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Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Delays (17 Jul 2014)

Willie Penrose: 739. To ask the Minister for Health when a medical card will be restored to a person (details supplied) in County Westmeath on medical grounds; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32847/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Applications (17 Jul 2014)

Willie Penrose: 740. To ask the Minister for Health when a decision will issue on an application for a medical card in respect of a a person (details supplied) in County Westmeath; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32848/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Applications (17 Jul 2014)

Willie Penrose: 741. To ask the Minister for Health when a review of a decision on a medical card application in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Westmeath will be made; if same will now be expedited; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32849/14]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Quality and Qualifications Ireland Accreditation (16 Jul 2014)

Willie Penrose: 87. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps she will take to ensure that the exemptions and waiver provided for in specified circumstances pursuant to section 80 of the Qualifications and Quality Assurance (Education and Training) Act 2012 applies to QQ1, formerly FETAC, re-engagement for community education organisations; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31908/14]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of Horse Racing Ireland (Amendment) Bill 2014: Discussion (15 Jul 2014)

Willie Penrose: I welcome the witnesses. Their presentations were succinct and they have set a standard for future presentations to the committee. They must be complimented on the structure of their presentation because sometimes we are faced with long-winded presentations with neither head nor tail to them. I would like to see representatives of all the bodies we have met on the HRI committee. The...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Social Welfare Benefits (15 Jul 2014)

Willie Penrose: 308. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will reinstate the €20 training allowance payable to trainees in the various schemes operated under the aegis of SOLAS and the National Learning Training Network, which ceased on 1 January 2014; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31397/14]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Employment Rights (15 Jul 2014)

Willie Penrose: 358. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will amend the Protection of Employees (Employees Insolvency) Acts, 1984 to 2006, to ensure they encompasses the definition of deemed insolvency in line with paragraph 4 of EU Directive 2008/94/EC, which ensures employees have access to the insolvency payment scheme fund administered by the Department of Social Protection; and if she will...

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Waterways Issues (15 Jul 2014)

Willie Penrose: 429. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht further to Parliamentary Question No. 354 of 10 June 2014, pertaining to the proposed Waterways Ireland canal by-laws, when she proposes to make a final decision on the proposed new by-laws; if she will ensure that such proposals are not restrictive and punitive for users of the waterways and that user concerns and submissions are...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Long-Term Illness Scheme Coverage (15 Jul 2014)

Willie Penrose: 661. To ask the Minister for Health if a patient being required to take warfarin on a lifetime basis, due to the seriousness of his or her medical condition, will be included in the long-term illness qualifying criteria for the long-term illness scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31178/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Administration (15 Jul 2014)

Willie Penrose: 662. To ask the Minister for Health in the context of a significant change effected in October 2013 whereby a person who held a medical card could also be awarded a long-term illness scheme card, if he will ensure that such persons who were not notified of this change until February 2014 will be reimbursed any moneys they expended on qualifying drugs in the interim period; and if he will make...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Community Employment Schemes Eligibility (10 Jul 2014)

Willie Penrose: 106. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the exemptions available for persons who are 50 years of age or over to avail of an additional year of participation in a community employment scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30578/14]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Voluntary Sector Funding (10 Jul 2014)

Willie Penrose: 123. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the steps he will take to reinstate the funding that has been discontinued for the deaf advocacy service of the Irish Deaf Society, which is extremely important in the context of the persons who utilise the service; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30580/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Orthodontic Service Waiting Lists (10 Jul 2014)

Willie Penrose: 209. To ask the Minister for Health if he will ensure that a person (details supplied) in County Westmeath is immediately given an appointment for orthodontic treatment as she has been waiting for same since 2011; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30581/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointment Status (10 Jul 2014)

Willie Penrose: 221. To ask the Minister for Health if he will ensure that a person (details supplied) in County Westmeath is immediately given an appointment at the Mater hospital, Dublin; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30662/14]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: EU Developments July to December 2013: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (8 Jul 2014)

Willie Penrose: It would be highly illegal.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: EU Developments July to December 2013: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (8 Jul 2014)

Willie Penrose: I am somewhat perplexed about the proposed trade in beef between the United States and Ireland. I accept that there are defensive and offensive interests, but it is difficult to understand how there can be equivalence when the vast majority of United States beef is produced under a different method, much of it hormone-driven, while we have rigorous standards, hormone-free production,...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Wind Energy Guidelines (8 Jul 2014)

Willie Penrose: 538. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the reason the draft guidelines for wind energy recommend a noise level much higher than that recommended by the World Health Organisation (details supplied); the steps he will take to ensure the WHO criteria will be fully incorporated into the finalised version of the draft guidelines; and if he will make a statement on...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Wind Energy Guidelines (8 Jul 2014)

Willie Penrose: 543. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question Nos 476, 477, 478, 479 and 480 of 17 June 2014 and the assertion therein that the draft reason of the wind energy guidelines takes into account the 2009 WHO findings in relation to night time noise the way this be so, when the WHO identify that the population should not be exposed to...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rural Transport Programme (8 Jul 2014)

Willie Penrose: 838. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of staff currently employed under the rural transport programme who will be made redundant due to the restructuring of the said programme into the 18 transport co-ordination units; the redundancy package that is being offered to those staff; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29873/14]

Public Health (Standard Packaging of Tobacco) Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) (3 Jul 2014)

Willie Penrose: I do not ever get any of those funds. However, there are the property rights established under Bunreacht na hÉireann, as well as right to the free movement and travel of goods under Article 34 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union. The types of issues that will arise in respect of European law will be whether these measures are necessary to achieve the objective being...