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Written Answers — Environmental Policy: Environmental Policy (30 Jan 2008)

Róisín Shortall: Question 1331: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if a full cost benefit analysis and health risk evaluation will be carried out prior to the introduction of proposals regarding compact fluorescent light bulbs; and if he will address concerns regarding the disposal of CFLs. [1260/08]

Written Answers — Departmental Funding: Departmental Funding (30 Jan 2008)

Róisín Shortall: Question 1337: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the amount of funding provided to an organisation (details supplied) in each of the years this century; the purpose of this funding in each of these years including details of specific projects; and the way the expenditure of this funding is verified and accounted for. [1398/08]

Written Answers — Departmental Investigations: Departmental Investigations (31 Jan 2008)

Róisín Shortall: Question 51: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when she expects the publication of a report by HIQA of a review of pathology services at University College Hospital Galway in the wake of a breast cancer misdiagnosis case where a woman was twice wrongly given a breast cancer all-clear; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [2721/08]

Written Answers — Tax Code: Tax Code (31 Jan 2008)

Róisín Shortall: Question 96: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance if disability allowance is a taxable payment; if additional income from rehabilitative work is liable to income tax; and if he will examine the case of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 11. [2923/08]

Written Answers — Road Traffic Offences: Road Traffic Offences (5 Feb 2008)

Róisín Shortall: Question 146: To ask the Minister for Transport the number of motorists tested and charged with driving under the influence of drugs in each year since 2002; the level of funding and resources he is recommending for the expansion of the drug testing programme of the Medical Bureau of Road Safety; the international experience in the area of drug testing he has or is currently reviewing; if he...

Written Answers — Health and Safety Regulations: Health and Safety Regulations (5 Feb 2008)

Róisín Shortall: Question 150: To ask the Minister for Transport his Departmental policy on the drug testing of transport workers; if there is a drug testing programme in place across all the public transport companies; if workers in privately operated companies are subject to the same level of drug testing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3385/08]

Written Answers — Work Permits: Work Permits (5 Feb 2008)

Róisín Shortall: Question 420: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the reason a work permit application for a person (details supplied) was refused; if his Department took into account that, despite extensive efforts including prolonged advertising campaigns and assistance from FÁS, all efforts failed to yield an eligible candidate for the position on offer; and if in this circumstance...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (5 Feb 2008)

Róisín Shortall: Question 442: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs further to Parliamentary Question No. 386 of 27 November 2007, his plans to review the operation of waiting days in respect of claims with a view to either abolishing or reducing the number of days; the cost to the Exchequer if the number of waiting days were reduced by one day; the cost to the Exchequer if waiting days were...

Finance Bill 2008: Second Stage (Resumed) (6 Feb 2008)

Róisín Shortall: I wish to share time with Deputy Sherlock.

Finance Bill 2008: Second Stage (Resumed) (6 Feb 2008)

Róisín Shortall: I wish to concentrate on three aspects of the Finance Bill which relate to issues omitted from, rather than included in, the Bill. I commend the Revenue Commissioners, and the Department of Finance if it had a role in it, on their new production, Simple Guide to Tax Credits, which is being sent out to taxpayers. It is a very good publication, a huge improvement on any literature on tax...

Finance Bill 2008: Second Stage (Resumed) (6 Feb 2008)

Róisín Shortall: As public representatives, we must remind ourselves annually of the different aspects of the tax credit system. This publication is worthwhile, well explained and well illustrated, and I congratulate those involved in producing it. However, I draw attention to the reproduction of the tax credit certificate in the publication. There is a note to taxpayers which states that this section lists...

Finance Bill 2008: Second Stage (Resumed) (6 Feb 2008)

Róisín Shortall: There should be a fully refundable system in place so that even if a person does not pay tax, he or she gets the benefit of additional initiatives in budgets. Too many people were precluded from changes and benefits in recent budgets. We need to change that and introduce a very targeted instrument to improve the situation of working poor families, in particular, which are finding it very...

Written Answers — Arms Trade: Arms Trade (6 Feb 2008)

Róisín Shortall: Question 122: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs the action he will take to advance the most recent motion agreed unanimously by the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs on cluster munitions. [3703/08]

Written Answers — Tax Code: Tax Code (6 Feb 2008)

Róisín Shortall: Question 164: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 218 of 30 January 2008, if he will clarify if a person is liable for inheritance tax on a family home, if the home in question was originally passed down from father to son, and thereafter passed onto another sibling; and if the total value of all inheritance and gifts received over a period of...

Written Answers — Grocery Industry: Grocery Industry (6 Feb 2008)

Róisín Shortall: Question 240: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the efforts he is making to respond to the recent substantial increases in the cost of food and reports that food prices for basic items look set to rise further. [4007/08]

Written Answers — Consumer Protection: Consumer Protection (7 Feb 2008)

Róisín Shortall: Question 26: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the steps being taken to implement the commitment in the Programme for Government that steps would be taken to ensure that consumer codes of conduct are published by businesses; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4072/08]

Written Answers — Work Permits: Work Permits (7 Feb 2008)

Róisín Shortall: Question 50: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if, in regard to the number of proceedings commenced and convictions obtained for the years 2003 to 30 October 2007, for offences under the Employment Permits Act, 2003, he will provide information on the break-down of the proceedings and convictions against employers and employees; the reason this information has not been...

Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2008: Second Stage (12 Feb 2008)

Róisín Shortall: I welcome this Bill and its provisions, which will not be opposed by the Labour Party. However, the Bill is more remarkable for its omissions than its provisions. The three major areas in social welfare relate to pensions, lone parents and carers and, with these in mind, I feel this Bill represents a missed opportunity because no attempt has been made to seek progress on these big ticket...

Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2008: Second Stage (12 Feb 2008)

Róisín Shortall: This was the advice we were told the Department received. I would have expected an Irish citizen who returns from the US or England to care for an elderly parent for just a few years to be able to claim carer's allowance. The habitual residence condition is being applied to these individuals because the argument is that if an entitlement were given to Irish citizens it would have to be given...

Written Answers — National Concert Hall: National Concert Hall (12 Feb 2008)

Róisín Shortall: Question 133: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism the status of the redevelopment of the National Concert Hall integrating the former University College Dublin site on Earlsfort Terrace; when he expects the international design competition to be put to tender; the estimated cost of the redevelopment of this site; the amount of this funding that will be supplied by the Exchequer;...