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Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Investigations (2 Dec 2014)

Róisín Shortall: 324. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the options available to a person who is dissatisfied with the closing of a Garda investigation following the return of an open verdict from the coroner in 2009; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46012/14]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Early Child Care Education Standards (2 Dec 2014)

Róisín Shortall: 361. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if his attention has been drawn to correspondence from the Association of Childhood Professionals requesting a meeting to address its serious concerns regarding obstacles in various Departments which hinder the provision of quality early years services; and if he will accede to this request. [46321/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Data (2 Dec 2014)

Róisín Shortall: 381. To ask the Minister for Health the population served by each Health Service Executive region. [45822/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Administration (2 Dec 2014)

Róisín Shortall: 410. To ask the Minister for Health in view of the proposed changes to the medical card system, if he will ensure that, in respect of applicants over the age of 70 years, their net income will be considered when assessing their means rather than their gross income, as is the case at present, in order to simplify the process and ensure its fairness; and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service Response Times (2 Dec 2014)

Róisín Shortall: 425. To ask the Minister for Health the reason for the delay in an ambulance responding to a call (details supplied) in Dublin 9; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46247/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Expenditure (2 Dec 2014)

Róisín Shortall: 426. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide details in respect of the cost of setting up the special delivery unit while it operated within his Department, with a breakdown of each person recruited to the unit and his or her salary, as well as additional costs for existing staff who were redeployed to the unit; and his views on the value for money of this exercise. [46252/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Expenditure (2 Dec 2014)

Róisín Shortall: 427. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide all details in respect of the cost of the special delivery unit from the time it transferred from his Department to the Health Service Executive to date in 2014, with a breakdown of each person recruited to the unit and his or her salary, as well as additional costs for existing staff who were redeployed to the unit; and his views on the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Child Abuse (2 Dec 2014)

Róisín Shortall: 484. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 886 of 4 November 2014, if she will provide an update on the State Claims Agency's review of day school abuse cases; when she will be announcing the Government's response to these cases; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46322/14]

Leaders' Questions (3 Dec 2014)

Róisín Shortall: Why is there not a proper supply?

Social Welfare Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (3 Dec 2014)

Róisín Shortall: Can the Minister of State set out the timescale to which the Government is working given the last minute manner in which these amendments were brought forward? Is it expected that a resolution is imminent? Other speakers have made the point that the State has dragged its heels incredibly in relation to this matter. Not only have we had the situation that arises today as a result of the...

Social Welfare Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (3 Dec 2014)

Róisín Shortall: I am very concerned by the Minister of State's reply to questions on the impact of a possible settlement on the surviving partners of deceased members of the Waterford Crystal pensions scheme. He indicated that in such circumstances surviving family members would be covered by the terms of the scheme to which the member belonged. Most of the schemes provide 50% cover for a surviving spouse...

Social Welfare Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (3 Dec 2014)

Róisín Shortall: I strongly support both of these amendments. The saying goes that what gets measured matters. Unless we are measuring the impact of budgets, those impacts will not matter. It is quite clear that those impacts about which we know anecdotally and from some other independent research simply do not matter to the Government. When the Government came into power, it promised a new open...

Social Welfare Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (3 Dec 2014)

Róisín Shortall: -----to the tune of €500 per year. Not only did the Minister display her true blue colours in the last budget, in which the priority was to cut the top rate of tax and benefit the better off disproportionately and do nothing for people on low incomes, but the Taoiseach also said last week that he will continue on the path of cutting the top rate of tax. The Minister should go out...

Social Welfare Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (3 Dec 2014)

Róisín Shortall: We are not discussing unemployment today.

Social Welfare Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (3 Dec 2014)

Róisín Shortall: Yes, exactly.

Social Welfare Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (3 Dec 2014)

Róisín Shortall: Not too many of them.

Social Welfare Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (3 Dec 2014)

Róisín Shortall: Nobody was objecting to that.

Social Welfare Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (3 Dec 2014)

Róisín Shortall: The Tánaiste was not listening.

Social Welfare Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (3 Dec 2014)

Róisín Shortall: I will give the Minister four facts in response to what she has just said. First, many tens of thousands of people on the lowest incomes received nothing whatsoever in the budget. The very many people on the minimum wage benefited to the tune of €176 per year. If they are hit with water charges or decide to pay them, the vast bulk of it will be wiped out, leaving them with only...

Social Welfare Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (3 Dec 2014)

Róisín Shortall: I move amendment No. 18:In page 4, between lines 21 and 22, to insert the following:“Non-Contributory State Pension 4. The Minister for Social Protection shall review the impact of the closure or significant deterioration in the value of defined benefit pension schemes on expenditure on the State Pension (non-contributory) and produce a strategy to prevent further closures or decline...