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Questions on Promised Legislation (5 Jul 2017)

Róisín Shortall: It is now almost a year and a half since the Public Health (Alcohol) Bill started its passage through the Oireachtas. It has been moving at a snail's pace. In that period, there have been 1,600 alcohol-related deaths. Approximately 800,000 bed-nights have been taken up in hospitals as a result of alcohol-related illnesses, and there have 420,000 absenteeism days as a result of alcohol...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Grant Scheme Expenditure (4 Jul 2017)

Róisín Shortall: 158. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the cost of increasing the non-adjacent maintenance grant to €4,025 for full-time students at undergraduate and postgraduate level, respectively. [30801/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Grant Scheme Expenditure (4 Jul 2017)

Róisín Shortall: 159. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the cost of increasing the adjacent maintenance grant to €2,215 for full-time students at undergraduate and postgraduate level, respectively. [30802/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Grant Scheme Expenditure (4 Jul 2017)

Róisín Shortall: 160. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the cost of extending a non-adjacent maintenance grant to €4,025 to part-time students at undergraduate and postgraduate level, respectively. [30803/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Grant Scheme Expenditure (4 Jul 2017)

Róisín Shortall: 161. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the cost of extending the adjacent maintenance grant to €2,215 to part-time students at undergraduate and postgraduate level, respectively. [30804/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Patronage (4 Jul 2017)

Róisín Shortall: 186. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the way in which he will ensure that no religious belief is favoured over other religious beliefs or none in his proposed reconfiguration of church controlled schools to education and training boards; if his attention has been drawn to the widespread concern over the lack of transparency of this process; if existing patrons will have a role in...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Human Rights (4 Jul 2017)

Róisín Shortall: 256. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade further to Parliamentary Question No. 650 of 2 May 2017, if he will provide an update on the efforts of the Government to raise the detention of LGBT persons in Chechnya on both a bilateral and multilateral level; if concerns have been raised with the Russian embassy in Dublin; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31237/17]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Legal Services Regulation (4 Jul 2017)

Róisín Shortall: 293. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality his views on the monopoly that a college (details supplied) has on the training and accreditation of barristers; and his plans to open this up to competition. [31338/17]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Reports (4 Jul 2017)

Róisín Shortall: 294. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 48 of 18 May 2017, if he has received the promised report from the Garda authorities on this matter; if so, the conclusions of this report; the steps his Department and An Garda Síochána will take on foot of this report; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31340/17]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: School Meals Programme (4 Jul 2017)

Róisín Shortall: 549. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if her attention has been drawn to the withdrawal of the provision of school lunches in a primary school (details supplied) in Dublin 11; if she will instruct her Department to intervene to ensure that funding is made available for this school to continue providing meals to children in a very disadvantaged area; and if she will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: School Meals Programme (4 Jul 2017)

Róisín Shortall: 573. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if her attention has been drawn to the withdrawal of the provision of school lunches in a primary school (details supplied) in Dublin 11; if she will instruct her Department to intervene to ensure that funding is made available for this school to continue providing meals to children in a very disadvantaged area; and if she will make a statement...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Eligibility (4 Jul 2017)

Róisín Shortall: 606. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will consider allowing carer's allowance to be classed as a recordable contribution for the purpose of eligibility for contributory pensions in view of the expense that is spared to the State through persons taking on caring roles themselves as opposed to having to engage residential or other care; and if she will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Eligibility (4 Jul 2017)

Róisín Shortall: 607. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the estimated cost of allowing for carer's allowance to be classed as a recordable contribution for the purpose of calculating eligibility for contributory pensions. [31390/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Local Infrastructure Housing Activation Fund (4 Jul 2017)

Róisín Shortall: 675. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if grant agreements in respect of the 34 approved applications under the LIHAF have been concluded; if so, the projected number of units on each site; the projected number of affordable units on each site; the projected number of social housing units on each site, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on...

Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest: Statements (29 Jun 2017)

Róisín Shortall: People at that level could have held off for longer and priority should have been given to other sectors within the public service. The unwinding of FEMPI is taking too long for people on middle and low incomes. The glaring area that needs to be addressed is new entrants.

Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest: Statements (29 Jun 2017)

Róisín Shortall: That does not mean everything else is fine. I and others have received letters from pensioners in their late seventies or eighties regarding the pension levy. There is something very wrong about such people having to pay a pension levy. New entrants have been treated disgracefully by the FEMPI cuts. There is a pay generation gap where people are receiving unequal treatment. We are...

Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest: Statements (29 Jun 2017)

Róisín Shortall: The draconian cuts in pay and pensions were introduced at a very different time in this country. There was a financial emergency and there may have been some kind of justification for the cuts at the time. The public expected the Government to deal with the awful situation in which the country found itself but it expected this would be done in a fair way. Unfortunately that was not the...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Office of the Director of Corporate Enforcement Reports (29 Jun 2017)

Róisín Shortall: 73. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation further to Parliamentary Question No. 54 of 22 June 2017, if she has received the report on the collapse of the trial in question from the ODCE; if so, if she will publish the report without delay; her plans regarding the recommendations made; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30715/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Administration (29 Jun 2017)

Róisín Shortall: 204. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the work of the clinical advisory group on medical card eligibility; his plans to publish the interim reports of the group; the date on which the final report of the group will be submitted to him; the timeframe for the publication of same; the status of the commitment in the programme for Government that the group examine guidelines for the...

Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Second Stage (Resumed) (28 Jun 2017)

Róisín Shortall: The Social Democrats will not be opposing the Bill. We recognise and welcome it as a very small step towards reform of the legal system. However, it is only a small step and it is hard to know what all of the hoo-ha inside and outside the House is about. I would have thought that the days of self-regulation were over, as they should be. The idea of setting up a body with a lay majority...