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Written Answers — Department of Health: Hardship Grant Scheme Applications (3 Dec 2014)

Róisín Shortall: 89. To ask the Minister for Health if he will ensure that all local health offices are made aware of the hardship scheme and provided with the relevant application form; if he will provide a digital copy of this form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46454/14]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Income Data (4 Dec 2014)

Róisín Shortall: 77. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide the Revenue Commissioners data on the number of persons in each of the following income brackets, below €9,000, above €9,000 but below €12,000, above €12,000 but below €15,000, above €15,000 but below €20,000, above €20,000 but below €25,000, above €25,000 but below...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Drugs-related Deaths (4 Dec 2014)

Róisín Shortall: 159. To ask the Minister for Health the number of deaths in each of the past ten years arising from a drugs overdose where methadone was one of the drugs present; and the number of deaths in each of the past ten years arising from a drugs overdose where methadone was the only drug present. [46699/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Drugs Strategy Implementation (4 Dec 2014)

Róisín Shortall: 160. To ask the Minister for Health the basis for the decision to make naloxone more widely available; the categories of drug users to whom this will be made available; the anticipated benefits of this approach; and the evidence on which this decision is based. [46700/14]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Data (4 Dec 2014)

Róisín Shortall: 181. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the number of vacant local authority housing units that are in each local authority; the number in each case that will be refurbished under the 2014 funding that has been allocated; the schedule for the refurbishment and bringing into use of all remaining local authority units in each local authority. [46586/14]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Housing Assistance Payments Implementation (4 Dec 2014)

Róisín Shortall: 188. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the scheduling of the promised 75,000 housing assistant payments and rent supplement tenancies announced in November 2014; the estimated cost; and if there has there been a regulatory impact assessment carried out on the impact of this decision on the levels of rents generally. [46701/14]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (4 Dec 2014)

Róisín Shortall: 189. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government further to the announcement of social housing strategy 2020 if he will provide a breakdown of the promised 35,000 new social housing units in respect of the method of procurement; and the scheduling of same. [46702/14]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Illness Benefit Payments (9 Dec 2014)

Róisín Shortall: 141. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will extend the Christmas bonus to persons who are currently in receipt of long-term illness benefit under the pre-2008 rules; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [47022/14]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Eligibility (9 Dec 2014)

Róisín Shortall: 135. To ask the Minister for Social Protection with regard to the assessment for the half rate of carer's allowance the reason contribution-based payments such as the contributory pension are treated in the same manner as non-contributory payments; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46962/14]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Eligibility (9 Dec 2014)

Róisín Shortall: 136. To ask the Minister for Social Protection to set out the reason a person in receipt of the contributory pension who is caring for a spouse, who is not in receipt of a payment from her Department, is not eligible to receive the full rate of carer's allowance, in view of the fact that the combined household means would be the same if the roles were reversed. [46963/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff Recruitment (9 Dec 2014)

Róisín Shortall: 320. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the resource allocation model developed in his Department in 2012; if his will commit to using this model in allocating new staff posts, in view of the significant staff under-resourcing in areas of socio-economic deprivation, relative to affluent areas; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46970/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospitals Policy (9 Dec 2014)

Róisín Shortall: 328. To ask the Minister for Health the details of the recently restructured administrative and functional areas of the Health Service Executive in respect of the hospital groups and community healthcare organisations with geographic locations and population numbers in the case of each; the reason these areas are not coterminous; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47018/14]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (9 Dec 2014)

Róisín Shortall: 415. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the basis of the identification for the need for 35,000 additional properties for social housing as prepared by the Housing Agency on page 13 of the Government's Social Housing Strategy; if he will publish the analysis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46798/14]

Social Welfare Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (10 Dec 2014)

Róisín Shortall: On a point of order, is there a formal amendment from the Minister?

Social Welfare Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (10 Dec 2014)

Róisín Shortall: About the amendment that you mentioned.

Social Welfare Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (10 Dec 2014)

Róisín Shortall: Yes, but is it going to be circulated?

Social Welfare Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (10 Dec 2014)

Róisín Shortall: From a procedural point of view, is there an actual amendment to that?

Social Welfare Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (10 Dec 2014)

Róisín Shortall: That is not in the group.

Social Welfare Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (10 Dec 2014)

Róisín Shortall: They will come up later.

Social Welfare Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (10 Dec 2014)

Róisín Shortall: The strength of feeling expressed last week and here today about the myriad problems arising in respect of current employees and current and deferred benefit pensioners within the IASS highlights and underlines the hotch potch of policy underpinning pension policy in this country. I suppose it is because of the failure of successive governments to take responsibility for this area and to...