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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Universal Support Ireland Administration (16 Dec 2016)

Willie Penrose: 165. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason a person (details supplied) was refused their application for a SUSI grant; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40619/16]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Jobseeker's Allowance Applications (16 Dec 2016)

Willie Penrose: 242. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the status of an application for jobseekers allowance in respect of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40918/16]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Basic Payment Scheme Applications (16 Dec 2016)

Willie Penrose: 427. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the steps he will take to deal with an administrative error in an application for a BPS payment by a person (details supplied) which circumstances have been outlined to his Department; if he will ensure that the appropriate payments in respect of all of the schemes are paid to this person; and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Jobseeker's Benefit Eligibility (17 Jan 2017)

Willie Penrose: 638. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if a person (details supplied) in County Kildare can claim for jobseeker's benefit; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1379/17]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Overpayments (17 Jan 2017)

Willie Penrose: 639. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding a social protection overpayment to a person (details supplied); the way in which this overpayment came about; the way in which it is calculated; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1380/17]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals (17 Jan 2017)

Willie Penrose: 640. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding a social protection overpayment to a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1381/17]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Basic Payment Scheme Payments (17 Jan 2017)

Willie Penrose: 1437. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the steps he will take to ensure that basic farm payments and-or disadvantaged farm payments due to a person (details supplied) are immediately paid out; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1373/17]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: GLAS Payments (17 Jan 2017)

Willie Penrose: 1438. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the steps he will take to ensure that a GLAS payment for 2016 due to a person (details supplied) is immediately paid out; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1374/17]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Impact of the UK Referendum on Membership of the EU on the Irish Agrifood and Fisheries Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (17 Jan 2017)

Willie Penrose: I thank Professor Matthews for what was a useful presentation in which he addressed the issues. As he said, this has the potential to be an economic and administrative nightmare, one which will have a seismic impact on the general economy and, in particular, the agrifood industry. Apart from the price differential, there will be a difficulty in securing alternative markets. We should be...

Questions on Promised Legislation (18 Jan 2017)

Willie Penrose: In relation to the commitment in the programme for Government focused on reinvigorating and protecting infrastructure throughout rural Ireland, I welcome the initiative being overseen by the Minister for Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs, Deputy Heather Humphreys, to put in place a grants system to enable dwellings and accommodation in villages and small towns to be...

Tillage Farming: Motion [Private Members] (18 Jan 2017)

Willie Penrose: Like my colleagues, I welcome the tillage farmers, who have made strenuous efforts to attend for this important motion. I spoke to them at the protest outside. I welcome the opportunity to support the motion on behalf of the Labour Party. The motion seeks to address the grave situation and significant income difficulties experienced by tillage farmers in 2016, in particular the 250 or...

Tillage Farming: Motion [Private Members] (18 Jan 2017)

Willie Penrose: I can understand why some British people reacted the way they did. They were fed up with the envelope of regulation. I detest it myself because the bureaucrats run loose. They know the price of everything and the value of nothing. In any event, it is time the Minister tackled the issue in order to get the anti-dumping levies on fertiliser imports suspended in their current form. They are...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Civil Service Reform (18 Jan 2017)

Willie Penrose: 161. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the current status of proposals to amalgamate the SO grade of the Civil Service with the EO grade; if such an upgrade takes place, that staff officers who have been working in that position for a number of years will receive the appropriate pay rise commensurate with the upgrade; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2218/17]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Code (19 Jan 2017)

Willie Penrose: 163. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the benefits available to self-employed persons following the recent changes made in budget 2017, particularly in the context of the self-employed person's eligibility for jobseeker’s benefit, invalidity pension and other ancillary benefits. [2427/17]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Basic Payment Scheme Eligibility (19 Jan 2017)

Willie Penrose: 247. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason correspondence dated 24 October 2016 and 13 December 2016 which was submitted to his Department by a person (details supplied) has not been replied to to date; the reason the person has not been paid their single farm payment and areas of natural constraint payments which are due to them for 2016 and which have been...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Transfer of Entitlements (19 Jan 2017)

Willie Penrose: 266. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will ensure that the farm entitlements attached to a farm (details supplied) are immediately transferred to the beneficiary of the residual estate as set out in the terms of the will and as per correspondence of 2 December 2016 (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2451/17]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Defined Benefit Pension Schemes (24 Jan 2017)

Willie Penrose: 49. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the action he will take to prevent profitable companies from winding up their defined benefit pension schemes; and the way he will ensure the pension rights of workers and those already retired are protected. [3026/17]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Defined Benefit Pension Schemes (24 Jan 2017)

Willie Penrose: Solvent employers can legally walk away from their liability to fund defined benefit pension schemes, as required under the employment contracts with current or former employees, simply by deciding to wind up the scheme. It is possible because most defined benefit scheme trustees and rules allow an employer to wind up a pension scheme and cease contributions while ignoring any deficit in...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Defined Benefit Pension Schemes (24 Jan 2017)

Willie Penrose: The attitude the Minister is displaying in the Chamber today will come as an awful shock to the working people of this country. Does he realise he is condoning an incongruous situation whereby the workers of a very profitable company with a pension fund deficit will be left with nothing? Moreover, many of those funds will not be in deficit within the next 12 months given that inflation and...

Other Questions: Family Income Supplement Eligibility (24 Jan 2017)

Willie Penrose: That is a big issue and that abuse needs to be stamped out.