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Order of Business. (14 Jun 2005)

Dan Boyle: Will we debate the Bill?

Civil Service Regulation (Amendment) Bill 2004: Report Stage. (14 Jun 2005)

Dan Boyle: My amendment No. 18 has been grouped for discussion with Deputy Bruton's amendment No. 1a. While his amendment is comprehensive in its scope, my amendment seeks to address an issue which is at the core of this Bill but also a core means of defining the Civil Service and enabling it to be modernised. One of the many difficulties associated with the reform of the Civil Service is the failure to...

Civil Service Regulation (Amendment) Bill 2004: Report Stage. (14 Jun 2005)

Dan Boyle: Perhaps what the Minister of State has said is based on his own experience in dealing with civil servants in the Department of Agriculture and Food over the years. In his reply he has confirmed the need for my amendment. In saying that civil servants acquire specialised skills as and when they need them, he has exposed a major flaw at the heart of how the Civil Service is organised. Surely...

Civil Service Regulation (Amendment) Bill 2004: Report Stage. (14 Jun 2005)

Dan Boyle: This section is closely related to the amendment which I tabled earlier regarding the Minister's willingness on behalf of the Government to buy in expertise whenever and however necessary. It is incumbent on the Government to put in place the highest standards and safeguards. Deputy Bruton's amendment is an attempt to do that in regard to short-term appointments. I hope the Minister of State...

Civil Service Regulation (Amendment) Bill 2004: Report Stage. (14 Jun 2005)

Dan Boyle: I also support the amendments. If we are to believe media reports, which are, unfortunately, the most reliable source of information about this increasingly opaque Government, not only is one of the Minister of State's senior party colleagues in Cabinet having difficulties introducing the civilising influence of café bars but the larger party in the coalition is also reluctant to accept his...

Civil Service Regulation (Amendment) Bill 2004: Report Stage. (14 Jun 2005)

Dan Boyle: Given the Minister of State's enthusiasm for buying in expertise and the Government's enthusiasm for the use of consultants, it would be strange if he were not willing to accept an amendment of this type to the effect that there should be an outside independent position in respect of a principle of natural justice, namely, that people should have the right to independent reviews of...

Written Answers — School Accommodation: School Accommodation (14 Jun 2005)

Dan Boyle: Question 99: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the plans in place to purchase a site and build a new permanent school for a school (details supplied) in County Mayo before September 2006. [19759/05]

Written Answers — School Transport: School Transport (14 Jun 2005)

Dan Boyle: Question 148: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she plans to end the practise of school buses carrying more passengers than can be seated. [19760/05]

Written Answers — Pension Provisions: Pension Provisions (14 Jun 2005)

Dan Boyle: Question 452: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if the policy of clawing back moneys claimed by his Department on the estates of non-contributory pensioners has been in regulations since the Social Welfare Act 1993, the reason it has not been clearly set out in his Department's literature in the usual way and in accordance with the transparency rules outlined in Regulating...

Written Answers — Pension Provisions: Pension Provisions (14 Jun 2005)

Dan Boyle: Question 453: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the reason, in issued documentation to welfare recipients, the claw-back policy of moneys claimed by his Department on the estates of non-contributory pensioners was not advised to them. [19957/05]

Written Answers — Pension Provisions: Pension Provisions (14 Jun 2005)

Dan Boyle: Question 454: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the reason, with a database of non-contributory pensioners who number just over 100,000, relevant pensioners are not individually informed of the policy of claw-back of moneys claimed by his Department on the estates of non-contributory pensioners considering that the declaration they sign in their application merely refers to...

Written Answers — Pension Provisions: Pension Provisions (14 Jun 2005)

Dan Boyle: Question 455: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs, further to replies to parliamentary questions from a number of Members of Dáil Eireann over the past six months (details supplied), the reason there has been so much secrecy regarding the inclusion of pension payments in the assessment of means. [19959/05]

Written Answers — Pension Provisions: Pension Provisions (14 Jun 2005)

Dan Boyle: Question 456: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs , further to an internal memo of 14 February 2005 in which his Department accepts that the practice of claw-back of moneys claimed on the estates of non-contributory pensioners is not transparent, the reason it could not be seen that pensioners would not know of it. [19960/05]

Written Answers — Pension Provisions: Pension Provisions (14 Jun 2005)

Dan Boyle: Question 457: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the way in which the imposition of the penalties similar to that on a person who acquires a large windfall from a rich relative, or sells property or land, and is clearly understood by anyone as creating a change of means, is justified, in the circumstances of a lack of knowledge of his Department's policy. [20002/05]

Written Answers — Pension Provisions: Pension Provisions (14 Jun 2005)

Dan Boyle: Question 458: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs his views on those expressed by the Ombudsman in 1997 that ignoring claimants' lack of awareness of the law in complex matters is not a reasonable position to adopt; the way in which the penalty imposed is justified, especially on vulnerable persons, many of whom may have literacy problems, or do not have access to information...

Written Answers — Pension Provisions: Pension Provisions (14 Jun 2005)

Dan Boyle: Question 459: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs his views on whether it would be prudent that the details of types of savings (details supplied) be collected and recorded. [20004/05]

Written Answers — Pension Provisions: Pension Provisions (14 Jun 2005)

Dan Boyle: Question 460: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs his views on whether a declaration of source of income by a pensioner or his or her legal representative would go a long way to determining the source of assets. [20005/05]

Written Answers — Pension Provisions: Pension Provisions (14 Jun 2005)

Dan Boyle: Question 461: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the reason no flexibility exists in interpreting the individual local circumstances of a particular case (details supplied); his views on whether, if some discretion existed in the making of calculations, this would go a long way in alleviating the core issue of a claw-back policy. [20006/05]

Written Answers — Pension Provisions: Pension Provisions (14 Jun 2005)

Dan Boyle: Question 462: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if, in regard to a specified case that has led to the current discussion of the claw-back policy, it is accepted that the executor of the will of the estate of the pensioner in question demonstrated very clearly to his Department that the deceased saved on average 42% of their pension over 26 years and that the regular bank...

Written Answers — Pension Provisions: Pension Provisions (14 Jun 2005)

Dan Boyle: Question 463: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs his views on whether it was not clear from a specified case that the deceased pensioner who was saving the pension to provide for himself in a private nursing home, if he could not obtain a bed in an appropriate home, was leaving himself open to having his pension reduced or an amount clawed back from his will after his death....