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Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Domiciliary Care Allowance Appeals (4 Dec 2012)

Michael Creed: To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a decision will issue on a claim for domiciliary care allowance in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Cork; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [54330/12]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agri-Environment Options Scheme Payments (4 Dec 2012)

Michael Creed: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a person (details supplied) in County Cork will receive their agri-environment option scheme payment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53710/12]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Applications (4 Dec 2012)

Michael Creed: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason a person (details supplied) in County Cork has not yet received their disadvantaged area payment and their single farm payment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53739/12]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Drugs Task Forces (4 Dec 2012)

Michael Creed: To ask the Minister for Health if he has completed his review of the drug task forces; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54331/12]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Afforestation Programme (29 Nov 2012)

Michael Creed: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if lands (details supplied) will be approved for afforestation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53568/12]

Topical Issue Debate: Commission of Inquiry (27 Nov 2012)

Michael Creed: I thank the Minister of State for the reply he provided on behalf of the Minister, Deputy Shatter. I am, however, disappointed with the content of that reply. An element of the ongoing investigation is based on a principle that has been long discredited, namely, gardaí investigating gardaí. I accept that there is a broader remit and that gardaí are also investigating - if...

Topical Issue Debate: Commission of Inquiry (27 Nov 2012)

Michael Creed: I thank the Ceann Comhairle's office. I thank the Minister of State for being present to reply to the debate but am disappointed that the Minister for Justice and Equality, Deputy Shatter, did not see fit to attend this particular debate, given its significance. On 8 July 1985, Fr. Niall Molloy was murdered. To date nobody has been brought to justice for that murder. There is a view,...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Appeals (27 Nov 2012)

Michael Creed: To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a person (details supplied) in County Cork will receive a decision on their application for carer's allowance; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [52856/12]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Domiciliary Care Allowance Appeals (27 Nov 2012)

Michael Creed: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if a decision has been made on an appeal in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Cork for a domiciliary care allowance; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [52909/12]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Disease Controls (27 Nov 2012)

Michael Creed: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the proposals if any to change the compensation regime for TB and brucellosis reactors particularly where herds have only a single reactor; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52573/12]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Drug Treatment Programmes (27 Nov 2012)

Michael Creed: To ask the Minister for Health the amount of funding available in 2012 for the various drug task forces; the criteria used in the allocation of these funds by individual task forces; if the task forces are regularly audited; if he is satisfied that the distribution of funding by the various task forces reflects the work and effort by the individual members of each task force; and if he will...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Service Reform Plan: Discussion with Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (22 Nov 2012)

Michael Creed: I am sceptical in some respects.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Service Reform Plan: Discussion with Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (22 Nov 2012)

Michael Creed: I welcome the Minister and his colleagues. I am always confused by the distinction between the Civil Service and the public service. I think I have a handle on the difference now. I wonder whether it is useful to distinguish between them as we try to work with unions to get more from less while delivering better public services to the public. Is it time for that archaic distinction to be...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Compliance (22 Nov 2012)

Michael Creed: To ask the Minister for Finance the initiatives he proposes for the Revenue Commissioners to combat fraud particularly in the construction sector; if he will consider linking tax relief to evidence of tax compliant contractors and the facility of all construction projects above a certain value having to notify the Revenue of commencement; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52057/12]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Invalidity Pension Appeals (22 Nov 2012)

Michael Creed: To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a decision will be made on an invalidity pension appeal in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Cork; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [51959/12]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Black Economy (22 Nov 2012)

Michael Creed: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the additional steps she proposes to take to tackle the problem of the black economy; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [52055/12]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Common Agricultural Policy (22 Nov 2012)

Michael Creed: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if in the context of the common agricultural policy negotiations, he will ensure that those farmers whose entitlements are produced entirely from rented lands both now and in 2011 are protected [52122/12]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Invalidity Pension Appeals (21 Nov 2012)

Michael Creed: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason a person (details supplied) in County Cork has had their entitlement to invalidity pension withdrawn; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [51719/12]

Credit Union Bill 2012: Second Stage (Resumed) (14 Nov 2012)

Michael Creed: I am also sharing time with Deputy John Paul Phelan. I welcome the opportunity to say some brief words on the Bill. Coming from the constituency of Cork North-West, the home place of Nora Herlihy of Ballydesmond, I am acutely conscious of the ethos of the credit union movement and the reach it has into local communities. The financial rot that engulfed the State in recent years did not...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Back to Education Allowance Applications (14 Nov 2012)

Michael Creed: To ask the Minister for Social Protection further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 559 and 560 of 6 November 2012, if she will provide as requested the circumstances and number of occasions where the requirement for progression has been waived under the back to education allowance; if she will address the specific circumstances of the two individual cases highlighted in Parliamentary Question...