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Written Answers — Department of Finance: VAT Rate Increases (22 Nov 2018)

Willie Penrose: 43. To ask the Minister for Finance if he has commissioned an impact assessment of the increase in VAT from 9% to 13% in respect of hotels, restaurants, hairdressing and other activities; the expected increase in revenues in each of the categories in 2019; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48581/18]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Minor Works Scheme Applications (22 Nov 2018)

Willie Penrose: 72. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if an application for a minor works grant for a school (details supplied) will issue; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48797/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Illness Benefit Payments (22 Nov 2018)

Willie Penrose: 213. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if an outstanding illness benefit for a person (details supplied) will issue; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [48796/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Planning Guidelines (22 Nov 2018)

Willie Penrose: 218. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 620 of 13 November 2018, the way in which commitments given to an organisation (details supplied) at a meeting on 4 October 2018 can be incorporated into the forthcoming regional spatial and economic strategies in order to ensure that the necessary changes to help deliver on the...

Select Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare, Pensions and Civil Registration Bill 2018: Committee Stage (22 Nov 2018)

Willie Penrose: This is an interesting argument. As somebody who practices in the courts, I am a bit taken aback by what was said about maintenance. The payment has to be child related because if a spouse seeks individual support, it will amount to €80 or €90 and then the court will look at the children. That is what we have to do. I recall doing that when working on a judicial separation....

Select Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare, Pensions and Civil Registration Bill 2018: Committee Stage (22 Nov 2018)

Willie Penrose: Can I say something-----

Select Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare, Pensions and Civil Registration Bill 2018: Committee Stage (22 Nov 2018)

Willie Penrose: -----briefly because I missed out as I was delayed this morning? The Minister, Deputy Doherty, spoke to me in the Dáil about an issue I brought to her attention about pensions, that is, that persons born after 1 September 1946 would have a review of pension entitlements. The changes brought in under this Bill are welcome. The review will take place for people born after 6 April 1946...

Select Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare, Pensions and Civil Registration Bill 2018: Committee Stage (22 Nov 2018)

Willie Penrose: It will be a very small number. I ask the Minister to try to review it before Report Stage because we need to include it in the legislation is some shape or form. I apologise but I was five minutes late with the amendment.

Select Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare, Pensions and Civil Registration Bill 2018: Committee Stage (22 Nov 2018)

Willie Penrose: Very hard cases.

Select Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare, Pensions and Civil Registration Bill 2018: Committee Stage (22 Nov 2018)

Willie Penrose: I will leave the Minister a note from a woman who contacted me.

Select Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare, Pensions and Civil Registration Bill 2018: Committee Stage (22 Nov 2018)

Willie Penrose: It will not cost an arm and a leg. That is the only good thing.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Areas of Natural Constraint: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (27 Nov 2018)

Willie Penrose: I thank Mr. Dillon and his colleagues. We should not be churlish. We should congratulate the Department and the officials on a job very well done. As I recall, when the issue arose 18 months or two years ago, there was speculation that the roof would cave in. All sorts of things were said. People in the media engaged in ill-founded speculation and this gave rise to concern among farmers...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Areas of Natural Constraint: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (27 Nov 2018)

Willie Penrose: Someone who knows something about soil.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Areas of Natural Constraint: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (27 Nov 2018)

Willie Penrose: Will the farmers who lose out receive a couple of years pay?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Areas of Natural Constraint: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (27 Nov 2018)

Willie Penrose: Is it 80% and 20% over two years?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Areas of Natural Constraint: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (27 Nov 2018)

Willie Penrose: Will farmers get a couple of shillings in 2019-2020?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horse and Greyhound Racing Fund Regulations 2018: Motion (27 Nov 2018)

Willie Penrose: The Labour Party has always recognised the important role that the horse and greyhound industries have played, especially in the rural economy where they are a backbone of employment. They are also important for the preservation of our cultural development and so on. We should maintain our important role in the equestrian and greyhound industries at home and abroad. The Minister has a copy...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horse and Greyhound Racing Fund Regulations 2018: Motion (27 Nov 2018)

Willie Penrose: Let us leave it until the first meeting after Christmas.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horse and Greyhound Racing Fund Regulations 2018: Motion (27 Nov 2018)

Willie Penrose: I will have done a lot of thinking by then.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horse and Greyhound Racing Fund Regulations 2018: Motion (27 Nov 2018)

Willie Penrose: It was $9 million.