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Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2009: Committee Stage (Resumed) (25 Feb 2009)

Ruairi Quinn: To the best of my knowledge, the Emergency declared in 1939 lasted until 1975.

Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2009: Committee Stage (Resumed) (25 Feb 2009)

Ruairi Quinn: Is a similar timeframe envisaged here?

Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2009: Committee Stage (Resumed) (25 Feb 2009)

Ruairi Quinn: The first in decades.

Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2009: Committee Stage (Resumed) (25 Feb 2009)

Ruairi Quinn: Will the Minister take a question on that matter?

Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2009: Committee Stage (Resumed) (25 Feb 2009)

Ruairi Quinn: The Minister's attitude has answered my question.

Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2009: Committee Stage (Resumed) (25 Feb 2009)

Ruairi Quinn: Tweaking in Donegal is not the same as in Castleknock.

Order of Business (25 Feb 2009)

Ruairi Quinn: I listened to the Tánaiste this morning speaking about the desire for light regulation in recent years whereas now we are looking for enforced regulation. She was perhaps inadvertently referring exclusively to financial regulation. The matter about which many complain is the incomprehensibility of labour law legislation on the Statute Book. The Government promised to bring forward a...

Order of Business (25 Feb 2009)

Ruairi Quinn: If the Taoiseach checks his files, he will see it was one of the many promises made by his predecessor.

Leaders' Questions (25 Feb 2009)

Ruairi Quinn: Hear, hear.

Written Answers — Departmental Agencies: Departmental Agencies (24 Feb 2009)

Ruairi Quinn: Question 79: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment when she expects to receive the report commissioned from the Comptroller and Auditor General into the effectiveness of financial management and control systems in FÁS; if, pending the receipt of the report, she will take action arising from allegations of financial irregularities; and if she will make a...

Written Answers — Departmental Agencies: Departmental Agencies (24 Feb 2009)

Ruairi Quinn: Question 105: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if she will make a statement on the report of the Committee of Public Accounts on FÁS. [7272/09]

Written Answers — Higher Education Grants: Higher Education Grants (24 Feb 2009)

Ruairi Quinn: Question 447: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the reason a person (details supplied) in Dublin 8 applying for a maintenance grant in order to further their education cannot use a letter from a landlord or a sworn affidavit to certify their proof of address in order that they can complete their grant application; his views on whether affidavits are valid legal documents for...

Written Answers — Teachers' Remuneration: Teachers' Remuneration (24 Feb 2009)

Ruairi Quinn: Question 455: To ask the Minister for Education and Science when his Department or the board of Trinity College Dublin was made aware of the unauthorised payment of bonuses and an allowance to certain senior staff at Trinity College; the action his Department and the board of Trinity College took upon becoming aware of the payments; the way these payments were made without authorisation; the...

Written Answers — School Staffing: School Staffing (24 Feb 2009)

Ruairi Quinn: Question 493: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the reason a school (details supplied) in County Galway which had the required 48 students on 30 September 2008 to retain all of its three teachers has been instructed that it will lose one because it no longer meets the increased enrolment number of 49 set by his Department in Circular 0002/2009; the reason his Department increased...

Written Answers — Special Educational Needs: Special Educational Needs (24 Feb 2009)

Ruairi Quinn: Question 496: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the names and addresses of each second level school in receipt of additional teaching resources in respect of special educational needs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7565/09]

Written Answers — Special Educational Needs: Special Educational Needs (24 Feb 2009)

Ruairi Quinn: Question 497: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the names and addresses of each second level school in receipt of additional teaching resources in respect of language support for students for whom English is not their first language; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7566/09]

Written Answers — Residential Care Standards: Residential Care Standards (19 Feb 2009)

Ruairi Quinn: Question 75: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when it is expected that the Health Information and Quality Authority national standards for nursing homes and older elder care units will be published; the timeframe which will be given for homes to come up to the standards; if the same timeframe will apply for public and private facilities; and if she will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (19 Feb 2009)

Ruairi Quinn: Question 72: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when a diabetic retinopathy screening programme will be introduced in accordance with the report on this proposal; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6551/09]

Written Answers — Inland Waterways: Inland Waterways (19 Feb 2009)

Ruairi Quinn: Question 194: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs when dredging work will start on the section of the canal between the Grand Canal Dock and Rathmines Bridge, Dublin; the length of time this work is expected to take; his views on whether flotsam and jetsam fouling propellers, locks out of order, weeds and so on are causing problems for canal users; if he will...

Order of Business (19 Feb 2009)

Ruairi Quinn: Two Bills are required from the Department of Education and Science. The Chairman and members of the Joint Committee on Education and Science have been informed that Committee Stage of the Student Support Bill cannot advance because the Department wishes to introduce a series of amendments. Students depend on the enactment of the Bill to have rationalisation of the grants system proceed....