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Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: One-Parent Family Payment Data (20 Jun 2017)

Willie Penrose: 2120. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will increase the earning disregard for the one parent family jobseeker's transition payment to €146.50 to allow lone parents to take up and increase working hours; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29113/17]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits Data (20 Jun 2017)

Willie Penrose: 2123. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the cost of introducing a higher rate of the qualified child increase for all social welfare payments to families with dependent children over 12 years of age and in particular, the cost of increasing same by €5 from €29.80 to €34.80; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29117/17]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Exceptional Needs Payments (20 Jun 2017)

Willie Penrose: 2124. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will increase the budget for exceptional needs payments by €20 million from its current budget of €30 million up to €50 million for more exceptional needs for persons and families in low income; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29118/17]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Jobseeker's Transitional Payment (20 Jun 2017)

Willie Penrose: 2121. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will consider allowing lone parents in employment whose children are aged between seven and 14 years of age to receive both the jobseeker's transitional payment and family income supplement if they meet the qualifying criteria; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29114/17]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Fuel Allowance Payments (20 Jun 2017)

Willie Penrose: 2116. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the estimated cost of increasing the rate of fuel allowance by €6.50 which would restore purchasing power parity of 2010 levels; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29106/17]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Back to Education Allowance Eligibility (20 Jun 2017)

Willie Penrose: 2119. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will reverse the decision to means test income derived from part time work for those in receipt of the back to education allowance; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29112/17]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Back to Education Allowance Eligibility (20 Jun 2017)

Willie Penrose: 2122. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will address the anomaly by which lone parents in receipt of rent supplement and the one parent family payment or jobseeker's transition payment that want to take up education or training are not eligible for SUSI maintenance; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29116/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Private Rented Accommodation Standards (20 Jun 2017)

Willie Penrose: 2267. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the steps he will take to ensure sufficient resources are provided to local authorities to enable them to conduct the requisite levels of inspections of private rental properties to enforce current minimum standards for rental properties; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29119/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Housing Assistance Payments (20 Jun 2017)

Willie Penrose: 2268. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if he will take steps to increase rent supplement and housing assistance payment limits to realistic levels in order that they are in line with market rents as a homelessness prevention measure and to protect tenants from having to make unsustainable top ups; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29120/17]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Sea-Fisheries (Amendment) Bill 2017 and Fish Quotas: Discussion (20 Jun 2017)

Willie Penrose: I thank the groups for attending and giving expansive and comprehensive presentations. Being from the midlands, which are inland, this has been educational. My first exposure to this matter was the discussion on the Supreme Court case with Mr. Kelly, his colleagues and their legal adviser. It was instructive. I have been against the Bill from early on for a number of reasons, but it would...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Brexit Issues (22 Jun 2017)

Willie Penrose: 4. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to ensure that single farm payments and the overall CAP budget are not affected in the current EU budget up to 2020 when the UK withdraws from the EU; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28470/17]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Brexit Issues (22 Jun 2017)

Willie Penrose: I congratulate the Minister of State, Deputy Doyle, on his well-deserved reappointment. The biggest challenge facing rural Ireland is Brexit. The €1.7 billion received by Irish farmers annually must be guaranteed in any post-Brexit adjustment to the EU budget. The Government must ensure that this vital EU funding stream is protected. The UK contributes about 12% of the EU budget...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Brexit Issues (22 Jun 2017)

Willie Penrose: The negative impact of Brexit on the CAP budget is glaringly obvious. I reckon the UK contributes €12.9 billion to EU coffers. Clearly, unless addressed by significantly increased contributions by the member states, there will be a significant negative impact on CAP and direct payments to farmers. The EU budget is around 1% of EU GDP. That is far too small for a Union of 520...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Brexit Issues (22 Jun 2017)

Willie Penrose: I am in between, at €12.9 billion.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Brexit Issues (22 Jun 2017)

Willie Penrose: I would be suggesting safeguards such as seeking a suspension of state aid rules for two to three years. Small and medium enterprises dealing with the agrifood industry that are highly reliant on the UK market must be brought to the table. Solutions have to be found for the huge cross-Border trade in milk, livestock and other agricultural products. We have factories such as Lakeland and...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Brexit Issues (22 Jun 2017)

Willie Penrose: They might yet reverse the decision.

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Food Industry Development (22 Jun 2017)

Willie Penrose: 20. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the supports which are available from his Department to support strawberry growers here; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27974/17]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Sugar Industry (22 Jun 2017)

Willie Penrose: 26. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on whether the loss of sugar beet production has represented a significant disadvantage to tillage farmers; if he will take proactive steps to revive the industry in view of the fact that farming in the UK is proceeding in this direction; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27977/17]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Cashflow Support Loan Scheme (22 Jun 2017)

Willie Penrose: 27. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to introduce a second tranche of a low cost loan scheme administered through the Strategic Banking Corporation of Ireland and the commercial banks; if he will revise the terms and conditions of eligibility for participating persons; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27978/17]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Aquaculture Development (22 Jun 2017)

Willie Penrose: 30. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when he will publish the report on the aquaculture licensing process; his plans to legislate on its recommendations; his views on the recommendations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27975/17]