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Leaders' Questions (8 Dec 2009)

Róisín Shortall: One does not have to protect millionaires.

Leaders' Questions (8 Dec 2009)

Róisín Shortall: The Government blew it.

Health Service Staff. (8 Dec 2009)

Róisín Shortall: Question 47: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the progress made in the restructuring of the Health Service Executive providing regional structures and interaction between acute services and primary, community and continuing care services; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45559/09]

Written Answers — Freedom of Information: Freedom of Information (3 Dec 2009)

Róisín Shortall: Question 76: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will take the necessary steps to make the Central Bank, the Financial Regulator, the State-owned Anglo Irish Bank, the National Treasury Management Agency and associated agencies, including the National Asset Management Agency, subject to the Freedom of Information Acts; his views on whether that would improve the transparency of sections of...

Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2009 [Seanad]: Second Stage (2 Dec 2009)

Róisín Shortall: I thank Deputy Tuffy for sharing time with me. The issue I wish to raise - the maintenance of footpaths and private landings outside shops and businesses - does not directly relate to the subject of this Bill. As I have been waiting for some time to draw attention to this issue, I will take the opportunity afforded to me by the Planning and Development Bill 2009 to do so. I hope the...

Child Benefit: Motion (Resumed) (2 Dec 2009)

Róisín Shortall: That is not correct. Deputy O'Rourke is misleading the House.

Child Benefit: Motion (Resumed) (2 Dec 2009)

Róisín Shortall: The Government has choices.

Child Benefit: Motion (Resumed) (2 Dec 2009)

Róisín Shortall: Why then is it hitting children and families first?

Child Benefit: Motion (Resumed) (2 Dec 2009)

Róisín Shortall: The Deputy was not listening. We set them out last night.

Child Benefit: Motion (Resumed) (2 Dec 2009)

Róisín Shortall: The Government should tax the very wealthy.

Child Benefit: Motion (Resumed) (2 Dec 2009)

Róisín Shortall: How will the Government do it?

Child Benefit: Motion (Resumed) (2 Dec 2009)

Róisín Shortall: They have lost €1,000 per year.

Child Benefit: Motion (Resumed) (2 Dec 2009)

Róisín Shortall: Will the Deputy support our motion? Will he vote for it?

Child Benefit: Motion (Resumed) (2 Dec 2009)

Róisín Shortall: The Deputy will have an opportunity at 8.30 p.m.

Written Answers — Proposed Legislation: Proposed Legislation (2 Dec 2009)

Róisín Shortall: Question 43: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment when it is intended to publish legislation to address employee representation at work which was promised by June 2009 under the review of Toward 2016; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44614/09]

Written Answers — Proposed Legislation: Proposed Legislation (2 Dec 2009)

Róisín Shortall: Question 51: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment when it is intended to publish anti-victimisation legislation designed to protect those workers who choose to join a trade union and which was promised by March 2009 under the review of Towards 2016; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44613/09]

Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (2 Dec 2009)

Róisín Shortall: Question 239: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the number of children covered by qualified child increases. [44717/09]

Child Benefit: Motion (1 Dec 2009)

Róisín Shortall: I move: That Dáil Éireann: noting: - the ongoing high cost of raising children in Ireland today and the significant cuts that have already been made to family income; - that the early childcare supplement will be abolished from January; - the continuing very high cost of child care; - that every child deserves to be cherished and recognised by the State, regardless of the circumstances of...

Child Benefit: Motion (1 Dec 2009)

Róisín Shortall: In the April budget, the Minister for Finance announced that child benefit would be means-tested or taxed in the following budget - all he needed to do was to work out how to do it. Eight months on, he still has not managed to do that. Rather than accepting that he cannot achieve savings the way he intended to do, he is still intent on achieving them anyway. Some Ministers apparently...

Child Benefit: Motion (1 Dec 2009)

Róisín Shortall: What about tax expenditure?