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Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (8 Mar 2006)

Willie Penrose: Question 166: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the steps she will take to ensure the entitlements of a person (details supplied) which have been transferred to another person are immediately recognised by her Department and the signed transfer of such entitlements be acknowledged forthwith; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9708/06]

Written Answers — Registration of Title: Registration of Title (8 Mar 2006)

Willie Penrose: Question 175: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the steps he will take to have an application for registration for a person (details supplied) expedited as same is in being since 2004; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9618/06]

Order of Business. (9 Mar 2006)

Willie Penrose: They are so smug over there, they do not want to hear anything.

Order of Business. (9 Mar 2006)

Willie Penrose: Hear, hear.

Order of Business. (9 Mar 2006)

Willie Penrose: The Minister for zero beds.

Order of Business. (9 Mar 2006)

Willie Penrose: It is a most serious matter.

Order of Business. (9 Mar 2006)

Willie Penrose: On the same issue——

Order of Business. (9 Mar 2006)

Willie Penrose: Of course there is. The Tánaiste is here to provide an explanation.

Order of Business. (9 Mar 2006)

Willie Penrose: It is not a debate. We are asking questions.

Order of Business. (9 Mar 2006)

Willie Penrose: Can the Tánaiste properly explain why people in Counties Longford and Westmeath had to wait nine and a half years for 103 additional beds in Mullingar General Hospital? Is not the root cause of the problem the failure to provide beds?

Order of Business. (9 Mar 2006)

Willie Penrose: That is why people are in corridors and on trolleys. It is a disgrace. Members of the Government arrive for photograph opportunities, then disappear like snuff at a wake. Staff, including nurses, attendants and ambulance drivers, are left to carry the can for this Government. It is time for it to stop engaging in its hypocritical cant.

Order of Business. (9 Mar 2006)

Willie Penrose: The Tánaiste is blaming everyone in the world except herself.

Social Welfare Law Reform and Pensions Bill 2006: Report and Final Stages. (9 Mar 2006)

Willie Penrose: I move amendment No. 1: In page 5, between lines 15 and 16, to insert the following: "1.—The Minister shall within 6 months from after the passing of this Act prepare and lay before both Houses of the Oireachtas a report on continued anomalies affecting persons who were recipients of deserted wife's benefit.". My colleague, Deputy Seán Ryan, has been very insistent about this amendment. He...

Social Welfare Law Reform and Pensions Bill 2006: Report and Final Stages. (9 Mar 2006)

Willie Penrose: I accept that. The number is declining and we do not want people to be disadvantaged. The amendment was designed to ensure things are updated on a regular basis.

Social Welfare Law Reform and Pensions Bill 2006: Report and Final Stages. (9 Mar 2006)

Willie Penrose: I move amendment No. 2: In page 5, between lines 15 and 16, to insert the following: "1.—The Minister shall within 6 months from after the passing of this Act prepare and lay before both Houses of the Oireachtas a report on the effect and operation of means tests overall in the social welfare system and in particular in relation to the carer's allowance.". We cannot propose an amendment...

Social Welfare Law Reform and Pensions Bill 2006: Report and Final Stages. (9 Mar 2006)

Willie Penrose: I urged the Minister to meet the Joint Committee on Social and Family Affairs so that consensus can be reached and progress can be made. Following his commitment to do so, I withdraw amendment No. 2.

Social Welfare Law Reform and Pensions Bill 2006: Report and Final Stages. (9 Mar 2006)

Willie Penrose: I move amendment No. 4: In page 5, between lines 15 and 16, to insert the following: "1.—The Minister shall within 6 months from after the passing of this Act prepare and lay before both Houses of the Oireachtas a report on a statutory indexation of disregards.". The Minister replied to Deputies Stanton and Seán Ryan on this issue on Committee Stage, stating that the increases have been...

Social Welfare Law Reform and Pensions Bill 2006: Report and Final Stages. (9 Mar 2006)

Willie Penrose: While I do not want to pursue it I want to ensure that the failure to examine disregards for a considerable time, more than ten years on occasions, does not happen again. I accept the Minister's commitment on that.

Social Welfare Law Reform and Pensions Bill 2006: Report and Final Stages. (9 Mar 2006)

Willie Penrose: I move amendment No. 5: In page 5, between lines 15 and 16, to insert the following: "1.—The Minister shall within 6 months from after the passing of this Act prepare and lay before both Houses of the Oireachtas a report on the clawback policy by the State from the estates of the deceased of non-contributory pensions where the assets were accrued exclusively or partly from savings for...

Social Welfare Law Reform and Pensions Bill 2006: Report and Final Stages. (9 Mar 2006)

Willie Penrose: The Minister has made a good point. I wonder whether the €10,000 has to do with the inheritance tax structure as opposed to where an agreed figure might be disregarded.