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Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Irish Water Expenditure (5 Nov 2013)

Kevin Humphreys: 708. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he or any officials in his Department sign off on an expenditure plan for Irish Water in 2013 and 2014; if his Department provides any oversight on this expenditure before it occurs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46919/13]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Irish Water Expenditure (5 Nov 2013)

Kevin Humphreys: 709. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the funding model for Irish Water in 2013 and in 2014; the sources of revenue thus far; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46920/13]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Irish Water Expenditure (5 Nov 2013)

Kevin Humphreys: 710. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the amount that has been spent by Irish Water on consultancy services in 2013; if he will indicate the companies or persons involved; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46921/13]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Irish Water Staff (5 Nov 2013)

Kevin Humphreys: 711. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the number of staff who have been directly hired by Irish Water to date in 2013; the number that have directly transferred from local authorities; if he will provide a breakdown of the number of staff earning €70,000 or more, €80,000 or more, €90,000 or more, the number paid €100,000 or more,...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Irish Water Staff (5 Nov 2013)

Kevin Humphreys: 712. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the number of staff in Irish Water that have been provided with a car; the level of management at which you receive a car; the type of car to which they entitled; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46923/13]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Irish Water Staff (5 Nov 2013)

Kevin Humphreys: 713. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the fringe benefits, other than salary, health insurance or other perks that staff in Irish Water received; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46924/13]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Irish Water Staff (5 Nov 2013)

Kevin Humphreys: 714. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the number of staff that have transferred to Irish Water from local authorities; the number from other public sector positions; of these, the number that now earn more than they did under their previous terms and conditions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46925/13]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Funding (5 Nov 2013)

Kevin Humphreys: 717. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide a breakdown by local authority in tabular form of the amount each received in 2011, 2012 and 2013 respectively from the local government fund general purpose grant; the other grants that are made from the local government fund to local authorities; the cumulative sums for 2013 of any other of these...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Provision (5 Nov 2013)

Kevin Humphreys: 1035. To ask the Minister for Health when the rehabilitation training will be provided in respect of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 6 as funding has been allocated but it is now over seven weeks since the beginning of September and they require administrative sigh off form the Health Service Executive; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45657/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Prescription Charges (5 Nov 2013)

Kevin Humphreys: 1199. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to address the anomaly whereby a person who qualifies for the long-term illness scheme, such as a diabetic, receives their medication without a prescription charge and if that person then qualifies for a medical card, they must start paying the prescription charge while a wealthier person on the long-term illness scheme would not be obliged to do...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Prescription Charges (5 Nov 2013)

Kevin Humphreys: 1245. To ask the Minister for Health if he will allow those with a medical card who also qualify under the long term illness scheme to be exempt from the prescription charge; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47046/13]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rail Services (5 Nov 2013)

Kevin Humphreys: 1262. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if defibrillators are available on the trains of Irish Rail; if there are any plans to provide same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45888/13]

Topical Issue Debate: Flood Risk Insurance Cover (23 Oct 2013)

Kevin Humphreys: I will be brief. I am grateful to the Chair for allowing me to raise this Topical Issue. I recognise the work that the Minister of State, Deputy Brian Hayes, has done on this issue over some time. While I intend to focus on a local example from Dublin South-East, I emphasise that this is a national issue. In 2007, some €13 million was spent on flood defences along the River Dodder...

Topical Issue Debate: Flood Risk Insurance Cover (23 Oct 2013)

Kevin Humphreys: I thank the Minister of State for his reply. I know that this is not his area. What I hear in the response is that the insurance industry is talking the talk but delivering very little. There is nothing really new in the reply from the industry. Insurance Ireland came before the Oireachtas Joint Committee on the Environment Community and Local Government where it cited the figure of "only...

Local Government Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (23 Oct 2013)

Kevin Humphreys: I am, ten minutes each.

Local Government Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (23 Oct 2013)

Kevin Humphreys: I welcome the move to reform local government in Ireland. It is long overdue. I would have gone much further but it is a start. The reorganisation that is taking place and the streamlining into municipal districts will prove to be a success. There is some fear of that but when we see the way local area committees work in urban areas, I believe these municipal districts in local town areas...

Other Questions: Arts Funding (22 Oct 2013)

Kevin Humphreys: As already stated, arts groups play an important role in Irish society in terms of them being ambassadors for Ireland at home and abroad. I know from my interaction with arts groups that they have done more with less over the past number of years. Planning and budgetary matters require certainty. Currently, arts groups can only plan from year to year. Will the Minister consider the...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Mortgages (22 Oct 2013)

Kevin Humphreys: 357. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide a breakdown by housing body of local authority mortgages issued, the number in arrears, the number in arrears of more than 90 days, more than 180 days, and over a year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44454/13]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Mortgages (22 Oct 2013)

Kevin Humphreys: 358. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide a breakdown by local authority housing body of the total number of mortgages currently outstanding under the affordable housing scheme, and of those mortgages, the total number that are in arrears in each local authority, the number in arrears of over 90 days, over 180 days, and over a year; and if he...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Shared Ownership Scheme (22 Oct 2013)

Kevin Humphreys: 359. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide a breakdown by local authority housing body of the outstanding number of persons in the shared ownership scheme in each local authority; the number in that scheme that are in arrears and the total number of loans in arrears; the number in arrears of more than 90 days, more than 180 days, and over a...