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Employment Permits Bill 2005: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage. (3 May 2006)

Ruairi Quinn: The Department of Justice, Equality and Law Reform will seek a period of eight hours.

Leaders' Questions. (3 May 2006)

Ruairi Quinn: The Taoiseach could have instructed them.

Leaders' Questions. (3 May 2006)

Ruairi Quinn: The Taoiseach could have instructed them. They are answerable to the Government.

Leaders' Questions. (3 May 2006)

Ruairi Quinn: The Ceann Comhairle does not have to stand for re-election.

Written Answers — Proposed Legislation: Proposed Legislation (27 Apr 2006)

Ruairi Quinn: Question 15: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform his proposals to reform the law relating to the protection of personal privacy; if the heads of a Bill have been approved by the Government; if so, if he will publish same; when he expects to bring a Bill before the Houses of the Oireachtas; the consultations he is planning prior to the publication of the bill; and if he...

Asylum Applications. (27 Apr 2006)

Ruairi Quinn: Question 6: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of applications for asylum received in each year from 2002 to 2005 and to date in 2006; the number of applications approved by the Refugee Appeals Commission; the number of appeals submitted to the Refugee Appeals Tribunal; the number of such appeals upheld; the number of applications for leave to remain; the...

Health (Repayment Scheme) Bill 2006: Second Stage (Resumed). (27 Apr 2006)

Ruairi Quinn: I wish to deal with this measure under a number of headings, namely, the history of the saga which goes back to the early 1970s, the hand-over between the former Minister, Deputy Martin, and the Tánaiste, the first Bill which was deemed unconstitutional and the one we are now discussing and the prospects for administration. It is important to state at the outset that if anybody wanted to do...

Health (Repayment Scheme) Bill 2006: Second Stage (Resumed). (27 Apr 2006)

Ruairi Quinn: Is that a reference to his predecessors?

Order of Business. (27 Apr 2006)

Ruairi Quinn: It is fortuitous that the Minister for Finance is taking the Order of Business today because under promised legislation it is necessary for him to move rather urgently. I do not know if he is aware that he is the main creditor of a construction company that has gone into liquidation owing the Revenue Commissioners €2.5 million and the workers more than €300,000. This relates to No. 41,...

Order of Business. (27 Apr 2006)

Ruairi Quinn: It does arise for the Minister for Finance. He is being defrauded of money. I thought we had got rid of this kind of cowboy operation where the same company could transfer from one name to another. I am referring to the PSK construction company defraud as reported in yesterday's newspapers.

Written Answers — Accident and Emergency Services: Accident and Emergency Services (26 Apr 2006)

Ruairi Quinn: Question 144: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children her views on some of the reasons for the accident and emergency crisis as outlined by Professor Drumm, chief executive officer of the Health Service Executive, which includes X-ray departments closing early, lack of out-of-hours general practitioner cover in parts of Dublin, as well as delayed discharges; and if she will...

Written Answers — National Cancer Strategy: National Cancer Strategy (26 Apr 2006)

Ruairi Quinn: Question 80: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children her views on claims that the best medical care for prostate cancer depends on where one is treated for the disease; if her attention has been drawn to calls from the Irish Cancer Society for the Government to commission a report to examine hospitals and specialists currently providing prostate cancer treatment, the...

Written Answers — Tax Code: Tax Code (26 Apr 2006)

Ruairi Quinn: Question 195: To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to the representations from persons in receipt of a State disability payment expressing concern at the impact that VAT charges have on equipment and support services which they must purchase due to their disability; if he will put a system in place whereby the VAT on such equipment and utility charges such as the...

Leaders' Questions. (26 Apr 2006)

Ruairi Quinn: What about collective responsibility?

Written Answers — Departmental Legal Advice: Departmental Legal Advice (25 Apr 2006)

Ruairi Quinn: Question 104: To ask the Taoiseach if his Department has legal advisers of its own, naming the officers in question; and the reason effect has not been given to the recommendation in the report of the review into the Law Offices of the State 1997 that legal advice should be given to the Government only by the Attorney General and his office. [15286/06]

Written Answers — Departmental Legal Advice: Departmental Legal Advice (25 Apr 2006)

Ruairi Quinn: Question 106: To ask the Taoiseach the legal advisers or other qualified lawyers employed in a professional capacity by State bodies under the aegis of his Department. [15288/06]

Written Answers — Departmental Legal Advice: Departmental Legal Advice (25 Apr 2006)

Ruairi Quinn: Question 108: To ask the Taoiseach if his Department has sought legal advice from outside legal advisers; and the fees paid to each such legal adviser in 2004 and 2005. [15290/06]

Written Answers — Departmental Legal Advice: Departmental Legal Advice (25 Apr 2006)

Ruairi Quinn: Question 105: To ask the Taoiseach the State bodies other than Departments to which the Attorney General gives legal advice. [15287/06]

Written Answers — Departmental Legal Advice: Departmental Legal Advice (25 Apr 2006)

Ruairi Quinn: Question 107: To ask the Taoiseach if effect has been given to the recommendation in the Report of the Review into the Law Offices of the State 1997 that Departments or offices should obtain the approval of the Office of the Attorney General before outside legal advisers are engaged. [15289/06]

Written Answers — Mental Health Services: Mental Health Services (25 Apr 2006)

Ruairi Quinn: Question 235: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the support services and programmes that are available to a person (details supplied); the amount of funding given in the years 2002, 2003, 2004 and 2005 to people suffering from bulimia; if the diseases of bulimia and anorexia are dealt with under the same budget; the number of people suffering from bulimia and anorexia...