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Written Answers — Tax Code: Tax Code (23 Oct 2008)

Róisín Shortall: Question 80: To ask the Minister for Finance if rental income will be subject to the income levy. [36807/08]

Written Answers — Tax Code: Tax Code (23 Oct 2008)

Róisín Shortall: Question 81: To ask the Minister for Finance if expenses paid to an employee in respect of their work duties will be subject to the income levy. [36808/08]

Written Answers — Tax Code: Tax Code (23 Oct 2008)

Róisín Shortall: Question 82: To ask the Minister for Finance the way the expenses of self-employed people will be treated in respect of the income levy; if he will clarify the Taoiseach's statement on the evening of 14 October 2008 that the levy will allow for the deduction of normal expenses associated with a trade; the trades to which this will apply; the expenses to which this will apply; and if he will...

Written Answers — Nursing Home Subventions: Nursing Home Subventions (23 Oct 2008)

Róisín Shortall: Question 110: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if the fair deal scheme will apply to private hospital and nursing homes. [36858/08]

Order of Business (29 Oct 2008)

Róisín Shortall: When is it intended to publish the social welfare Bill? Will the Government follow the normal practice of having two social welfare Bills to give effect to the changes announced in the budget?

Order of Business (29 Oct 2008)

Róisín Shortall: Will it be just one Bill?

Written Answers — Telecommunications Services: Telecommunications Services (29 Oct 2008)

Róisín Shortall: Question 165: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the position regarding the national broadband scheme; if the scheme will cover all areas not served by broadband suppliers here, excluding satellite providers; the areas that will not be covered by the scheme in view of the fact that the maps have been redrawn since the initial map was released which show an...

Written Answers — Telecommunications Services: Telecommunications Services (29 Oct 2008)

Róisín Shortall: Question 129: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the number of people and the amount of resources that are allocated to working full-time on the national broadband scheme; the duties of same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37148/08]

Written Answers — Tax Code: Tax Code (29 Oct 2008)

Róisín Shortall: Question 202: To ask the Minister for Finance the way the proposed parking tax announced in budget 2009 will be applied in practice; and the way he proposes to legislate for such a tax. [37258/08]

Written Answers — Tax Code: Tax Code (29 Oct 2008)

Róisín Shortall: Question 214: To ask the Minister for Finance the position in relation to the thresholds for the income levy; and the revised thresholds, bands, and rates applying to each band. [37256/08]

Written Answers — Medical Cards: Medical Cards (29 Oct 2008)

Róisín Shortall: Question 240: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the full income guidelines that will apply to applicants for a medical card in 2009. [37257/08]

Written Answers — Pension Provisions: Pension Provisions (29 Oct 2008)

Róisín Shortall: Question 365: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the rates for reduced rate pensions that will apply in 2009. [37263/08]

Written Answers — Higher Education Grants: Higher Education Grants (29 Oct 2008)

Róisín Shortall: Question 553: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the statutory instrument that precludes students of distance learning courses from support under the higher education grants scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37432/08]

Written Answers — Afforestation Programme: Afforestation Programme (30 Oct 2008)

Róisín Shortall: Question 48: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he will introduce a broadleaf thinning scheme which is vital to ensure the production of high quality crop; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37472/08]

Written Answers — Foster Care: Foster Care (30 Oct 2008)

Róisín Shortall: Question 112: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the rates that will apply in 2009 in respect of foster payments. [37614/08]

Written Answers — Medical Cards: Medical Cards (30 Oct 2008)

Róisín Shortall: Question 113: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the allowances, in addition to the income threshold cut-off points, that will apply to medical card applicants over 70 in 2009; and if regular medical expenses will be permitted to form a standard part of the means test, as with other medical card applicants. [37615/08]

Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (30 Oct 2008)

Róisín Shortall: Question 120: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when a person (details supplied) in Dublin 11 can expect to be called for an operation in view of the seriousness and urgency of this condition; and the reason for the delay. [37678/08]

Written Answers — Medical Cards: Medical Cards (30 Oct 2008)

Róisín Shortall: Question 133: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the projected cost to the Exchequer to administer the means test for the over 70 years medical card. [37772/08]

Written Answers — Social Welfare Code: Social Welfare Code (30 Oct 2008)

Róisín Shortall: Question 176: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the payments due to the parents of a child under the early child care supplement scheme at the time of birth under the rules pertaining to the scheme at the time of birth and the corresponding payments due to the child as a result of changes announced in budget 2009 for the parents of a child born on 21 September 2008. [37610/08]

Written Answers — Social Welfare Code: Social Welfare Code (30 Oct 2008)

Róisín Shortall: Question 178: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if the cutbacks to the early child care supplement announced in the budget 2009 speech will apply to children for whom parents are already receiving payment or only to children joining from January 2009. [37612/08]