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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Disability Allowance Applications (14 Dec 2017)

Willie Penrose: 703. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of an application for a disability allowance by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [54015/17]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development: National Planning Framework: Discussion (13 Dec 2017)

Willie Penrose: I have been an unashamed advocate for rural Ireland for the past 25 years or so as I live in a very rural area. For any plan to be successful, the principal actors and stakeholders must first escape capture by the heavy hand of the supervisory Departments. Nothing will be achieved if one is constrained by a top-down Department view. However, I do not see an escape here because the plan...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Charges (13 Dec 2017)

Willie Penrose: 145. To ask the Minister for Health the steps he will take to ensure that the charge of €80 which some hospital groups have imposed on persons with haemochromatosis requiring venesection will be ceased (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53509/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Respite Care Services Provision (13 Dec 2017)

Willie Penrose: 169. To ask the Minister for Health the steps he will take to ensure a person (details supplied) is provided with the respite hours in respect of two children in October 2016 and which has not been provided to date, notwithstanding they are both autistic; if in that context, he will investigate the level of respite care hours available in County Westmeath in the context in which the HSE is...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pension (Contributory) (13 Dec 2017)

Willie Penrose: 250. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the proposed action she plans to take in the next 12 months to address the pension anomaly impacting, in particular, on women arising from changes made in 2012; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [53407/17]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Remuneration (12 Dec 2017)

Willie Penrose: 232. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the steps he will take to end the discrimination in eligibility for pensions in respect of the 19 surviving ex-members of An Garda Síochána who resigned or left the force from 1 October 1976, having served at least five years; if they can be treated in the same way as those that returned post-1976, in terms of their...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces Personnel (12 Dec 2017)

Willie Penrose: 565. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if his attention has been drawn to the fact that members of the Permanent Defence Force who are attending courses at third level institutions and who have commenced their study since September 2017 have not yet been supplied with the required text books; if such text books will be supplied to each person and not on a shared basis which has...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces Allowances (12 Dec 2017)

Willie Penrose: 566. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if steps will be taken to ensure that members of the Permanent Defence Force who undertake courses in Carlow IT and other such colleges of education and who are entitled to claim public transport expenses to attend same will receive payment of such expenses (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52930/17]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Invalidity Pension Applications (7 Dec 2017)

Willie Penrose: 250. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if an application for invalidity pension by a person (details supplied) will be expedited; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [52516/17]

Horse and Greyhound Racing Fund Regulations 2017: Motion (6 Dec 2017)

Willie Penrose: I agree with the Minister. Some 80,000 tourists come here annually because of our racing industry. That will be under threat owing to unfavourable rates of exchange. In 2016, Irish-trained horses ran about 1,500 times in Britain, winning prize money of €15.3 million and, in reverse, there were only 309 British runners here and they only won €3.9 million. Britain relies...

Horse and Greyhound Racing Fund Regulations 2017: Motion (6 Dec 2017)

Willie Penrose: The Labour Party is acutely aware of the importance of the greyhound and horse racing industries across the country for economic activity, employment and leisure and we have supported the allocation of funds to the industries in the past 20 years or so, as we do this evening for HRI and Bord na gCon. We are nonetheless eager to get to the point where there is a long-term funding structure in...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Basic Payment Scheme Payments (6 Dec 2017)

Willie Penrose: 203. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the steps he will take to ensure that the BPS payments due to a person (details supplied) who transferred some of their entitlements to another person has their payments paid out; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52211/17]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Sports Capital Programme Applications (6 Dec 2017)

Willie Penrose: 231. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason a club (details supplied) was unsuccessful in its application for funding under the sports capital programme scheme in view of the fact that this club is in an area of disadvantage and had a 20 year lease on the premises; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52213/17]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Eligibility (6 Dec 2017)

Willie Penrose: 251. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the steps she will take to deal with an anomaly which arose in respect of career’s allowance in the case of a person (detail supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [52318/17]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Scheme Payments (5 Dec 2017)

Willie Penrose: 421. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the steps he will take to expedite payments due to a person (details supplied) in respect of the single farm scheme and suckler cow scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52061/17]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Banking Sector (30 Nov 2017)

Willie Penrose: 11. To ask the Minister for Finance the status of his Department’s work with the Department of Rural and Community Development on the public banking investigation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50876/17]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Credit Union Restructuring (30 Nov 2017)

Willie Penrose: 28. To ask the Minister for Finance the status of his Department’s work in respect of the restructuring of the credit union sector; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50877/17]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Traveller Projects Funding (30 Nov 2017)

Willie Penrose: 185. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the funding allocated for Traveller horse projects nationally; the funding that was provided for Traveller horse projects in County Longford; the way in which those resources were spent; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51418/17]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Community Employment Schemes Administration (29 Nov 2017)

Willie Penrose: 35. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the amount spent in each county for community employment; and the procedures in place for schemes that require extra funding or seek extra places. [50575/17]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Citizen Information Services (29 Nov 2017)

Willie Penrose: 54. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the Citizens Information Board has taken a final and official position on the cost benefit analysis report on the restructuring of MABS and CIS. [50573/17]