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Written Answers — Medical Cards: Medical Cards (12 May 2009)

Róisín Shortall: Question 200: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if it is her intention to centralise the assessment of medical card applications to one facility in Dublin; and if she has carried out an assessment on the way in which this move will affect patient services and waiting times. [18554/09]

Written Answers — Proposed Legislation: Proposed Legislation (12 May 2009)

Róisín Shortall: Question 201: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the position with regard to the fair deal scheme; and the status or the legislation which will provide for this scheme to take effect. [18555/09]

Written Answers — Financial Sector Regulation: Financial Sector Regulation (13 May 2009)

Róisín Shortall: Question 104: To ask the Minister for Finance his views on the growing number of financial services intermediaries who are offering debt-handling services at a price to vulnerable mortgage holders who are in arrears and other people in debt; and his plans to regulate or curtail these services. [16971/09]

Written Answers — Financial Institutions Support Scheme: Financial Institutions Support Scheme (13 May 2009)

Róisín Shortall: Question 129: To ask the Minister for Finance his views on the fact that Anglo Irish Bank could be undermining competition in the retail and commercial deposit market here by offering high interest rates on deposits which are covered by the bank guarantee; his further views on whether this is in breach of the terms of the bank guarantee; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18970/09]

Written Answers — Tax Code: Tax Code (13 May 2009)

Róisín Shortall: Question 139: To ask the Minister for Finance the reason the income levy is being deducted from the income of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 11 who is a medical card holder; and if he will make arrangements to rectify the situation. [19170/09]

Written Answers — Tax Code: Tax Code (13 May 2009)

Róisín Shortall: Question 140: To ask the Minister for Finance the reason the income levy is being deducted from a private pension of persons (details supplied) in Dublin 9 in view of the fact that this income falls short of the exemption limit; and if he will make arrangements to rectify this oversight. [19171/09]

Written Answers — Tax Code: Tax Code (14 May 2009)

Róisín Shortall: Question 50: To ask the Minister for Finance if it is correct that a person (details supplied) should be paying the income levy on income received from an Irish institution. [19572/09]

Written Answers — Medical Cards: Medical Cards (14 May 2009)

Róisín Shortall: Question 79: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she has an estimate of the percentage of over 70 year olds who hold a full medical card; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19567/09]

Written Answers — Medical Cards: Medical Cards (14 May 2009)

Róisín Shortall: Question 80: To ask the Minister for Health and Children her estimate of the cost to the Exchequer if the criteria for the means-testing of over seventy year olds was based on net income rather than gross. [19568/09]

Written Answers — Tax and Social Welfare Codes: Tax and Social Welfare Codes (14 May 2009)

Róisín Shortall: Question 122: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the rationale behind only allowing a half-rate illness benefit payment in the case of an employee who takes sick leave when a similar employee who is not a widow may qualify for a full payment. [19573/09]

Written Answers — Health and Safety Regulations: Health and Safety Regulations (19 May 2009)

Róisín Shortall: Question 94: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of workplace accidents and workplace deaths recorded in each year from 2002 to 2008 and to date in 2009; her proposals to ensure a reduction in the number of such accidents and deaths; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19843/09]

Written Answers — Employment Support Services: Employment Support Services (19 May 2009)

Róisín Shortall: Question 103: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the steps she proposes to take to ensure that all under 20 year old jobseekers have access to a training course. [16993/09]

Written Answers — Tax Code: Tax Code (19 May 2009)

Róisín Shortall: Question 150: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will arrange for the deduction of the income levy to be halted in the case of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 11; and if he will arrange for a refund of the amount of income levy paid to date. [19746/09]

Written Answers — Tax Code: Tax Code (19 May 2009)

Róisín Shortall: Question 151: To ask the Minister for Finance the reason the income levy is being deducted from the income of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 9 in view of the fact that this income falls far short of the exemption limit; and if he will make arrangements to rectify this oversight. [19774/09]

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (19 May 2009)

Róisín Shortall: Question 211: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the voluntary not for profit organisations providing home help and home care package services to the State; the details in relation to each organisation for 2008 and the first quarter of 2009 in respect of moneys received under section 39 of the Health Act 2004, moneys received under the mental health grant funding, autism grant...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Appeals: Social Welfare Appeals (19 May 2009)

Róisín Shortall: Question 315: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the average processing time for an appeal in respect of supplementary welfare allowance; and the average processing time for an appeal in respect of mortgage interest supplement. [19591/09]

Written Answers — Sheep Identification Scheme: Sheep Identification Scheme (20 May 2009)

Róisín Shortall: Question 107: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food his views on the introduction of compulsory electronic identification of sheep as is being mooted by the EU commission; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20188/09]

Written Answers — Tax Code: Tax Code (20 May 2009)

Róisín Shortall: Question 145: To ask the Minister for Finance the arrangements that are made by the Revenue Commissioners when a person of limited means inherits the house they live in but cannot afford the inheritance tax or cannot get a mortgage to pay for it because of reasons of age, income, infirmity or other; if exemptions apply to the tax; if arrangements will be made to pay off the tax in stages,...

Written Answers — School Accommodation: School Accommodation (20 May 2009)

Róisín Shortall: Question 285: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if there is an area value set down in primary or secondary legislation or on an administrative basis for minimum classroom size; and if he will provide details of the measurements and legislative provisions. [20679/09]

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (21 May 2009)

Róisín Shortall: Question 31: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the reason home help hours are being reduced in many parts of the country; if she will initiate an examination of the way home help might assist in reducing the number of people occupying acute beds who could be at home with appropriate support; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20481/09]