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Written Answers — Telecommunications Services: Telecommunications Services (14 Dec 2011)

Michael Healy-Rae: Question 167: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will respond to correspondence (details supplied) regarding next generation broadband; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40336/11]

Written Answers — Tax Yield: Tax Yield (13 Dec 2011)

Michael Healy-Rae: Question 88: To ask the Minister for Finance the amount of revenue generated through stamp duty on a county basis to date in 2011; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39462/11]

Written Answers — FÁS Training Programmes: FÁS Training Programmes (13 Dec 2011)

Michael Healy-Rae: Question 103: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of persons who have had their professional apprenticeships halted after being let go during the past 12 months; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39465/11]

Written Answers — Higher Education Grants: Higher Education Grants (13 Dec 2011)

Michael Healy-Rae: Question 109: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of students who were denied a student grant upon application in 2010 on a county basis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39468/11]

Written Answers — Pupil-Teacher Ratio: Pupil-Teacher Ratio (13 Dec 2011)

Michael Healy-Rae: Question 110: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding career guidance councillors (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39493/11]

Written Answers — Foreign Direct Investment: Foreign Direct Investment (13 Dec 2011)

Michael Healy-Rae: Question 190: To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the position regarding the Horizon 2020 report; the action that has been taken since it was launched; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39463/11]

Written Answers — Money Advice and Budgeting Service: Money Advice and Budgeting Service (13 Dec 2011)

Michael Healy-Rae: Question 208: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of persons who availed of the services of the Money Advice and Budgetary Service in County Kerry in 2009 and 2010; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39469/11]

Written Answers — Community Employment Schemes: Community Employment Schemes (13 Dec 2011)

Michael Healy-Rae: Question 209: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if, in view of the fact the Brown Flesk River in County Kerry needs to be cleared out (details supplied) where it meets the River Maine upriver from the fish counter, she will ensure that a FÁS scheme or a rural social scheme will be instigated; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39479/11]

Written Answers — Social Welfare Appeals: Social Welfare Appeals (13 Dec 2011)

Michael Healy-Rae: Question 248: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding an appeal for supplementary welfare allowance in respect of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39830/11]

Written Answers — Local Authority Charges: Local Authority Charges (13 Dec 2011)

Michael Healy-Rae: Question 282: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government in a situation where an older person is living with a family relative away from home and electricity is still connected to his or her former house, if that person will still have to pay the €100 property tax; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39788/11]

Written Answers — Horticulture Sector: Horticulture Sector (13 Dec 2011)

Michael Healy-Rae: Question 361: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on the progress made in expanding the horticulture sector here; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39416/11]

Social Welfare Bill 2011: Second Stage (Resumed) (9 Dec 2011)

Michael Healy-Rae: I thank Deputy McConalogue and Fianna Fáil for sharing time. Twelve months ago the Minister was on this side of the House berating the then Government and the people who supported it. She called them everything under the sun and went out onto the plinth and said they were treating people in a disgraceful manner. What they were doing at that time was nothing in comparison with what the...

Social Welfare Bill 2011: Second Stage (Resumed) (9 Dec 2011)

Michael Healy-Rae: This is my opportunity to speak.

Social Welfare Bill 2011: Second Stage (Resumed) (9 Dec 2011)

Michael Healy-Rae: I will not interrupt the Minister of State and he will not interrupt me.

Social Welfare Bill 2011: Second Stage (Resumed) (9 Dec 2011)

Michael Healy-Rae: I have manners.

Social Welfare Bill 2011: Second Stage (Resumed) (9 Dec 2011)

Michael Healy-Rae: What manners has the Minister with the misery she will inflict on the people? I will have my say. I say to the Minister for lifestyle choice that I do not know anybody who is on welfare because he or she wants to be on welfare. The people I know and represent want to work. They want to get up in the morning, put on their shoes and go out to do an honest day's work for an honest day's pay....

Social Welfare Bill 2011: Second Stage (Resumed) (9 Dec 2011)

Michael Healy-Rae: It was glossed up by the people to whom the Government is paying hundreds of thousands of euro.

Social Welfare Bill 2011: Second Stage (Resumed) (9 Dec 2011)

Michael Healy-Rae: At least the Government got some value out of them. They glossed up this budget in such a way that the people did not think it was bad. It will not be until later today, tomorrow or having read the Sunday newspapers that people will realise what has been done. People will then realise their entitlements have been changed. These cuts will have a savage effect on the poorest of families.

Social Welfare Bill 2011: Second Stage (Resumed) (9 Dec 2011)

Michael Healy-Rae: I received the following letter from a man with a family: ...sorry for dropping you a message like this. I am one of the people that will be hit by the Carers being means tested. I only earn 400 per week, we have 3 kids, one of which has DS. He is 3, our eldest is 7 and we have a new baby 2 months old. As you are well aware of the cost and the work that goes hand in hand with any special...

Social Welfare Bill 2011: Second Stage (Resumed) (9 Dec 2011)

Michael Healy-Rae: The letter continues: "I can't take any more and we won't be able to survive."