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- Written Answers — Pension Provisions: Pension Provisions (17 Feb 2009)
Róisín Shortall: Question 134: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment further to Parliamentary Question No. 177 of 3 February 2009, the reason for the pension top-up and [i]ex gratia[/i] payment made and the statutory basis for these payments; and if she authorised these payments. [6327/09]
- Written Answers — Pension Provisions: Pension Provisions (17 Feb 2009)
Róisín Shortall: Question 180: To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to the fact that non-consultant hospital doctors are due to suffer from a double pay cut from the Health Service Executive and the application of the new pension levy; his views on whether this is fair; if it is his intention that the new pension levy be applied even when a person has suffered a pay cut on their...
- Written Answers — Tax Code: Tax Code (17 Feb 2009)
Róisín Shortall: Question 181: To ask the Minister for Finance the categories of people who are exempt from the income tax levy other than the fact that they are below the income threshold; and the reason for same. [6326/09]
- Written Answers — Public Sector Pay: Public Sector Pay (17 Feb 2009)
Róisín Shortall: Question 182: To ask the Minister for Finance the number of public servants in receipt of salaries in the various bands from â¬10,000 per annum and at intervals of â¬5,000 above that. [6328/09]
- Written Answers — Pension Provisions: Pension Provisions (17 Feb 2009)
Róisín Shortall: Question 183: To ask the Minister for Finance the basis for his estimation that the pension levy would raise â¬1.4 billion; and the details of the calculations involved. [6329/09]
- Written Answers — Pension Provisions: Pension Provisions (17 Feb 2009)
Róisín Shortall: Question 184: To ask the Minister for Finance the reason he has not provided details of the cost of the tax relief on self-administered pension schemes in view of the fact that details of all such schemes must be supplied to the Revenue Commissioners on their establishment and at regular intervals thereafter; and if he will request the Revenue Commissioners to provide details of the value of...
- Written Answers — Hospital Staff: Hospital Staff (17 Feb 2009)
Róisín Shortall: Question 262: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to the fact that non-consultant hospital doctors are due to suffer from a double pay cut from the Health Service Executive and the application of the new pension levy; her views on whether this is fair; the strategic approach to pay for such doctors; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6324/09]
- Written Answers — Liquor Licensing Laws: Liquor Licensing Laws (17 Feb 2009)
Róisín Shortall: Question 310: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if his attention has been drawn to concerns regarding the ongoing problem of off-licences delivering to homes or to the vicinity of a home in which minors seem to be able to gain easy access to alcohol; and the steps he will take to address the issue. [6337/09]
- Written Answers — Foreign Conflicts: Foreign Conflicts (17 Feb 2009)
Róisín Shortall: Question 314: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs the steps he is taking to ensure that an independent and impartial investigation takes place of abuses of international rights and humanitarian law in the recent Israeli-Palestian conflict in the Gaza Strip. [6099/09]
- Written Answers — National Drugs Strategy: National Drugs Strategy (17 Feb 2009)
Róisín Shortall: Question 331: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the reason for the delay in publishing the new national drugs strategy; and when he expects this to happen. [6334/09]
- Written Answers — National Drugs Strategy: National Drugs Strategy (17 Feb 2009)
Róisín Shortall: Question 333: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs if he will include the problem of alcohol abuse under the remit of the local drugs task forces; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6336/09]
- Written Answers — National Drugs Strategy: National Drugs Strategy (17 Feb 2009)
Róisín Shortall: Question 332: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the reporting system in place for the drugs strategy from the local drugs task forces to An Taoiseach. [6335/09]
- Written Answers — Social Welfare Fraud: Social Welfare Fraud (17 Feb 2009)
Róisín Shortall: Question 344: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the progress made in preventing welfare fraud by non-Irish nationals who have returned to their home country but continue to claim jobseeker payments. [5684/09]
- Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (17 Feb 2009)
Róisín Shortall: Question 347: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the changes she will make to the mortgage interest supplement scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5790/09]
- Written Answers — Child Support: Child Support (17 Feb 2009)
Róisín Shortall: Question 352: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the reason no early child care supplement payments were made in January 2009. [6024/09]
- Written Answers — Child Support: Child Support (17 Feb 2009)
Róisín Shortall: Question 356: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the cost to the State in 2008 of the early child care supplement; and the cost to the State of payments made in respect of non-resident children. [6100/09]
- Written Answers — School Attendance: School Attendance (17 Feb 2009)
Róisín Shortall: Question 528: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the number of prosecutions taken by the National Education Welfare Board in respect of school attendance for each of the years since its inception. [6331/09]
- Written Answers — School Inspections: School Inspections (17 Feb 2009)
Róisín Shortall: Question 529: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the steps he will take to address the issues highlighted in the whole school evaluation of a school (details supplied) in Dublin 9. [6332/09]
- Written Answers — School Attendance: School Attendance (17 Feb 2009)
Róisín Shortall: Question 530: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the number of schools nationally which are failing to provide up to date attendance data; and the action open to the National Education Welfare Board to deal with same. [6333/09]
- Irish Economy: Motion (17 Feb 2009)
Róisín Shortall: There are umpteen aspects of the proposed pension levy that are worthy of discussion tonight: the way the levy was presented to the social partners at the 11th hour; the way the public service has been singled out by Government and some of the media; the anomalies within the proposed system; the way that those who are actually to blame for the economic mess will be unaffected by this...