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Services for People with Disabilities (19 Jun 2012)

Stephen Donnelly: Question 107: To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the Health Service Executive has recently informed severely mentally and physically disabled young adults in County Wicklow and their parents that there will no longer be any funding to support the young adults once they leave their school at 18 years of age, and that as a result the young adults...

Services for People with Disabilities (19 Jun 2012)

Stephen Donnelly: This issue was brought to my attention by a constituent in County Wicklow who is the sole carer for his daughter who this year will graduate from a special school. With other parents, he met an official from the HSE who told them and the service providers, including Sunbeam House in Wicklow, that additional funding would not be made available. Sunbeam House has indicated that places are...

Services for People with Disabilities (19 Jun 2012)

Stephen Donnelly: I will. My constituent was refused carer's allowance based on the Chief Medical Officer's assessment that his daughter could take care of herself. I have a copy of the assessment made by the educational psychologist and a letter from a GP, both of which are ambiguous in stating his daughter needs full-time care. He has been told, therefore, that he will not receive carer's allowance, even...

Services for People with Disabilities (19 Jun 2012)

Stephen Donnelly: I ask her to commit to providing the small amount of funding the people concerned need.

Services for People with Disabilities (19 Jun 2012)

Stephen Donnelly: The phrase was "demographic pressure" and, as the Minister of State acknowledged, the HSE is acting like it is surprised that these young adults turn 18 each year and that their conditions remain the same. What will the Minister of State and the Minister do to fix a ridiculous process that causes a great deal of trauma for the parents and young adults involved?

Written Answers — Public Sector Pay: Public Sector Pay (13 Jun 2012)

Stephen Donnelly: Question 80: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the total value of increments for a given 12 month period being awarded in 2010, 2011 and 2012; if he will provide a breakdown according to the following salary brackets, or comparable: less than €25,000, between €25,000 and €50,000, and more than €50,000; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28687/12]

Written Answers — Sale of State Assets: Sale of State Assets (13 Jun 2012)

Stephen Donnelly: Question 81: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide an update on plans to sell assets belonging to Coillte; if he intends selling logging rights to the forests, and if so, which forests, and the percentage of Coillte's forests by land size that this constitutes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28688/12]

Political Funding (13 Jun 2012)

Stephen Donnelly: Question 3: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the changes he proposes to make to the funding and resourcing of individual TDs and political parties; the timeframe for implementation of these changes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28686/12]

Political Funding (13 Jun 2012)

Stephen Donnelly: The question encompassed resourcing and funding for all Deputies and political parties. The Minister did not get a chance to finish the reply. I will assume - he may correct me if I am wrong - that the changes being introduced are purely to leaders' allowances and allowances for Independent Deputies-----

Political Funding (13 Jun 2012)

Stephen Donnelly: -----and that there are no major changes proposed for the political parties. The Minister might clarify that in his reply. We have a major opportunity to lead by example in two ways. We need radical cuts to political funding and funding for Deputies. I welcome the vouching of the leader's allowance. It is extraordinary that I am allowed unvouched payments and I do not think I should. As...

Political Funding (13 Jun 2012)

Stephen Donnelly: That was a question.

Political Funding (13 Jun 2012)

Stephen Donnelly: No.

Political Funding (13 Jun 2012)

Stephen Donnelly: The figures I provided are correct. The figures I received in a parliamentary question solely refer to the leader's allowance. The Minister cited the Electoral Acts, which give Fianna Fáil an additional €1.1 million. When one adds the leader's allowance to the funding provided through the Acts, public funding to political parties such as Sinn Féin and Fianna Fáil is several times that...

Political Funding (13 Jun 2012)

Stephen Donnelly: I welcome that he is going to review all forms of political funding because it needs to decrease across the board. As part of that review I ask that he consider providing funding directly to Members. There is nothing in the Constitution on political parties. Power, authority and the democratic mandate are vested in each of us as Members of Dáil Éireann. I suggest that a healthier system...

Written Answers — European Stability Programmes: European Stability Programmes (12 Jun 2012)

Stephen Donnelly: Question 232: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide an estimate of the funding requirements of Spain to cover a three year period and to include deficit funding, repayment of maturing debt and recapitalising banks should that country seek to access official sources of funding. [27979/12]

Written Answers — School Staffing: School Staffing (6 Jun 2012)

Stephen Donnelly: Question 141: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills following the recent publication of the My World Survey on youth mental health by the organisation Headstrong and the UCD School of Psychology, if he accepts the survey's finding that the presence of one good adult is central to the mental health of young people, and that the absence of such a person for a young person to confide in...

Written Answers — Institutes of Technology: Institutes of Technology (6 Jun 2012)

Stephen Donnelly: Question 224: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to a new policy of the Dublin Institute of Technology in relation to job vacancies which states, if you have a current or previous employment relationship in a non-permanent capacity with the Institute, you will not be deemed eligible to apply for this post; his views on whether this complies with the...

Written Answers — National Library: National Library (6 Jun 2012)

Stephen Donnelly: Question 453: To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if he is or his Department has received any advice from the Director of the National Archives or the National Archives Advisory Council concerning the proposed merger of the National Archives with the National Library at any time since the announcement of that proposal in 2008; if so, he will report on that advice; if he...

Written Answers — National Archives: National Archives (6 Jun 2012)

Stephen Donnelly: Question 454: To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht his view on whether the National Archives has the accommodation, staff and other resources required to enable it to accept 30 year old records from all Departments of State in accordance with the terms of the National Archives Act, 1986; if he has identified any deficiency in its resources; the steps he has taken or plans...

European Council: Statements (6 Jun 2012)

Stephen Donnelly: I would like the Minister of State to give as clear an answer as possible on the issue of a write-down. There have been many mixed messages sent and different things have been said by different people. Is the Government actively looking for a write-down on any portion of the debt, including the bank debt that has become sovereign debt, or is it looking for a restructuring that would...