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Written Answers — Mental Health Services: Mental Health Services (8 Apr 2008)

Róisín Shortall: Question 187: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the progress made on recommendations contained in A Vision for Change; if she is satisfied with the implementation of the plan to date; if she will provide a further detailed implementation plan setting out the major activities to implement the plan, with explicit annualised performance targets and indicators, budgets and timelines;...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (8 Apr 2008)

Róisín Shortall: Question 274: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the status, activity and output of the working group established under Sustaining Progress to monitor the impact of changes to the rent supplement scheme in 2004; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12804/08]

Written Answers — Visa Applications: Visa Applications (8 Apr 2008)

Róisín Shortall: Question 397: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if his Department has received an application for a visa from a person (details supplied) in Dublin 11; and when he expects to make a decision on the application. [12823/08]

Written Answers — Residency Permits: Residency Permits (8 Apr 2008)

Róisín Shortall: Question 398: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform when a decision will be issued in relation to a long term residency application by a person (details supplied) in Dublin 1; and if he will expedite a decision on the matter. [12824/08]

Written Answers — Waste Disposal: Waste Disposal (8 Apr 2008)

Róisín Shortall: Question 425: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the information he has received on the level of risk to the health of persons living in a house where mercury has been released from broken CFL bulbs, particularly as this is of special concern in regard to the welfare of infants and children; and the advice his Department will provide to householders to...

Written Answers — EU Directives: EU Directives (3 Apr 2008)

Róisín Shortall: Question 26: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the meetings he or his Department have had or propose to have with the Department of Environment, Heritage and Local Government in relation to the guidelines or protocol of implementing the waste electrical and electronic equipment programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12477/08]

Written Answers — Commemorative Events: Commemorative Events (3 Apr 2008)

Róisín Shortall: Question 32: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the way his Department will assist groups to develop the Gordon Bennett Car Rally theme in the towns and villages that facilitated the race at the start of the last century; the finance that will be provided to ensure that the route is clearly defined and protected and that each town and village and settlement has...

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (3 Apr 2008)

Róisín Shortall: Question 60: To ask the Minister for Health and Children further to Parliamentary Question No. 264 of 4 March 2008, the reason a formal reply has not been issued by the Health Service Executive; and if she will furnish a reply to the question. [12516/08]

Written Answers — Employment Rights: Employment Rights (3 Apr 2008)

Róisín Shortall: Question 124: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if his attention has been drawn to correspondence of 24 March 2008 regarding an employment appeals tribunal case (details supplied); if he will establish the reason for an 11 week delay in the tribunal reaching a decision in this case; if he will request the Employment Appeals Tribunal to expedite this matter; and if he...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (3 Apr 2008)

Róisín Shortall: Question 134: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the average processing times for applications for jobseeker's allowances and benefits by social welfare office; the efforts being made to improve same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12537/08]

Written Answers — Pension Provisions: Pension Provisions (3 Apr 2008)

Róisín Shortall: Question 137: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the rationale for applying the current formula used to assess entitlement to a pre-1953 State pension where credits from a country with which Ireland has a bilateral agreement are used to satisfy the minimum number of contributions required; if his attention has been drawn to the anomalous position whereby once this minimum is...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (3 Apr 2008)

Róisín Shortall: Question 138: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the average letting duration for rent supplement claims in each of the past five years; and the average claim duration in each of these years. [12561/08]

Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (3 Apr 2008)

Róisín Shortall: Question 139: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the procedures followed when a local authority inspector declares a rental accommodation to be unfit for habitation and where the rent for that accommodation was being supported by rent supplement; the policy of his Department in reviewing other rent supplement payments to properties owned or administered by the same landlord or...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (3 Apr 2008)

Róisín Shortall: Question 140: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the breakdown of the number of rent supplement recipients by rental type; and the expenditure on each category in 2006 and 2007 and the estimate for 2008. [12563/08]

Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (3 Apr 2008)

Róisín Shortall: Question 141: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the rationale for imposing a flat rate contribution to rent for rent supplement recipients as opposed to a fixed percentage. [12564/08]

Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (3 Apr 2008)

Róisín Shortall: Question 142: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the respective penalties applying to landlords and tenants for falsely declaring the amount of rent on the rent supplement application form; and the specific offence committed. [12566/08]

Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (3 Apr 2008)

Róisín Shortall: Question 143: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the amount of supplementary welfare allowance recouped in the years 2006 and 2007 under section 204 and Section 205 respectively of the Social Welfare Consolidation Act 2005. [12567/08]

Written Answers — Private Rented Accommodation: Private Rented Accommodation (2 Apr 2008)

Róisín Shortall: Question 546: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the number of times in each of the past five years where rent supplement was refused or a claim suspended or cancelled due to the fact that the accommodation was found to be unfit for habitation. [12464/08]

Written Answers — Social Welfare Code: Social Welfare Code (2 Apr 2008)

Róisín Shortall: Question 131: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the steps he has taken to ensure that his Department are not operating the habitual residence condition in an over-rigid fashion; and if he will undertake to publish his Department's legal advice on the operation and application of the current criteria and any correspondence between his Department and the European Commission on...

Written Answers — Customer Service Performance: Customer Service Performance (2 Apr 2008)

Róisín Shortall: Question 148: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the steps he is taking to improve his Department's application processing times and overall customer service performance; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12184/08]