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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pension (Non-Contributory) (17 Jan 2018)

John Brady: 28. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason fraud and error surveys are being carried out with older persons in receipt of the non-contributory State pension; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [2060/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pensions Reform (17 Jan 2018)

John Brady: 30. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to examine the pension anomaly which exists in which persons aged 65 years of age are being put on jobseeker's payments at retirement; her further plans for when the pension age increases to 67 years of age in this regard; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [2062/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Child Maintenance Payments (17 Jan 2018)

John Brady: 48. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to establish a child maintenance service such as in Northern Ireland to support and assist lone parents in seeking child maintenance payments; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [2058/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services Provision (17 Jan 2018)

John Brady: 121. To ask the Minister for Health if funding will be allocated for the delivery of a general practitioner out-of-hours service for north County Wicklow in the HSE service plan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2242/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cancer Services Funding (17 Jan 2018)

John Brady: 122. To ask the Minister for Health if funding will be allocated to an organisation (details supplied) in County Wicklow in the HSE service plan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2243/18]

Hospital Trolley Crisis: Motion [Private Members] (16 Jan 2018)

John Brady: Maureen is 76 years old and has small cell lung cancer. On 30 December last, she started to vomit blood. Unable to have a palliative care team provided until 2 January, her daughter tried to contact the general practitioner out-of-hours service. The family was left waiting for 16 hours because of the Minister's failure to put in place a dedicated GP out-of-hours service. On 4 January,...

Order of Business (16 Jan 2018)

John Brady: Yesterday we received the news that Carillion, the company that had won the tender to construct, maintain and manage six new schools in the State, had gone into voluntary liquidation. This has left huge fear in the schools among the teachers, principals, parents and children. Two of the schools - Coláiste Ráithín and St. Philomena's - happen to be located in my constituency....

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: State Pensions (16 Jan 2018)

John Brady: 264. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the person or body that was consulted with during the drafting of the interim arrangements put in place until such time as legislation is passed to increase the mandatory retirement age for public service employees; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55097/17]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: State Pensions (16 Jan 2018)

John Brady: 265. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if the interim arrangements in place until such time as legislation is passed to increase the mandatory retirement age for public service employees will apply to those aged 66 years of age who were facilitated by their employer at 65 years of age to remain at work and now wish to remain at work beyond pension age; and if he will make...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: State Pensions (16 Jan 2018)

John Brady: 266. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the reason part of the interim arrangements put in place until such time as legislation is passed to increase the mandatory retirement age for public service employees involve a pay reduction for the employee when that employee will remain in the same role; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55099/17]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: State Pensions (16 Jan 2018)

John Brady: 267. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the reason part of the interim arrangements put in place until such time as legislation is passed to increase the mandatory retirement age for public service employees involve the employee being able to accrue pension contributions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55100/17]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: State Pensions (16 Jan 2018)

John Brady: 268. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if particular conditions will be attached to the legislation which will increase the mandatory retirement age from 65 to 70 years of age for public service employees; if these conditions will be similar to the interim arrangements put in place; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55101/17]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: State Pensions (16 Jan 2018)

John Brady: 269. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his plans to introduce legislation to increase the mandatory retirement age from 65 to 70 years of age for public service employees; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55102/17]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Sale of State Assets (16 Jan 2018)

John Brady: 629. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the status of the sale of studios (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [55000/17]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Poverty Impact Assessment (16 Jan 2018)

John Brady: 1564. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the main areas of policy making and policy programmes for which the three poverty measures contained in the CSO's SILC are used, that is, the at risk of poverty rate, deprivation rate and consistent poverty rate; and the main areas of policy making and policy. [54433/17]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pension (Contributory) Eligibility (16 Jan 2018)

John Brady: 1596. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if those in receipt of a carer's allowance are eligible for a contributory State pension; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [55092/17]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Back to Education Allowance Eligibility (16 Jan 2018)

John Brady: 1597. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a person that is required to carry out a paid internship for a certain period of time over the academic year as part of their college course could lose their back to education allowance; if this income will mean that the back to education allowance and rent supplement would be reviewed; and if she will make a statement...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Enterprise Ireland Properties (16 Jan 2018)

John Brady: 1915. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the status of the sale of studios (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [54999/17]

Questions on Promised Legislation (14 Dec 2017)

John Brady: I thank the Leas-Cheann Comhairle for his fairness and wish him and everyone else a happy Christmas. Last week, the Government announced that it was bringing forward plans to increase the retirement age from 65 to 70 for public service workers. It is a small step in the right direction but it does not go far enough. The Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform brought forward interim...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Insurance Payments (14 Dec 2017)

John Brady: 688. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if persons in receipt of farm assist payments are eligible to pay PRSI; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [53511/17]