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Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Contracts Data (21 Oct 2014)

Mick Wallace: 256. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the public contracts that have been awarded to a company (details supplied) or subsidiaries of the company in the lifetime of this Government. [39987/14]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Contracts Data (21 Oct 2014)

Mick Wallace: 257. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the public contracts that have been awarded to companies (details supplied) or subsidiaries of companies. [39988/14]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Contracts Data (21 Oct 2014)

Mick Wallace: 258. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of Government contracts that were awarded to companies in County Wexford last year; and the number of Government contracts that were awarded to companies in County Wexford in the lifetime of this Government. [39989/14]

Leaders' Questions (16 Oct 2014)

Mick Wallace: The private sector is as problematic as the social sector. There is no rental security for people. We have just seen the Central Bank come up with new mortgage rules - three and a half times one's wages and a 20% deposit. We can see that three and a half times one's wages is a good measure to ensure that people can repay, but what does the 20% deposit mean? How many of our children will...

Leaders' Questions (16 Oct 2014)

Mick Wallace: My question is to the Tánaiste.

Leaders' Questions (16 Oct 2014)

Mick Wallace: Is the Tánaiste prepared to fight for a site tax and is she prepared to act on rent control? Only today, Fr. McVerry is saying that the fact that we have not done anything about rent control is driving people into homelessness. The Government has still not done anything about it.

Leaders' Questions (16 Oct 2014)

Mick Wallace: As the Tánaiste mentioned the issue of the quality of the homes that are to be built, I note that deregulation happened in 1990. The measures introduced by Phil Hogan as Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government to deal with the problems we have seen in construction will do nothing. The Government has still not gone back to inspections. Local authorities inspect...

Leaders' Questions (16 Oct 2014)

Mick Wallace: I have said it before. They have sold apartments for €100,000 that could not be built for €200,000. Why the Government did not buy them itself, I do not know. NAMA has behaved like a secret organisation. It is not open to freedom of information and is staffed by bankers and so-called "property experts" who were recruited from the agencies that were bailed out by NAMA itself....

Leaders' Questions (16 Oct 2014)

Mick Wallace: The Tánaiste expressed horror about water going through lead pipes. I assure her that when all the water meters are in place, most of those lead pipes will still be there.

Leaders' Questions (16 Oct 2014)

Mick Wallace: I want to discuss housing, which is an incredibly big problem for this country in many ways. Poor people live in poor areas. Poor housing policy intensifies social and economic disadvantage. We have problems with planning, which has been market- and developer-led for a long time. There is a shadow planning system whereby the big players observe a different set of rules. There is a...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Trade Agreements (16 Oct 2014)

Mick Wallace: 21. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation further to Parliamentary Question No. 76 of 8 October 2014, if he has made any commitments or plans to make any commitments; and, if so, if he will provide the services and activities that could possibly be provided by foreign companies as a result of the TISA negotiations. [39299/14]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Trade Agreements (16 Oct 2014)

Mick Wallace: 33. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will address the threat to Irish jobs posed by the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership negotiations currently under way between the EU and the US (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39300/14]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Respite Care Grant Payments (16 Oct 2014)

Mick Wallace: 42. To ask the Minister for Social Protection in view of the €1.5 billion which the work of carers saves the Exchequer each year, and in view of the return to stability in the economy, her plans to restore the 19% cut to the respite carer's grant; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39520/14]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Domiciliary Care Allowance Eligibility (16 Oct 2014)

Mick Wallace: 43. To ask the Minister for Social Protection her views on whether a refusal rate of 60% on applications made for the domiciliary care allowance is too high; the reason the refusal rate is so high; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39521/14]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Domiciliary Care Allowance Eligibility (16 Oct 2014)

Mick Wallace: 44. To ask the Minister for Social Protection in view of the fact that most persons receiving it have a lifelong illness or disability, the reason the awarding of the domiciliary care allowance payment is subject to regular and rigorous review; her views on whether this process places significant additional pressure on families already under strain; and if she will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Disability Support Services (16 Oct 2014)

Mick Wallace: 45. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she shares the views of the Ombudsman for Children, that services and welfare entitlements for persons with disabilities should be ring-fenced and protected by future Government regardless of the economic climate; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39523/14]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Water Charges Exemptions (16 Oct 2014)

Mick Wallace: 59. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on a full exemption to the property tax for households that care full-time for one or more disabled persons, in view of the fact that such households spend far more time in the home than the general population, such households double as workplaces, and services and payments to persons with disabilities have already been subject to numerous cuts,...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Eligibility (16 Oct 2014)

Mick Wallace: 153. To ask the Minister for Health if she shares views with a disability action group (details supplied) that medical cards should not be means tested, that they should be awarded solely on the basis of need alone; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39524/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Reviews (16 Oct 2014)

Mick Wallace: 154. To ask the Minister for Health her views that the practice of reviewing medical cards in the case of lifelong illness or disability, in order to avoid situations whereby applicants are asked whether they still suffer from what they have already told the Department is a lifelong condition, such as Down's syndrome, should cease; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39525/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Support Services Provision (16 Oct 2014)

Mick Wallace: 155. To ask the Minister for Health the number of adults and children with intellectual, physical and sensory disabilities or autism who are on waiting lists for speech and language therapy, occupational therapy, physiotherapy and psychological services in County Wexford; the average length of time a person may expect to wait for such services; and her views that it is acceptable that long...