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Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child Care Services (18 Dec 2012)

Róisín Shortall: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the position regarding the community childcare subvention programme in respect of an organisation (details supplied) in Dublin 11; if she will consider an application to facilitate the early payment of the subvention from 1st February 2013, which would enable the opening of a much needed new baby and toddler unit. [56901/12]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mobility Allowance Rates (18 Dec 2012)

Róisín Shortall: To ask the Minister for Health the monthly rates for mobility allowance that will apply in 2013 [56281/12]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Funding (18 Dec 2012)

Róisín Shortall: To ask the Minister for Health if he will outline in detail the way it is intended to make a saving of €32 million in 2013 from other changes to primary care schemes as detailed in item C of his Department's section of the summary of measures in the Budget Expenditure Report 2013 with a breakdown of the intended saving for each measure under this heading [56283/12]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Supplementary Welfare Allowance Application Numbers (19 Dec 2012)

Róisín Shortall: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of people awarded supplementary welfare allowance in the last period for which figures are available on the basis of a delay in the processing of a social welfare claim; the value of such payments; her estimate of the saving on supplementary welfare allowance if all social welfare schemes and the appeals office had an average processing...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Impact Assessments (19 Dec 2012)

Róisín Shortall: To ask the Minister for Health the reason for a delay in commissioning the health impact assessment for minimum pricing; the current status of the tender process; and the proposed timescale for the completion of this assessment. [57154/12]

Order of Business (20 Dec 2012)

Róisín Shortall: I would like to ask about three Bills in the health area that were promised this session, which clearly we are not going to get to at this stage. The first is the HSE governance Bill, which we were told was priority legislation and which went through the Seanad in September but has not appeared since. Where is that? What is the reason for the delay? The second is the free general...

Order of Business (20 Dec 2012)

Róisín Shortall: What is the reason for the delay? It is priority legislation.

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Mortgage Interest Relief (20 Dec 2012)

Róisín Shortall: To ask the Minister for Finance his estimate of the amount of tax foregone through the application of mortgage interest relief to landlords; if he will provide a breakdown of this amount between commercial and residential landlords and the number of people claiming relief in both cases; the number and value of cases where relief is being claimed for a property outside the Republic of Ireland;...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child Care Services (20 Dec 2012)

Róisín Shortall: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will provide clarity on the situation regarding the level of funding from the Health Service Executive that is provided in respect of a group (details supplied); if this funding is being withdrawn is it a national or local decision; if her attention has been drawn to only local support to non-regulated childminders is provided through...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Youth Services (20 Dec 2012)

Róisín Shortall: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs further to Parliamentary Question No. 961 of 6 November 2012, if she will detail the funding allocation for 2013 in respect of this front line youth service; the steps she is taking to safeguard the valuable work of this service; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [57681/12]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child and Family Support Agency (20 Dec 2012)

Róisín Shortall: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if her attention has been drawn to the concerns of psychologists regarding her proposals to move all child psychology services to the child and family support agency; if her attention has been drawn to the fact that most referrals to child psychology services come through primary care staff; if an impact analysis has been carried out to...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Primary Care Services (20 Dec 2012)

Róisín Shortall: To ask the Minister for Health his plans for the continuation of child psychology as a critical element of primary care services; if he will provide an assurance that the model of full multi-disciplinary teams including psychology will continue to be the model employed for primary care. [57697/12]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (16 Jan 2013)

Róisín Shortall: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding an application for a reader on behalf of a student (details supplied) in Dublin 11 who is due to sit the Leaving Certificate in June 2013. [1434/13]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (16 Jan 2013)

Róisín Shortall: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if additional funding or a subsidy is available within the school transport scheme for a family (details supplied) who do not have the financial means to pay school transport costs; and if he will advise on the assistance available in this regard. [1620/13]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Tax Code (16 Jan 2013)

Róisín Shortall: To ask the Minister for Social Protection further to newspaper reports (details supplied) the exemptions he intends to apply to the decision to impose PRSI on unearned income; and the estimated cost of these exemptions. [1872/13]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Applications (16 Jan 2013)

Róisín Shortall: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding an application for carer's allowance in respect of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 9 and if she can expedite a decision on same. [1225/13]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Family Income Supplement Eligibility (16 Jan 2013)

Róisín Shortall: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the way in which superannuation is defined when determining the net wage of a person applying for family income supplement and the way in which additional voluntary contributions to pension funds are treated as part of the assessment process, that is, are AVCs reckonable as a deductible expense in determining the net wage of the applicant; if the...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Immigration Status (16 Jan 2013)

Róisín Shortall: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will examine a case (details supplied) in which a recent request was made for a replacement Garda National Immigration Bureau card following a robbery; if his Department will examine the possibility of a refund in this case in view of the fact that the stolen GNIB card was recovered days after a replacement card was purchased at much expense....

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Applications (16 Jan 2013)

Róisín Shortall: To ask the Minister for Health the timescale envisaged for the publication of legislation to provide for the changes to eligibility criteria for medical card applicants who are over-seventy; the way it is proposed to discontinue medical card entitlement in respect of people who currently hold a medical card but who will exceed the guidelines when the legislation is commenced, and in...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Service Executive Expenditure (16 Jan 2013)

Róisín Shortall: To ask the Minister for Health the projected accumulated savings for each month of 2013 for each of the savings measures identified under the total 2013 saving of €323 million for the primary care reimbursement service in the 2012 Health Service Executive service plan [1815/13]