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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Post-EU Council Meeting of Agriculture and Fisheries: Discussion (29 Mar 2018)

Willie Penrose: The Deputy is dead right. I have no simplistic solutions. I met farmers the other day and they told me the usual stories but I could have told them the same stories about shopkeepers who lost everything. Those people provide jobs in rural Ireland as well. I get angry with the notion that the Minister just has to go over there and shake his little green bag. It will be a very difficult...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Ongoing Fodder Crisis: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (11 Apr 2018)

Willie Penrose: I thank the Chairman for calling this meeting and the Minister and his officials for attending. Like other Opposition Members, I could engage in much political grandstanding and sound-biting. However, this is an issue which requires comprehensive stakeholder response of which the Minister is only one. There has been a huge level of hardship, distress and trauma for many farmers. The...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Ongoing Fodder Crisis: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (11 Apr 2018)

Willie Penrose: On the measures the Minister could bring forward, a meal voucher would be one of the most practical in providing for an early resolution for farmers.

Fodder Shortage: Motion [Private Members] (17 Apr 2018)

Willie Penrose: Just as good.

Fodder Shortage: Motion [Private Members] (17 Apr 2018)

Willie Penrose: I am pleased to have the opportunity to speak in this important debate pertaining to the fodder crisis in the Dáil this evening. I do so on behalf of the Labour Party. My party leader, Deputy Howlin, is present, as well as Deputy Sherlock. We broadly support the motion but with some caveats. We are fully cognisant of and familiar with the crucial role agriculture plays throughout...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Financial Services Regulation (17 Apr 2018)

Willie Penrose: 253. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will liaise with the Central Bank to ensure that appropriate legislation is brought forward in order to compel vulture funds upon acquiring loan books from financial institutions to inform mortgage holders of the price paid for each loan and in the alternative the mortgage holder would be given a period of time to purchase or discharge the loan for...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Staff Retirements (17 Apr 2018)

Willie Penrose: 282. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform when the public service superannuation (miscellaneous) provisions (amendment) Bill will be published and presented to the Houses of the Oireachtas for approval (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15534/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Psychological Services (17 Apr 2018)

Willie Penrose: 874. To ask the Minister for Health if increased funding and necessary resources will be available to deal with the significant waiting lists for psychology treatment for young persons in view of the fact there are currently over 7,000 children on a waiting list for such psychological interventions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15893/18]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Ash Dieback Threat (17 Apr 2018)

Willie Penrose: 1113. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if a report which has to be compiled by an official in his Department concerning the ash dieback disease in a person's (details supplied) plantation will be carried out; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16093/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Applications (17 Apr 2018)

Willie Penrose: 1425. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the position on an application for carer’s allowance by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15535/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Applications (17 Apr 2018)

Willie Penrose: 1448. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when an application for carer's allowance by a person (details supplied) will be determined and expedited; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16091/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Applications (17 Apr 2018)

Willie Penrose: 1449. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when an application for carer's allowance by a person (details supplied) will be determined and expedited; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16092/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Disability Support Services Provision (17 Apr 2018)

Willie Penrose: 1486. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason for a survey or consultation process with persons with disabilities and parents of children with disabilities and, in particular, those in receipt of domiciliary care allowance; if this process could permit an opt-in or opt-out option in the context in which parents might feel that their child on medical grounds...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Tenant Purchase Scheme Review (17 Apr 2018)

Willie Penrose: 1628. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when the review of the new tenant purchase scheme will be finalised; the changes which are proposed as a result of the review; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16820/18]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Departmental Funding (19 Apr 2018)

Willie Penrose: 327. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the level of grant aid or funding that is available for voluntary or community groups that wish to establish a community and-or sports hall in their area; the level of funding available to enable such a project to proceed to a successful conclusion; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17349/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Applications (19 Apr 2018)

Willie Penrose: 335. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the position on a review of an application for carer’s allowance by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17348/18]

Community Employment Pension Scheme: Motion [Private Members] (24 Apr 2018)

Willie Penrose: If no one wants to speak, I will do so.

Community Employment Pension Scheme: Motion [Private Members] (24 Apr 2018)

Willie Penrose: I indicate on behalf of the Labour Party that we will support unambiguously tonight's motion. I welcome the supervisors and assistant supervisors and their trade union representatives to the Gallery. We met some of them earlier. On behalf of the Labour Party, I wish to contribute to this debate on the plight of CE supervisors and assistant supervisors who, notwithstanding the court hearing...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Community Employment Schemes Supervisors (24 Apr 2018)

Willie Penrose: 162. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the reason he has failed to meet personally with the unions representing community employment scheme supervisors and assistant supervisors; the reason the high level forum set up under the Lansdowne Road agreement has failed to meet as mandated to do so with a view to implementing the thrust of the Labour Court recommendation made in...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Community Employment Schemes Supervisors (24 Apr 2018)

Willie Penrose: 163. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will publish the reports proposed and finalised by his Department in November 2017 dealing with the potential costs of implementing the claim for pension provision for community employment supervisors and assistant supervisors in line with the 2008 Labour Court recommendation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18096/18]