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Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Departmental Expenditure (10 Dec 2014)

Lucinda Creighton: 9. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if her Department has conducted a cost analysis of the additional 20 gardaí seconded to her Department to tackle social welfare fraud; the projected benefit to the Exchequer of the additional resources; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [47008/14]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Employment Support Services (10 Dec 2014)

Lucinda Creighton: 25. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide an update in respect of her Department's plans to require jobseekers to upload a copy of their CV to continue receiving social welfare payments; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [47009/14]

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Appointments to State Boards (9 Dec 2014)

Lucinda Creighton: 105. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht in view of the controversy surrounding appointments to State boards if she will publish the responses received from the national cultural institutions regarding her request for them to draw up a required skillsets for persons that would sit on their boards; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46856/14]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Cycling Facilities Funding (9 Dec 2014)

Lucinda Creighton: 468. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason he did not adhere to the independent assessment team's recommendations for the funding of greenways; the objective criteria he used in choosing the projects which received funding; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46741/14]

Water Services Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) (5 Dec 2014)

Lucinda Creighton: It is worth recalling as we debate this legislation the amount of taxpayers’ money spent on Irish Water. It borrowed €250 million from the National Pensions Reserve Fund in 2013; collected a further €240 million from the proceeds of property tax, which of course was never originally intended to go to Irish Water, in 2014; took €490 million from the local...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Cycling Facilities Provision (4 Dec 2014)

Lucinda Creighton: 14. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to work with Dublin City Council to expand the Dublin bike scheme into areas of Dublin 4 and Dublin 8; his views that there has been a delay in expansion of the scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46332/14]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Service Obligation Services (4 Dec 2014)

Lucinda Creighton: 33. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport in view of his announcement to extend the public service obligation contracts for flights to airports in counties Donegal and Kerry from Dublin, if he will now revisit previously discontinued PSO agreements for airports in counties Galway, Sligo and Waterford; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46333/14]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (3 Dec 2014)

Lucinda Creighton: 12. To ask the Minister for Finance the way he envisages Ireland will compete with the UK in terms of small businesses investment, in view of the success of the enterprise management incentive scheme in the UK; if he sees this scheme as a threat to investment in Irish small and medium enterprises; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43993/14]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Reliefs Availability (3 Dec 2014)

Lucinda Creighton: 20. To ask the Minister for Finance the length of time it will take to receive approval from the European Commission to make the amendments to the employment and investment incentive which have been announced in budget 2015; if the delay in receiving approval from the Commission for the scheme introduced last year, section 45 of the Finance (No. 2) Bill 2013, is a cause for concern in this...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Irish Water Consultative Group (2 Dec 2014)

Lucinda Creighton: 93. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide an update on the composition, the remit and the outcomes of the Irish Water consultative group; the person responsible for appointing members of the group; if ministerial consent was required to make the appointments; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40941/14]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Departmental Meetings (2 Dec 2014)

Lucinda Creighton: 132. To ask the Taoiseach if he will provide in tabular form the dates of meetings of the Department's management advisory committee in 2011, 2012, 2013 and to date in 2014; the civil servants who were present at each of these meetings; if he or a Minister of State was present at each of these meetings; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45828/14]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Irish Water Administration (2 Dec 2014)

Lucinda Creighton: 504. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his views on the bonus system which has been introduced in Irish Water; the measures he will take to remove the bonus culture from Irish Water; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45955/14]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Housing Issues (2 Dec 2014)

Lucinda Creighton: 507. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government in view of the change in Housing (Standards for Rented Houses) Regulations 2008 relating to bed-sits, the number of residents that are living in bed-sits that do not conform with the new regulations; his plans to address this while ensuring that the homelessness crisis is not further exacerbated; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Reports (27 Nov 2014)

Lucinda Creighton: 50. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 215 of 6 November 2014, if she will put on the record of Dáil Éireann the findings and recommendations of the report of a value for money review of small primary schools; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45193/14]

Finance Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (26 Nov 2014)

Lucinda Creighton: Yes. Vótáil.

Finance Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (26 Nov 2014)

Lucinda Creighton: I thank the Minister of State for his reply. Unfortunately, I cannot say I am satisfied with it. I appreciate that tax evasion takes place. There is tax evasion in every walk of life in Ireland and across the globe. We are all well aware of that and we all want to eliminate tax evasion. However, the provision set out in the Bill is a blunt instrument. It is too broad, it is not...

Finance Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (26 Nov 2014)

Lucinda Creighton: I want to make this point because it is very important. I will be brief. The property to which I refer has been a family home for three generations. As a result of the hugely unfair and anti-urban property tax being introduced by the Government at the time, however, the man by whom I was approached was going to be obliged to sell it. He had already paid a substantial whack of inheritance...

Finance Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (26 Nov 2014)

Lucinda Creighton: The Government is doing nothing to address that matter. What is proposed here is a family tax. It has nothing to do with establishing shrines to people's parents. What we are discussing here are the homes in which people have lived all their lives and out of which they are being forced as a result of the unfair policies being introduced by this Government.

Finance Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (26 Nov 2014)

Lucinda Creighton: I move amendment No. 45:In page 99, lines 4 to 9, to delete all words from and including "who" in line 4 down to and including "herself," in line 9.I am pleased to have an opportunity to speak on this amendment as I did not have a chance to do so on Committee Stage. I am very concerned about the Government's plans to essentially introduce a new, or an expanded, tax on inheritance. Put...

Finance Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (26 Nov 2014)

Lucinda Creighton: I do not have a difficulty with this amendment in principle because I do not believe that additional transparency can in any way cause a difficulty. In fact the greater level of transparency we have for Members of the Oireachtas and for the public, the greater confidence can be in how the scheme works. I support the scheme. The idea of the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection...