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Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Early Child Care Education Issues (25 Jun 2013)

Róisín Shortall: 542. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the basis on which the free preschool year is made to service providers; the criteria which must be met in respect of the qualifications of the staff; the curriculum to be followed; the standard of the premises; the requirement for adequate insurance cover; if she will give details of all health and safety requirements and appropriate...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Housing Adaptation Grants Funding (19 Jun 2013)

Róisín Shortall: 147. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the virtual collapse of the home adaptation grants schemes resulting in one case where an 88 year old who has fallen down stairs resulting in hospitalisation cannot get grant assistance for a stair lift and many other cases where older persons with poor mobility and urinary frequency...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: After-School Support Services (19 Jun 2013)

Róisín Shortall: 196. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs in respect of the new after school child care scheme, if she will provide details of the selection process of participants; the manner in which child care places will be contracted; the way quality can be assured in this regard; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29568/13]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Millenium Development Goals (18 Jun 2013)

Róisín Shortall: 73. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his policy on international development cooperation; and if it is still his intention to reach the targeted spend of 0.7% of GNI on overseas aid by 2015. [29137/13]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Departmental Agencies Issues (18 Jun 2013)

Róisín Shortall: 290. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources further to Parliamentary Question No. 447 of 28 May 2013, if he will provide details of the public tender process referred to in the reply, with details of the manner of advertising of the process; the time limits that applied; the number of enquires received; the number of tenders received; if he will further provide...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Aftercare Services (18 Jun 2013)

Róisín Shortall: 474. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs further to Parliamentary Question No. 592 of 21 May 2013, if she is now in a position to furnish a reply. [28832/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Support Services Issues (18 Jun 2013)

Róisín Shortall: 550. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to introduce financial autonomy for persons with an intellectual disability in order that they may select a care setting or service provider of their choice rather than being tied into their local service provider; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29136/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Prize Bonds (13 Jun 2013)

Róisín Shortall: 63. To ask the Minister for Finance the position regarding unclaimed prize bond prizes; the way these funds are used; the role, if any, of the dormant accounts funds; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28571/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Prize Bonds (13 Jun 2013)

Róisín Shortall: 64. To ask the Minister for Finance the value of unclaimed prize bonds in each of the past ten years. [28572/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Generic Drugs Substitution (13 Jun 2013)

Róisín Shortall: 224. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding generic substitution when the least expensive substitute medicine is unavailable to a particular pharmacist; and if he will clarify in these circumstances if a top up fee will apply to medical card holders in respect of the more expensive substitute medicines that are available to the pharmacist [28570/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Admissions (13 Jun 2013)

Róisín Shortall: 225. To ask the Minister for Health the number of Asthma related admissions to hospital emergency departments in each of the past five years [28573/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Admissions (13 Jun 2013)

Róisín Shortall: 226. To ask the Minister for Health the cost of Asthma related admissions to hospital in each of the past five years [28574/13]

Health Service Executive (Governance) Bill 2012: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (12 Jun 2013)

Róisín Shortall: That has nothing to do with protecting the public purse.

Health Service Executive (Governance) Bill 2012: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (12 Jun 2013)

Róisín Shortall: I have serious concerns about the impact of this legislation. It has been presented to us under the guise of reform when, in fact, it is a fig leaf to deal with a corporate governance mess created by the Minister for Health. It shows scant regard for the elements required for corporate governance in the health service, the premier public body, with a staff of nearly 100,000 and a budget of...

Health Service Executive (Governance) Bill 2012: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (12 Jun 2013)

Róisín Shortall: It is difficult to understand, if it was deemed appropriate at drafting stage to include these provisions, why they are now being deleted. The provision in paragraph (c) that a person who has been adjudicated bankrupt is disbarred from appointment as a director of the Health Service Executive seems absolutely sensible. There might be less to say for paragraph (d), which provides that a...

Health Service Executive (Governance) Bill 2012: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (12 Jun 2013)

Róisín Shortall: The Minister did not explain why these provisions were considered necessary at one point but are now required to be deleted. Safeguards such as these are very important in respect of very senior public positions. It would be completely acceptable to impose some type of time limit, for example, in respect of persons who have been adjudicated bankrupt at some point in the past. My reading of...

Leaders' Questions (12 Jun 2013)

Róisín Shortall: Why does the Taoiseach not answer the question?

Leaders' Questions (12 Jun 2013)

Róisín Shortall: Does the Taoiseach have any opinion?

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals Numbers (12 Jun 2013)

Róisín Shortall: 123. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of applicants awaiting payment following successful appeals to the independent social welfare appeals office; if he will provide an indication of the number of such applications per payment; the measures her Department is taking to ensure that this backlog is dealt with in view of the fact that the majority of applicants that have...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Property Taxation Administration (11 Jun 2013)

Róisín Shortall: 170. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will request Revenue to arrange for a partial refund of the local property tax (details supplied) in Dublin 11 arising from the home owner mistakenly paying the Revenue estimate amount which they now realise does not correspond to the true value of their home and they have effectively been over-charged; and if he will make a statement on the matter....