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Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Natural Gas Grid (3 Oct 2017)

Willie Penrose: 499. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if a company (details supplied) plans to extend its networks to facilitate connection threats for towns and villages throughout County Westmeath; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41587/17]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Traffic Legislation (3 Oct 2017)

Willie Penrose: 529. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the regulatory involvement that is applied under his Department's supervision to agricultural vehicles of all types, including trailers, quads, tractors, machinery and agricultural equipment such as sprayers and so on; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41588/17]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Pensions Reform (3 Oct 2017)

Willie Penrose: 576. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the timeframe for the introduction of a universal pension scheme; her plans to phase in same over a number of budgets; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41582/17]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pension (Contributory) (3 Oct 2017)

Willie Penrose: 577. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to consider applying the homemaker’s scheme respectively in order to ensure equitable access to the State pension and thereby benefit older women that took career breaks prior to 1994; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41583/17]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pension (Contributory) (3 Oct 2017)

Willie Penrose: 578. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to suspend the charges to contribution cards for receipt of a State pension in 2012 until the promised total contribution reward system has been gender proofed and introduced; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41584/17]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pension (Contributory) (3 Oct 2017)

Willie Penrose: 579. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the amount of resources required to reverse to charges to the contribution cards for State pension in 2012 in cases in which increasing contributory thresholds impact disproportionately on women; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41585/17]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pension (Contributory) (3 Oct 2017)

Willie Penrose: 580. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to repeal the homemaker’s disregard with credits with the credit applicable for up to ten years and applied retrospectively to 1973; if in that context, this credit could also act as a re-entry credit which would accommodate persons that wish to re-enter the workforce after a period spent caring can access...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Back to Education Allowance (3 Oct 2017)

Willie Penrose: 595. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to cap the amount of hours to eight, ten or 12 hours which BTEA (details supplied) recipients can work without being means tested and whereby hours worked in excess of the expected hours would be means tested; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41872/17]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals (3 Oct 2017)

Willie Penrose: 596. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a person (details supplied) whose social welfare appeal in respect of refusal of an application for disability allowance was recently allowed will receive payment of same; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41923/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Planning Issues (3 Oct 2017)

Willie Penrose: 631. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when the review of the 2005 rural planning guidelines will be completed; if it will take cognisance of the European Court decision in respect of Belgian authorities which significantly curtailed the ability of local and national governments to restrict the categories of person that might be eligible to build in rural areas;...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Help-To-Buy Scheme (4 Oct 2017)

Willie Penrose: 87. To ask the Minister for Finance if help is available to persons that drew down their first tranche of mortgage before July 2016 for a self build house which was concluded in early 2017 in view of the fact that they appear to be excluded from the help to buy scheme under its current terms and conditions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42177/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (4 Oct 2017)

Willie Penrose: 126. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will be admitted to hospital for a procedure; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41996/17]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Scheme Payments (4 Oct 2017)

Willie Penrose: 163. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the steps he will take to ensure that a payment in relation to areas of natural constraint, ANC, due to a person (details supplied) is issued; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41997/17]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Disability Allowance Payments (4 Oct 2017)

Willie Penrose: 213. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a person (details supplied) will receive a disability allowance payment; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42024/17]

Financial Resolutions 2018 - Financial Resolution No. 4: General (Resumed) (11 Oct 2017)

Willie Penrose: I have been in the Dáil for a quarter of a century. Apart from the Leas-Cheann Comhairle, I am the longest-serving Deputy to speak this evening. I have not engaged, and never will engage, in feigned outrage for the purpose of garnering publicity or column inches but when I feel strongly about an issue or disagree with a direction at policy level, I will make valid observations and...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Illness Benefit Payments (12 Oct 2017)

Willie Penrose: 173. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason a person (details supplied) is receiving a reduced rate of illness benefit; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43308/17]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Fuel Allowance Eligibility (12 Oct 2017)

Willie Penrose: 174. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason a person (details supplied) who is in receipt of disability allowance has been refused fuel allowance; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43310/17]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Fuel Allowance Eligibility (12 Oct 2017)

Willie Penrose: 175. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason a person (details supplied) who is in receipt of disability allowance has been refused fuel allowance; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43311/17]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Future of the Tillage Sector in Ireland: Discussion (17 Oct 2017)

Willie Penrose: I thank the witnesses for their presentations. Could they outline in detail the impact that will arise from the establishment of the future milk centre and how it will work with the major partners and stakeholders in the dairy industry? Over what time period is it likely to be in being and what do they see emerging? I am ad idemwith Professor Doyle. I appreciate the appropriateness of...

Correcting Pension Inequities: Motion [Private Members] (18 Oct 2017)

Willie Penrose: One can say with absolute certainty that the current pension eligibility system for old age pensions is complex, riddled with established and pronounced anomalies, discriminatory and clearly not fit for purpose in the current environment. It lends itself to wholesale reform in the interests of equity and fairness rather than, as the Minister stated, ad hoccorrections to some of these glaring...