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Written Answers — Hospital Waiting Lists: Hospital Waiting Lists (6 Oct 2011)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Question 179: To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Galway will receive an appointment for surgery at St. Columcille's Hospital, Loughlinstown, Dublin; if he will expedite the matter; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28028/11]

Order of Business (6 Oct 2011)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I hope the Ceann Comhairle will guide me as to whether this matter is in order.

Order of Business (6 Oct 2011)

Éamon Ó Cuív: The NewERA proposal means a fundamental change in the way that State companies are managed, as they will not be managed in the national interest but as financial interests for a shareholder. These are not the same.

Order of Business (6 Oct 2011)

Éamon Ó Cuív: That is what I am trying to elicit.

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Éamon Ó Cuív: I am coming to it. Will the Tánaiste clarify that in the EU memorandum last December there was no mention of any figure for the sale of State assets? Will he verify the confirmation that this is so by the Minister for Finance yesterday, with the €2 billion figure being agreed even before the Government parties took office and could examine the issue?

Order of Business (6 Oct 2011)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Will legislation be required to introduce the changes outlined in NewERA, which will be fundamental changes in the management of our State companies?

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Éamon Ó Cuív: No. Show me where that is written? It is not there.

Order of Business (6 Oct 2011)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I wish to assist the Tánaiste.

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Éamon Ó Cuív: It is not there.

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Éamon Ó Cuív: So it is not there.

Order of Business (6 Oct 2011)

Éamon Ó Cuív: It is a fire sale.

Order of Business (6 Oct 2011)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Even the parts that were not in the agreement.

Order of Business (6 Oct 2011)

Éamon Ó Cuív: It is hard to know what is promised.

Leaders' Questions (6 Oct 2011)

Éamon Ó Cuív: The private pension levy is already causing severe hardship for pensioners and will have a major effect on pensioners in the future. The pensioners from Tara Mines who protested outside the gates recently outlined the effect this measure would have on them. As a former Minister for Social Protection, I am aware that pensions were already under pressure owing to the global downturn. The...

Leaders' Questions (6 Oct 2011)

Éamon Ó Cuív: The live register always drops significantly at this time of the year. One of the main reasons for this is the back-to-education allowance the previous Government extended in recent years. I asked a specific question on the pension levy. Slightly more than half the money raised through the levy will be spent on job creation measures. If the Tánaiste checks the expenditure of the...

Leaders' Questions (6 Oct 2011)

Éamon Ó Cuív: The pension levy is a stealth tax, as the Tánaiste would call it.

Public Investment Projects (5 Oct 2011)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Question 7: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide details of the proposed new unit in the National Treasury Management Agency which is being established to manage shareholdings in a number of State companies; the way the unit is being structured; the terms of reference; when he expects it to be up and running; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27639/11]

Written Answers — Departmental Agencies: Departmental Agencies (4 Oct 2011)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Question 165: To ask the Minister for Finance the discussion he has had regarding bringing greater transparency to the remuneration, including bonus arrangements, of public servants at the National Treasury Management Agency and the National Asset Management Agency. [20292/11]

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (4 Oct 2011)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Question 589: To ask the Minister for Health if public funding will be provided to a person (details supplied) in County Galway through the Health Service Executive to enable the person to access treatment in England that cannot be provided here; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26950/11]

Closure of Army Barracks: Motion (4 Oct 2011)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Tá áthas orm deis a bheith agam labhairt ar an rún seo. San achar gairid go raibh mise mar Aire Cosanta, cuireadh ar mo shúile dom, ní ag an Arm féin ná ag an Roinn ach ag daoine atá san Arm, go raibh i gceist laghdú mór millteanach a dhéanamh ar líon na saighdiúrí atá lonnaithe i nDun Uí Mhaolíosa i nGaillimh. Tá an Chéad Chath lonnaithe ansin agus b'iad Cumann na nGael...