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Written Answers — General Medical Services Scheme: General Medical Services Scheme (19 Jun 2012)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Question 128: To ask the Minister for Health if he will advise definitively the position regarding general practitioners charging for taking blood samples from medical card patients; if his attention has been drawn to the extent of this practice; the steps he is taking to have this and any other similar charging practices ended; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29416/12]

Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (19 Jun 2012)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Question 149: To ask the Minister for Health the additional resources that will be made available to the three existing children's hospitals pending the development of a national paediatric hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29417/12]

Written Answers — Habitual Residence Conditions: Habitual Residence Conditions (19 Jun 2012)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Question 309: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the specific rules governing the habitual residency conditions in respect of Irish citizens who are returning to Ireland to live or who have given up work in England to help care for a relative here. [29053/12]

Written Answers — Traveller Accommodation: Traveller Accommodation (19 Jun 2012)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Question 434: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the number of traveller families who have been allocated homes in the different local authority areas for each of the past five years; the number of families on each of the lists in each council area; the progress that is being made in relation to the traveller housing plans in each of the local council...

Written Answers — Departmental Offices: Departmental Offices (19 Jun 2012)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Question 567: To ask the Minister for Health the reason there is no suitable space to facilitate breast feeding in the Civil Registration Office in Lombard Street, Dublin 2, which is the only place in Dublin where you can register the birth of your child and queues can be lengthy. [29585/12]

Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (14 Jun 2012)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I heard the Minister's reply to the previous speaker and I am appalled. Here we have a service which has been running for 57 years and which provides services for over 200 people. I have been told a fantastic level of care is being delivered, with psychological services, social services, social work and speech and language services among those services. The Daughters of Wisdom order has...

Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (14 Jun 2012)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: -----and that the service will be as accessible to those families, whether they are from south Donegal or Cavan?

Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (14 Jun 2012)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Can he guarantee no break in service from when the order withdraws? It is a pity that an order which has the expertise in delivering this service and which has set up such a facility is now being forced to close at a cost to the area and to society in general. I do not know how the Minister can stand over that. If he goes back to the programme for Government-----

Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (14 Jun 2012)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: The question is whether the Minister is aware of his own programme for Government which states on its first page that the "parties are committed to protecting the vulnerable". This does not seem to indicate any protection for those people.

Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (14 Jun 2012)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: We have seen in the past where such a service has been withdrawn, for whatever reason, that there is usually an additional cost in a transition period. Is that cost available? What is the cost of the transfer of these services to other service providers? It is being outsourced outside of the HSE to a private company? Is the Minister aware of any other such service being delivered by other...

Order of Business (14 Jun 2012)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: These are hard times for workers and more and more often we hear stories of employers trying to exploit vulnerable workers. The programme for Government included a commitment to reform legislation on workers' rights to engage in collective bargaining to ensure compliance with recent judgments in the European Court of Human Rights. The position of the Labour Party in the manifesto for the...

Written Answers — Ministerial Staff: Ministerial Staff (13 Jun 2012)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Question 20: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide in tabular form the name, position, annual salary, annual allowance cap, and Government Minister to whom they have been appointed of all special advisors appointed since February 2011. [28255/12]

Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (13 Jun 2012)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Question 107: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the total amount spent on the back to school clothing and footwear allowance last September; and if he will provide a breakdown of the number of payments at each of the two rates. [28460/12]

Public Sector Reform (13 Jun 2012)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Question 35: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if the implementation body will provide a more robust and detailed breakdown of savings achieved, Department by Department, agency by agency, in its second annual review due to be published in June. [28256/12]

Written Answers — Domiciliary Care Allowance: Domiciliary Care Allowance (12 Jun 2012)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Question 143: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she is familiar with the scoring system operated in Queensland Australia for the assessment of applications for their equivalent to domiciliary care allowance; and if she has considered adapting it for use in the Irish context. [28032/12]

Written Answers — Rent Supplement Scheme: Rent Supplement Scheme (12 Jun 2012)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Question 150: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the total number of rent supplement claimants; the number to whom the new limits now apply and within that the number who were existing claimants prior to 1 January; her response to the increasing number of claimants who are struggling to convince their landlords to accept the lower payment and or who cannot find alternative appropriate...

Written Answers — School Meals Programme: School Meals Programme (12 Jun 2012)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Question 305: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the amount of funding that each national school receives per child in respect of lunches and snacks. [28162/12]

Written Answers — Garda Vetting of Personnel: Garda Vetting of Personnel (12 Jun 2012)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Question 496: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the position regarding an application for Garda vetting in respect of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 10; and when a decision will issue. [28163/12]

Social Welfare Appeals (12 Jun 2012)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I acknowledge the numbers of appeals that are being processed annually but given the number of appeals lodged, the problem has not yet been addressed. There are obscene delays in some payments for people who are in very stressful situations. Delays in applications for payments such as the carer's allowance, domiciliary care payments and disability allowance are only adding to the stress....

Jobseeker's Benefit (12 Jun 2012)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: The committee published its report and the rapporteur was Deputy Anthony Lawlor. It made a number of important conclusions and recommendations. I thank the Minister for considering some of the findings in the report. Does the Minister agree with the finding of the committee that the current social welfare system is decidedly unequal in that one person can work ten hours per week...