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Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: IDA Ireland Site Visits (26 Jun 2018)

Willie Penrose: 282. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of site visits undertaken by chairs of Enterprise Ireland and the IDA to counties Westmeath and Longford from 1 July 2017 to date in 2018; if visits or introductions to the facilities available at a location (details supplied) have taken place in the same period; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27682/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products Reimbursement (21 Jun 2018)

Willie Penrose: 195. To ask the Minister for Health the steps he will take to engage with an organisation (details supplied) and the pharmaceutical industry to ensure that patients with MS have faster access to life changing medicines and to new and effective treatments through a fair and effective system; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27287/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Vacant Properties (20 Jun 2018)

Willie Penrose: 36. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the work his Department has carried out to allow the change of use of vacant commercial properties in cities, towns and villages including vacant or underutilised areas over ground floor premises into residential units as outlined in point 6 of the Action Plan for Rural Development; and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Brexit Issues (19 Jun 2018)

Willie Penrose: 55. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of the work under way in her Department to prepare for a hard Brexit. [26566/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Child Benefit Reform (19 Jun 2018)

Willie Penrose: 59. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans for reforms to child benefit; her further plans to introduce means testing; her plans to increase it in budget 2019; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26562/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Defined Benefit Pension Schemes (19 Jun 2018)

Willie Penrose: 77. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of her plans to protect defined benefit pension schemes; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26564/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Advertising Campaigns (19 Jun 2018)

Willie Penrose: 73. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the projected cost of the campaign on false self-employment; the number of cases that had been ongoing in advance of the launch of the campaign; the way in which that number compared to 2017; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26565/18]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Community Banking (14 Jun 2018)

Willie Penrose: 31. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if he will report on the outcome of the public banking investigation; when it will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25721/18]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations Commission (14 Jun 2018)

Willie Penrose: 96. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 227 of 24 April 2018, the steps he will take to address the points raised in correspondence (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26138/18]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Community Banking (14 Jun 2018)

Willie Penrose: 213. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development when the public banking report will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24821/18]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Motor Insurance Claims (12 Jun 2018)

Willie Penrose: 227. To ask the Minister for Finance when the legislation which will permit the compensation of victims arising from road traffic accidents which involved vehicles which were insured with a company (details supplied) will be brought before Dáil Éireann; if same can be expedited in the context that such accident victims to date are only receiving 65% of their due compensation; and if...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Legislative Programme (12 Jun 2018)

Willie Penrose: 275. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform when legislation which will permit persons in the public service that have reached retirement age to continue working and accrue benefits will be brought before Dáil Éireann; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24991/18]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation Provision (12 Jun 2018)

Willie Penrose: 424. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if consequent to the carrying out of the M4-N4 corridor study pertaining to the provision of secondary school accommodation, if a further evaluation of the findings have been made in the interim; if the provision of secondary school accommodation for Kinnegad will be considered due to significant population increases; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Control of Horses (12 Jun 2018)

Willie Penrose: 982. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if prosecutions have been taken by local authorities or his Department in regard to abandoned or neglected equines across the country; the follow-up steps taken to ensure that owners of these animals are held legally responsible for same rather than only having animal seized and impounded; the level of resources available to...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Post Office Network (31 May 2018)

Willie Penrose: 37. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the work his Department has carried out with An Post regarding the future of the rural post office network. [18911/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff Remuneration (29 May 2018)

Willie Penrose: 108. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to provide for pay restoration for persons working for publicly funded organisations that took pay cuts during the economic crisis; his views on whether staff should have their salaries restored on a parallel basis to civil servants; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21711/18]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Community Employment Schemes Supervisors (29 May 2018)

Willie Penrose: 215. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the discussions which have taken place since the Dáil Éireann motion to provide community employment supervisors and assisted community employment scheme supervisors with pension provision; the plans being formulated with a view to dealing with this issue, which has gone on for over a decade; if the high level forum has met...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Film Industry Development (24 May 2018)

Willie Penrose: 40. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the conditions that surrounded the sale of the State's stake in a studio (details supplied); the way in which this fits into the strategy in respect of securing Ireland as an attractive location for film production into the future; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20006/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Provision (24 May 2018)

Willie Penrose: 140. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that children in County Westmeath are waiting up to 12 months to access the community ophthalmic physician, COP; the steps he will take to permit these cases to be dealt with by optometrists which will enable children with more severe problems to be seen sooner and more frequently by the COP; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Screening Programmes (24 May 2018)

Willie Penrose: 141. To ask the Minister for Health the steps he will take to ensure that sixth class visual screening which has been abolished by the HSE in counties Longford and Westmeath is replaced by an alternative; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22961/18]