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Written Answers — Services for People with Disabilities: Services for People with Disabilities (6 May 2009)

Richard Bruton: Question 216: To ask the Minister for Health and Children her views on the long-term charges that are appropriate for persons with a disability who are in long-term care, bearing in mind that the charges in these cases were recently increased by more than 25%; and if she will clarify that she does not intend applying rules similar to persons in long-term nursing home care to such clients....

Written Answers — Child Care Services: Child Care Services (6 May 2009)

Richard Bruton: Question 241: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the circumstances in which it is envisaged that a private operator in receipt of the capitation grant would be entitled to levy parents with an additional charge under the free pre-school and early childhood scheme; the elements of cost for rent, rates, insurance, staff and so on; the pupil-teacher ratio which has been used in putting...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Code: Social Welfare Code (6 May 2009)

Richard Bruton: Question 405: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if there is redress for an employe who discovers when made redundant that their employer had not been paying contributions over a period of many years; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17458/09]

Written Answers — Social Welfare Code: Social Welfare Code (6 May 2009)

Richard Bruton: Question 407: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if she will review the rule whereby people being made redundant have to wait nine weeks before jobseeker's benefit is payable in view of the hardship it may cause at a time when employment opportunities are scarce; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17481/09]

Written Answers — Social Welfare Fraud: Social Welfare Fraud (6 May 2009)

Richard Bruton: Question 413: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the system in place to ensure that persons who have left the country do not continue to receive child benefit or early childhood payments to which they are no longer entitled; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17705/09]

Written Answers — Defence Forces Reserve: Defence Forces Reserve (6 May 2009)

Richard Bruton: Question 439: To ask the Minister for Defence the impact of the embargo on employment on the Reserve Defence Forces; if his attention has been drawn to the fact that people who have long-standing applications have been caught up in the restrictions; the cost savings he foresees; and if they could be made up by making summer camp unpaid or in other ways that would not suspend this voluntary...

Written Answers — Special Educational Needs: Special Educational Needs (6 May 2009)

Richard Bruton: Question 582: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the position regarding his plans to develop second level education opportunities for children in the autistic spectrum on the northside of Dublin; and the facilities available in a school (details supplied) in Dublin 3. [17538/09]

Written Answers — Employment Support Services: Employment Support Services (30 Apr 2009)

Richard Bruton: Question 31: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if she is considering alternatives or proposals for young people, who are unemployed, to avail of opportunities, in tandem with other Departments, in view of her recent changes to the payment of unemployment assistance to this group; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17024/09]

Written Answers — Departmental Programmes: Departmental Programmes (30 Apr 2009)

Richard Bruton: Question 76: To ask the Minister for Finance the details in tabular form of the programme changes compared to a no policy change estimate in the 2009 Estimates and the increases or savings involved in each programme in order that there can be an informed debate on the policy changes and their impact. [17161/09]

Written Answers — Nursing Home Subventions: Nursing Home Subventions (30 Apr 2009)

Richard Bruton: Question 97: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will issue guidelines clarifying the obligations of patients in nursing homes whose resources have been exhausted and who face mounting deficits in their payments to the nursing home; the obligation of the patient's next of kin, the provider and the State in respect of the financial shortfall involved; and the protection there...

Written Answers — Child Care Services: Child Care Services (30 Apr 2009)

Richard Bruton: Question 98: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the way the free preschool and early childhood scheme will operate; the children who will be eligible; the number of children who will be eligible in January 2010; the criteria which will be used to determine eligibility; if the scheme is universal or if a higher contribution will be imposed on higher income families; and if she will...

Written Answers — Child Care Services: Child Care Services (30 Apr 2009)

Richard Bruton: Question 99: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the way the free preschool and early childhood scheme will operate; the service providers who will be eligible to provide the scheme; the criteria which will be used to determine eligibility; if existing service providers will be allowed to provide the public service while continuing to provide a private service simultaneously; if such...

Written Answers — Special Protection Orders: Special Protection Orders (30 Apr 2009)

Richard Bruton: Question 210: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the steps necessary to implement a special protection order on Dublin Bay; the progress he has made in implementing the order; if any of Dublin Port's lands will be exempted from the order; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17166/09]

Order of Business (30 Apr 2009)

Richard Bruton: I rise to support Deputy Burton. We are within hours of the implementation of this change and there is total confusion as to what exactly is happening. We are told that 500,000 people who have continuing entitlement or likely continuing entitlement to the mortgage relief will lose it tomorrow, simply because the Minister and his advisers did not anticipate the impact of the change they...

Order of Business (30 Apr 2009)

Richard Bruton: While it is traditional practice that the Dáil does not sit until the Wednesday after a bank holiday, we are in exceptional times when such practices must be re-examined. The Dáil needs to examine very important legislation, not least in respect of our banking system and the Finance Bill. So many issues are pressing on the Government and Oireachtas time that this practice of having an...

Order of Business (30 Apr 2009)

Richard Bruton: I should like to inquire about the national assets management agency, NAMA. We are now seven months on from the introduction of a guarantee and the same boards are in all the banks and the Central Bank. We have the same boards in the Financial Regulator and effectively in the Department of Finance and in the Government. They have hatched this proposal where the taxpayer's neck is being put...

Order of Business (30 Apr 2009)

Richard Bruton: The Minister has indicated that he will establish this agency on an interim basis without reference to the House. That is unacceptable and I would ask him whether he will prepare heads of legislation in the coming weeks, as we were told. We were told last week that the entire legislation would be in place before the summer. However, if he is going to produce the heads, will he, in...

Order of Business (30 Apr 2009)

Richard Bruton: When will we see the publication of the Finance Bill?

Order of Business (30 Apr 2009)

Richard Bruton: I said "boards", if the Minister would listen.

Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (29 Apr 2009)

Richard Bruton: Question 192: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the new ceilings for rents under the rent supplement scheme; the guidance she is issuing to tenants who are expected to secure an 8% rent reduction from landlords, particularly in contracts which do not provide for unilateral requests for a rent review; and the protections she envisages for tenants where landlords refuse. [17107/09]