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Written Answers — Alternative Energy Projects: Alternative Energy Projects (12 May 2010)

James Reilly: Question 234: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if it is his stated goal to support indigenous biomass to meet the energy targets of co-firing 30 biomass in the peat stations by 2015; the strategy he has to achieve this target through indigenous biomass; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19637/10]

Written Answers — Alternative Energy Projects: Alternative Energy Projects (12 May 2010)

James Reilly: Question 235: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the final clarification on when an announcement will be made regarding the REFIT price for Miscanthus and other biomass burned in peat power stations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19638/10]

Central Bank Reform Bill 2010: Second Stage (Resumed) (12 May 2010)

James Reilly: I thank the Ceann Comhairle for giving me so much time. He will not be telling me to be in order or anything like that.

Central Bank Reform Bill 2010: Second Stage (Resumed) (12 May 2010)

James Reilly: I am pleased to have an opportunity to speak on this Bill, which is a smokescreen to deflect from the fact that the Government ignored the warnings of the Central Bank during the Celtic tiger years.

Central Bank Reform Bill 2010: Second Stage (Resumed) (12 May 2010)

James Reilly: At a time when the current Taoiseach was Minister for Finance, the Central Bank stated clearly in three separate financial stability reports that the Irish financial system faced grave risks. The Central Bank felt so strongly about these risks that it mentioned them in its annual reports of 2004, 2005 and 2006, also when the Taoiseach was Minister for Finance. The annual reports of the...

Central Bank Reform Bill 2010: Second Stage (Resumed) (12 May 2010)

James Reilly: We simply cannot afford to bail out Anglo Irish Bank. The Minister's assertion that we turned the corner towards the end of last year and the beginning of this year does not appear realistic.

Central Bank Reform Bill 2010: Second Stage (Resumed) (12 May 2010)

James Reilly: I do not think so.

Central Bank Reform Bill 2010: Second Stage (Resumed) (12 May 2010)

James Reilly: All one has to do is look at what is happening. Through what can only be described as clever accountancy the Minister sought to describe the €4 billion already put into Anglo Irish Bank as an investment. The European Commission certainly does not agree with that. It now wants the Government to put that sum on the books. One could be forgiven for the perception that the very clever...

Central Bank Reform Bill 2010: Second Stage (Resumed) (12 May 2010)

James Reilly: The country is standing on the edge of a cliff. We need to face up to those issues. The Bill is a waste of the House's time. Rome is burning and we are arguing about the nitty gritty technicalities of reforming the structures of the Central Bank when, in fairness to it, it clearly warned us, but the man who should have been listening and the person who had responsibility for listening did...

Central Bank Reform Bill 2010: Second Stage (Resumed) (12 May 2010)

James Reilly: By clever accountancy, such as the €4 billion to Anglo Irish Bank?

Central Bank Reform Bill 2010: Second Stage (Resumed) (12 May 2010)

James Reilly: Nobody was suggesting that.

Central Bank Reform Bill 2010: Second Stage (Resumed) (12 May 2010)

James Reilly: The Minister is not responding to all of them

Central Bank Reform Bill 2010: Second Stage (Resumed) (12 May 2010)

James Reilly: Will the Minister address the other point?

Order of Business. (12 May 2010)

James Reilly: I wish to raise two matters. First, as a result of all the recent hospital bed closures around the country, people have to wait even longer for service and lie on trolleys for even longer then they did hitherto. Will the Taoiseach inform the House when the eligibility for health personal services Bill will be introduced? Will he consider inserting a provision in that Bill that if a person...

Order of Business. (12 May 2010)

James Reilly: There is a precedent for such a provision. If customers are waiting in some supermarkets for longer than 25 or 30 minutes, they will not have to pay for their groceries.

Order of Business. (12 May 2010)

James Reilly: At least people will get some sense there is somebody who cares about their health care and there is some accountability for the accident and emergency departments and hospital management to provide a service. The Minister for Health and Children keeps cutting and cutting while promising to improve services. Yesterday I encountered a case in Beaumont Hospital in which a man was lying on a...

Order of Business. (12 May 2010)

James Reilly: That may well be the case but there is a frustration at the Government's lack of ability to deliver the services it is obliged to. The reference pricing for drugs Bill is listed as No. 71 on the Government's legislative programme and will not be taken this session. When I raised this legislation before, the Taoiseach informed me it and the Prescription Charges Bill, No. 9 on the programme,...

Written Answers — Trade Statistics: Trade Statistics (11 May 2010)

James Reilly: Question 87: To ask the Taoiseach the value of imports and exports in euro and as a percentage of GNP with the United Kingdom, the United States of America, the eurozone and the rest of the world each year from 1995 to 2009; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18899/10]

Written Answers — Economic Competitiveness: Economic Competitiveness (11 May 2010)

James Reilly: Question 90: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Innovation if he will provide an index showing Ireland's change in competitiveness with the United Kingdom, the United States of America , the eurozone and the rest of the world each year from 1995 to 2009; the way the change in competitiveness is affected by exchange rate movements and by changes in the general price levels; and if...

Written Answers — House Prices: House Prices (11 May 2010)

James Reilly: Question 119: To ask the Minister for Finance the amount that the price of houses would have to fall in order for the financial system to be at risk, according to the stress tests undertaken for the financial stability report in 2004; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18898/10]