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Written Answers — Health Service Staff: Health Service Staff (7 Dec 2010)

Michael Creed: Question 104: To ask the Minister for Health and Children her views on whether the response of the Dental Council of Ireland to its obligations under the Dentists Act 1985 to auxiliary dental workers has been adequate, given the fact that the only auxiliary dental workers who have been given cover or status by the dental council are clinical dental technicians who were obliged to go abroad...

Written Answers — National Minimum Wage: National Minimum Wage (7 Dec 2010)

Michael Creed: Question 252: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if he has calculated the cost of reducing the national minimum wage by €1 in view of the likely increased entitlement of those in receipt of the minimum wage to increased rent allowance payments, family income supplement entitlements and other secondary social welfare benefits; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46418/10]

Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (7 Dec 2010)

Michael Creed: Question 327: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food when a person (details supplied) in County Cork will receive payment in respect of their REP scheme 4 application; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46184/10]

Financial Resolution No. 23: Income Tax - Artists' Exemption (7 Dec 2010)

Michael Creed: Would the Deputy call that a work of art?

Financial Resolution No. 23: Income Tax - Artists' Exemption (7 Dec 2010)

Michael Creed: I remind Deputy O'Donoghue that Yeats also wrote: "All changed, changed utterly: A terrible beauty is born." Regrettably, that is the reality we are coming to face in painful and stark terms in the context of this year's budget. I am particularly interested in two issues, the first of which is the changes in section 23 reliefs. What is the basis for the Government's decision to restrict the...

Financial Resolution No. 23: Income Tax - Artists' Exemption (7 Dec 2010)

Michael Creed: Yes, certainly, but-----

Financial Resolution No. 23: Income Tax - Artists' Exemption (7 Dec 2010)

Michael Creed: We have strayed a long way from the original raison d'être for it. This is an attempt to go back to basics but critical to that would be a clear definition of what constitutes artistic endeavour. As I understand it, it is a question of a negotiation or a conversation between the Revenue Commissioners and the artist. That is too loose an arrangement to be acceptable. I note the former...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (2 Dec 2010)

Michael Creed: Question 126: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason he is not processing applications regarding the payment of arrears on State contributory pension where entitlement has been established by virtue of farm partnership and the reconciliation of PRSI contributions; the number of applications being delayed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45729/10]

EU-IMF Programme for Ireland and National Recovery Plan 2011-14: Statements (Resumed) (1 Dec 2010)

Michael Creed: Does the Minister accept that we are a pawn in a bigger game, one that is about saving the euro? Does he not also accept that the markets have not been reassured by the deal because the contagion is spreading, seeing that even the spreads on Belgian debt are coming into the equation? Does he accept that the markets know the deal is not the end game in saving the euro, given the failure to...

Meat Imports (1 Dec 2010)

Michael Creed: I would like to ask the Minister of State about the issue of imports into the Community from third countries. He has referred to beef imports from South America and lamb imports from New Zealand. I refer specifically to the issue of equivalence, which means the product that comes in should meet the standards foisted on producers in the 27 EU member states. I am speaking in the context of...

Sugar Beet Production (1 Dec 2010)

Michael Creed: Question 14: To ask the Minister for Agriculture; Fisheries and Food given the potential of the sugar beet industry as a source of renewable energy as well as an employer and agri-food sector and on foot of the report published by the European Court of Auditors, if he is prepared to explore any future development of the industry here; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45256/10]

Sugar Beet Production (1 Dec 2010)

Michael Creed: The Minister's response is interesting. I ask him to place in the Oireachtas Library a copy of the agreement reached between the Commission and the Government in February 2006 because it is a difficult document to access and one that is critical to this debate. The Minister has outlined the reasons for potential. I am aware of the report from Cork County Council. The problem is that the...

Sugar Beet Production (1 Dec 2010)

Michael Creed: The Government decommissioned a fully viable plant, it should look at the EU Court of Auditors document.

Sugar Beet Production (1 Dec 2010)

Michael Creed: The then Minister, Deputy Mary Coughlan was at the negotiating table.

Sugar Beet Production (1 Dec 2010)

Michael Creed: The Minister should be ashamed of himself.

Sugar Beet Production (1 Dec 2010)

Michael Creed: Compensation.

Sugar Beet Production (1 Dec 2010)

Michael Creed: I understand the Minister's defensiveness about this.

Sugar Beet Production (1 Dec 2010)

Michael Creed: There are many that should shoulder the blame, not least the Department, the European Commission and Greencore, but can we salvage something from this? I support the point made by Deputy Coonan. I am not preoccupied with the issue of whether a factory is built in Mallow or Thurles, but an industry can be re-established. Thousands of growers and factory workers were sacrificed on the altar...

Sugar Beet Production (1 Dec 2010)

Michael Creed: That is not the point.

Stability and the Budgetary Process: Motion (30 Nov 2010)

Michael Creed: I commend Deputy Noonan for tabling the motion before the House and for affording me an opportunity to make a few brief comments on it. The country yearns for stability more than anything else; political stability and economic stability. The only real way that can be delivered is by the people having their say in a general election. Politicians do not like elections at the best of times....