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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Investigations Division: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (9 Dec 2014)

Willie Penrose: I made that first submission. It is now mandatory. When is the investigations unit going to prepare a page indicating to people what their rights are at the very beginning? There would then be no ambiguity. I said their rights were circumscribed and I did not use that word lightly. How many of those who have been investigated have been advised that they are entitled to legal...

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Supplementary) (9 Dec 2014)

Willie Penrose: I have no questions. The Minister explained it comprehensively and clearly. This is just an accounting or technical issue.

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Supplementary) (9 Dec 2014)

Willie Penrose: I agree. They provided a wealth of experience in the Department and will leave a big void to fill.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Administration (10 Dec 2014)

Willie Penrose: 136. To ask the Minister for Health if he will take steps to expedite a neurological procedure in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Westmeath; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47468/14]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Jobseeker's Allowance Appeals (16 Dec 2014)

Willie Penrose: 178. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding a social welfare appeal in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Westmeath in relation to the refusal of their application for jobseeker's allowance; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [48414/14]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Rebates (16 Dec 2014)

Willie Penrose: 225. To ask the Minister for Finance the steps he will take to ensure that a person (details supplied) in County Westmeath is reimbursed a property tax deduction, which was made by the Revenue Commissioners, in respect of a property tax to which they were not liable, as they were only a tenant and not the owner of the dwelling house which they vacated approximately four years ago and now live...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Proposed Legislation (16 Dec 2014)

Willie Penrose: 375. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality her plans to introduce periodic payment orders to deal with catastrophic personal injury cases; if the legislation to enable same to be introduced will be brought forward in 2015; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [48162/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Alcohol Pricing (16 Dec 2014)

Willie Penrose: 490. To ask the Minister for Health if progress has been made with the proposal to introduce a minimum unit pricing policy for alcohol, which has been recommended for a considerable period, as an important policy instrument in fighting alcohol harm; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48196/14]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Hen Harrier Special Protection Areas (16 Dec 2014)

Willie Penrose: The delegates are members of various farming organisations. What have they done to take up the cause on their behalf? Representative bodies should be fighting this. I am from the midlands and am familiar with callows and wetlands, which are the equivalent of the designated areas in question. I have been deeply involved with cases in this regard and fought the odd one fairly successfully....

Water Services Bill 2014: Report and Final Stages (17 Dec 2014)

Willie Penrose: I understand and appreciate everyone's views and genuine concerns. I have never engaged in a campaign of deprecation or adversely commented on anybody's sincerely held views and opinions. I acknowledge that there are genuine concerns about privatisation. Coming from the background that I do, I am stridently opposed to any attempt to privatise this utility, in particular. Some people may...

Water Services Bill 2014: Report and Final Stages (17 Dec 2014)

Willie Penrose: Let us be clear about a few things. I have listened very carefully to people who have come from very posh brigades who said all sorts of things and represented their views. I come from a background of genuine poverty. I am not ashamed to admit that I come from a lower socioeconomic background. My late father was a county council worker. In 1961 we were very glad to get a council house....

Water Services Bill 2014: Report and Final Stages (17 Dec 2014)

Willie Penrose: I am telling Deputy Healy my background; I am not interested in his.

Water Services Bill 2014: Report and Final Stages (17 Dec 2014)

Willie Penrose: He is sniggering at me.

Water Services Bill 2014: Report and Final Stages (17 Dec 2014)

Willie Penrose: When we got the house we had to pay rent, which was normal, and twice a year we had to pay moiety rates. Deputy Halligan will remember the rates on county council houses. We did not have any money and had to make do. Every year my late mother had to rear turkeys or pigs to try to pay the rates. I acknowledge that I have the same background as Deputy Healy. In that context, we were...

Water Services Bill 2014: Report and Final Stages (17 Dec 2014)

Willie Penrose: Exactly. We travelled across the fields to a well and carried water to the house to meet our essential needs. I remember it spilling from the bucket into my wellingtons, which was awful. This went on for a number of years, until we hand-dug a channel to supply water for the village. We did it on a Good Friday and a Holy Saturday. It is for that reason I would hate to see what we have put...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Property Valuations (17 Dec 2014)

Willie Penrose: 60. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the steps being taken to expedite the process of property valuations in the context of where there are large new businesses opening who should be subject to immediate rating but will not have to pay rates as there is no facility to retrospectively collect such rates in the absence of the immediate valuation process being carried out;...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: IDA Site Visits (17 Dec 2014)

Willie Penrose: 67. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of Industrial Development Agency sponsored visits by entrepreneurs and other companies to counties Westmeath and Longford to date in 2014; the attempts made by his Department and the IDA to secure industry for the large IDA site at Mailinstown, Mullingar, County Westmeath; the success rate that has been scheduled in 2014;...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Applications (17 Dec 2014)

Willie Penrose: 170. To ask the Minister for Health the steps the will take to have a general practitioner visit card issued by the Health Service Executive in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Westmeath who has supplied the requested information; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48637/14]

Road Traffic (No.2) Bill 2014 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) and Subsequent Stages (18 Dec 2014)

Willie Penrose: I welcome the opportunity to make a contribution to the debate on this Bill. We are all aware of why it became necessary to introduce this measure to amend the Road Traffic Act 2002 and the Road Traffic Act 2014 in respect of penalty points. It is a loophole or a lacuna which has arisen as a result of the implementation of the Road Traffic Act 2014. Two significant issues emerged. These...

Road Traffic (No.2) Bill 2014 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) and Subsequent Stages (18 Dec 2014)

Willie Penrose: It is great to see him back in the arena. These transport facilities are not available to people who live outside the Pale, and it worries me. Very often, legislation seems to suit the big towns and cities and the Pale, while we are forgotten about in so many ways. The legislation will prevent young people from using their vehicles, despite having undergone stringent theory tests and...