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Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Ministerial Appointments (5 Nov 2013)

Róisín Shortall: 616. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the name, qualifications and current salary of each political staff member appointed by him. [46083/13]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Ministerial Appointments (5 Nov 2013)

Róisín Shortall: 665. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the name, qualifications and current salary of each political staff member appointed by him. [46086/13]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Ministerial Appointments (5 Nov 2013)

Róisín Shortall: 754. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the name, qualifications and current salary of each political staff member appointed by him. [46091/13]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Ministerial Appointments (5 Nov 2013)

Róisín Shortall: 838. To ask the Minister for Defence the name, qualifications and current salary of each political staff member appointed by him. [46084/13]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Ministerial Appointments (5 Nov 2013)

Róisín Shortall: 892. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the name, qualifications and current salary of each political staff member appointed by him. [46080/13]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Care Services (5 Nov 2013)

Róisín Shortall: 989. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the steps being taken to meet the financial and accommodation needs of a young person (details supplied) in full time education who is under the care of the State. [45924/13]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Ministerial Appointments (5 Nov 2013)

Róisín Shortall: 995. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the name, qualifications and current salary of each political staff member appointed by her. [46082/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Eligibility (5 Nov 2013)

Róisín Shortall: 1094. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the medical card income guidelines announced as part of budget 2014 no longer assess the combined income of a married or co-habiting couple as double that of a single person in view of the fact other household compositions such as siblings sharing a home remain unaffected; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46113/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ministerial Appointments (5 Nov 2013)

Róisín Shortall: 1091. To ask the Minister for Health the name, qualifications and current salary of each political staff member appointed by him. [46089/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Reviews (5 Nov 2013)

Róisín Shortall: 1249. To ask the Minister for Health the basis on which a saving of €11 million was estimated arising from the Budget 2014 decision to revoke medical cards awarded on the basis of returning to work having been long-term unemployed; his estimate of the number of medical cards that will be revoked as a result of this measure; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47104/13]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Ministerial Appointments (5 Nov 2013)

Róisín Shortall: 1265. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the name, qualifications and current salary of each political staff member appointed by him. [46094/13]

Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Oct 2013)

Róisín Shortall: Only a fraction of the places required have been put in place.

Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Oct 2013)

Róisín Shortall: Does he realise his Government has removed one of the measures that incentivised people on very low incomes, especially those with children, to return to the workforce? Notwithstanding the rhetoric in which it engages, the Government is disincentivising people from returning to work by withdrawing their medical card. I was astonished to read the response to a parliamentary question I...

Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Oct 2013)

Róisín Shortall: It amuses me the frequency with which certain elements in government keep going on about our welfare system and about the need to remove disincentives to work when we know that the vast majority of people on welfare would be better off if they could get a job, even on minimum wages, and all of the evidence supports that. Those elements in government who keep going on about this issue either...

Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Oct 2013)

Róisín Shortall: I put it to the Minister that this country can only survive the economic collapse if attention is paid to solidarity. This savage cut, which continues on from where Fianna Fáil left off, represents an enormous slap in the face for young people. It is basically telling them to get lost. It tells them to emigrate and go elsewhere and that they are not needed here. To date, we have...

Sittings and Business of Dáil: Motion (24 Oct 2013)

Róisín Shortall: Is this new politics?

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Reliefs Application (24 Oct 2013)

Róisín Shortall: 81. To ask the Minister for Finance further to his comments in Limerick on 18 September 2013, the nature of the deal which he expected to make with the pensions industry in respect of the promised introduction of a cap on a pension tax relief. [45528/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Pensions Levy Issues (24 Oct 2013)

Róisín Shortall: 82. To ask the Minister for Finance the basis for his decision to increase the pension levy in budget 2014; the expected yield from this measure; and the purpose to which he intends to put these funds. [45529/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: National Debt Issues (24 Oct 2013)

Róisín Shortall: 83. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide estimates of the national debt as at the end of 2013; the end of 2014 and the end of 2015. [45533/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Government Deficit (24 Oct 2013)

Róisín Shortall: 84. To ask the Minister for Finance further to comments made at the recent Fine Gael national conference that the €2.5 billion adjustment will deliver a deficit of 4.8% in 2014 and a primary surplus also, which means our debt can start to reduce, the plans there are to begin paying down our national debt. [45534/13]