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Written Answers — Icelandic Investments: Icelandic Investments (16 Oct 2008)

Ciarán Lynch: Question 93: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs if public bodies here have invested funds in Icelandic financial products; the status of such investments; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35503/08]

Written Answers — Icelandic Investments: Icelandic Investments (16 Oct 2008)

Ciarán Lynch: Question 103: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if public bodies here have invested funds in Icelandic financial products; the status of such investments; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35510/08]

Written Answers — Icelandic Investments: Icelandic Investments (16 Oct 2008)

Ciarán Lynch: Question 104: To ask the Minister for Defence if public bodies here have invested funds in Icelandic financial products; the status of such investments; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35504/08]

Written Answers — Icelandic Investments: Icelandic Investments (16 Oct 2008)

Ciarán Lynch: Question 105: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if local authorities and public bodies here have invested funds in Icelandic financial products; the status of such investments; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35195/08]

Written Answers — Local Authority Housing: Local Authority Housing (16 Oct 2008)

Ciarán Lynch: Question 113: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government when funds will be released under the regeneration programme to complete the refurbishment project in a housing estate (details supplied) in County Tipperary and in which 14 houses have been refurbished to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35281/08]

Written Answers — Alternative Energy Projects: Alternative Energy Projects (16 Oct 2008)

Ciarán Lynch: Question 119: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the grants available to encourage the installation of solar panels and geothermal heating in new house construction; the procedures which must be followed to avail of such grants; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35194/08]

Written Answers — Icelandic Investments: Icelandic Investments (16 Oct 2008)

Ciarán Lynch: Question 120: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if public bodies under his Department's aegis have invested funds in Icelandic financial products; the status of such investments; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35502/08]

Written Answers — Departmental Appointments: Departmental Appointments (16 Oct 2008)

Ciarán Lynch: Question 121: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he will confirm that the persons appointed to positions under the Sea Fisheries and Maritime Jurisdiction Act 2006 were appointed in accordance with the regulations set out in the Act; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35295/08]

Written Answers — Icelandic Investments: Icelandic Investments (16 Oct 2008)

Ciarán Lynch: Question 131: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if public bodies here have invested funds in Icelandic financial products; the status of such investments; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35500/08]

Written Answers — Icelandic Investments: Icelandic Investments (16 Oct 2008)

Ciarán Lynch: Question 157: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if public bodies here have invested funds in Icelandic financial products; the status of such investments; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35505/08]

Written Answers — Property Services Regulation: Property Services Regulation (15 Oct 2008)

Ciarán Lynch: Question 34: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of members which will comprise the Property Services Regulatory Authority as discussed in Delivering Homes, Sustaining Communities; the way they will be selected; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35172/08]

Written Answers — Planning Issues: Planning Issues (15 Oct 2008)

Ciarán Lynch: Question 70: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government when the residential density guidelines will be updated; the strategies which will be implemented to increase the quality of new developments as discussed in Delivering Homes, Sustaining Communities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35170/08]

Written Answers — Stage Payments: Stage Payments (15 Oct 2008)

Ciarán Lynch: Question 71: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the position regarding the agreement between his Department and the Construction Industry Federation which would eliminate the practice of stage payments in house purchase contracts in regard to housing estates and which was addressed in Delivering Homes, Sustaining Communities; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Departmental Bodies: Departmental Bodies (15 Oct 2008)

Ciarán Lynch: Question 74: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he will confirm that the functions of the Private Residential Tenancies Board is outside the scope of the Freedom of Information Act 1997 and the scope of the Office of the Ombudsman; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35191/08]

Financial Resolution No. 15: (General) Resumed (15 Oct 2008)

Ciarán Lynch: Listening to Deputy Sherlock speak and recalling how the Government tried to wrap the green flag around itself one is reminded that "patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel." This Government has behaved like a scoundrel. Over the past couple of days we have had an example of what happens when the entire future of a country is invested in a pyramid scheme. The Government invested...

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

Ciarán Lynch: What we are witnessing here is the type of economics written on the back of a cigarette box. We saw it earlier with the calculations of the Minister for Education and Science, Deputy Batt O'Keeffe, on the reintroduction of third level fees. We see it here again this evening with calculations made on a crisis-driven basis rather than with a strategic approach, particularly one to get the...

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

Ciarán Lynch: I have a final point. The community and voluntary sectors, which cannot claim back VAT, buy photocopying machines and equipment. They will find their costs have increased as a result of this measure. There was no examination of the VAT system; it was slapped on. This is the back of a cigarette box economics and hence the cost of living has increased for community groups and those on the...

Written Answers — Homeless Persons: Homeless Persons (14 Oct 2008)

Ciarán Lynch: Question 88: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of children who are alone and homeless in each Health Service Executive region; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34665/08]

Written Answers — Local Authority Housing: Local Authority Housing (14 Oct 2008)

Ciarán Lynch: Question 275: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government his plans to provide a legislative framework in the Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2008 to enable tenants of local authority flats or apartments to purchase their homes under the tenant purchase scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34925/08]

Written Answers — Local Authority Housing: Local Authority Housing (14 Oct 2008)

Ciarán Lynch: Question 271: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the number of children with families who are homeless in each local authority area; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34664/08]