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Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Broadband Service Provision (3 Oct 2017)

Willie Penrose: 498. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the reason a company (details supplied) reneged on its commitment to provide high speed broadband facilities to Ballynacargy and Ballymore in County Westmeath, despite these two areas being designated as black spots and identified as such and thereby areas of high and immediate proximity in the company's expansion...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Natural Gas Grid (3 Oct 2017)

Willie Penrose: 499. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if a company (details supplied) plans to extend its networks to facilitate connection threats for towns and villages throughout County Westmeath; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41587/17]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Traffic Legislation (3 Oct 2017)

Willie Penrose: 529. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the regulatory involvement that is applied under his Department's supervision to agricultural vehicles of all types, including trailers, quads, tractors, machinery and agricultural equipment such as sprayers and so on; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41588/17]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Pensions Reform (3 Oct 2017)

Willie Penrose: 576. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the timeframe for the introduction of a universal pension scheme; her plans to phase in same over a number of budgets; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41582/17]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pension (Contributory) (3 Oct 2017)

Willie Penrose: 577. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to consider applying the homemaker’s scheme respectively in order to ensure equitable access to the State pension and thereby benefit older women that took career breaks prior to 1994; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41583/17]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pension (Contributory) (3 Oct 2017)

Willie Penrose: 578. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to suspend the charges to contribution cards for receipt of a State pension in 2012 until the promised total contribution reward system has been gender proofed and introduced; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41584/17]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pension (Contributory) (3 Oct 2017)

Willie Penrose: 579. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the amount of resources required to reverse to charges to the contribution cards for State pension in 2012 in cases in which increasing contributory thresholds impact disproportionately on women; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41585/17]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pension (Contributory) (3 Oct 2017)

Willie Penrose: 580. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to repeal the homemaker’s disregard with credits with the credit applicable for up to ten years and applied retrospectively to 1973; if in that context, this credit could also act as a re-entry credit which would accommodate persons that wish to re-enter the workforce after a period spent caring can access...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Back to Education Allowance (3 Oct 2017)

Willie Penrose: 595. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to cap the amount of hours to eight, ten or 12 hours which BTEA (details supplied) recipients can work without being means tested and whereby hours worked in excess of the expected hours would be means tested; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41872/17]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals (3 Oct 2017)

Willie Penrose: 596. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a person (details supplied) whose social welfare appeal in respect of refusal of an application for disability allowance was recently allowed will receive payment of same; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41923/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Planning Issues (3 Oct 2017)

Willie Penrose: 631. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when the review of the 2005 rural planning guidelines will be completed; if it will take cognisance of the European Court decision in respect of Belgian authorities which significantly curtailed the ability of local and national governments to restrict the categories of person that might be eligible to build in rural areas;...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Eligibility (28 Sep 2017)

Willie Penrose: 141. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to increase the €500 eligibility limit for receipt of a medical card by a single person over 70 years of age in view of the fact that this has been fixed from 1 January 2014; if this can be reviewed to reflect inflation in the interim from 1 January 2018; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41163/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Tenant Purchase Scheme Review (28 Sep 2017)

Willie Penrose: 286. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when the review of the new tenant purchase scheme will be finalised; the changes which are proposed as a result of this review; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41164/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Funding (27 Sep 2017)

Willie Penrose: 167. To ask the Minister for Health if an increased budget will be made available to support the volunteering infrastructure; if in this context additional funding will be made available in 2018 for the volunteer centres in counties Longford and Westmeath that have a significant increase in activity in 2017 (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41004/17]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (26 Sep 2017)

Willie Penrose: 90. To ask the Minister for Finance if he is considering making changes to the forthcoming finance Bill to deal with past issues pertaining to other sectors of the agricultural industry, similar to those in the poultry industry (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40689/17]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Data (26 Sep 2017)

Willie Penrose: 91. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will release the microeconomic statistics for the relevant three year timeframe pertaining to the calculation of the current flat rate VAT repayment percentage of 5.4% with the calculation deriving therefrom; the amount of under or overpayment arising; if same was included separately in the economic accounts for European agriculture, EEA; and if he...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Community Sector High Level Forum (26 Sep 2017)

Willie Penrose: 100. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform when the high level forum which was established some seven months ago will make recommendations in relation to the provision of a pension or gratuity scheme for community employment supervisors and assist community supervisors in the context of a Labour Court recommendation which facilitated the awarding of such pensions gratuity and...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: DEIS Eligibility (26 Sep 2017)

Willie Penrose: 167. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if in the context of a review of the DEIS programme eligibility, he will ensure that a school (details supplied) has its status changed to urban band 1 from its current status of rural; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40690/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Services for People with Disabilities (26 Sep 2017)

Willie Penrose: 400. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the HSE failed to reply to correspondence (details supplied); the steps that were taken to have this correspondence replied to and the matters raised therein addressed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40721/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (21 Sep 2017)

Willie Penrose: 163. To ask the Minister for Health if a person (details supplied) who has been assessed and who is deemed eligible to have non-elective surgery, in particular a right hip replacement, can have same expedited without further delay in view of the fact all the necessary assessments have now been carried out; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40095/17]