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Order of Business (15 Dec 2009)

Michael Creed: What is at issue now is whether the taxpayer is exposed to a greater liability because of the manner in which the scheme was implemented.

Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill: Committee and Remaining Stages (Resumed) (11 Dec 2009)

Michael Creed: The saddest testimony to the mismanagement of the economy in recent years is the fact that 83,362 people under the age of 25 are unemployed. In November 2007, some 62 people under the age of 25 in my home town of Macroom were listed as unemployed. By November 2009, this had risen to 287 - a 362% increase over two years. In Newmarket, which is in my constituency, in November 2007, some 73...

Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2009: Committee and Remaining Stages (11 Dec 2009)

Michael Creed: She is saving the State money.

Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2009: Committee and Remaining Stages (11 Dec 2009)

Michael Creed: We do not know it all yet.

Written Answers — Departmental Expenditure: Departmental Expenditure (10 Dec 2009)

Michael Creed: Question 41: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the estimated saving made by the Irish Prison Service arising from the closure of prisons at Spike Island and the Curragh; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46260/09]

Written Answers — Flood Relief: Flood Relief (10 Dec 2009)

Michael Creed: Question 78: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will make arrangements for the Office of Public Works to organise a cleaning of the river bank and river bed downstream of Ballingeary village, County Cork, at the ford, in order to prevent recurrence of recent flooding; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46458/09]

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (10 Dec 2009)

Michael Creed: Question 94: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the position regarding the proposal to develop a primary care centre at a location (details supplied) in County Cork; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46459/09]

Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (10 Dec 2009)

Michael Creed: Hear, hear.

Written Answers — Integrated Ticketing Scheme: Integrated Ticketing Scheme (9 Dec 2009)

Michael Creed: Question 68: To ask the Minister for Transport when the full integrated ticketing scheme will commence; the estimated cost for developing and implementing integrated ticketing annually since its commencement; his views on whether 10 years for the roll out of this project could be considered a success; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45938/09]

Financial Resolution No. 2: Excise (Mineral Oil) (9 Dec 2009)

Michael Creed: Did Deputy Cuffe sell his oil shares?

Financial Resolution No. 2: Excise (Mineral Oil) (9 Dec 2009)

Michael Creed: That is rubbish.

Financial Resolution No. 2: Excise (Mineral Oil) (9 Dec 2009)

Michael Creed: That is rubbish. Every target has been missed. Deputy O'Dea's Limerick regeneration is gone. He is like Mighty Mouse in Limerick and Mickey Mouse in Dublin.

Financial Resolution No. 2: Excise (Mineral Oil) (9 Dec 2009)

Michael Creed: It will be easier to count snails than Green Party members after the next election.

Financial Resolution No. 2: Excise (Mineral Oil) (9 Dec 2009)

Michael Creed: I always understood the principle underpinning a carbon tax was that it would be revenue neutral. The manner in which it is being introduced is not.

Financial Resolution No. 2: Excise (Mineral Oil) (9 Dec 2009)

Michael Creed: I apologise. I am addressing those whom I perceive to be the architects of the tax but I should not differentiate between the Government parties. For example, targets were recently published for blended fuels but no policy incentives have been laid down to increase biofuel production. We will import biofuels to meet the targets.

Financial Resolution No. 2: Excise (Mineral Oil) (9 Dec 2009)

Michael Creed: The much trumpeted €121million allocation for forestry and biofuels was announced by the Minister for Finance as if new money was being provided. This represents a net increase of €2 million over the allocation for 2009. The ink is not dry on the revised programme for Government, which has a target of planting 10,000 hectares of forestry annually. The Department did not even plant...

Financial Resolution No. 2: Excise (Mineral Oil) (9 Dec 2009)

Michael Creed: We are not going back to the pony and trap form of agriculture. If Deputy Gogarty has nothing constructive to say, he would be as well off leaving the Chamber. I appeal to the Minister to be true to the principles of a carbon tax, which are behaviour changing and revenue neutral. It meets neither, as proposed.

Financial Resolution No. 2: Excise (Mineral Oil) (9 Dec 2009)

Michael Creed: Hear, hear.

Financial Resolution No. 2: Excise (Mineral Oil) (9 Dec 2009)

Michael Creed: Aithníon ciaróg ciaróg eile.

Financial Resolution No. 2: Excise (Mineral Oil) (9 Dec 2009)

Michael Creed: What about the incinerator?