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Written Answers — Department of Finance: Mortgage Resolution Processes (28 Nov 2012)

Seán Kyne: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will confirm when the code of conduct on mortgage arrears will be amended to reflect the new mortgage arrears resolution strategy recently put in place by the Central Bank of Ireland; and if he will indicate the likely timeframe for same. [53170/12]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Money Advice and Budgeting Service (28 Nov 2012)

Seán Kyne: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if a specialist unit of the Money Advice and Budgetary Service could be established which would provide an enhanced mortgage arrears information and advice service and would in effect provide the borrower with the ongoing support required which will undoubtedly increase in necessity the provisions of the personal insolvency legislation. [53276/12]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Personal Insolvency Bill (28 Nov 2012)

Seán Kyne: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality when he expects the recently established Personal Insolvency Service to issue guidelines on what reasonable household expenses and the house income threshold will be in relation to those citizens who access various mechanisms as outlined in the Personal Insolvency Bill. [53160/12]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Legal Aid Service (28 Nov 2012)

Seán Kyne: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if consideration will be given to establishing a new service similar to that of the Civil Legal Aid Service which would provide support to those who require access to the provision under the personal insolvency legislation but who are unable to fund independent support and advice; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53277/12]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Accommodation (28 Nov 2012)

Seán Kyne: To ask the Minister for Health the procedures in place to ensure that facilities such as beds and rooms are available for persons and their families travelling from the west to Crumlin Children's Hospital, Dublin, for day treatment [53171/12]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Motorised Transport Grant (29 Nov 2012)

Seán Kyne: To ask the Minister for Health if the criteria pertaining to the motorised transport grant will be re-examined with a view to permitting applications from parents of children with mobility limiting conditions particularly in view of the fact that the grant guards against social exclusion and is particularly relevant and necessary for more rural areas which do not have the same access to...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Advertising Standards (29 Nov 2012)

Seán Kyne: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on the process by which advertisements are cleared for use on publicly owned public transport services; the steps a person can take if they believe an advertisement to not be suitable for use on publicly financed transport services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53672/12]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Human Rights Issues (4 Dec 2012)

Seán Kyne: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if, in the context of on-going concerns about the human rights of Ugandan citizens who are lesbian, gay, bisexual or transexual, his views on the need for an EU-wide approach to prevent any human rights abuses in this area. [54460/12]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Pensions (4 Dec 2012)

Seán Kyne: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will clarify the situation by which action on reducing or levying substantial State financed pensions is being curtailed on account of past legal interpretation which has placed pensions on a par with property thereby seemingly conferring the same constitutional rights to pensions as exists with property. [54454/12]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Insurance Payments (4 Dec 2012)

Seán Kyne: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if consideration is being given to introducing an option of permitting self-employed persons to voluntarily pay the proportion of PRSI for themselves that is usually paid by employers on behalf of employees and facilitates entitlement to the various supports of the social welfare system; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [54458/12]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: National Asset Management Agency (4 Dec 2012)

Seán Kyne: To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will report on the use of the National Assets Management Agency stock of housing to alleviate the problem of homelessness and on the introduction of social housing. [54452/12]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: National Asset Management Agency (4 Dec 2012)

Seán Kyne: To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if consideration has been given to introducing measures to facilitate the transfer of National Assets Management Agency owned or administered housing stock to local authorities in lieu of the non-payment of the developer contribution; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54453/12]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Human Rights Issues (4 Dec 2012)

Seán Kyne: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will report on the progress of the creation of the new Irish Human Rights Equality Commission. [54455/12]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Legislative Programme (4 Dec 2012)

Seán Kyne: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will confirm if his Department will be drafting or publishing the heads of a Bill to address the discriminatory effects of Section 37 of the Employment Equality Act which is having a particular adverse impact on members of the teaching profession. [54456/12]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Court Procedures (4 Dec 2012)

Seán Kyne: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 292 of 10 May 2011, if he has considered the judgement of the case pertaining to jury service by citizens who are deaf or have hearing impairments; and if measures will be introduced to facilitate such citizens in undertaking this important civic duty. [54457/12]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Health Service Executive Staff Responsibilities (4 Dec 2012)

Seán Kyne: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will report on the number of posts for child and family social workers that have been filled in 2012; if she will confirm the number of child and family social workers working in County Galway, including city; and if she will confirm the increase, if any, in the number of social workers nationally since the publication of the Ryan...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (4 Dec 2012)

Seán Kyne: To ask the Minister for Health following approval of the new 4CMenB vaccine, which is developed by pharmaceutical company Novartis, by the European Medicines Agency, when it is envisaged the vaccine will be granted a licence for use in this State and also if consideration is being given to introducing a vaccination programme on account of the potential transformative benefits this vaccine has...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (4 Dec 2012)

Seán Kyne: To ask the Minister for Health when he hopes to announce the support the State will be providing to those children who have been identified by the final report of the National Narcolepsy Study Steering Committee as being adversely affected by the incidence of narcolepsy as a result of a side effect of the Pandemrix vaccine administered for the H1N1 flu virus, otherwise known as Swine 'Flu,...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Tax Code (4 Dec 2012)

Seán Kyne: To ask the Minister for Health his views, in view of the increase in obesity and the associated negative health effects on the introduction of a tax on sugar sweetened beverages, some of which contain a person's entire World Health Organisation recommended daily allowance of sugar in one single portion; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54446/12]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Calorie Posting on Menus (4 Dec 2012)

Seán Kyne: To ask the Minister for Health if, in view of the increasing significance of the obesity issue, consideration will be given to introducing regulations which will make the publication of nutritional information, such as calorie amounts, obligatory on food and beverage menus particularly as many forward thinking restaurants and eateries have already done so thereby disproving the objections of...