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Written Answers — Pension Provisions: Pension Provisions (14 Jun 2005)

Dan Boyle: Question 454: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the reason, with a database of non-contributory pensioners who number just over 100,000, relevant pensioners are not individually informed of the policy of claw-back of moneys claimed by his Department on the estates of non-contributory pensioners considering that the declaration they sign in their application merely refers to...

Written Answers — Pension Provisions: Pension Provisions (14 Jun 2005)

Dan Boyle: Question 455: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs, further to replies to parliamentary questions from a number of Members of Dáil Eireann over the past six months (details supplied), the reason there has been so much secrecy regarding the inclusion of pension payments in the assessment of means. [19959/05]

Written Answers — Pension Provisions: Pension Provisions (14 Jun 2005)

Dan Boyle: Question 456: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs , further to an internal memo of 14 February 2005 in which his Department accepts that the practice of claw-back of moneys claimed on the estates of non-contributory pensioners is not transparent, the reason it could not be seen that pensioners would not know of it. [19960/05]

Written Answers — Pension Provisions: Pension Provisions (14 Jun 2005)

Dan Boyle: Question 457: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the way in which the imposition of the penalties similar to that on a person who acquires a large windfall from a rich relative, or sells property or land, and is clearly understood by anyone as creating a change of means, is justified, in the circumstances of a lack of knowledge of his Department's policy. [20002/05]

Written Answers — Pension Provisions: Pension Provisions (14 Jun 2005)

Dan Boyle: Question 458: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs his views on those expressed by the Ombudsman in 1997 that ignoring claimants' lack of awareness of the law in complex matters is not a reasonable position to adopt; the way in which the penalty imposed is justified, especially on vulnerable persons, many of whom may have literacy problems, or do not have access to information...

Written Answers — Pension Provisions: Pension Provisions (14 Jun 2005)

Dan Boyle: Question 459: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs his views on whether it would be prudent that the details of types of savings (details supplied) be collected and recorded. [20004/05]

Written Answers — Pension Provisions: Pension Provisions (14 Jun 2005)

Dan Boyle: Question 460: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs his views on whether a declaration of source of income by a pensioner or his or her legal representative would go a long way to determining the source of assets. [20005/05]

Written Answers — Pension Provisions: Pension Provisions (14 Jun 2005)

Dan Boyle: Question 461: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the reason no flexibility exists in interpreting the individual local circumstances of a particular case (details supplied); his views on whether, if some discretion existed in the making of calculations, this would go a long way in alleviating the core issue of a claw-back policy. [20006/05]

Written Answers — Pension Provisions: Pension Provisions (14 Jun 2005)

Dan Boyle: Question 462: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if, in regard to a specified case that has led to the current discussion of the claw-back policy, it is accepted that the executor of the will of the estate of the pensioner in question demonstrated very clearly to his Department that the deceased saved on average 42% of their pension over 26 years and that the regular bank...

Written Answers — Pension Provisions: Pension Provisions (14 Jun 2005)

Dan Boyle: Question 463: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs his views on whether it was not clear from a specified case that the deceased pensioner who was saving the pension to provide for himself in a private nursing home, if he could not obtain a bed in an appropriate home, was leaving himself open to having his pension reduced or an amount clawed back from his will after his death....

Written Answers — Pension Provisions: Pension Provisions (14 Jun 2005)

Dan Boyle: Question 464: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if it is proposed to exempt the lump sum payments to non-contributory pensioners who had their pension withheld by the health boards, if a pensioner may deposit this money at different times in different accounts; and the way in which it is possible to determine the source of those savings in assessing means under the proposed...

Written Answers — Pension Provisions: Pension Provisions (14 Jun 2005)

Dan Boyle: Question 465: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the reason for the discrimination in a case of pensioner A and pensioner B, where A is in a nursing home and gets €29,000 in back payments from the HSE which payment will be exempted by his Department from means testing, whereas B lives at home and has been saving a pension over many years accumulating €29,000, which under...

Written Answers — Citizenship Applications: Citizenship Applications (14 Jun 2005)

Dan Boyle: Question 642: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the reason behind the delay of 14 months in reaching decisions on the resident status of foreign nationals married to Irish citizens. [19591/05]

Written Answers — Social and Affordable Housing: Social and Affordable Housing (14 Jun 2005)

Dan Boyle: Question 876: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if his Department conducts any analysis of local authority housing waiting lists; if his attention has been drawn to the longest length of time an individual or family have been placed on such a list; and if his Department has any mechanism with which to intervene should people be on such lists for excessive...

Written Answers — Planning Issues: Planning Issues (14 Jun 2005)

Dan Boyle: Question 877: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he will meet with persons (details supplied) in County Offaly who have been in regular correspondence with his office; and if so, when such a meeting will be possible. [19574/05]

Written Answers — Hazardous Substances: Hazardous Substances (14 Jun 2005)

Dan Boyle: Question 878: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he will name the 78 dangerous substances mentioned in the EPA report issued in the 6 April 2001 in relation to item 24 of the European Court of Justice judgement C-282/02; the locations of where these dangerous substances were located within the State; and if a copy of the report will be made available....

Written Answers — EU Directives: EU Directives (14 Jun 2005)

Dan Boyle: Question 879: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if the directive 2004/35/EC of 21 April 2004 on environmental liability with regard to the prevention and remedying of environmental damage has been transposed into national law as yet; if the environmental damage such as that caused at a company (details supplied) in Offaly falls within the remit of this...

Written Answers — Water Pollution: Water Pollution (14 Jun 2005)

Dan Boyle: Question 880: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the costs expended by Ireland in defending a case in the Courts of Justice in view of the recent case taken against Ireland C-282/02, which Ireland lost on 2 June 2005; the costs expended by the European Court of Justice, that Ireland has been ordered to pay; the individual payments awarded to Ireland's legal...

Written Answers — Waste Disposal: Waste Disposal (14 Jun 2005)

Dan Boyle: Question 887: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the capital expenditure which has been expended by his Department on waste disposal technologiesother than landfill or incineration since 1997; and the amount expended on each technology. [20026/05]

Civil Service Regulation (Amendment) Bill 2004: Report Stage. (14 Jun 2005)

Dan Boyle: I also support the amendments. If we are to believe media reports, which are, unfortunately, the most reliable source of information about this increasingly opaque Government, not only is one of the Minister of State's senior party colleagues in Cabinet having difficulties introducing the civilising influence of café bars but the larger party in the coalition is also reluctant to accept his...