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Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals Delays (19 Nov 2013)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 369. To ask the Minister for Social Protection her views on the delays in implementing decision of the Social Welfare Appeals Office; if she will provide figures including the average time that persons have had to wait to receive their payments including arrears in October 2011, October 2012 and October 2013 following a successful appeal; if she will confirm if the waiting time differs by...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Employment Support Services (19 Nov 2013)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 370. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if time spent on JobBridge goes towards the calculation of a person qualifying for JobsPlus. [49574/13]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Naturalisation Applications (19 Nov 2013)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 502. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality when he will introduce an appeals system for refusals in naturalisation cases; the reasons such a process does not exist at present in view of the financial outlay by applicants for citizenship. [48800/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Long-Term Illness Scheme Eligibility (19 Nov 2013)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 653. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to include the genetic disorder Long QT syndrome on the list of qualifying ailments for qualification for a long-term illness medical card; and if not, the reason for same in view of the circumstances of the condition and the potential medical costs involved. [48988/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Bodies (19 Nov 2013)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 676. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 228 of 17 October if the Drugs Advisory Group has met since his response or if a meeting has been scheduled. [49261/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Children's Hospital Status (19 Nov 2013)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 688. To ask the Minister for Health the reason for the delay in announcing the design team for the new national paediatric hospital. [49368/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Primary Care Centres Provision (19 Nov 2013)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 689. To ask the Minister for Health if consideration has been given to having the proposed primary care centre for Drimnagh located not at Curlew Road but at the newly purchased Davitt Road site. [49369/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospitals Building Programme (19 Nov 2013)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 690. To ask the Minister for Health in view of the fact that a decision has been taken to build a national paediatric hospital in St. James's Hospital, Dublin 8, if it is cost effective to continue to build new facilities in Our Lady’s Children’s Hospital, Crumlin, in view of the fact that the site is not owned by the State and that no future use has been decided for it...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Eligibility (13 Nov 2013)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 163. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) in Dublin 12 is not eligible to receive a medical card [48396/13]

Finance (No. 2) Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (12 Nov 2013)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: It is Groundhog Day again. I heard all this last year as well.

Topical Issue Debate: Schools Amalgamation (12 Nov 2013)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: The proposal to amalgamate came as a shock to the parents, as there was no preparation done by the patron in that respect. A survey was carried out but I do not think that anybody expected, as a result of a demand for co-education, that there would be an amalgamation and the closure of one of the schools. I am in favour of co-education in the school complex, as are the parents, but I do not...

Finance (No. 2) Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (12 Nov 2013)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I welcome the opportunity to continue the discussion on this Bill. In the short time I had on Thursday last, I noted that the budget is in two parts. There are two announcements on the day totalling an hour and a half, with the two Ministers explaining their different elements of the budget. We hear all that debate on the day in question, including the financial motions, and we have several...

Topical Issue Debate: Schools Amalgamation (12 Nov 2013)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: This is an important matter. Parents in Ballyfermot were shocked last week when they learned by way of letter from the De La Salle national school that it proposes to amalgamate with three other national schools in the area, namely, St. Raphael's national school, St. Michael's national school and St. Gabriel's national school. The original De La Salle school was built in 1952, which is...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Political Reform (12 Nov 2013)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: The Minister of State encouraged me to do so.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Political Reform (12 Nov 2013)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: While I welcomed some of the recent changes to Dáil procedures they were not without some controversy. I welcome the fact that the Minister of State mentioned consultation. These changes are often a fait accompli, and by the time a decision reaches the Members the Government has already decided to go ahead with a particular proposal leaving us to row in behind it or suck it up. Does...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Public Service Obligation Levy Increase (12 Nov 2013)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 241. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if there has been an increase in the public service obligation levy in the case of electricity bills and in general; and the way in which he will use this money generated from this increase [47769/13]

Finance (No. 2) Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (7 Nov 2013)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: This is a bad budget, which comes on top of many other bad budgets. The context is not a single day in October when two Ministers announced a regressive budget but the austerity budgets which preceded it. The effects of budgets are not always immediately clear and emerge only when the detail of the various measures is published. The Ministers for Finance and Public Expenditure and Reform,...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Polasaí don Ghaeilge (7 Nov 2013)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 112. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform cén bunús taighde nó sochtheangeolaíoch atá leis an gcinneadh atá glactha ag an Rialtas maidir le cumas na Gaeilge ó thaobh earcaíocht sa Státseirbhís a athrú; cén chaoi a dtacaíonn sé seo leis an Straitéis Fiche Bliain don Ghaeilge a chur chun cinn. [47434/13]

Cannabis Regulation: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (6 Nov 2013)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I welcome the debate on drugs, whether legal or illegal, because society has never fully got to grips with drug abuse and the availability of drugs. I understand the motivation of Deputy Luke 'Ming' Flanagan in tabling the motion and the Bill, but I will not support the motion. I encourage an open and informed debate on drugs. I have encouraged my party to continuously have such a debate;...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Youth Guarantee: Discussion (6 Nov 2013)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: They will be read into the record.