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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Closures (16 Apr 2013)

Mattie McGrath: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the exact criteria which will govern the decisions to leave open or close the many hundreds of rural schools throughout the country; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16690/13]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Household Benefits (16 Apr 2013)

Mattie McGrath: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason an illness benefit is not considered as a qualifying payment for the household benefits package; if there any assistance that can be provided to a person who is unable to work due to a serious illness such as cancer and who is struggling to meet household bills; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15981/13]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: FÁS Training Programmes (16 Apr 2013)

Mattie McGrath: To ask the Minister for Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 309 of 12 March 2013, the avenue available to a person who is unemployed or disabled and not in receipt of a social welfare payment to engage in a training course when they have been advised by their local FÁS Office that they are not entitled to participate in any course because they are not in receipt of a...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Property Taxation Collection (16 Apr 2013)

Mattie McGrath: To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if the non principal private resindency charge will be abolished following the introduction of the local property tax in view of the fact that it represents a double taxation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16517/13]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Unfinished Housing Developments (16 Apr 2013)

Mattie McGrath: To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if all unfinished housing estates that are not exempt from the local property tax will now be taken in charge by their relevant local authorities; if public lighting, finished roads and so on will now be provided in these estates; if not, the services that will be provided to these estates; if no extra services will be...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Building Regulations Application (16 Apr 2013)

Mattie McGrath: To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if local authorities made efforts to communicate the new housing regulations to landlords; and the efforts that have been made to communicate these new regulations and their implications to tenants who might be affected by them. [17501/13]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Building Regulations Application (16 Apr 2013)

Mattie McGrath: To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the rights that tenants have when their accommodations is below the new standards for housing regulation. [17502/13]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Building Regulations Application (16 Apr 2013)

Mattie McGrath: To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government when a local authority finds that bed-sit accommodation which does not meet the new housing regulations is still being tenanted, the action that will be taken and the way in which the tenure of the current tenants will be affected. [17503/13]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Building Regulations Application (16 Apr 2013)

Mattie McGrath: To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the guidance that has been provided by him in relation to tenants about procedures to identify and avoid any risk of homelessness. [17504/13]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Building Regulations Application (16 Apr 2013)

Mattie McGrath: To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the number of housing units that have been upgraded, that will be upgraded and that might be withdrawn from the private rented sector as a result of the new housing regulations. [17505/13]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Building Regulations Application (16 Apr 2013)

Mattie McGrath: To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the discussions that he has had with the Department of Social Protection regarding the increased demands on rent supplement as non-working tenants of bed-sits seek more expensive accommodation as a result of the new housing regulations; and the procedures that will be put in place to support vulnerable tenants in making this...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Building Regulations Application (16 Apr 2013)

Mattie McGrath: To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he has a target date by which all inspections of housing will be completed and that all below-standard bed-sits are withdrawn from the housing market. [17507/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Water Fluoridation (16 Apr 2013)

Mattie McGrath: To ask the Minister for Health if, despite the fact that our national water supply has been artificially fluoridated for the past 49 years, there has been any testing of the chemicals for their safety on human health; if so, when this took place; if not, the reason for same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16692/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Programmes (16 Apr 2013)

Mattie McGrath: To ask the Minister for Health when the first phase of the National Asthma Programme will be implemented; the initial actions that will be taken by him in order to implement the programmer; and the deadlines for these actions [17519/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Programmes (16 Apr 2013)

Mattie McGrath: To ask the Minister for Health the reason implementation of the National Asthma Programme was not prioritised in the 2013 Health Service Executive Services Plan with more than one person per week dying from asthma and 470,000 people here living with this respiratory disease that is particularly prevalent in children, with one in five children here suffering from the disease; and if he will...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Reviews (16 Apr 2013)

Mattie McGrath: To ask the Minister for Health the reason when carrying out medical card reviews, particularly in the cases of the elderly, that is, those in receipt of a State pension, the Health Service Executive cannot simply send a letter asking whether or not the medical card holder's circumstances have changed rather than expecting the medical card holder to complete the review form and gather all...

Leaders' Questions (17 Apr 2013)

Mattie McGrath: And you wanted more.

Leaders' Questions (17 Apr 2013)

Mattie McGrath: Divide and conquer.

Leaders' Questions (17 Apr 2013)

Mattie McGrath: Big Phil was not going to wait for that.

Order of Business (17 Apr 2013)

Mattie McGrath: We are on a roll here because previous speakers all received positive replies. I am concerned with regard to the negative impact the local government Bill is going to have on local development companies. Deputy O'Dea inquired about county enterprise boards. I am of the view that it is very retrograde step to take these out of communities and force them into local authorities. What is the...