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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion (Resumed) (17 Jul 2014)

Arthur Spring: On access to alcohol, in certain European countries it is not possible to purchase hard alcohol in supermarkets. I find it bizarre that people can go to a supermarket to buy cornflakes and end up with a slab of beer. These are not the products with which supermarkets are quintessentially associated. One goes to purchase groceries and leaves with a potentially harmful product. It has...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion (Resumed) (17 Jul 2014)

Arthur Spring: I am quite in favour of the pub industry.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion (Resumed) (17 Jul 2014)

Arthur Spring: Thank you.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion (Resumed) (17 Jul 2014)

Arthur Spring: It does not work out at all. It does not promote healthy living nor does it promote essential buying.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion (Resumed) (17 Jul 2014)

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Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Code (17 Sep 2014)

Arthur Spring: 108. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide a definition of immediate family when referred to in relation to Social Protection payments. [33837/14]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Domiciliary Care Allowance Eligibility (17 Sep 2014)

Arthur Spring: 116. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if ADHD is classified as a disability when considering an application for domiciliary care allowance. [34020/14]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Domiciliary Care Allowance Eligibility (17 Sep 2014)

Arthur Spring: 146. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding a domiciliary care allowance review in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34440/14]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: NAMA Property Sales (17 Sep 2014)

Arthur Spring: 205. To ask the Minister for Finance his views that the National Asset Management Agency should consider selling properties individually or in smaller groups as the demand for property grows in view of the fact that the need to sell to investment firms is dissipating in recent months as demand grows. [33290/14]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Security of the Elderly (17 Sep 2014)

Arthur Spring: 195. To ask the Minister for Finance the way a personal alarm monitor (details supplied) is vatable at a higher rate, due to the fact that it is not a luxury item; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33110/14]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Pension Provisions (17 Sep 2014)

Arthur Spring: 208. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will consider permitting the Approved Retirement Fund option, available to most pensioners, accessible to personal retirement bond holders considering that many members of wound up defined benefit schemes had their funds transferred to PRB's. [33300/14]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Mortgage Protection Policies (17 Sep 2014)

Arthur Spring: 206. To ask the Minister for Finance his views that a universal mortgage insurance model should be introduced. [33292/14]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Exemptions (17 Sep 2014)

Arthur Spring: 207. To ask the Minister for Finance if the rent a room scheme should be altered in order that only income above the €10,100 amount should be taxed and not the whole amount if the income exceeds the €10,100 amount. [33293/14]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Flood Insurance Cover Issues (17 Sep 2014)

Arthur Spring: 312. To ask the Minister for Finance if an insurance company licensed here is permitted to include a flood exclusion endorsement in a client's household insurance despite the area in which the client lives not being designated as a flood risk area but in which flooding occurred in the storms of early 2014. [34613/14]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Criminal Law (17 Sep 2014)

Arthur Spring: 627. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the position regarding the progress of the criminal law (sexual offences) (amendment) Bill 2013; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33810/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (17 Sep 2014)

Arthur Spring: 812. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the waiting time for a public patient (details supplied) in County Kerry to get an appointment for an eye operation in Kerry General Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33132/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (17 Sep 2014)

Arthur Spring: 830. To ask the Minister for Health if his Department has plans to role out a vaccine for meningococcal B; if negotiations have taken place with pharmaceutical suppliers for the drug; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33189/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Long Stay Residential Units (17 Sep 2014)

Arthur Spring: 832. To ask the Minister for Health if the Health Service Executive have plans to expand the provision of long-term care to a greater number of patients in St. Columbanus' Hospital, Killarney, County Kerry. [33192/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes Support Scheme Data (17 Sep 2014)

Arthur Spring: 833. To ask the Minister for Health the duration of agreed contracts between the National Treatment Purchase Fund and a private nursing home in relation to the nursing home's approval for the provision of the nursing home support scheme. [33193/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Reviews (17 Sep 2014)

Arthur Spring: 957. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) in County Kerry has had their medical card reviewed when they were initially awarded a medical card under the EU medical card scheme. [33677/14]