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Other Questions: Home Help Service Provision (19 Apr 2018)

Shane Cassells: I thank the Minister of State. The drop is symbolic of resourcing issues in County Meath, which has one of the largest populations in the country but ranks the lowest when it comes to funding across a range of Departments, whether it is with regard to health, policing or housing. I have just come from a meeting of the Committee of Public Accounts where a departmental Secretary General has...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Apr 2018)

Shane Cassells: The Chairman is quite right about this being a significant document. It is a pity that much of this information was not provided at the time of the hearing, given that it was easily accessible to the officials concerned and would have been helpful in the course of the discussion on the day, since the questions posed could have been anticipated. There is an overdependency on our rates system,...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Apr 2018)

Shane Cassells: There was a categorisation under the local property tax, LPT. When adjudications were made on what was exempt, the Department set down criteria. Estates that were fully occupied were exempt from the charge based on commercial units not being finished as part of the overall development such as an apartment complex.

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Reliefs Abolition (24 Apr 2018)

Shane Cassells: 116. To ask the Minister for Finance if the tax relief on union subscriptions which was withdrawn in 2011 and failed to be reviewed in 2016 will be restored; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17411/18]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport Applications (24 Apr 2018)

Shane Cassells: 165. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if an application by a person (details supplied) under the school transport scheme will be reviewed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17799/18]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Retirements (24 Apr 2018)

Shane Cassells: 311. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of Garda retirements from each Garda station in County Meath in each of the years 2014 to 2017 and to date in 2018; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18088/18]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Waste Management Regulations (24 Apr 2018)

Shane Cassells: 457. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if a ban on plastic straws will be introduced in favour of biodegradable straws; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17501/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Illness Benefit Payments (24 Apr 2018)

Shane Cassells: 586. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the illness benefit payment for a person (details supplied) will be reviewed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17938/18]

Order of Business (1 May 2018)

Shane Cassells: On the commitment to health spending in the programme for Government, particularly section 4, there have been reports in recent days of the Taoiseach asking his Ministers to compile lists of what Fianna Fáil Members on these benches are seeking to deliver for people every week. I ask the Taoiseach where, in the long list of things he and his party promised to the people in 2011 to get...

Order of Business (1 May 2018)

Shane Cassells: Deputy Doherty did that.

Order of Business (1 May 2018)

Shane Cassells: Will the Taoiseach tell me, in his list of expenditure plans, where that hospital is, and if it still exists on any of the fact-check lists he is compiling? The cattle grazing on the fields it was supposed to be on might like to know if they need to move to a new pasture.

Order of Business (1 May 2018)

Shane Cassells: Go back to this House in 2011. That smile will speak volumes to the people of Meath, with the Minister beside the Taoiseach. Their smiles and smirks will speak volumes to the people of Meath-----

Order of Business (1 May 2018)

Shane Cassells: -----that they delivered none of what they said they would.

Order of Business (1 May 2018)

Shane Cassells: Does the Minister want me to bring the newspaper back in to show her the front of the Meath Chroniclewith her picture?

Order of Business (1 May 2018)

Shane Cassells: I will bring it to her.

Order of Business (1 May 2018)

Shane Cassells: The Minister's promise was pathetic.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Homeless Persons Supports (8 May 2018)

Shane Cassells: 40. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the range of statutory powers that will be afforded to the new borough councils which will be created by his Department; and if financial autonomy will be afforded to them. [19835/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Government Fund (8 May 2018)

Shane Cassells: 82. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the way in which he plans to address the anticipated shortfall of income of €260 million to the Local Government Fund over the next six years due to a reduction in motor taxation receipts by this amount as outlined in the special report compiled by the Comptroller and Auditor General; and the impact of this reduction...

Gambling Control Bill 2018: Second Stage [Private Members] (9 May 2018)

Shane Cassells: To cut to the chase, it is an accepted truth that gambling is a disease for many and that it has infiltrated and destroyed many lives in this country. No attempt is being made tonight to ban gambling but an attempt is being made to try, in some small way, to halt the terrible damage being done to the lives of people who are addicted to this scourge and to end the relentless march that...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (15 May 2018)

Shane Cassells: 261. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the way in which students from a school (details supplied) in County Meath who are due to enter second level education in September 2018 will be able to gain entry to second level schools in their area. [21012/18]