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Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits Expenditure (17 May 2016)

Thomas Pringle: 549. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the cost of fully restoring the Christmas bonus to recipients of the State pension; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10341/16]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits Expenditure (17 May 2016)

Thomas Pringle: 547. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the cost of restoring the telephone allowance to €9.50 per month; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10339/16]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits Expenditure (17 May 2016)

Thomas Pringle: 548. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the cost of restoring the telephone allowance to its original value of €22.50 per month; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10340/16]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: State Pension (Contributory) Eligibility (17 May 2016)

Thomas Pringle: 550. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the savings accrued by changing the PRSI contribution eligibility criteria for the State pension in September 2012; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10342/16]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Procurement Regulations (17 May 2016)

Thomas Pringle: 597. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his plans to increase the transparency and clarity of the public procurement regime, which is primarily determined on a lowest cost basis with no effective remedy process for disputes or appeals; if he will ensure that international best practice is applied to public procurement processes to prevent discrimination against small Irish...

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Fish Imports (17 May 2016)

Thomas Pringle: 613. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht to petition at European Union level to have the American lobster recognised as a foreign species, as Sweden has already done in March 2016, which would prohibit the import of live lobsters from the United States of America and Canada (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10087/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mother and Baby Homes Records (17 May 2016)

Thomas Pringle: 625. To ask the Minister for Health how persons can access records of local authorities prior to the introduction of the health boards in relation to births that took place in mother and baby homes, particularly in Donegal County Council and at Bessborough House in County Cork; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9420/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Commencement of Legislation (17 May 2016)

Thomas Pringle: 627. To ask the Minister for Health when he will commence relevant sections of the Children and Family Relationships Act 2015 to enable the non-biological parents of children conceived in assisted human reproduction to be legally recognised as parents; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10026/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Reform (17 May 2016)

Thomas Pringle: 836. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to replace the Health Service Executive with a health commission and to provide an expanded role for private health companies in the public health system; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10294/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services Funding (17 May 2016)

Thomas Pringle: 837. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to preserve the mental health budget as part of the A Vision for Change strategy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10295/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Positive Ageing Strategy Implementation (17 May 2016)

Thomas Pringle: 838. To ask the Minister for Health to outline an implementation plan and timeline for the national positive ageing strategy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10296/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Care Packages Provision (17 May 2016)

Thomas Pringle: 839. To ask the Minister for Health to enact legislation setting out the statutory right to home care to recognise the vital role of primary care and the right to that care for elderly persons in particular; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10297/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service (17 May 2016)

Thomas Pringle: 840. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to unify the National Ambulance Service with fire stations as advocated by the Chief Fire Officers Association in response to the recently published report commissioned by the Health Service Executive which indicated that additional staff and resources allocated to the National Ambulance Service would not enable it to meet additional targets of...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Support Services Provision (17 May 2016)

Thomas Pringle: 841. To ask the Minister for Health why some of the nurses allocated to provide home respite care are on temporary contracts, given that Our Children's Voice was promised 9.5 permanent nurses; why some of the nurses are not for respite care but for direct care, which means families are restricted as to when and how long they can leave, if they can leave the home at all while the nurses are...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Prescriptions Charges (17 May 2016)

Thomas Pringle: 852. To ask the Minister for Health the cost of abolishing prescription charges; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10344/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Dementia Strategy (17 May 2016)

Thomas Pringle: 850. To ask the Minister for Health to implement the National Dementia Strategy; to provide ring-fenced funding for dementia and develop a second strategy to ensure persons with dementia are supported to live well in the community; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10336/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Drugs Payment Scheme (17 May 2016)

Thomas Pringle: 851. To ask the Minister for Health the cost of reducing the drugs payment scheme threshold to €100 per month; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10343/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Prescriptions Charges (17 May 2016)

Thomas Pringle: 853. To ask the Minister for Health the cost of capping prescription charges at €20 per month; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10345/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Help Service Data (17 May 2016)

Thomas Pringle: 854. To ask the Minister for Health the cost of increasing the number of home help hours by 10% in 2016; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10346/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Help Service Data (17 May 2016)

Thomas Pringle: 858. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons in hospital services waiting for home help; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10350/16]