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Leaders' Questions (4 Dec 2007)

Ruairi Quinn: What is the Taoiseach hiding?

Leaders' Questions (4 Dec 2007)

Ruairi Quinn: About when he will be before the tribunal.

Leaders' Questions (4 Dec 2007)

Ruairi Quinn: This gets sadder day by day. The Taoiseach and I go back a long time.

Order of Business (4 Dec 2007)

Ruairi Quinn: The House will rise for the welcome Christmas recess in less than three weeks. The student support Bill is not listed for this week. Does the information available to the Taoiseach indicate whether the Bill will be published in the remaining weeks of the session?

Order of Business (4 Dec 2007)

Ruairi Quinn: Everybody in the House knows it is listed for this session because that has been the case since the session started. Does the Taoiseach have any additional information? Does he know if the Bill has been cleared or printed or is with the Parliamentary Counsel or whether we will have to wait until February next year?

Order of Business (29 Nov 2007)

Ruairi Quinn: Deputy Finian McGrath took the shilling.

Order of Business (29 Nov 2007)

Ruairi Quinn: Last night when the Tánaiste invited the House to have a debate on various issues, I interjected "not statements" with which he agreed. In the spirit of that contribution, which was a measured one, he will accept today's proceedings were negotiated in advance. However, I support Deputy Kenny's views on motions rather than statements. To facilitate the House and the Government Whip, if a...

Order of Business (29 Nov 2007)

Ruairi Quinn: Perhaps the Green Party Members of the House can tell us if they will be represented at the United Nations climate change conference in Bali.

Confidence in Minister for Health and Children: Motion (Resumed) (28 Nov 2007)

Ruairi Quinn: We need debate, not statements.

Confidence in Minister for Health and Children: Motion (Resumed) (28 Nov 2007)

Ruairi Quinn: The Tánaiste is the man who named it "Angola". He could not get out of the Department of Health and Children quickly enough.

Confidence in Minister for Health and Children: Motion (Resumed) (28 Nov 2007)

Ruairi Quinn: Hear, hear.

Confidence in Minister for Health and Children: Motion (Resumed) (28 Nov 2007)

Ruairi Quinn: She sacked the Secretary General of the Department.

Confidence in Minister for Health and Children: Motion (Resumed) (28 Nov 2007)

Ruairi Quinn: It was not confined to Portlaoise.

Written Answers — Consumer Protection: Consumer Protection (28 Nov 2007)

Ruairi Quinn: Question 92: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if his attention has been drawn to the recent proposals from the European Commission to close down airline websites that contained irregularities or incomplete information in regard to ticket pricing; if he has plans for a similar approach at national level; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31129/07]

Written Answers — Equal Opportunities Employment: Equal Opportunities Employment (28 Nov 2007)

Ruairi Quinn: Question 94: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment his view of the document recently published by the Irish Congress of Trade Unions, A Fair Way In, proposals for a fair regularisation process for undocumented workers in Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31128/07]

Written Answers — Schools Building Projects: Schools Building Projects (28 Nov 2007)

Ruairi Quinn: Question 232: To ask the Minister for Education and Science her views on the recommendation of the commission on school accommodation area development plan for Dublin north that a second 16 classroom primary level school should be located on the same site as the promised permanent building for a school (details supplied) in County Dublin; if this school will be needed from September 2008 to...

EU Directives. (28 Nov 2007)

Ruairi Quinn: Question 54: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the position he will adopt at the European Council on 5 December 2007 in relation to the European Parliament and European Council Directive on Working Conditions for Temporary Agency Workers which was first issued by the European Commission on 20 March 2002 and received a first reading in the European Parliament and which...

EU Directives. (28 Nov 2007)

Ruairi Quinn: I thank the Minister of State for his reply and I support his efforts to ensure we have one of the most flexible labour markets in the EU. We have had it for many years, but it need not come at the cost of denying agency workers on sites or locations working alongside domestic workers the same rights as those on the shop floor. This is the net point. Some 27,000 people, 2% of the...

EU Directives. (28 Nov 2007)

Ruairi Quinn: It is precisely because I know how Council negotiations proceed that I have put this question. For those coming to Ireland as agency workers, particularly in the skilled and semi-skilled areas, the type of competition in question is not necessarily across borders from the continent to the island. Ireland is not suffering in attracting labour. Ireland will remain attractive to other workers...

EU Directives. (28 Nov 2007)

Ruairi Quinn: We saw what happened in Irish Ferries. The only way to deal with it is through immediate domestic legislation. When will that legislation be introduced?