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Civil Registration Bill 2003: Report and Final Stages. (10 Feb 2004)

Willie Penrose: Get the Aire Airgeadais in here.

Civil Registration Bill 2003: Report and Final Stages. (10 Feb 2004)

Willie Penrose: I have concerns about section 22. I am particularly concerned about the registration of children of unmarried parents. This section, as drafted, will cause significant problems in the future. Section 22(1) allows an unmarried father to refuse to co-operate, as Deputy Crowe says, or to say he need only supply his name. That information, and only that, is required of him under subsection (2)....

Written Answers — Groceries Order: Groceries Order (10 Feb 2004)

Willie Penrose: Question 149: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment when she intends to publish the results of her review of the 1987 groceries order which forbids below cost selling; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3793/04]

Written Answers — Leave Entitlements: Leave Entitlements (10 Feb 2004)

Willie Penrose: Question 168: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the proposals she has to increase the statutory entitlement to paid holidays or to increase the number of public holidays, having regard to the findings of a number of recent surveys showing Irish workers had the lowest level of holidays and worked longer hours than workers in other EU countries; and if she...

Written Answers — Farm Retirement Scheme: Farm Retirement Scheme (10 Feb 2004)

Willie Penrose: Question 202: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food if an application under an early retirement from farming scheme by a person (details supplied) in County Westmeath will be processed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3768/04]

Written Answers — Sports Capital Programme: Sports Capital Programme (10 Feb 2004)

Willie Penrose: Question 306: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism if he will confirm that his Department has received an application for grant aid under the sports facility programme from an organisation (details supplied); the steps he will take to ensure that this group will be considered for such grant aid; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3945/04]

Written Answers — Sports Capital Programme: Sports Capital Programme (10 Feb 2004)

Willie Penrose: Question 307: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism if he will confirm that his Department has received an application for grant assistance under the sports facility programme from an organisation (details supplied); the steps he will take to ensure that it is considered; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3946/04]

Written Answers — Sports Capital Programme: Sports Capital Programme (10 Feb 2004)

Willie Penrose: Question 308: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism if he will confirm that his Department has received an application for grant assistance under the sports facility programme from an organisation (details supplied); the steps he will take to ensure that it is considered; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3947/04]

Written Answers — Sports Capital Programme: Sports Capital Programme (10 Feb 2004)

Willie Penrose: Question 309: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism if he will confirm that his Department has received an application for grant assistance under the sports facility programme from an organisation (details supplied); the steps he will take to ensure that it is considered; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3948/04]

Written Answers — Fire Stations: Fire Stations (10 Feb 2004)

Willie Penrose: Question 440: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the reason an application for a fire station at Granard, County Longford, has not progressed despite the obvious necessity of the construction of a new fire station at this location and the fact that it was at contract document stage a considerable period of time ago; if, in this context, the provision of a...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (10 Feb 2004)

Willie Penrose: Question 472: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the cost to her Department if the carer's allowance was increased to the old age non-contributory pension level at current rates; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3952/04]

Written Answers — Tax Code: Tax Code (17 Feb 2004)

Willie Penrose: Question 110: To ask the Minister for Finance the steps he plans to take to ensure that all taxpayers fully know their rights to claim all reliefs, particularly in view of the recent figures showing that many do not claim for reliefs to which they are entitled; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4748/04]

Written Answers — State Property: State Property (17 Feb 2004)

Willie Penrose: Question 127: To ask the Minister for Finance the progress made to date by the Office of Public Works in its examination of the State property portfolio with a view to identifying vacant, under-utilised or surplus property; when he expects that the examination will be concluded; the properties which have to date been sold or identified as being suitable for sale; if the OPW has advised that...

Written Answers — Sports Capital Programme: Sports Capital Programme (17 Feb 2004)

Willie Penrose: Question 354: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism if his Department has received an application for lottery funding from an organisation (details supplied) in County Longford; if same will be expedited; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5099/04]

Written Answers — Hospital Waiting Lists: Hospital Waiting Lists (17 Feb 2004)

Willie Penrose: Question 421: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if a person (details supplied) in County Westmeath will be given an appointment with a consultant orthopaedic surgeon as a matter of urgency. [5088/04]

Written Answers — Higher Education: Higher Education (30 Mar 2004)

Willie Penrose: Question 175: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if he will expand on comments he made at UCD in February 2004 that universities must be made more accountable to the taxpayer; if this view will be reflected in his Department's submission to the OECD review of the third level sector here; the structures he envisages for doing so; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9789/04]

Written Answers — School Accommodation: School Accommodation (30 Mar 2004)

Willie Penrose: Question 282: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if his attention has been drawn to the difficulties facing parents of children in the Mullingar area in trying to enrol them in the local schools due to the rapidly expanding population and the lack of school accommodation to cater for these numbers in the area; and if, in this context, additional school accommodation will be...

Written Answers — Local Authority Funding: Local Authority Funding (30 Mar 2004)

Willie Penrose: Question 485: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the problems being experienced by local authorities which find themselves with totally inadequate finance to meet the demands by applicants for disabled person grants; if his Department has carried out an audit of the waiting lists for such grants in each local authority...

Written Answers — Local Authority Funding: Local Authority Funding (30 Mar 2004)

Willie Penrose: Question 486: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the status of an application for capital funding to his Department from Westmeath County Council to carry out renewals and refurbishments to housing stock at Ennell Court, Mullingar, County Westmeath; the progress that has been made in this regard; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9975/04]

Twenty-seventh Amendment of the Constitution Bill 2004: Second Stage. (21 Apr 2004)

Willie Penrose: The Minister is like a schoolyard bully.