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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Correspondence (28 May 2013)

Peter Mathews: 269. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 294 of 5 February 2013, when a response a response issue; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25612/13]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Correspondence (28 May 2013)

Peter Mathews: 271. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 57 of 14 March 2013, when a response will issue; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25616/13]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Correspondence (28 May 2013)

Peter Mathews: 272. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 58 of 14 March 2013, when a response will issue; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25617/13]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Fee Paying Schools (28 May 2013)

Peter Mathews: 278. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans in respect of Protestant fee paying schools. [25689/13]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Refurbishment (28 May 2013)

Peter Mathews: 280. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to provide funding in respect of refurbishment for a school (details supplied) in County Dublin; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25691/13]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Fuel Allowance Eligibility (28 May 2013)

Peter Mathews: 351. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding fuel allowance in respect of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 14; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25102/13]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals Status (28 May 2013)

Peter Mathews: 352. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a decision on an appeal for partial capacity benefit will issue in respect of a person (details supplied) who has been waiting since August 2012; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25103/13]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Pension Provisions (28 May 2013)

Peter Mathews: 375. To ask the Minister for Social Protection her plans in respect of the removal of the transition pension in 2014 (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25332/13]

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Commemorative Events (28 May 2013)

Peter Mathews: 433. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if he will outline the costs associated with the hosting of the Drogheda 2012 National Famine Memorial Day; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25512/13]

Topical Issue Debate: Crèche Inspections (29 May 2013)

Peter Mathews: The fact that 11 Deputies have sought to highlight the alarm that has been raised nationwide on this issue speaks for itself. It is appalling that the most vulnerable citizens were subject to the type of treatment, neglect, bullying, harassment and downright punishment imposed that occurred in a couple of those crèches and which was shown on "Prime Time" last night. I want this issue...

Topical Issue Debate: Crèche Inspections (29 May 2013)

Peter Mathews: On the child care preschool services regulations, which are the foundation on which everything is done, there should be national statistics and national inspection reports. That should be a priority. The Minister should get that moving fast. As Deputy Shortall stated, we want action, not words. We also want immediate emergency teams to get into the crèches that failed on inspections...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Property Tax: Discussion with Revenue (29 May 2013)

Peter Mathews: I thank Ms Feehily, Ms Dempsey and Mr. Gladney for their attendance. I apologise for my late arrival as I was in the Chamber for the Topical Issue debate on child care which followed yesterday's "Prime Time" programme. I would have liked to have been in attendance for the full meeting. I have some questions. The first is a simple customer query. When I was filling out my own return I...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Property Tax: Discussion with Revenue (29 May 2013)

Peter Mathews: I am not sure if it was.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Property Tax: Discussion with Revenue (29 May 2013)

Peter Mathews: It does not explain who is the payee.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Property Tax: Discussion with Revenue (29 May 2013)

Peter Mathews: I got the heebie-jeebies, so to speak, after the Ulster Bank experience when its whole system was locked down for about six weeks. I am old-fashioned; perhaps it is my age.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Property Tax: Discussion with Revenue (29 May 2013)

Peter Mathews: My other question is about the issue of the letters to people. In many cases in Dublin in particular, tenants of apartments received the assessment notice or letter. They do not necessarily know who is the landlord because the apartments are let through letting agents. I know a couple of people in the student category or in the early years of their career who have decided that the notice...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Property Tax: Discussion with Revenue (29 May 2013)

Peter Mathews: How does the Revenue decide they own it?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Property Tax: Discussion with Revenue (29 May 2013)

Peter Mathews: Is that a fair presumption? There are very many people in this city who are renting.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Property Tax: Discussion with Revenue (29 May 2013)

Peter Mathews: My point is that it is necessary to trudge down the letter to paragraph four or five. I am just being practical.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Property Tax: Discussion with Revenue (29 May 2013)

Peter Mathews: The cases in question were people who rent their apartments through a letting agency.