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Written Answers — Local Authority Charges: Local Authority Charges (25 Apr 2012)

Paschal Donohoe: Question 150: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the reason that residents in an area (details supplied) were exempt from the household charge but residents in another location were still liable despite its unfinished condition; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20746/12]

Social Welfare Benefits (25 Apr 2012)

Paschal Donohoe: I welcome the Minister of State. The issue I am raising is the delay in the processing of applications for carer's allowance and carer's benefit. I have been contacted by a number of constituents who have made applications, and all they want to know is the status of their applications. This is highly reminiscent, unfortunately, of the difficulties that were encountered in the processing of...

Social Welfare Benefits (25 Apr 2012)

Paschal Donohoe: I thank the Minister of State for her response. She emphasised the point made by Deputy Murphy, namely, that this is causing great worry and upset for people who are already worried and upset because there has been a change in their circumstances. Otherwise they would not be applying for this allowance. They come into my office and contact me with a regularity and a frequency which...

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (24 Apr 2012)

Paschal Donohoe: Question 725: To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on speech and language services (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20143/12]

Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2012: Second Stage (Resumed) (19 Apr 2012)

Paschal Donohoe: I welcome the Minister and I thank Deputy Tom Hayes for sharing time. I wish to touch on a number of different themes in respect of the Bill and to make a number of points to the Minister with regard to the social welfare system and the way it is administered. I will focus on the Bill in the first instance, before proceeding to comment on some of the broader matters about which I am...

Leaders' Questions (19 Apr 2012)

Paschal Donohoe: What is the question?

Leaders' Questions (19 Apr 2012)

Paschal Donohoe: Not for the first time.

Written Answers — Departmental Staff: Departmental Staff (18 Apr 2012)

Paschal Donohoe: Question 87: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide in tabular form, details of the appointments made by the Revenue Commissioners in the period 1 January 2010 to April 2012 at assistant principal and principal officer grades and in each instance, if the candidates were internal appointees or external appointees; if he will indicate, in each instance, the sections or divisions to...

Written Answers — Higher Education Grants: Higher Education Grants (18 Apr 2012)

Paschal Donohoe: Question 282: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding an appeal for postgraduate funding by a person (details supplied) in County Mayo; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17879/12]

Written Answers — Special Educational Needs: Special Educational Needs (18 Apr 2012)

Paschal Donohoe: Question 299: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding an application for a special needs assistant to be moved from a primary school to a secondary school to assist in a child's (details supplied) ongoing education in the north Dublin area; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18097/12]

Written Answers — Work Permits: Work Permits (18 Apr 2012)

Paschal Donohoe: Question 468: To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the position regarding an appeal for a work permit in respect of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 7; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19246/12]

Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (18 Apr 2012)

Paschal Donohoe: Question 532: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding a carer's allowance application in respect of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 11; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18096/12]

Written Answers — Census Data: Census Data (18 Apr 2012)

Paschal Donohoe: Question 707: To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if funding is available to catalogue the 1926 Census returns on-line; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18330/12]

Written Answers — Deportation Orders: Deportation Orders (18 Apr 2012)

Paschal Donohoe: Question 967: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of decisions made on subsidiary protection and the number of decisions in which subsidiary protection was granted for each of the years 2008, 2009, 2010 and 2011; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18190/12]

Written Answers — Deportation Orders: Deportation Orders (18 Apr 2012)

Paschal Donohoe: Question 968: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of decisions made on humanitarian leave to remain and the number of these decisions in which humanitarian leave to remain was granted for each of the years 2008, 2009, 2010 and 2011; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18191/12]

Written Answers — Adoption Services: Adoption Services (18 Apr 2012)

Paschal Donohoe: Question 1179: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the process upon which step-parent adoption will be regularised as part of the guidelines recently published by the Minister for Justice and Equality regarding surrogacy arrangements; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19220/12]

Written Answers — Adoption Services: Adoption Services (18 Apr 2012)

Paschal Donohoe: Question 1180: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if it is possible under current legislation for surrogate mothers to adopt their children in an effort to regularise their position vis-a-vis their child; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19221/12]

Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (18 Apr 2012)

Paschal Donohoe: Question 1189: To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding an E112 application for a person to have surgery in the UK which is not available here (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17624/12]

Written Answers — Drugs Payment Scheme: Drugs Payment Scheme (18 Apr 2012)

Paschal Donohoe: Question 1232: To ask the Minister for Health if there are any plans in the near future to have the drug Pradaxa added to the list of drugs available on the medical card scheme and the drugs payment scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18055/12]

Thirtieth Amendment of the Constitution (Treaty on Stability, Coordination and Governance in the Economic and Monetary Union) Bill 2012: Second Stage (Resumed) (18 Apr 2012)

Paschal Donohoe: I thank the Ceann Comhairle for the opportunity to speak. Tom Cruise is an actor who has divided opinion. Some like his films, others do not. One film that quite a few thought was his finest moment was "Jerry Maguire". In that film, Tom Cruise plays a sports agent who is trying to sign as a client somebody who plays American football. Probably the most famous moment in that film is the...