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Written Answers — Department of Finance: Property Taxation Collection (16 Apr 2013)

Mattie McGrath: To ask the Minister for Finance his views with the level of information on the property tax form relating to payment options; his views that the information surrounding option five cash payments is clear, there is no option to make payment in full by cash; the reason there is no reference made to An Post as a payment service provider; his views that this information is clear for the elderly...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Banking Sector Regulation (16 Apr 2013)

Mattie McGrath: To ask the Minister for Finance if the Central Bank of Ireland and the Financial Service Regulatory Authority of Ireland is aware of discrepancies between Allied Irish Bank's Annual Financial Report of 2008 and documents filed by Allied Irish Bank with the Company Registration Office in 2008 in relation to a first floating charge placed in favour of the Central bank over all of AIB's right,...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Banking Sector Regulation (16 Apr 2013)

Mattie McGrath: To ask the Minister for Finance if a charge by way of a first floating charge placed in favour of the Central Bank of Ireland over all of Allied Irish Bank's right, title, interest and benefit, present and future is in and to each of the eligible securities or is in and to certain segregated securities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17627/13]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Closures (16 Apr 2013)

Mattie McGrath: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the exact criteria which will govern the decisions to leave open or close the many hundreds of rural schools throughout the country; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16690/13]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Household Benefits (16 Apr 2013)

Mattie McGrath: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason an illness benefit is not considered as a qualifying payment for the household benefits package; if there any assistance that can be provided to a person who is unable to work due to a serious illness such as cancer and who is struggling to meet household bills; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15981/13]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: FÁS Training Programmes (16 Apr 2013)

Mattie McGrath: To ask the Minister for Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 309 of 12 March 2013, the avenue available to a person who is unemployed or disabled and not in receipt of a social welfare payment to engage in a training course when they have been advised by their local FÁS Office that they are not entitled to participate in any course because they are not in receipt of a...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Property Taxation Collection (16 Apr 2013)

Mattie McGrath: To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if the non principal private resindency charge will be abolished following the introduction of the local property tax in view of the fact that it represents a double taxation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16517/13]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Unfinished Housing Developments (16 Apr 2013)

Mattie McGrath: To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if all unfinished housing estates that are not exempt from the local property tax will now be taken in charge by their relevant local authorities; if public lighting, finished roads and so on will now be provided in these estates; if not, the services that will be provided to these estates; if no extra services will be...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Building Regulations Application (16 Apr 2013)

Mattie McGrath: To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if local authorities made efforts to communicate the new housing regulations to landlords; and the efforts that have been made to communicate these new regulations and their implications to tenants who might be affected by them. [17501/13]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Building Regulations Application (16 Apr 2013)

Mattie McGrath: To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the rights that tenants have when their accommodations is below the new standards for housing regulation. [17502/13]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Building Regulations Application (16 Apr 2013)

Mattie McGrath: To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government when a local authority finds that bed-sit accommodation which does not meet the new housing regulations is still being tenanted, the action that will be taken and the way in which the tenure of the current tenants will be affected. [17503/13]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Building Regulations Application (16 Apr 2013)

Mattie McGrath: To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the guidance that has been provided by him in relation to tenants about procedures to identify and avoid any risk of homelessness. [17504/13]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Building Regulations Application (16 Apr 2013)

Mattie McGrath: To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the number of housing units that have been upgraded, that will be upgraded and that might be withdrawn from the private rented sector as a result of the new housing regulations. [17505/13]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Building Regulations Application (16 Apr 2013)

Mattie McGrath: To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the discussions that he has had with the Department of Social Protection regarding the increased demands on rent supplement as non-working tenants of bed-sits seek more expensive accommodation as a result of the new housing regulations; and the procedures that will be put in place to support vulnerable tenants in making this...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Building Regulations Application (16 Apr 2013)

Mattie McGrath: To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he has a target date by which all inspections of housing will be completed and that all below-standard bed-sits are withdrawn from the housing market. [17507/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Water Fluoridation (16 Apr 2013)

Mattie McGrath: To ask the Minister for Health if, despite the fact that our national water supply has been artificially fluoridated for the past 49 years, there has been any testing of the chemicals for their safety on human health; if so, when this took place; if not, the reason for same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16692/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Programmes (16 Apr 2013)

Mattie McGrath: To ask the Minister for Health when the first phase of the National Asthma Programme will be implemented; the initial actions that will be taken by him in order to implement the programmer; and the deadlines for these actions [17519/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Programmes (16 Apr 2013)

Mattie McGrath: To ask the Minister for Health the reason implementation of the National Asthma Programme was not prioritised in the 2013 Health Service Executive Services Plan with more than one person per week dying from asthma and 470,000 people here living with this respiratory disease that is particularly prevalent in children, with one in five children here suffering from the disease; and if he will...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Reviews (16 Apr 2013)

Mattie McGrath: To ask the Minister for Health the reason when carrying out medical card reviews, particularly in the cases of the elderly, that is, those in receipt of a State pension, the Health Service Executive cannot simply send a letter asking whether or not the medical card holder's circumstances have changed rather than expecting the medical card holder to complete the review form and gather all...

Credit Reporting Bill 2012: Second Stage (28 Mar 2013)

Mattie McGrath: I will conclude, and I thank the Leas-Cheann Comhairle for his forbearance, but this Bill is only fit for the bin or the shredder because it is ten years too late. It is inadequate, inept, feeble and an insult to the people who are suffering and cannot pay their way. They want to pay but they need more time, leniency and support. They do not want their debts denied. They want some...