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Written Answers — Housing Grants: Housing Grants (26 Jan 2005)

Richard Bruton: Question 1307: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government when he first signalled his intention to review the terms on which grants are made available to persons with a disability to adapt their home; if his Department has undertaken research into the average cost of adaptations needed to accommodate a person with a disability; the details of the range of costs...

Written Answers — Housing Grants: Housing Grants (26 Jan 2005)

Richard Bruton: Question 1387: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government when the maximum value of the disabled persons grants was last adjusted by his Department; the move in the index of housebuilding costs since the grant was last changed; if his attention has been drawn to the fact that many required modifications in the homes of persons with a disability cost far more than...

Written Answers — Social and Affordable Housing: Social and Affordable Housing (26 Jan 2005)

Richard Bruton: Question 1312: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he has examined the housing options for lone parents engaged in part-time work who seek to acquire an affordable home; if his Department has done any working examples of the way in which a person on one-parent family allowance doing part-time work and paying for child care would be able to afford to...

Written Answers — Social and Affordable Housing: Social and Affordable Housing (26 Jan 2005)

Richard Bruton: Question 1313: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the income thresholds and the level of subsidy towards repayments available to persons on shared ownership or affordable housing; the date on which these thresholds and subvention levels were last changed; the value that the thresholds would now have reached if the income threshold had been indexed to the...

Written Answers — Freedom of Information: Freedom of Information (26 Jan 2005)

Richard Bruton: Question 1368: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the State, semi-State, State-sponsored and statutory bodies under the aegis of his Department which are not subject to the requirements of the Freedom of Information Act 1997; the reason a body is not subject to the requirements of the Act; and if he envisages proposals to bring any such body within the...

Written Answers — Local Authority Housing: Local Authority Housing (26 Jan 2005)

Richard Bruton: Question 1386: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he will report on the initiatives undertaken in the pilot areas in which local authorities are developing housing options for persons who have been in receipt of rent supplement for a sustained period from a health board; when it is intended to extend these options to the Dublin area; and the eligibility...

Written Answers — Price Inflation: Price Inflation (23 Nov 2004)

Richard Bruton: Question 220: To ask the Minister for Finance if he has issued guidelines to Ministers on the inflationary impact of increases in charges and prices. [30130/04]

Written Answers — Aer Rianta: Aer Rianta (23 Nov 2004)

Richard Bruton: Question 111: To ask the Minister for Finance if he is satisfied with the payments made to terminate the employment of the chief executive of Aer Rianta; and the papers which were presented to him in this respect before he issued his approval. [29879/04]

Written Answers — Child Care Services: Child Care Services (23 Nov 2004)

Richard Bruton: Question 192: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to the circumstances surrounding a psychiatric unit (details supplied) which was designated to provide services to children from south and west Dublin; if this facility has remained idle for the past seven months and now faces closure; if the reasons for this delay emanate from the failure...

Written Answers — Accident and Emergency Services: Accident and Emergency Services (23 Nov 2004)

Richard Bruton: Question 193: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to an increasing number of serious accidents caused by the use of a leisure facility, more commonly known as a bouncing castle; if, in her discussions with the accident and emergency departments of various acute hospitals and the ambulance and fire service, this matter has been raised; and...

Written Answers — Budget Submissions: Budget Submissions (23 Nov 2004)

Richard Bruton: Question 239: To ask the Minister for Finance if he has received a submission from a company (details supplied) regarding a staggered excise rate; and if he has assessed the feasibility of this proposal. [30220/04]

Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (23 Nov 2004)

Richard Bruton: Question 287: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the estimated cost of extending the free schemes from age 66 to age 65; and if such a move has been assessed as a policy option by him. [29679/04]

Written Answers — Alcohol Promotions: Alcohol Promotions (23 Nov 2004)

Richard Bruton: Question 379: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if the new provision planning drink promotions at concessionary prices is in force; if publicans are entitled to designate a certain night of the week on which drink will be available cheaper on their premises; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29813/04]

Written Answers — Compulsory Retirement: Compulsory Retirement (23 Nov 2004)

Richard Bruton: Question 414: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if, in view of the recent Government legislation to end the provision of compulsory retirement at the age of 65, she will make arrangements to permit school caretakers to work beyond this traditional retirement age; and if the request of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 5 to continue to work as caretaker until the age of 66 will...

Written Answers — Site Acquisitions: Site Acquisitions (23 Nov 2004)

Richard Bruton: Question 463: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if a site for a new primary school at Ballycullen in west Dublin has been acquired by her Department; the likely timeframe involved concerning a decision in respect of building this new school facility; the number of meetings he has held with South Dublin County Council and the Dublin schools planning committee as a means of...

Written Answers — Site Acquisitions: Site Acquisitions (23 Nov 2004)

Richard Bruton: Question 464: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if a site for a new primary school at Fortunestown in west Dublin has been acquired by her Department; the likely timeframe involved concerning a decision in respect of building this new school facility; the number of meetings her Department has held with South Dublin County Council and the Dublin schools planning committee as a...

Council of Europe Development Bank Bill 2004: Report and Final Stages. (23 Nov 2004)

Richard Bruton: I join Deputy Burton in pointing out the complete hypocrisy of solemnly committing at the UN to deliver 0.7% of GNP by 2007 and reneging on that in a year when the Exchequer's revenue intake has never been stronger. In the past 12 months the Government has succeeded in collecting the equivalent of €3,000 for every household in the country, over and above what it raised the year before. It...

Fiscal Policy. (23 Nov 2004)

Richard Bruton: Question 58: To ask the Minister for Finance if he is satisfied that the extra tax collected in the past seven years is delivering value for money through the spending increases they were used to finance. [30128/04]

Fiscal Policy. (23 Nov 2004)

Richard Bruton: The Minister admits that the tax take has doubled in the past seven years and that tax as a proportion of gross national product, GNP, has also increased. Do people ask him, in the same way as they ask me, what we get for all this extra money? Have we made an impact? For example, do they ask him about the trebling of spending in the health area which appears to have produced only a few...

Fiscal Policy. (23 Nov 2004)

Richard Bruton: There has been no commensurate improvement.