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Written Answers — Telecommunications Services: Telecommunications Services (11 Oct 2007)

Róisín Shortall: Question 32: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources his plans to review the national broadband scheme to include areas that to date can only access expensive and slow broadband with no competition in the same area; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23087/07]

Telecommunications Services. (11 Oct 2007)

Róisín Shortall: Question 9: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will report on the Government's target of 700,000 broadband subscribers by the end of 2007; his views on the targets the Government should set for broadband roll-out to 2010; the measures he will take to introduce this objective; if he has had contact with broadband service providers on achieving the new...

Written Answers — Pension Provisions: Pension Provisions (10 Oct 2007)

Róisín Shortall: Question 180: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance the State contribution to the National Pension Reserve Fund in each of the years since its inception; the growth rate expressed in real terms of the National Pension Reserve Fund in each of the years since its inception; and the cost of administering the fund in each of these years. [23113/07]

Written Answers — Tax Code: Tax Code (10 Oct 2007)

Róisín Shortall: Question 181: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance the number and percentage of taxpayers paying income tax at the higher rate. [23114/07]

Written Answers — Pension Provisions: Pension Provisions (10 Oct 2007)

Róisín Shortall: Question 240: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the amount spent by his Department on add-on cash benefits and non-cash benefits to persons of pension age in each of the years this century with a breakdown by benefit type and the number of recipients; and the number of people at pension age receiving any welfare payment from his Department in each of these years. [23109/07]

Written Answers — Pension Provisions: Pension Provisions (10 Oct 2007)

Róisín Shortall: Question 241: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the average or typical equivalent monetary value received by pensioner households in each of the years this century for each of the non-cash benefits available to certain households of people of pension age; the equivalent monetary value in each of these years and for each of these benefits for a pensioner who was maximising...

Written Answers — Pension Provisions: Pension Provisions (10 Oct 2007)

Róisín Shortall: Question 242: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the cost of administering the State contributory pension; the proportion this represents of the total value of the scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23112/07]

Written Answers — Pension Provisions: Pension Provisions (10 Oct 2007)

Róisín Shortall: Question 243: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the amount spent by his Department in each of the years this century on welfare payments to pensioners broken down by year, and by pension type and the absolute number of recipients by pension type and by year in each case. [23136/07]

Written Answers — Garda Disciplinary Proceedings: Garda Disciplinary Proceedings (9 Oct 2007)

Róisín Shortall: Question 188: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the amount paid out either in respect of court awards or out of court settlements for claims taken against members of the Gardaí in respect of assault, unlawful arrest, or other breach of a citizens right in respect of each year since 2002 to date in 2007; the number of cases in which awards were made by the Courts; the...

Written Answers — General Medical Services Scheme: General Medical Services Scheme (9 Oct 2007)

Róisín Shortall: Question 243: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the State's position in relation to the proposals to reduce payments to pharmacists by 8% for items dispensed under the GMS and by 13% for items dispensed on all other schemes; the analysis that has been conducted on the negative implications of this for the availability of drugs to GMS patients in view the fact that pharmacists claim...

Written Answers — General Medical Services Scheme: General Medical Services Scheme (9 Oct 2007)

Róisín Shortall: Question 254: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the action she is taking to prevent the threatened withdrawal of pharmacists from methadone dispensing; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22431/07]

Written Answers — Eating Disorders: Eating Disorders (9 Oct 2007)

Róisín Shortall: Question 236: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the progress to date on the implementation of each of the eight specific recommendations in relation to improving service provision for those affected by eating disorders contained within A Vision for Change; and her plans and timescale for their full implementation. [22348/07]

Written Answers — Hospital Staff: Hospital Staff (9 Oct 2007)

Róisín Shortall: Question 280: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to the situation in Crumlin Children's Hospital where there is a secretarial vacancy in the cardiology department and where several out-patient clinics will have to be cancelled during the month of October 2007 unless this post is filled in view of the critical work of this department; if she will take...

Written Answers — Free Travel Scheme: Free Travel Scheme (9 Oct 2007)

Róisín Shortall: Question 327: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the progress that has been made with the Department of Transport and the Taxi Commission Office on the establishment of new subsidy or assistance on a pilot basis to assist wheelchair users with the cost of taxis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22626/07]

Written Answers — Pension Provisions: Pension Provisions (9 Oct 2007)

Róisín Shortall: Question 350: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the report, advice, or other research which currently informs his Department's policy on income adequacy for pensioners generally and for older pensioners in particular; when income adequacy for pensioners was last subject to a substantial policy review; when the rate for the over 80 allowance was last subject to substantial...

Written Answers — Local Drugs Task Forces: Local Drugs Task Forces (9 Oct 2007)

Róisín Shortall: Question 351: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs if, in relation to the 2007 allocations under the young people's facilities and services fund, he will set out the value of the applications for funding received from each of the local drugs task forces plus Galway, Limerick and Waterford cities and Carlow Town; and if he will set out the actual amount allocated in...

Written Answers — School Placement: School Placement (9 Oct 2007)

Róisín Shortall: Question 388: To ask the Minister for Education and Science her plans, in accordance with the Education Welfare Act, 2000, to ensure that a child (details supplied) attends a recognised school or otherwise receives a certain minimum education; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22456/07]

Written Answers — Detention Centres: Detention Centres (9 Oct 2007)

Róisín Shortall: Question 496: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform his plans for the future of the five existing special schools for young offenders as reported in a newspaper (details supplied); his views on whether it is inappropriate to locate remand and assessment places on the same campus as detention places; the implications of these plans for the Finglas Child and Adolescent...

Written Answers — Detention Centres: Detention Centres (9 Oct 2007)

Róisín Shortall: Question 497: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform further to a media report (details supplied) the steps which have been taken to secure additional land in Lusk; if agreement to purchase has been entered into; if so, if the Department of Finance has sanctioned the agreement; if so, the purchase price and from whom it was purchased; and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Detention Centres: Detention Centres (9 Oct 2007)

Róisín Shortall: Question 498: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform further to a media report (details supplied) the composition of the expert group; the chair of the group; the person or body who appointed the chair; and the reasons there are no child care representatives from the relevant children detention school on this expert group. [22883/07]