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Written Answers — Department of Finance: Property Tax Exemptions (4 May 2016)

Willie Penrose: 61. To ask the Minister for Finance if there is an exemption for elderly persons over 75 years of age who are in poor health and who suffer from a disability but who have not paid their property tax, where they applied for a disabled person grant to their local authority but where they were refused unless they could show evidence of complying with the property tax scheme; and if he will make...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Targeted Agricultural Modernisation Scheme (4 May 2016)

Willie Penrose: 100. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to expedite an application (details supplied) for a grant under the targeted agricultural modernisation scheme as approval is urgently required to carry out necessary building refurbishment works; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9188/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (4 May 2016)

Willie Penrose: 227. To ask the Minister for Health to ensure that a person (details supplied) who is in urgent need of an operation and has been on the waiting list for surgery and treatment is immediately admitted for same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9187/16]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Fish Farming (4 May 2016)

Willie Penrose: 329. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he is aware of a proposal by Inland Fisheries Ireland to close fish hatchery farms at Cullionmore, in Mullingar, County Westmeath and in Roscrea, County Tipperary, which are the only two brown trout hatcheries left in Ireland; if he will consult the said board with a view to getting this proposal scrapped as there is...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Eligibility (5 May 2016)

Willie Penrose: 88. To ask the Minister for Health why a person (details supplied) was not awarded a full medical card given that, within the guidelines, the person clearly qualifies for one, as can be confirmed by correspondence to the primary care re-imbursement service section of the Health Service Executive, dated 12 February 2016 (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9329/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Applications (5 May 2016)

Willie Penrose: 96. To ask the Minister for Health if he will re-open an application by a person (details supplied) for a medical card, given the reasons set out in correspondence dated 8 April 2016 to the primary care reimbursement service section of the Health Service Executive; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9348/16]

Appointment of Taoiseach and Nomination of Members of Government: Motion (6 May 2016)

Willie Penrose: Barry, will you go back to sleep?

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teachers' Remuneration (17 May 2016)

Willie Penrose: 251. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide without delay a person's (details supplied) sick leave record from its earliest date and the personal record of the person's temporary rehabilitation remuneration entitlements to date, setting out when the latter began and will expire, given that this person urgently requires same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9405/16]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Disability Allowance Eligibility (17 May 2016)

Willie Penrose: 439. To ask the Minister for Social Protection to backdate to February 2009 the claim of a person (details supplied) who has been deemed eligible again under the disability allowance scheme, the date when eligibility was initially stopped; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9404/16]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Disability Allowance Applications (17 May 2016)

Willie Penrose: 513. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if an application for disability allowance by a person (details supplied) will be expedited; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9906/16]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals (17 May 2016)

Willie Penrose: 514. To ask the Minister for Social Protection to immediately pay a claim awarded to a person (details supplied) on appeal to the chief appeals officer under the invalidity pension scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9907/16]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Grant Payments (17 May 2016)

Willie Penrose: 987. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to ensure that outstanding payments due to a registered farm partnership (details supplied) that have been subject to a review will be paid out immediately in order to enable the applicants comply with the mid-May date for 2016 applications; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9403/16]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Basic Payment Scheme Applications (17 May 2016)

Willie Penrose: 1020. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine why he has not granted entitlements to a person (details supplied) who applied for them in March 2005 in accordance with the regulations pertaining at that date under the national reserve scheme; to grant these without delay as this is impacting on the person's ability to continue farming; and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Domiciliary Care Allowance Eligibility (19 May 2016)

Willie Penrose: 142. To ask the Minister for Social Protection how he deals with the assessment of awards which are made in compensation cases in respect of children who might be in receipt of domiciliary care allowance where the parent may well be in receipt of carer’s allowance, particularly where such awards arise from injuries sustained at birth; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Applications (19 May 2016)

Willie Penrose: 143. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the status of an application by a person (details supplied) under the carers' allowance scheme; if same will be expedited; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11119/16]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horse Racing Industry Funding (24 May 2016)

Willie Penrose: 554. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to immediately suspend the Irish foal levy which was introduced in 2000 which is based on the advertised nomination fee of the foal's sire rather than the actual payment for the stallion's services and where the suspension of the current system which has been the subject of an adverse court judgment will allow for a proper review...

Ceisteanna - Questions (resumed) - Priority Questions: Departmental Legal Cases (25 May 2016)

Willie Penrose: 28. To ask the Minister for Social Protection to commit to initiating a legal case under section 599 of the Companies Act 2014 in an effort to recover moneys paid by the State to cover the statutory redundancy entitlements of the former workers of Clerys department store who were made redundant in June 2015; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11890/16]

Ceisteanna - Questions (resumed) - Priority Questions: Departmental Legal Cases (25 May 2016)

Willie Penrose: As the Minister is aware, the significance of this case is due to the fact that the insolvency was preceded by a company restructuring which involved a separation of the trading business that employed the staff from its major asset, namely, the Clerys building. The operating company was then declared insolvent and went into liquidation. The employees lost their entitlements without notice...

Ceisteanna - Questions (resumed) - Priority Questions: Departmental Legal Cases (25 May 2016)

Willie Penrose: With all respect to the Minister, that reflects the conservatism within the bureaucracy. Section 599 has never been used. It is on the Statute Book for a good reason and it should be used. If the Government, with the backing of the deep pockets of the State, cannot use it, how can a small business or small company owner use or exploit it? Let us go for it. The Government should carry the...

Ceisteanna - Questions (resumed) - Priority Questions: Departmental Legal Cases (25 May 2016)

Willie Penrose: If it is, the legislation should be brought back before the Dáil, where Members can amend it to make sure it has teeth.