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Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (24 Feb 2015)

Willie Penrose: Yes.

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (24 Feb 2015)

Willie Penrose: I am all in favour of that approach.

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Pensions Levy (26 Feb 2015)

Willie Penrose: 68. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans, in terms of the pension levy, which has significantly impacted upon pensions of retired workers who are on fixed incomes; if the said levy will be abolished in 2015; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8648/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Correspondence (26 Feb 2015)

Willie Penrose: 197. To ask the Minister for Health if he will ensure that correspondence, in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Westmeath, is dealt with, as this person has been in contact with his Department on a number of occasions and the issues raised have never been satisfactorily rectified by his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8698/15]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Credits (3 Mar 2015)

Willie Penrose: 210. To ask the Minister for Finance the reason a person (details supplied) in County Westmeath has had his tax credit reduced, so that he is actually paying more tax in 2015 than he did in 2014; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9007/15]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Rights of Way Provision (3 Mar 2015)

Willie Penrose: 576. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the position whereby a lake or river of national importance is surrounded or bordered by land in private ownership and in that context, whether the right of access by members of the general public to the lakeshore can be restricted or circumscribed by the landowners concerned and the extent to which this will be...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointment Delays (5 Mar 2015)

Willie Penrose: 226. To ask the Minister for Health the waiting time for magnetic resonance imaging, MRI, scans at the Midland Regional Hospital, Tullamore, County Offaly; if there are provisions for emergency scans to take place, particularly for public patients; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9851/15]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (10 Mar 2015)

Willie Penrose: 248. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he is satisfied with the operation of proposals, to end unfair practices in the retail sector to date; if he has studied the proposals by the European Union Commissioner for Agriculture to impose fines of up to 1% of retail turnover for unfair practices which impact upon producers; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Personal Solvency (Amendment) Bill 2015: First Stage (11 Mar 2015)

Willie Penrose: I move:That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to amend the Bankruptcy Act 1988; and to provide for related matters.We the people of this great nation have stood at many crossroads. Of late, however, we have danced at very few of them. We have subsisted to survive but we need no longer survive in order to subsist. Our country's battle has been against overwhelming odds....

Personal Solvency (Amendment) Bill 2015: First Stage (11 Mar 2015)

Willie Penrose: It would damage confidence. Some say that it is the little things that matter. Others say that it is the little things that trip one up. Little and short though this Bill is, this House will go a long way before it will have the opportunity by doing so little to do so much real good for so many of the plain people of Ireland.

Personal Solvency (Amendment) Bill 2015: First Stage (11 Mar 2015)

Willie Penrose: I urge the Government to accept the Bill and to bring it into law.

Personal Solvency (Amendment) Bill 2015: First Stage (11 Mar 2015)

Willie Penrose: I move: "That the Bill be taken in Private Members' time."

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Tenant Purchase Scheme Eligibility (11 Mar 2015)

Willie Penrose: 138. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will ensure an appropriate loan scheme is available for persons in receipt of social welfare payments such as invalidity payment, to enable them to purchase their local authority house under the new tenant purchase scheme that is being proposed, whereby these tenants are currently paying more in rent than they...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Rent Supplement Scheme Eligibility (12 Mar 2015)

Willie Penrose: 78. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if a person who is eligible to receive rent supplement will obtain same in respect of accommodation which that person can rent from a sibling; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10991/15]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Household Charge Administration (24 Mar 2015)

Willie Penrose: 292. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will ensure that a demand made in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Westmeath regarding the household charge in the sum of €200 is discontinued, in view of the fact that this person was not the owner of the house at the time charge arose in January 2012 to December 2012 period, that the person only took up residence in April...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointment Status (24 Mar 2015)

Willie Penrose: 553. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Westmeath who was initially seen approximately two and a half years ago for cataract problems in both eyes and who was recently seen in October 2014, will be admitted for the surgical procedure required, especially for the right eye, as this person is also severely incapacitated from a mobility perspective; and if...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Establishment (24 Mar 2015)

Willie Penrose: 834. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills in view of the M4 study in relation to the provision of secondary schools, the steps she will take to advance the conclusion of the study that a secondary school should be provided in the Kinnegad area of County Westmeath due to the continuing expansion of the population in Westmeath's third largest town; if a site has already been provided;...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Mortgage to Rent Scheme Administration (24 Mar 2015)

Willie Penrose: 907. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his plans to restructure and recast the mortgage-to-rent scheme; if he will focus specifically upon increasing the eligibility limits by at least 30%, as they have not been adjusted since 2011, as well as permitting persons with low incomes but with some positive equity in their homesteads to participate in any such...

Topical Issue Debate: Mortgage to Rent Scheme Eligibility (26 Mar 2015)

Willie Penrose: While the Minister, Deputy Kelly, is unavoidably absent, the Minister of State, Deputy Kevin Humphreys, has intimate knowledge of this problem with social housing issues and arrears. Young Irish families throughout the country have suffered the disastrous effects of what has been a perfect financial storm. First, there was a massive banking collapse and the deepest recession in living...

Topical Issue Debate: Mortgage to Rent Scheme Eligibility (26 Mar 2015)

Willie Penrose: Under such a programme, a public private partnership could provide social housing throughout the country. A pension fund or other investors seeking a safe, long-term investment would purchase these non-performing loans from banks, leaving the banks free to get on with future lending to first-time buyers and small businesses.