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Written Answers — Tax Code: Tax Code (10 Oct 2007)

Róisín Shortall: Question 181: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance the number and percentage of taxpayers paying income tax at the higher rate. [23114/07]

Written Answers — Pension Provisions: Pension Provisions (10 Oct 2007)

Róisín Shortall: Question 240: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the amount spent by his Department on add-on cash benefits and non-cash benefits to persons of pension age in each of the years this century with a breakdown by benefit type and the number of recipients; and the number of people at pension age receiving any welfare payment from his Department in each of these years. [23109/07]

Written Answers — Pension Provisions: Pension Provisions (10 Oct 2007)

Róisín Shortall: Question 241: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the average or typical equivalent monetary value received by pensioner households in each of the years this century for each of the non-cash benefits available to certain households of people of pension age; the equivalent monetary value in each of these years and for each of these benefits for a pensioner who was maximising...

Written Answers — Pension Provisions: Pension Provisions (10 Oct 2007)

Róisín Shortall: Question 242: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the cost of administering the State contributory pension; the proportion this represents of the total value of the scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23112/07]

Written Answers — Pension Provisions: Pension Provisions (10 Oct 2007)

Róisín Shortall: Question 243: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the amount spent by his Department in each of the years this century on welfare payments to pensioners broken down by year, and by pension type and the absolute number of recipients by pension type and by year in each case. [23136/07]

Telecommunications Services. (11 Oct 2007)

Róisín Shortall: Question 9: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will report on the Government's target of 700,000 broadband subscribers by the end of 2007; his views on the targets the Government should set for broadband roll-out to 2010; the measures he will take to introduce this objective; if he has had contact with broadband service providers on achieving the new...

Written Answers — Telecommunications Services: Telecommunications Services (11 Oct 2007)

Róisín Shortall: Question 32: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources his plans to review the national broadband scheme to include areas that to date can only access expensive and slow broadband with no competition in the same area; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23087/07]

Written Answers — Tax Collection: Tax Collection (16 Oct 2007)

Róisín Shortall: Question 90: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance the number of random audits carried out by the Revenue Commissioners in 2006 and to date in 2007; the way this compares with each year from 2003; the number expected to be undertaken during this year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23694/07]

Written Answers — Tax Collection: Tax Collection (16 Oct 2007)

Róisín Shortall: Question 146: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance the amount of outstanding uncollected taxes; the proportion of this the Revenue Commissioners expect to recover; if new measures are planned to assist in the collection of outstanding taxes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23693/07]

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (16 Oct 2007)

Róisín Shortall: Question 240: To ask the Minister for Health and Children, further to Parliamentary Question No. 109 of 5 July 2007, the progress she has made in relation to completing the review of the DTSS scheme. [23438/07]

Written Answers — Services for People with Disabilities: Services for People with Disabilities (16 Oct 2007)

Róisín Shortall: Question 242: To ask the Minister for Health and Children, further to Parliamentary Question No. 291 of 26 June 2007, the reason a formal reply has not been issued by the Health Service Executive; and if she will furnish a reply to the question. [23449/07]

Written Answers — Health Service Staff: Health Service Staff (16 Oct 2007)

Róisín Shortall: Question 275: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of staff employed by the Health Service Executive with a breakdown by grade and programme. [23928/07]

Written Answers — Social Welfare Code: Social Welfare Code (16 Oct 2007)

Róisín Shortall: Question 369: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the new debt management strategy promised by his Department to control overpayments and avoid future write-offs; and when his Department proposes to adopt it. [23929/07]

Written Answers — Illegal Possession of Fireworks: Illegal Possession of Fireworks (16 Oct 2007)

Róisín Shortall: Question 508: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the steps he is taking to reduce the supply of fireworks in the run up to Halloween 2007; and if he will ensure that particular attention is paid to the importation of fireworks from Northern Ireland. [23466/07]

Written Answers — Social and Affordable Housing: Social and Affordable Housing (16 Oct 2007)

Róisín Shortall: Question 581: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the statutory instrument that allows a local authority to specify minimum annual salaries as part of its application process for affordable housing as opposed to general stress test measures; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23797/07]

Written Answers — Social and Affordable Housing: Social and Affordable Housing (16 Oct 2007)

Róisín Shortall: Question 582: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the action he is taking to reduce the cost of affordable housing to local authorities and to applicants. [23798/07]

Written Answers — Cancer Screening Programme: Cancer Screening Programme (17 Oct 2007)

Róisín Shortall: Question 102: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the research that has been carried out to ascertain the success of BreastCheck in improving outcomes for women; if there are statistics available comparing outcomes in regions that have BreastCheck and those that have not; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24028/07]

Written Answers — Suicide Prevention: Suicide Prevention (17 Oct 2007)

Róisín Shortall: Question 135: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the progress made in providing appropriately trained multi-disciplinary teams on a 24 hour basis to cater for persons who present themselves at hospital accident and emergency departments with suicidal tendencies or attempted suicide; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24029/07]

Written Answers — Pension Provisions: Pension Provisions (17 Oct 2007)

Róisín Shortall: Question 176: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance the cost to the State of tax expenditures on supplementary pension schemes in each of the years this century with a breakdown of the benefit to employees, employers, self-employed, pension fund returns, retirement annuity premiums and so on in each of these years. [24309/07]

Written Answers — Pension Provisions: Pension Provisions (17 Oct 2007)

Róisín Shortall: Question 291: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the number of occupational pension schemes registered with the Revenue Commissioners in each of the years this century; the number of these that are categorised as defined benefit schemes and the number of these that are categorised as defined contribution schemes in each year; and the number of persons with such a pension in...