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Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (14 Dec 2010)

Ciarán Lynch: Question 220: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if he will reinstate supplementary welfare payment for a person (details supplied) in County Cork; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46970/10]

Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (14 Dec 2010)

Ciarán Lynch: Question 227: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if he will review a decision denying the habitual residence of a person (details supplied) in County Cork; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47025/10]

Written Answers — Social Welfare Code: Social Welfare Code (14 Dec 2010)

Ciarán Lynch: Question 233: To ask the Minister for Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 1258 of 29 September 2010, if he will review the rejection of an appeal in respect of a person (details supplied); if he will consider that the appeals officer refers to the close proximity of the separated parents' accommodation while, in reality, they live at opposite sides of the city; if he will...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (14 Dec 2010)

Ciarán Lynch: Question 234: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if he will review the case of a person (details supplied) in County Cork; if he will offset the amount of €1,679.80 from the arrears of disablement benefit on grounds of financial hardship; if he will also reduce to €10 the amount to be deducted to clear the amount overpaid; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47198/10]

Written Answers — Defence Forces Personnel: Defence Forces Personnel (14 Dec 2010)

Ciarán Lynch: Question 376: To ask the Minister for Defence the number of personnel in the Army, Naval Service and Air Corps at present; the amount of sick leave claimed by members of each service in the years 2007, 2008, 2009 and to date in 2010; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46882/10]

National Minimum Wage: Motion (Resumed) (15 Dec 2010)

Ciarán Lynch: I thank my colleague, Deputy Penrose, for bringing this important motion before the House. The decision by Fianna Fáil and the Green Party to reduce the pay packets of minimum wage workers in this country by 12% is ill conceived, is badly thought out, and is detrimental not just to the future of minimum wage workers, but of all workers in the country. It is saying something to say that...

Written Answers — Irish Red Cross: Irish Red Cross (15 Dec 2010)

Ciarán Lynch: Question 64: To ask the Minister for Defence if any part of the grant in aid paid to the Irish Red Cross has been used to fund the ongoing legal action being taken against a company (details supplied) or if any part of it will be used for the continuing action against the company; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47265/10]

Written Answers — Irish Red Cross: Irish Red Cross (15 Dec 2010)

Ciarán Lynch: Question 73: To ask the Minister for Defence when he will respond to correspondence from the recently dismissed senior manager of the Irish Red Cross; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47266/10]

Written Answers — Commercial Rent Review: Commercial Rent Review (16 Dec 2010)

Ciarán Lynch: Question 249: To ask the Minister for Justice and Law Reform his plans to offer relief under the national recovery plan to retail tenants locked into upward only rent reviews under existing leases having regard to the action points listed in 2.24 of the plan to assist other sectors; if his attention has been drawn to the serious threat to employment in the retail sector unless relief is...

Written Answers — Prison Committals: Prison Committals (16 Dec 2010)

Ciarán Lynch: Question 251: To ask the Minister for Justice and Law Reform the number of children who have a parent in prison each year; the policies in place to mitigate the damage caused to children by the imprisonment of a parent; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47717/10]

Written Answers — Local Authority Funding: Local Authority Funding (16 Dec 2010)

Ciarán Lynch: Question 312: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if it is his intention to restructure the provision of emergency services in light of the likely disruption resulting from the reduction of 37% in the funding provision for local authority fire and emergency services; if he has given a direction to local authorities in regard to future management of...

Bank Guarantee Scheme (12 Jan 2011)

Ciarán Lynch: Question 70: To ask the Minister for Finance his views on the net exposure of the National Asset Management Agency and the credit institutions supported by the Eligible Liabilities Guarantee to derivative instruments; the extent to which these exposures arise from hedging arrangements or from speculative positions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1372/11]

Written Answers — Banking Sector Regulation: Banking Sector Regulation (12 Jan 2011)

Ciarán Lynch: Question 107: To ask the Minister for Finance if the prudential liquidity assessment plan for Irish banks has been completed, as foreseen in the memorandum of understanding on specific economic policy conditionality, signed with the International Monetary Fund, to set out the target loan to deposit ratios to be achieved by end 2013 for each of the Irish banks; and if he will make a statement...

Written Answers — Homeless Persons: Homeless Persons (12 Jan 2011)

Ciarán Lynch: Question 372: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when the amount of Health Service Executive funding for homeless services around the country will be confirmed; when this will be communicated to the voluntary organisations providing those services; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1004/11]

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (12 Jan 2011)

Ciarán Lynch: Question 380: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if the national diabetes clinical programme team will receive funding for the development of diabetes foot care and retinopathy screening in 2011; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1057/11]

Written Answers — Local Authority Housing: Local Authority Housing (12 Jan 2011)

Ciarán Lynch: Question 786: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the way a market value is calculated in areas where there is insufficient market demand to accurately determine the market value rent; his plans to introduce a minimum market value in such areas and the level of same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1342/11]

Written Answers — Local Authority Housing: Local Authority Housing (12 Jan 2011)

Ciarán Lynch: Question 788: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government his plans to introduce a new national differential rent system for local authority residents in view of the fact that approved housing bodies are at present required to cope with numerous differential rent systems in local authorities; when he will introduce such a system; and if he will make a statement on...

Written Answers — Local Authority Housing: Local Authority Housing (12 Jan 2011)

Ciarán Lynch: Question 796: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if the adjusted tenant purchase scheme, which provides a 45% discount, has commenced and if a directive has been issued to local authorities; if he will indicate the duration that this scheme will remain in place; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1610/11]

Water Utilities: Motion (13 Jan 2011)

Ciarán Lynch: I will begin by commending Fine Gael for bringing what could be considered a timely motion before the House regarding the delivery and infrastructure of water services across the Irish Republic. The motion reflects a similar motion brought before the House this time last year. We could witness severe weather conditions as an annual occurrence, and dealing with them cannot be explained as a...

Written Answers — Health Service Staff: Health Service Staff (13 Jan 2011)

Ciarán Lynch: Question 19: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of new social workers appointed in 2010; the sections of the services in which these social workers have been employed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1548/11]