Martin Heydon, TD

To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the extent to which, at EU Council meeting, any discussions has revolved around the energy cost...

To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the number of oil, gas or other exploration licences issued...

To ask the Minister for Finance if he is satisfied that inflation in the housing property sector is not fuelled by speculation...

To ask the Minister for Finance the extent to which unregulated third party loan book purchasers have been acquainted with the need to ensure that the borrowers whose loan books they have acquired need to be treated in a sympathetic fashion...

To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the extent to which an audit continues to be done in respect of the availability of natural resources...

To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the extent to which he remains satisfied regarding the provision of modern high speed broadband...

To ask the Minister for Finance the extent to which lending institutions are encouraged to offer facilities to small and medium enterprises...

To ask the Minister for Finance the extent, if any, to which sympathetic consideration and accommodation continues to be extended to small businesses...

To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will consider setting up a Government committee to prevent the loss of national treasures, similar to a committee operating in the UK, that can place temporary export bans on the most culturally important works following auction to allow local benefactors or museums to match the offers of foreign buyers; and if she will make a statement on the matter?

I want to thank Mr. Watters for his work on this report, which was considerable, given the range and complexity of the issues to be investigated. I also want to acknowledge the willingness and openness of the Hungarian authorities to engage with the Secretary General, with the Venice Commission and others in their efforts to implement the resolution of the Assembly in 2013.