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Written Answers — Financial Services Regulation: Financial Services Regulation (20 Apr 2010)

Róisín Shortall: Question 226: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will lay before the Houses of the Oireachtas all information available to him on the senior and junior bondholders for Anglo Irish Bank, the Irish Nationwide Building Society and the Educational Building Society; if he will provide a breakdown of the amount due to be paid by Anglo Irish Bank, Irish Nationwide Building Society and the...

Written Answers — Hospital Waiting Lists: Hospital Waiting Lists (20 Apr 2010)

Róisín Shortall: Question 230: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to the delays in accessing appointments for a consultant in Beaumont Hospital, Dublin 9; if she will arrange to have an appointment scheduled at an earlier date in the case of a person (details supplied) in view of the impact this delay will have on their potential earnings. [14477/10]

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (20 Apr 2010)

Róisín Shortall: Question 339: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the reason for the delay in considering an appeal on behalf of a person (details supplied); and if she will expedite this appeal. [15114/10]

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (20 Apr 2010)

Róisín Shortall: Question 379: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the reason for the delay in considering an appeal on behalf of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 9; and if she will expedite this appeal as soon as possible. [15255/10]

Written Answers — Asylum Applications: Asylum Applications (20 Apr 2010)

Róisín Shortall: Question 487: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the position regarding an asylum application in respect of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 11. [14509/10]

Written Answers — Fuel Poverty: Fuel Poverty (20 Apr 2010)

Róisín Shortall: Question 660: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs his plans to tackle fuel poverty. [15649/10]

Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (20 Apr 2010)

Róisín Shortall: Question 675: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if there is a mechanism in place notifying persons that their entitlement to jobseeker's benefit is coming to an end and that they should apply for jobseeker's allowance; if he will review the case of a person (details supplied) in view of the fact that this person was misinformed of their entitlement and of their requirement to...

Written Answers — School Staffing: School Staffing (20 Apr 2010)

Róisín Shortall: Question 891: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Science the reason for the delay in issuing a redundancy payment in respect of a person (details supplied) as this application is outstanding since August 2009. [14682/10]

Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (21 Apr 2010)

Róisín Shortall: Question 126: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if an agreement is in place to administer the back to school clothing and footwear allowance in 2010; if not, the deadline to finalise arrangements. [16095/10]

Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (21 Apr 2010)

Róisín Shortall: Question 165: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the reason a person (details supplied) in County Louth is considered to be €3 per week over the qualifying limit for mortgage interest supplement and is being denied support despite their low income; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16101/10]

School Staffing. (22 Apr 2010)

Róisín Shortall: I thank the Minister of State for attending this debate. I am disappointed that the Tánaiste is not present, but I hope the Minister of State will convey to her my views on this important issue. If the Government is serious about tackling educational disadvantage, it will re-examine its recent decision. At issue is the supply of substitute teachers who provide cover in the event of...

School Staffing. (22 Apr 2010)

Róisín Shortall: This is a matter of cutting costs. It is a retrograde step, short-sighted and a false economy. I strongly appeal to the Minister of State to ask the Minister to revisit this decision.

School Staffing. (22 Apr 2010)

Róisín Shortall: What is the basis of that claim?

School Staffing. (22 Apr 2010)

Róisín Shortall: Discontinuing the supply teacher scheme will affect the most disadvantaged schools.

Written Answers — Social and Affordable Housing: Social and Affordable Housing (22 Apr 2010)

Róisín Shortall: Question 60: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the number of existing agreements under the Social Housing Leasing Initiative that have achieved, or failed to achieve the targeted 20% discount on market rent; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15946/10]

Written Answers — Social and Affordable Housing: Social and Affordable Housing (22 Apr 2010)

Róisín Shortall: Question 47: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the number of lease agreements undertaken in 2009 under the social housing leasing initiative that conform to the new standard, SHIP20.10.07, of a maximum of four units within a single development and with a single owner; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15945/10]

Written Answers — Pension Provisions: Pension Provisions (22 Apr 2010)

Róisín Shortall: Question 82: To ask the Minister for Finance in respect of a pension package for a person (details supplied), if he authorised the benefit improvement before it was granted; if so, if he established the cost of this benefit improvement before authorising it. [16289/10]

Leaders' Questions (27 Apr 2010)

Róisín Shortall: The Government promised vouchers from 1 May.

Order of Business (27 Apr 2010)

Róisín Shortall: I wish to raise two issues. First, further to the question asked by Deputy Gilmore on the impact of the carbon levy on poor and low income families-----

Order of Business (27 Apr 2010)

Róisín Shortall: I am talking about promised legislation. The Taoiseach did not seem to be aware of the fact that in his Budget Statement the Minister for Finance promised that a new scheme would be introduced to off-set the cost of the carbon levy on low income families. That promise was reiterated in February by the Minister, Deputy Hanafin.