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Older Citizens: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (23 Oct 2013)

Niall Collins: Why are the public representatives-----

Older Citizens: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (23 Oct 2013)

Niall Collins: -----the Ministers and the Minister of State present, not going into RTE and facing the people and telling them why the Government has changed the policy? It is not good enough that the Government sent in a relatively unknown public servant-----

Older Citizens: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (23 Oct 2013)

Niall Collins: -----who, when he was pressed on three occasions, finally coughed it out that there has been a change in policy. I ask the Minister of State to take that point on board. Regarding medical cards for children under five which the Government has announced, that appears to be a robbing Peter to pay Paul exercise. While everybody concurs that giving children under the age of five a medical card...

Older Citizens: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (23 Oct 2013)

Niall Collins: Many people have said it.

Older Citizens: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (23 Oct 2013)

Niall Collins: It is on the record - shop around and perhaps look on e-tenders, effectively. It is not good enough. Many people know that the bereavement grant goes to the undertaker and that the undertaker does not get paid until the estate of the deceased person goes through probate and is finally signed off. The undertaker is then paid out of the proceeds. The bereavement grant keeps the undertaker...

Older Citizens: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (23 Oct 2013)

Niall Collins: -----to community welfare officers to try to extract an exceptional needs payment to pay for a funeral when the Government has also squeezed the exceptional needs payment budget of the community welfare officers. The Government should not tell them that they can go somewhere else where there is a fund of money when it has squeezed that also. There are two points I want the Minister of...

Older Citizens: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (23 Oct 2013)

Niall Collins: -----namely, the bereavement grant and the medical cards issue, and the individual cases I outlined for the Minister.

Older Citizens: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (23 Oct 2013)

Niall Collins: Burn the bondholders and get your money. That is your plan.

Other Questions: Housing Finance Agency Funding (23 Oct 2013)

Niall Collins: 9. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the details of the planned rescheduling of the recoupment of local authority loans; the authorities involved; the amount per authority; the repayments due; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44856/13]

Order of Business (23 Oct 2013)

Niall Collins: Will the Taoiseach clarify if legislation is required to amend GP contracts in respect of the roll-out of free GP care for children under five years of age, as announced in the budget?

Order of Business (23 Oct 2013)

Niall Collins: Will new legislation be required?

Censorship of Publications Board Repeal Bill 2013: First Stage (23 Oct 2013)

Niall Collins: I move:That leave be granted to introduce an Act entitled an Act to abolish the Censorship of Publications Board and to provide for related matters.

Censorship of Publications Board Repeal Bill 2013: First Stage (23 Oct 2013)

Niall Collins: I move: "That the Bill be taken in Private Members' time."

Leaders' Questions (23 Oct 2013)

Niall Collins: Dead right, you do not.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Site Acquisitions (23 Oct 2013)

Niall Collins: 110. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason for the lack of progress in securing a new site for the provision of a new school building (details supplied) in County Cork; if his attention has been drawn to the serious overcrowding in this school and that funding was ring fenced for the purchase of a site; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45284/13]

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Commemorative Events (22 Oct 2013)

Niall Collins: 65. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht his plans to involve the General Post Office on O’Connell Street, Dublin in the commemoration of the centenary of 1916; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44516/13]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Departmental Correspondence (22 Oct 2013)

Niall Collins: 113. To ask the Taoiseach if he has had any correspondence with Ian Paisley Jr., MLA regarding the case of a person (details supplied); the action he will take on the case; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44154/13]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teachers' Allowances (22 Oct 2013)

Niall Collins: 198. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of teachers who were paid an allowance for a post of responsibility at the level of special duties or B post and assistant principal A post in 2008; the number of teachers currently in receipt of these allowances; and the amount that has been saved by his Department in the past four years as a result of the reduction. [44668/13]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Correspondence (22 Oct 2013)

Niall Collins: 391. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he has had any correspondence with Ian Paisley Jr., MLA regarding the case of a person (details supplied); the action he will take on the case; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44155/13]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Prisoner Releases (22 Oct 2013)

Niall Collins: 411. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will provide annual figures for the number of life-sentence prisoners released and the number of life-sentence prisoners recalled to prison for the years 2010, 2011 and 2012; and the average length of time life-sentence prisoners served in prison prior to their release during the years 2010, 2011 and 2012. [44689/13]