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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Disability Allowance Applications (23 Oct 2018)

Willie Penrose: 643. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the position in relation to an application by a person (details supplied) for a disability allowance; if same will be expedited; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43631/18]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: EU Directive on Unfair Trading Practices: Discussion (16 Oct 2018)

Willie Penrose: I thank Ms Goggin and her colleagues for their attendance. This is an important matter that has been addressed by this committee and the former Joint Committee on Enterprise, Trade and Innovation over many years. I am very heartened to hear Ms Goggin say that there should be a sectoral regulator because that was recommended in 2010 by the enterprise committee of which I was Chairman but...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: EU Directive on Unfair Trading Practices: Discussion (16 Oct 2018)

Willie Penrose: I thank the delegations for their informative presentations. I am grateful for the work they put into them. I was not shocked by what the CCPC said earlier. It is something that I knew was happening because its role is primarily to protect consumers. It was just an add-on to the legislation to subsume the function of a sectoral regulator in a half-hearted way. The CCPC was not given...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: EU Directive on Unfair Trading Practices: Discussion (16 Oct 2018)

Willie Penrose: A dead duck does not fly.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: EU Directive on Unfair Trading Practices: Discussion (16 Oct 2018)

Willie Penrose: It is not a perception but a reality.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: EU Directive on Unfair Trading Practices: Discussion (16 Oct 2018)

Willie Penrose: They are in place but the world is in place. One might still be doing nothing with it.

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Scheme Payments (16 Oct 2018)

Willie Penrose: 530. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the steps he will take to ensure a farmer (details supplied) who has been subject to numerous on-farm inspections such as cross compliance, Bord Bia inspections, remote slurry inspections and so on will have payments due for 2018 issued without further delay; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42363/18]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Working Holiday Visas (4 Oct 2018)

Willie Penrose: 111. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the way in which a horse trainer working in the agriculture industry can obtain an employment visa for a Brazilian national who has a holiday visa to work as an assistant trainer to them here; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40563/18]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (4 Oct 2018)

Willie Penrose: 182. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if, in the context of a recently published report for an organisation (details supplied) on the economic and societal importance of the Irish suckler beef sector, he will take steps to introduce a targeted payment of €200 per suckler cow in order to sustain this important and critical sector for the Irish rural agri-economy;...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Areas of Natural Constraint Scheme Appeals (4 Oct 2018)

Willie Penrose: 183. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason a reduction was made in the entitlements of a person (details supplied) under the areas of natural constraint 2018 payment; if same will be reviewed and payments restored until the said appeal is determined; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40561/18]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Scheme Appeals (4 Oct 2018)

Willie Penrose: 184. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when an appeal by a person (details supplied) against imposed penalties will be determined; if the person will be allowed an oral hearing in respect of this appeal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40562/18]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Transfer of Entitlements (3 Oct 2018)

Willie Penrose: 225. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the steps that will be taken to ensure that the process of a person (details supplied) leasing entitlements to another party, which appears to be in order in respect of both the lessor and lessee, will be processed without delay; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40123/18]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: GLAS Issues (3 Oct 2018)

Willie Penrose: 244. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the steps he will take to examine the issues raised in correspondence with a view to allowing a person (details supplied) to retire from farming without penalty; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40329/18]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (2 Oct 2018)

Willie Penrose: 163. To ask the Minister for Finance if steps will be taken on terms of taxation changes in order to ensure farmers will not be penalised when they commit to restoring the stock values over the next number of years (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39994/18]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (2 Oct 2018)

Willie Penrose: 254. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the application for a new school (details supplied); if it has now reached the stage of appointment of a preferred bidder; if in this context when construction will commence; the anticipated finalising date thereof; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39996/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disease Management (2 Oct 2018)

Willie Penrose: 444. To ask the Minister for Health if, in the context of Lyme disease and the importance of promoting awareness of same at primary care level, the appointment of a general practitioner champion for Lyme disease will be examined in order that clinical diagnosis can be made early and effectively and ensure general practitioners and consultants recognise the results from tests that have been...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Social Welfare Benefits Payments (2 Oct 2018)

Willie Penrose: 600. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if appropriate provision in the sum of €257 million has been made in order to ensure that the Christmas bonus is paid out to the 1.2 million long-term social welfare recipients entitled to same; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39782/18]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces Remuneration (27 Sep 2018)

Willie Penrose: 55. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the status of the review into pay and allowances for members of the Permanent Defence Forces; if allowances which were previously paid will be fully restored; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39279/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Invalidity Pension Eligibility (27 Sep 2018)

Willie Penrose: 229. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the class or rate of contributions that must be paid by a person seeking an invalidity pension; if voluntary contributions paid by a person are reckonable for invalidity pension purposes; the nature of contributions paid by a person (details supplied) for the past ten years; and if she will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Disability Allowance Applications (27 Sep 2018)

Willie Penrose: 230. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the position on an application for disability allowance by a person (details supplied) for the past ten years; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39280/18]