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Written Answers — Higher Education Grants: Higher Education Grants (29 Oct 2008)

Róisín Shortall: Question 553: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the statutory instrument that precludes students of distance learning courses from support under the higher education grants scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37432/08]

Order of Business (29 Oct 2008)

Róisín Shortall: When is it intended to publish the social welfare Bill? Will the Government follow the normal practice of having two social welfare Bills to give effect to the changes announced in the budget?

Order of Business (29 Oct 2008)

Róisín Shortall: Will it be just one Bill?

Written Answers — Tax Code: Tax Code (23 Oct 2008)

Róisín Shortall: Question 79: To ask the Minister for Finance if income from an inheritance will be subject to the income levy. [36806/08]

Written Answers — Tax Code: Tax Code (23 Oct 2008)

Róisín Shortall: Question 80: To ask the Minister for Finance if rental income will be subject to the income levy. [36807/08]

Written Answers — Tax Code: Tax Code (23 Oct 2008)

Róisín Shortall: Question 81: To ask the Minister for Finance if expenses paid to an employee in respect of their work duties will be subject to the income levy. [36808/08]

Written Answers — Tax Code: Tax Code (23 Oct 2008)

Róisín Shortall: Question 82: To ask the Minister for Finance the way the expenses of self-employed people will be treated in respect of the income levy; if he will clarify the Taoiseach's statement on the evening of 14 October 2008 that the levy will allow for the deduction of normal expenses associated with a trade; the trades to which this will apply; the expenses to which this will apply; and if he will...

Written Answers — Nursing Home Subventions: Nursing Home Subventions (23 Oct 2008)

Róisín Shortall: Question 110: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if the fair deal scheme will apply to private hospital and nursing homes. [36858/08]

Environmental Policy. (23 Oct 2008)

Róisín Shortall: Question 19: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the steps he is taking in response to the finding in the state of the environment report published by the Environmental Protection Agency in October 2008, that under the most favourable scenario Ireland's greenhouse gas emissions will exceed the proposed reduction target for 2020 by seven million tonnes, that...

Environmental Policy. (23 Oct 2008)

Róisín Shortall: Question 22: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the steps he is taking to address the issue identified by the director of the Environmental Protection Agency, namely, that Ireland's environment is an asset under threat and that Ireland is not progressing at a sufficient rate in relation to environmental quality; and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Overseas Missions: Overseas Missions (22 Oct 2008)

Róisín Shortall: Question 21: To ask the Minister for Defence the reason for the 49% decrease in the estimate of expenses for the Defence Forces in regard to travel and freight services. [35868/08]

Written Answers — Departmental Estimates: Departmental Estimates (22 Oct 2008)

Róisín Shortall: Question 55: To ask the Minister for Defence the reason for the 44% decrease in regard to the allocation in the 2009 Estimate for expenses in respect of equipment and expenses in respect of the Air Corps; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35867/08]

Written Answers — Health Service Allowances: Health Service Allowances (22 Oct 2008)

Róisín Shortall: Question 97: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the different rates for mobility allowance that will apply in 2009; and the date from which it will apply. [36334/08]

Written Answers — Health Service Allowances: Health Service Allowances (22 Oct 2008)

Róisín Shortall: Question 98: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the rate of domiciliary care allowance that will apply from 2009; and the date from which it will apply. [36335/08]

Medical Cards: Motion (Resumed) (22 Oct 2008)

Róisín Shortall: The Minister of State's apology is no good.

Medical Cards: Motion (Resumed) (22 Oct 2008)

Róisín Shortall: Under the budget changes the income limit was €298 for a couple. Two days later, after the Minister, Deputy Harney's rushed changes, this was increased to €480.60, which equates exactly to the top rate of the State pension. Therefore, a pensioner with even the smallest occupational pension would lose his or her medical card. In effect, the changes the Minister announced last Thursday...

Medical Cards: Motion (Resumed) (22 Oct 2008)

Róisín Shortall: It is hard to believe that a Government that once prided itself on having its finger on the pulse of the people should now be so clearly out of touch with what old people feel about their health. I could not help smiling last week when I heard Councillor Maurice Ahern say that his brother Bertie would never have done this. There are many things about Deputy Ahern I bitterly disagreed with...

Medical Cards: Motion (Resumed) (22 Oct 2008)

Róisín Shortall: Fianna Fáil kept him for a long time. After Friday's climbdown, the Taoiseach now claims that only 5% of pensioners will be excluded from having a medical card. There is no basis to that figure. Under these income limits a great many more than 5% will be excluded from the right to a medical card. One only had to look at the news this evening to see this. In the same vein I had calls to...

Medical Cards: Motion (Resumed) (22 Oct 2008)

Róisín Shortall: That is untrue.

Medical Cards: Motion (Resumed) (22 Oct 2008)

Róisín Shortall: That does not explain the reason 15,000 people gathered on the streets today.