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Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Mortgage Repayments Issues (5 Nov 2013)

Stephen Donnelly: 482. To ask the Minister for Social Protection regarding the abolition of mortgage interest supplement, announced as part of budget 2014, if she will explain, and release to Dáil Éireann, the analysis that was undertaken to determine the impact of abolishing the measure on mortgage holders that is the number of mortgages forced into default, number of existing agreements between...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Jobseeker's Benefit Applications (5 Nov 2013)

Stephen Donnelly: 523. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of young persons aged 18 to 25 years who have applied for jobseeker's benefit or jobseeker's allowance and were unsuccessful and-or ineligible for a payment in the years 2009, 2010, 2011 and 2012 broken down by county; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46353/13]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Ministerial Appointments (5 Nov 2013)

Stephen Donnelly: 756. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will be nominating a new Irish member to the Council of Europe Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment; when he will have a replacement installed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46159/13]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Social Work Staff (5 Nov 2013)

Stephen Donnelly: 992. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs further to Parliamentary Question No. 232 of 26 September 2013, the total number of social workers in the area of family support and child care services, or in relevant units, Departments or teams, however they may have been organised and named, for each of the years 2008 to 2012. [46037/13]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Health Services Staff Issues (5 Nov 2013)

Stephen Donnelly: 993. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs further to Parliamentary Question No. 232 of 26 September 2013, the number of vacancies arising in children and family services in 2012 that were considered by the National Employment Control Group; the number of such vacancies in which the group recommended that the vacancy be filled by recruitment; and the number of such cases in which...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Children in Care (5 Nov 2013)

Stephen Donnelly: 994. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs further to Parliamentary Question No. 232 of 26 September 2013, the number of young persons who left care on reaching their 18th birthday during 2012 or during the nearest 12 month reporting period; the number of such young persons who began aftercare programmes; the number of such young persons who did not begin aftercare...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Eligibility (5 Nov 2013)

Stephen Donnelly: 1048. To ask the Minister for Health if seriously ill patients, or their carer's, are required to reapply for medical cards at six week intervals or at any interval of less than one year; if so the reason for this policy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45767/13]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Funding (6 Nov 2013)

Stephen Donnelly: 108. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government in view of the local government reforms and the proposed increased fiscal responsibilities at a municipal council level, if he will provide a breakdown of local property tax revenues on a municipal council level for 2014; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47195/13]

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Business of Select Sub-Committee (12 Nov 2013)

Stephen Donnelly: The changes to the new FOI Bill should be something very positive and there are some positive things in the Bill. However, the proposed amendments that were issued on Friday have been met with the reaction by experts in the field - sensible professionals such as the NUJ, lawyers and academics - that they potentially signal the death of freedom of information in Ireland. We do not know...

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Business of Select Sub-Committee (12 Nov 2013)

Stephen Donnelly: I think everyone in the committee and the Minister and his officials would agree that this is really important legislation and that we need to reverse the changes made in 2003 and get back to the spirit of the original Labour Party Freedom of Information Act 1997. There is a procedural issue for the committee. The Minister has outlined briefly the reasons he believes the changes introduced...

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Business of Select Sub-Committee (12 Nov 2013)

Stephen Donnelly: Much of the debate so far has been on the substance, which is whether or not these multifaceted matters are right. The issue for committee is a procedural issue. The issue is that we have experts who have appeared before this committee as part of the pre-legislative work who, whether correct or not, state that the amendments that have been brought in will kill all of the good trying to be...

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Business of Select Sub-Committee (12 Nov 2013)

Stephen Donnelly: I believe we should not do that. I would ask the Minister - because the whip is enforced if this kind of question goes to a vote and because, although it may not be done, he may be able to - to let the committee members decide for themselves what they want. On the basis that the experts we have had before this are using such strong language about the changes that are being made, it is...

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Freedom of Information Bill 2013: Committee Stage (12 Nov 2013)

Stephen Donnelly: I move amendment No. 5: In page 13, line 38, after “body” where it secondly occurs to insert the following:“, and, notwithstanding any provision of this Act, shall not be construed as so as to impede, restrict or otherwise frustrate public access to the records held by the General Register Office in accordance with section 61 of the Civil Registration Act 2004”.As...

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Freedom of Information Bill 2013: Committee Stage (12 Nov 2013)

Stephen Donnelly: I move amendment No. 8: In page 15, between lines 29 and 30, to insert the following:“(b) Irish Water;”.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Freedom of Information Bill 2013: Committee Stage (12 Nov 2013)

Stephen Donnelly: I move amendment No. 9: In page 15, between lines 29 and 30, to insert the following:“(b) the Office of the President;”.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Freedom of Information Bill 2013: Committee Stage (12 Nov 2013)

Stephen Donnelly: Why would it impact on the office?

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Freedom of Information Bill 2013: Committee Stage (12 Nov 2013)

Stephen Donnelly: Was the view of President Higgins sought? I wonder whether that might be worth doing before Report Stage. I have sympathy with Deputy Boyd Barrett's position. Maybe it is something that the Office of the President would embrace as part of moving towards a more transparent Oireachtas.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Freedom of Information Bill 2013: Committee Stage (12 Nov 2013)

Stephen Donnelly: So long as we can continue to discuss it.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Freedom of Information Bill 2013: Committee Stage (12 Nov 2013)

Stephen Donnelly: He will be on his way shortly.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Freedom of Information Bill 2013: Committee Stage (12 Nov 2013)

Stephen Donnelly: It would be worth pursuing to apply a general principle of transparency. I see no down side to it but I do see an up side. It is probably marginal.