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Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Overseas Development Aid Expenditure (30 Sep 2014)

Arthur Spring: 485. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his position on meeting Ireland's overseas aid target of allocating 0.7% of GNI. [37176/14]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Excise Duties (2 Oct 2014)

Arthur Spring: 61. To ask the Minister for Finance if there is a capacity in law to develop a separate excise duty for vintners as opposed to wholesale and multinational alcohol retailers. [37470/14]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Reliefs Availability (2 Oct 2014)

Arthur Spring: 62. To ask the Minister for Finance if there is any tax relief available for coastal protection work to be carried out for persons to protect a private dwelling home; or his plans for it to be put in place. [37471/14]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (2 Oct 2014)

Arthur Spring: 63. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide a system of tax relief for homes that purchase house protection barriers to protect from flooding. [37477/14]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Flood Prevention Measures (2 Oct 2014)

Arthur Spring: 85. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his plans for flooding alleviation projects to be carried out in the Kilmoyley area of County Kerry, in view of the flooding that has taken place over the past number of winters. [37473/14]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Flood Prevention Measures (2 Oct 2014)

Arthur Spring: 86. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his plans for flooding alleviation projects to be carried out in the Ballyduff area of County Kerry, in view of the flooding that has taken place over the past number of winters. [37474/14]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Flood Prevention Measures (2 Oct 2014)

Arthur Spring: 87. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his plans for flooding alleviation projects to be carried out in the Cashen area of County Kerry, in view of the flooding that has taken place over the past number of winters. [37475/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (2 Oct 2014)

Arthur Spring: 141. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the software and hardware replacement plans for the pathology unit of Kerry General Hospital; and if there will be any stoppages in services over the coming months. [37472/14]

Topical Issue Debate: State Airports (8 Oct 2014)

Arthur Spring: I will start by providing background information to the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport, Deputy Paschal Donohoe, to give context regarding the problem. The technology park in Tralee was built in 2001 as an innovative hub, not an office block, and therein lies the problem. At the moment a number of companies, including Aspen Grove, DCS Energy Savings and Donseed, have vacated the...

Topical Issue Debate: State Airports (8 Oct 2014)

Arthur Spring: I must point out why this is an unsatisfactory response. I am glad the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation is also in the Chamber because I have discussed this with him on a number of occasions. The Minister stated the establishment of the Shannon Group was on the basis that it was to support a new future for Shannon and the mid-west region, as envisaged by the Shannon aviation...

Topical Issue Debate: State Airports (8 Oct 2014)

Arthur Spring: I acknowledge all of that but it is a problem.

Topical Issue Debate: State Airports (8 Oct 2014)

Arthur Spring: They have been gifted a cash cow, which is unfair.

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Excise Duties (8 Oct 2014)

Arthur Spring: 63. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on reducing excise on alcohol; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38487/14]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Flood Relief Schemes Status (9 Oct 2014)

Arthur Spring: 57. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his plans for flooding alleviation projects to be carried out in Ballylongford, County Kerry, in view of the flooding that has taken place over the past number of winters. [38648/14]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: State Bodies (9 Oct 2014)

Arthur Spring: 276. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if Kerry technology park is considered a subsidiary of the Shannon Group. [38705/14]

Financial Resolutions 2015 - Budget Statement 2015 (14 Oct 2014)

Arthur Spring: They are your water charges.

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Exceptional Needs Payment Eligibility (14 Oct 2014)

Arthur Spring: 27. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the means by which funding for assistance with funeral expenses may be issued; the amount the applicant may have in savings and the way an applicant's means is assessed. [39041/14]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Water Quality (14 Oct 2014)

Arthur Spring: 290. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will advise the Health Service Executive to carry out tests on the lead content in the water supply in an areaa (details supplied) in County Kerry, in view of the fact that independent tests carried out in another area of County Kerry produced results in which the lead content was well above the EU safe limit of 10...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Water Quality (14 Oct 2014)

Arthur Spring: 292. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if the results of water testing by an independent company for lead content in the water of houses in an area (details supplied) in County Kerry, constitute that the water is unsafe to drink as advised in the Environmental Protection Agency and the Health Service Executive pamphlet and in view of the fact that the tests...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Eligibility (16 Oct 2014)

Arthur Spring: 46. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if a person in receipt of carer's allowance may apply to work on a community employment scheme with reduced hours, or if there is any similar type scheme which a person in receipt of carer's allowance would qualify for as permitted by the conditions attached to the carer's allowance payment. [39566/14]