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Finance (Local Property Tax) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (18 Dec 2012)

Noel Grealish: What about the sheriff?

Finance (Local Property Tax) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (18 Dec 2012)

Noel Grealish: These operators are getting away from the Revenue as well.

Finance (Local Property Tax) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (18 Dec 2012)

Noel Grealish: I will be brief, but I am disappointed that there will not be an opportunity for the Minister to reply in light of the guillotine at 11 p.m. and the fact that other Members have indicated they wish to speak. I would like a commitment from the Minister that there will not be a guillotine on the Finance Bill. The Minister said many of the amendments could be discussed during the Finance Bill....

Finance (Local Property Tax) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (18 Dec 2012)

Noel Grealish: The Minister said the Revenue Commissioners could pursue landlords for the household charge. What about rogue landlords? What is to stop rogue landlords from claiming that the value of a property is €200,000 and trying to get property tax representing that value from tenants while registering the property at €100,000? Is there an avenue within the Bill for those renting...

Finance (Local Property Tax) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (18 Dec 2012)

Noel Grealish: Give us another half hour.

Finance (Local Property Tax) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (18 Dec 2012)

Noel Grealish: We will support that.

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Sports Capital Programme (18 Dec 2012)

Noel Grealish: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason a football club (details supplied) in County Galway was not successful in its recent application for a sports capital grant; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56279/12]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Sports Capital Programme (18 Dec 2012)

Noel Grealish: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason a football club (details supplied) in County Galway were not successful in their recent application for a sports capital grant; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56280/12]

Order of Business (19 Dec 2012)

Noel Grealish: The Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform, Deputy Brendan Howlin, recently issued a directive to all post-primary schools and local authorities requiring them to buy from one supplier. This requirement is causing considerable hardship to small businesses and will result in the loss of eight jobs in Galway alone.

Order of Business (19 Dec 2012)

Noel Grealish: I am referring to the consumer and competition Bill.

Order of Business (19 Dec 2012)

Noel Grealish: Yes, the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform issued a directive to all post-primary schools requiring them to purchase all stationery supplies from one supplier by April 2013. This directive will cost many jobs and will achieve minimal savings.

Order of Business (19 Dec 2012)

Noel Grealish: Little savings will be made.

Order of Business (19 Dec 2012)

Noel Grealish: Eight jobs are being lost in Galway.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (16 Jan 2013)

Noel Grealish: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of schools approved to go to construction in 2010, 2011 and 2012; the number of schools approved building extensions in 2010, 2011 and 2012; the number of each of these projects that have gone to consolidation over payment and the number of projects gone to arbitration over payment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [58158/12]

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Turbary Rights (16 Jan 2013)

Noel Grealish: To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht further to Parliamentary Question No. 135 of 22 November 2012, all other factors being equal the commercial value placed on an acre of raised bog not under an SAC designation by his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [58156/12]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Equipment (16 Jan 2013)

Noel Grealish: To ask the Minister for Health the reason the Extracorporeal Shockwave Lithotriptor machine, which was purchased for UHG in February 2010 at a cost of €400,000 was never put into operational use for treating kidney stone patients, despite waiting lists at the hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [58157/12]

Order of Business (23 Jan 2013)

Noel Grealish: Before Christmas, I asked the Tánaiste when funding would be made available for critical infrastructure projects for much-needed job creation and he replied that funding would be made available for projects such as the N 7 and N18 in Connacht. However, when I tabled a parliamentary question to the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport, Deputy Varadkar, who is sitting beside the...

Order of Business (23 Jan 2013)

Noel Grealish: I will conclude on this point. The Minister stated that no funding would be made available until State assets have been sold. Can the Taoiseach clarify to the House whether money will be made available for critical infrastructure projects for much-needed job creation?

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Insurance Coverage (29 Jan 2013)

Noel Grealish: To ask the Minister for Finance the discussions that are ongoing between his Department and insurance companies regarding flood insurance cover for people whose homes flooded in the past. [4168/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Property Taxation (29 Jan 2013)

Noel Grealish: To ask the Minister for Finance when he proposes to provide for Local Property Tax to be deductible from rental income; if he will clarify his statement that it will be introduced on a phased basis; if primary legislation or Ministerial Order is required, and if it is the former, the legislative vehicle that he will use; if he will also consider extending the expense status for the 2013 tax...