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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Staffing (18 Sep 2013)

Michael McGrath: 335. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to the fact that his Department requires a person working as a special needs assistant, and who wishes to accept a place on the online higher diploma in arts in primary education course with a college (details supplied), to take a two year career break; his views on whether this requirement makes it financially...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (18 Sep 2013)

Michael McGrath: 382. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding funding for a national school (details supplied) in County Cork to replace prefabs with permanent accommodation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38279/13]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Site Acquisitions (18 Sep 2013)

Michael McGrath: 391. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide an update on plans to develop a new education campus at Ballinrea, Carrigaline, County Cork; the new school facilities that his Department intends to develop on the site which has been acquired; the size of the site that has been acquired; if it is sufficient in size to meet the needs of his Department; the steps achieved to...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (18 Sep 2013)

Michael McGrath: 393. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide a detailed update, including a description of the works planned or underway, on development projects at schools in a town (details supplied) in County Cork. [38376/13]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport Eligibility (18 Sep 2013)

Michael McGrath: 395. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills in relation to the post-primary school transport scheme, if the eligibility rule requiring a pupil to live at least 4.8 kilometres from the nearest school is set aside if there is no bus route to that nearest school but there is a bus route to another appropriate school; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38391/13]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Registered Employment Agreements (18 Sep 2013)

Michael McGrath: 521. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will update his response to Parliamentary Question No. 344 of 25 June 2013 regarding the recent Supreme Court decision upholding a constitutional challenge to the system of Registered Employment Agreements; if he will outline the formal response of Government to the decision and the steps the Government now intends to take;...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Live Register Data (18 Sep 2013)

Michael McGrath: 602. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if any person who was previously self employed and who was refused jobseeker's allowance by virtue of the means test is included in her Department's official figures as an unemployed person; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37424/13]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Domiciliary Care Allowance Appeals (18 Sep 2013)

Michael McGrath: 689. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding a domiciliary care allowance appeal in respect of persons (details supplied) in County Cork. [38419/13]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Graffiti Issues (18 Sep 2013)

Michael McGrath: 914. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the steps being taken at national and local authority level to address the problem of graffiti in certain locations; if he will provide details of any funding ringfenced to deal with the issue; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37740/13]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Drainage Schemes Status (18 Sep 2013)

Michael McGrath: 955. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his plans for a Cork main drainage scheme; when he expects the scheme to get underway; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38367/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Eligibility (18 Sep 2013)

Michael McGrath: 1281. To ask the Minister for Health the current national interest rate applied to savings or similar investments for the purposes of calculating eligibility for a medical card for persons aged 70 years and over; if a person may opt to have their income assessed for eligibility based on the actual level of interest earned during the relevant period; and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Long-Term Illness Scheme Coverage (18 Sep 2013)

Michael McGrath: 1336. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to add rheumatoid arthritis to the list of qualifying illnesses under the long term illness scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37286/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Blood Transfusion Service (18 Sep 2013)

Michael McGrath: 1405. To ask the Minister for Health if the Irish Blood Transfusion Service is to commence accepting blood from haemachromatosis sufferers; the indicative dates and locations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37717/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Primary Care Centres Provision (18 Sep 2013)

Michael McGrath: 1537. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding plans for a new primary care centre in a town (details supplied) in County Cork; the steps that have been taken to date to develop this facility; if approval is now in place to proceed; where the project is on the ranking list; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38366/13]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Tourism Industry Issues (18 Sep 2013)

Michael McGrath: 1651. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views from the perspective of the impact on domestic tourism on the fact that pupils at primary and post primary level are now returning to school during the last week of August effectively shutting down the domestic tourism sector for the final week of August; if he has raised the issue with the Department of Education and...

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Joint Sub-Committee on Global Corporate Taxation: Base Erosion and Profit Shifting: Discussion with Department of Finance and Revenue (18 Sep 2013)

Michael McGrath: I welcome Mr. Tobin, Ms Levey, Mr. O'Dea and Mr. Fanning, and I thank them for sending in their presentation which gave us an opportunity to read it through before the meeting. I begin with the most topical issue of the European Commission's information request to Ireland along with two other countries on our arrangements with some multinational companies. When was the first contact made...

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Joint Sub-Committee on Global Corporate Taxation: Base Erosion and Profit Shifting: Discussion with Department of Finance and Revenue (18 Sep 2013)

Michael McGrath: I am not asking Mr. Tobin to disclose to the committee what information was sought, but he makes the Commission's request sound anodyne. I assume what was requested was specific and detailed. It might even have asked about the tax payments of individual corporations. Is it fair to say that the request was a specific one?

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Joint Sub-Committee on Global Corporate Taxation: Base Erosion and Profit Shifting: Discussion with Department of Finance and Revenue (18 Sep 2013)

Michael McGrath: What I am asking is whether the Commission sought information on specific companies.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Joint Sub-Committee on Global Corporate Taxation: Base Erosion and Profit Shifting: Discussion with Department of Finance and Revenue (18 Sep 2013)

Michael McGrath: Did the Commission specify the provenance of its inquiries? Were they a result of a complaint lodged by another member state, for example? Mr Tobin inferred it is not surprising that, given the media coverage of the issues in recent months, the Commission would seek such information. Does he think that the request is linked directly to the hearings in the United States, for example? Is it...

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Joint Sub-Committee on Global Corporate Taxation: Base Erosion and Profit Shifting: Discussion with Department of Finance and Revenue (18 Sep 2013)

Michael McGrath: There is no reference to a complaint having made against Ireland.