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Written Answers — Tax Code: Tax Code (30 Mar 2006)

Róisín Shortall: Question 136: To ask the Minister for Finance the reason for the long delay in amending the tax affairs of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 11 to reflect the fact that the person is paying weekly reckonable maintenance payments of €250 to their former spouse; and if their mortgage interest relief will be reinstated due to the fact that their principal private residence has changed; and...

Written Answers — Tax Code: Tax Code (30 Mar 2006)

Róisín Shortall: Question 142: To ask the Minister for Finance the cost to the Exchequer of the home carer's tax credit in each of the years since its introduction; the numbers availing of this credit in each of the years since its introduction for which figures have been finalised; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12715/06]

Written Answers — Road Traffic Offences: Road Traffic Offences (30 Mar 2006)

Róisín Shortall: Question 187: To ask the Minister for Transport the penalty that currently applies for non-display of a valid national car test certificate; the specific statutory instrument where this penalty is set out; the previous levels of this penalty since the year 2000; and the specific dates when they applied. [12718/06]

Written Answers — Rail Services: Rail Services (30 Mar 2006)

Róisín Shortall: Question 188: To ask the Minister for Transport if his attention has been drawn to the fact that CIE and Iarnród Éireann appear to be closing down all remaining rail freight facilities in Cork; the discussions he has had with Iarnród Éireann on this matter; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12771/06]

Written Answers — Road Traffic Offences: Road Traffic Offences (30 Mar 2006)

Róisín Shortall: Question 216: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of prosecutions in each of the years from 2000 to the present for a breach of an article of SI 395 of 1999; the amount accruing to the State in each of the years since and including 2000 arising from penalties imposed due to such breaches; and the Garda enforcement levels of this provision of road traffic law....

Written Answers — Disadvantaged Status: Disadvantaged Status (30 Mar 2006)

Róisín Shortall: Question 247: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the reason schools applying for disadvantaged designation under DEIS are asked for social welfare details, such as lone parent family rates of pupils attending; when such information could be gleaned from the PPS numbers of children, that being data which is already provided to the Department; the level of co-operation between her...

Written Answers — Disadvantaged Status: Disadvantaged Status (30 Mar 2006)

Róisín Shortall: Question 248: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the reason the number of non-national pupils is not one of the criteria applying to the qualification of schools for the DEIS programme in view of the enormous strain on teaching resources such pupils typically make. [12764/06]

Written Answers — Disadvantaged Status: Disadvantaged Status (30 Mar 2006)

Róisín Shortall: Question 249: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the way in which the criteria used to determine qualification for the DEIS programme was arrived at. [12765/06]

Hospitals Building Programme. (30 Mar 2006)

Róisín Shortall: I thank the Leas-Cheann Comhairle for allowing me and my colleagues, Deputies Broughan and Costello, to raise on the Adjournment this important matter concerning the future of Temple Street children's hospital. Temple Street children's hospital has a special place in the hearts of a great number of families throughout Ireland and especially on the north side of Dublin. Many parents are deeply...

Order of Business. (30 Mar 2006)

Róisín Shortall: Two developments are under way with regard to the future of Aer Lingus. First, the Joint Committee on Transport is about to begin public hearings to allow parties to express their views on the potential implications of the sale of Aer Lingus and to allow for analysis of that process, which has yet to take place. Second, the Minister for Transport recently instructed management to engage...

Written Answers — Job Losses: Job Losses (29 Mar 2006)

Róisín Shortall: Question 197: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the circumstances which led to the issuing of redundancy notice to 81 employees of a company (details supplied) in Dublin 11; if he will report on the contact which his Department has had with the company concerned; and the assistance which his Department will provide to employees in sourcing alternative comparable...

Written Answers — Disadvantaged Status: Disadvantaged Status (29 Mar 2006)

Róisín Shortall: Question 269: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the reason a school (details supplied) in Dublin 11 is the only one of 11 schools designated disadvantaged in the Finglas area not invited to participate in DEIS; the criteria that were used to establish that the school would not be invited to participate; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12562/06]

Written Answers — Defence Forces Investigations: Defence Forces Investigations (28 Mar 2006)

Róisín Shortall: Question 63: To ask the Minister for Defence if he will consider an inquiry into the death of a person (details supplied); his views on whether there is a basis to reopen this case; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11783/06]

Road Traffic (Mobile Telephony) Bill 2006: Second Stage. (28 Mar 2006)

Róisín Shortall: I will share time with Deputy Lynch. The Labour Party welcomes and supports this Fine Gael Bill. I commend Deputy Olivia Mitchell on her initiative in drafting it and bringing it forward. We welcome the opportunity to debate the issue of mobile telephone use while driving because the practice has become increasingly pervasive and is a major contributory factor to collisions on the roads. The...

Road Traffic (Mobile Telephony) Bill 2006: Second Stage. (28 Mar 2006)

Róisín Shortall: Why not encourage the gardaí to enforce the law and to exercise their substantial powers?

Road Traffic (Mobile Telephony) Bill 2006: Second Stage. (28 Mar 2006)

Róisín Shortall: The gardaí have the power to clamp down on drink driving but there is no evidence they are doing so.

Road Traffic (Mobile Telephony) Bill 2006: Second Stage. (28 Mar 2006)

Róisín Shortall: For one reason or other, it is not happening. The same cannot be allowed to happen with mobile telephone use and Fine Gael is taking the right course of action in presenting this Bill. The delay in delivering on the promise to ban the use of mobile telephones has been incredible. On 9 October 2002 the then Minister for Transport, Deputy Brennan, told the Dáil that his Department was urgently...

Road Traffic (Mobile Telephony) Bill 2006: Second Stage. (28 Mar 2006)

Róisín Shortall: Has it been finalised within the past couple of days?

Road Traffic (Mobile Telephony) Bill 2006: Second Stage. (28 Mar 2006)

Róisín Shortall: Last week the Minister told me it had not been finalised. As we wait for the extension of penalty points next week to offences dealing with driver behaviour, mobile telephone use, one of the more obvious examples of dangerous driving behaviour, will not be included.

Road Traffic (Mobile Telephony) Bill 2006: Second Stage. (28 Mar 2006)

Róisín Shortall: The Minister is making it up as he goes along.