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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Residential Institutions (9 Dec 2015)

Róisín Shortall: 188. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to the reply to Parliamentary Question No. 533 of 17 November 2015 in respect of the 2002 indemnity agreement in which she stated that properties to the value of €30.93 million are still outstanding, her plans to ensure that the necessary transfers take place without further delay; the official in her Department who is...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Child Abuse (9 Dec 2015)

Róisín Shortall: 189. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of claims against the State by persons who were abused in day schools; the number of cases which have been settled and which are pending; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44423/15]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Housing Issues (9 Dec 2015)

Róisín Shortall: 202. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he is aware of reports of land hoarding taking place in the Dublin area in respect of land zoned for housing, if this is a factor in the depressed supply of housing, why he wrote to the chief executives of the four Dublin local authorities in June 2015, advising them not to rezone any further land for housing; and if...

Establishment of Independent Anti-Corruption Agency: Motion [Private Members] (8 Dec 2015)

Róisín Shortall: We submitted the motion last Friday morning.

Establishment of Independent Anti-Corruption Agency: Motion [Private Members] (8 Dec 2015)

Róisín Shortall: They are not fit for office. I heard one Minister welcome the fact that one of the councillors had resigned from his party. Of course he does, because it gets Fine Gael out of a spot. People will not just move on and forget about this. Fine Gael has a responsibility to address this issue properly, but it has failed spectacularly to do so in the case of a number of other public...

Establishment of Independent Anti-Corruption Agency: Motion [Private Members] (8 Dec 2015)

Róisín Shortall: I congratulate RTE on the superb piece of public service broadcasting we saw last night. The "RTE Investigates" programme on corruption was journalism at its best. While some people might be shocked by the blatant “I’ll scratch your back, you scratch mine” approach we saw displayed by a number of councillors, for most of us it just confirmed what we have suspected for a...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Departmental Investigations (8 Dec 2015)

Róisín Shortall: 126. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection the number of investigations she has carried out into the suspected leaking of personal details from the social protection database in each of the past five years, and the outcome in each case. [43923/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Treatment Purchase Fund (8 Dec 2015)

Róisín Shortall: 407. To ask the Minister for Health the cost of the National Treatment Purchase Fund initiative in offering external appointments to those waiting longer than 12 months for a colonoscopy; the institutions that will facilitate these appointments; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43921/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Home Beds (8 Dec 2015)

Róisín Shortall: 408. To ask the Minister for Health the details of all nursing home beds by hospital group area, and by private or public, in tabular form. [43922/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Home Beds (8 Dec 2015)

Róisín Shortall: 410. To ask the Minister for Health the details of all nursing home beds by hospital group area, and by private or public type, in tabular form. [43930/15]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (3 Dec 2015)

Róisín Shortall: 76. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection why a person (details supplied) in Dublin 11 will not be entitled to the social protection Christmas bonus for 2015; the disqualification criteria in this regard; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43221/15]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Family Resource Centres (3 Dec 2015)

Róisín Shortall: 156. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the financial allocation to each family resource centre in 2015 and the basis on which these allocations were made, in tabular form. [43451/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Prescription Charges (3 Dec 2015)

Róisín Shortall: 161. To ask the Minister for Health if a person who holds a long-term illness card and a medical card is entitled to a waiver of the prescription levy in respect of all medicines dispensed to that person, or only in respect of medicines for illnesses covered by the scheme. [43209/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Drugs (3 Dec 2015)

Róisín Shortall: 162. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons who received refunds of prescription charges; the value of refunds arising from the change of the Health Service Executive's policy to allow medical card holders to also hold a long-term illness card. [43210/15]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (3 Dec 2015)

Róisín Shortall: 259. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the exact boundaries upon which projections for the demand for new schools in Dublin are based and the specific criteria and data within these boundaries that are used to identify whether a need exists or not; the banding or ranking system that applies to how resources are allocated, once a need is identified, to ascertain which schools get...

Equality (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2013 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (2 Dec 2015)

Róisín Shortall: What are the technical reasons?

Equality (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2013 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (2 Dec 2015)

Róisín Shortall: Come on. Stop playing games.

Equality (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2013 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (2 Dec 2015)

Róisín Shortall: Pathetic.

Equality (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2013 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (2 Dec 2015)

Róisín Shortall: She is not.

Equality (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2013 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (2 Dec 2015)

Róisín Shortall: That has nothing to do with the amendment.