Ethiopia, reports of which, it is suggested, the Government may be trying to suppress although the UN's World Food Programme reports that it is receiving increasing reports of hunger related mortality; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34196/08]

Order of Business (9 Oct 2008)

Kathleen Lynch: On promised legislation, we all agree with the Minister that we are in uncharted waters.

Order of Business (9 Oct 2008)

Kathleen Lynch: In the light of the forthcoming budget, where stands funding for the Disability Bill——

Order of Business (9 Oct 2008)

Kathleen Lynch: ——and the promised sectoral plans? Will the necessary funding be made available to put in place the sectoral plans?

Order of Business (9 Oct 2008)

Kathleen Lynch: You are pre-judging him, a Cheann Comhairle.

Written Answers — Sports Facilities: Sports Facilities (8 Oct 2008)

Kathleen Lynch: Question 180: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism if he will initiate a review of the performance of athletes at the Beijing Olympics; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33771/08]

Unemployment: Motion (Resumed) (8 Oct 2008)

Kathleen Lynch: People who have lost their jobs are about to lose their homes to the banks which they bailed out as taxpayers. This Government is doing nothing about it. These are the same people who were forced into working under C2s, although those of us who thought it was a bad idea not to pay tax when one was working told them not to do it and that in the long term it would not be good for them. They...

Unemployment: Motion (Resumed) (8 Oct 2008)

Kathleen Lynch: The Government cut the grant.

Unemployment: Motion (Resumed) (8 Oct 2008)

Kathleen Lynch: I was struck by two headlines in this week's newspapers. The first concerned a banker whose organisation was one of the six banks in negotiations with the Government on its historic guarantee. He bought 1 million shares for what he described as unknown reasons. These shares increased in value but nothing was done about it. On the same day another headline stated the number brought before...

Written Answers — National Drugs Strategy: National Drugs Strategy (7 Oct 2008)

Kathleen Lynch: Question 157: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the plans proposed or the action that is or has taken place in relation to the misuse of illicit drugs and alcohol in the south east region; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33514/08]

Unemployment: Motion (7 Oct 2008)

Kathleen Lynch: Is that agreed? Agreed.

Unemployment: Motion (7 Oct 2008)

Kathleen Lynch: The Minister has two and a half minutes remaining.