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Departmental Expenditure. (3 Oct 2006)

Ruairi Quinn: My questions relate to those two topics. First, there is a kind of holding piece for the McCracken tribunal. Is it likely the tribunal's work will be completed or finished? What is outstanding that requires a small reservation in the Estimates? The Taoiseach has already answered on the Moriarty tribunal, which is the second issue I wish to raise. What is the Taoiseach's estimate as to...

Social Partnership Agreements. (3 Oct 2006)

Ruairi Quinn: Will the proposals on employment rights and compliance be established on an interim basis before the necessary statutory legislation necessary is brought in?

Written Answers — Public Transport: Public Transport (28 Sep 2006)

Ruairi Quinn: Question 100: To ask the Minister for Transport when he proposes to provide Dublin Bus with the extra buses it requires to service current demand. [30064/06]

Dublin Transport Authority. (28 Sep 2006)

Ruairi Quinn: Question 36: To ask the Minister for Transport his plans in relation to the establishment of a Dublin transport authority; the transport functions it will have; the planning and development functions it will have; the bodies or authorities it will replace; and the bodies or authorities that will sit on its board. [30048/06]

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (27 Sep 2006)

Ruairi Quinn: Question 594: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the reason the Health Service Executive has ceased funding to the Irish Osteoporosis Society; if she instructed the HSE to cease such funding; the plans she has to ensure immediate funding to the Irish Osteoporosis Society; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [28293/06]

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (27 Sep 2006)

Ruairi Quinn: Question 208: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to the fact that there have been calls for an improvement for allergy services for children here; her views on the lack of specialist allergy services in place to support general practitioners; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29538/06]

Written Answers — Citizenship Applications: Citizenship Applications (27 Sep 2006)

Ruairi Quinn: Question 277: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will make a speedy decision on a certificate of naturalisation application from a person (details supplied) in Dublin 15; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28819/06]

Written Answers — Tax Code: Tax Code (27 Sep 2006)

Ruairi Quinn: Question 494: To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to the ruling by the European Court of Justice on 12 September 2006 (details supplied) and the consequent implications for the interface between multinationals operating within the European Union and the national corporation tax rates offered by individual European states; the changes which, are necessary in the...

Written Answers — Arts Funding: Arts Funding (27 Sep 2006)

Ruairi Quinn: Question 624: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when a decision will be reached on the application to the Health Service Executive by an organisation (details supplied) for funding for their arts programme in the three domestic violence refuges; the reason a decision has not been made on this application; the plans the Government have in relation to funding this and similar...

Written Answers — Citizenship Applications: Citizenship Applications (27 Sep 2006)

Ruairi Quinn: Question 890: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs if a person (details supplied) will receive a certificate of naturalisation and consequently an Irish passport; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28492/06]

Written Answers — Military Neutrality: Military Neutrality (27 Sep 2006)

Ruairi Quinn: Question 892: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs if airports here are being used to transport military equipment from, to, or on behalf of Israel; if requests for licences for such through-carriage have been requested; if so, the number of same; the number of these licences which have been granted; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28287/06]

Written Answers — Private Employment Agencies: Private Employment Agencies (27 Sep 2006)

Ruairi Quinn: Question 930: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the reason Ireland has not ratified the International Labour Organisation's Convention 181 on Private Employment Agencies adopted in 1997; when this Convention will be ratified and enacted in Irish law; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28228/06]

Written Answers — Employment Rights: Employment Rights (27 Sep 2006)

Ruairi Quinn: Question 939: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he proposes to introduce a licensing system for employers to help curb abuses of existing labour laws as well as the exploitation of migrant workers; the steps he proposes to take to further ensure the proper treatment of employees; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28464/06]

Written Answers — Employment Rights: Employment Rights (27 Sep 2006)

Ruairi Quinn: Question 944: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if the findings of the European Court of Justice in a case (details supplied) have been incorporated into Irish legislation; if his Department has responded to the European Commission's repeated requests in relation to this case; when he intends to incorporate the findings of the case into Irish law; the reason there has...

Written Answers — Job Losses: Job Losses (27 Sep 2006)

Ruairi Quinn: Question 947: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the steps which have been taken to replace the 350 full and part-time jobs lost at the NEC factory in Ballivor, County Meath, in March 2006; the number of new jobs that have been created in that area suited to the skill set of the workers made redundant since March 2006; the steps he will take between now and the end of...

Written Answers — Industrial Development: Industrial Development (27 Sep 2006)

Ruairi Quinn: Question 950: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if his attention has been drawn to the decision of the European Court of Justice on 12 September 2006 (details supplied) with regard to a taxation case involving a European multinational corporation; if he has requested the IDA and other agencies to indicate to him the implications for Ireland in relation to its continued...

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (27 Sep 2006)

Ruairi Quinn: Question 972: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the reasons a person (details supplied) had their homeless benefit withdrawn by the then Northern Area Health Board in January 2003; the steps which were taken in relation to this case to ensure that the benefits were not being incorrectly suspended; the appeals or reviews of this case which were undertaken; the process this...

Written Answers — Road Traffic Offences: Road Traffic Offences (27 Sep 2006)

Ruairi Quinn: Question 1062: To ask the Minister for Transport if he has plans to extend the powers of clampers to permit them to clamp vehicles displaying no tax disk, insurance disk or national car test disk, or displaying invalid disks; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28268/06]

Written Answers — Transport Licences: Transport Licences (27 Sep 2006)

Ruairi Quinn: Question 1075: To ask the Minister for Transport if airports here are being used to transport military equipment from, to, or on behalf of Israel; if requests for licences for such through-carriage have been requested; if so, the number of same; the number of these licences which have been granted; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28289/06]

Written Answers — Private Rented Accommodation: Private Rented Accommodation (27 Sep 2006)

Ruairi Quinn: Question 1500: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government his attention has been drawn to the fact that landlords who engage the services of letting agents or auctioneers to rent their property have given instructions not to reveal contact details or to communicate to the Private Residential Tenancy Board and the local authority that they are engaged in commercial...