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Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Private Rented Accommodation Deposits (8 Jul 2014)

Stephen Donnelly: 527. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his plans to introduce a third party rental deposit scheme for the private sector residential renting market. [29465/14]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Private Rented Accommodation Costs and Controls (8 Jul 2014)

Stephen Donnelly: 528. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his plans to introduce limits on rent increases for the private sector residential renting market. [29466/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Aids and Appliances Expenditure (8 Jul 2014)

Stephen Donnelly: 665. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide in tabular form the national and per county budget for specialist equipment for home care for example specialist beds for the years 2012 to 2014; his plans to change this budget for 2015; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29011/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Eligibility (8 Jul 2014)

Stephen Donnelly: 673. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to change the eligibility criteria for medical cards for the over 70s; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29012/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Accident and Emergency Services Fees (8 Jul 2014)

Stephen Donnelly: 675. To ask the Minister for Health the criteria and amounts for paying for emergency departments; if he will outline all changes to the policies and amounts in the past five years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29016/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Schemes (8 Jul 2014)

Stephen Donnelly: 676. To ask the Minister for Health the funds and schemes that community groups providing support to older persons can apply for; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29018/14]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Equality Proofing of Budgets (9 Jul 2014)

Stephen Donnelly: 3. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform further to a recent submission to him on equality budgeting, if any of the proposals will be incorporated into this year's budget documents; if he will provide a distributional analysis of the proposed budget to be provided to Dáil Éireann on budget day; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29847/14]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Equality Proofing of Budgets (9 Jul 2014)

Stephen Donnelly: This question fits in very well with the conversation we have just had. Last October, I joined members of the equality budgeting campaign in making a submission to the Minister, Deputy Noonan, on whether equality budgeting could be incorporated into this country's budgetary process. He suggested that the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform is responsible for this area. At its...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Equality Proofing of Budgets (9 Jul 2014)

Stephen Donnelly: I have to say, with respect to whoever drafted the Minister's response, that it does not address the question I asked in any way. I asked whether a distributional analysis clarifying who is being asked to bear the highest burden will be provided by the Ministers, Deputies Howlin and Noonan, and their Cabinet colleagues when they come in here on budget day to propose a draft budget to the...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Equality Proofing of Budgets (9 Jul 2014)

Stephen Donnelly: I acknowledge that the budgetary process has significantly improved, certainly in the three years since I have been in the Dáil. However, I ask that the Minister answer the specific question because it would be incredibly useful both for public consideration and for Dáil Éireann's consideration. Of course crisis budgets are different from steady-state budgets. None the less,...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Health Services Reform (9 Jul 2014)

Stephen Donnelly: 5. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if his Department has commissioned independent analysis on potential savings in the Irish health system since March 2011; if so, whether this analysis is available; if no independent analysis on potential savings has been undertaken whether he will consider commissioning such analysis; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Health Services Reform (9 Jul 2014)

Stephen Donnelly: This question pertains to health care, in which the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform has become more involved. It really is an attempt to solve something that has puzzled me for many years. Members are aware there have been significant cuts in health care that have come at great pain to many people. While Ireland's health care expenditure per capitais approximately halfway up...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Health Services Reform (9 Jul 2014)

Stephen Donnelly: I thank the Minister for his reply. I would love to get those figures, as the numbers I received from the Government show a fall from approximately €16 billion to approximately €13 billion for this year but perhaps I can get the numbers at which the Minister was looking. I have looked at the comprehensive review of expenditure, which in the first instance is an internal...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Health Services Reform (9 Jul 2014)

Stephen Donnelly: Actually, I do not believe the HSE has the knowledge. I believe that what it has been asked to do and has tried to do is to make incremental savings, namely, to cut a bit here and there and to try to be a bit more efficient here and there. However, I do not believe the HSE has the knowledge to examine the current health care system and conclude that the manner in which health care in...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Health Services Reform (9 Jul 2014)

Stephen Donnelly: I thank the Minister. As I see it, having worked in health care abroad, there is an opportunity here. I have asked some of the most senior people in the HSE to show me the plan or document that sets out how health care delivery should be with regard to primary care centres, community-based teams, home care, respite care and all that good stuff, that sets out what it looks like today, which...

Free Travel Pass: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (9 Jul 2014)

Stephen Donnelly: Last week, I submitted a parliamentary question to the Tánaiste, Deputy Joan Burton, seeking assurances that the free travel scheme would continue as is. She stated that she had no plans to limit the use of passes, which is welcome. However, she also stated that a funding cap has been in place now for several years, which means that no new routes and no new private companies are being...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Staff Sick Leave (9 Jul 2014)

Stephen Donnelly: 22. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform further to his decision to deem all employees, including part-time employees not eligible for the pension scheme, of education and training boards to be public servants for the purpose of applying the sick pay scheme in the sector; if he will provide the funding necessary for the ETBs to cover the cost of the scheme; and if he will...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Budgets (9 Jul 2014)

Stephen Donnelly: 28. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide details of the 60% decline in central Exchequer funding for the Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation between 2008 and 2014, from €1.93 billion to €0.78 billion according to voted expenditure figures; his views on whether this reduction in funding is impacting on that Department's ability to...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: NAMA Operations (9 Jul 2014)

Stephen Donnelly: 49. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 127 of 1 July 2014, his views on whether a decision was reversed to raise the threshold for the acquisition of eligible loans by the National Asset Management Agency from Bank of Ireland and Allied Irish Banks on 28 November 2010, the estimate being that NAMA would acquire an additional €16.6 billion of loans...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Promissory Note Negotiations (9 Jul 2014)

Stephen Donnelly: 50. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 109 and 125 of 1 July 2014, when he stated that we have successfully negotiated the promissory notes transaction, the role our partners in Europe had in those negotiations; if it extended beyond the European Central Bank noting that the swap between promissory notes and sovereign bonds had taken place; and if he will...