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Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (14 Mar 2013)

Róisín Shortall: To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question no. 252 of 6 March 2013, the services and treatments available to diabetes type 1 patients under the medical card scheme. [13463/13]

Finance Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (13 Mar 2013)

Róisín Shortall: I understand this measure has been poverty proofed, as indicated by the Minister of State. I ask him to arrange to make available to Opposition Members the relevant data, including the number of people on which this tax will have a negative impact. I would appreciate it if the Minister of State gave an undertaking to make the material available. Does the Minister of State accept that...

Finance Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (13 Mar 2013)

Róisín Shortall: Therefdore, there are no answers.

Finance Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (13 Mar 2013)

Róisín Shortall: I support the amendment. Whatever about the principle of a carbon tax, this provision impacts disproportionately on poor people and those on low incomes. The application of the tax as a blunt instrument means it takes no account of ability to pay. We already have a significant fuel poverty problem. If the Government was serious about the issue and took any account of ability to pay, it...

Finance Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (13 Mar 2013)

Róisín Shortall: Notwithstanding any election promise, I do not have a major problem with the price of alcohol being increased. I hope further proposals in this regard will be forthcoming from the Minister in the near future. Such proposals are very much overdue. Will the Minister of State address the issue of claims made for VAT rebates in respect of below cost sales of alcohol? In effect, the State,...

Finance Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (13 Mar 2013)

Róisín Shortall: I strongly support this amendment. We had a discussion on this issue on Committee Stage and I appeal to the Minister, on the grounds of transparency and the public's right to know how public money is being spent, to consider the amendment favourably. It is interesting that when we look at the cost of any of the social welfare schemes, we know exactly the number of claimants and exactly...

Topical Issue Debate: Pension Provisions (13 Mar 2013)

Róisín Shortall: I do not disagree with anything the Minister of State said but he has not addressed the issue I raised. I said that there was a need for a plan to be devised to deal with this anomaly. The Minister of State knows from his own background that people have contractual arrangements whereby they are required to retire at 65. The State is abolishing the State pension transition so people are...

Topical Issue Debate: Pension Provisions (13 Mar 2013)

Róisín Shortall: I appreciate the opportunity to raise this matter which concerns an anomaly resulting from the decision to abolish the State transition pension from 2014 and what I believe to be a group of forgotten pensioners. The Government aims to save €60 million in a full year following the abolition of the State transition pension from next year. The effect is that, instead of a State pension...

Topical Issue Debate: Pension Provisions (13 Mar 2013)

Róisín Shortall: I appreciate the opportunity to raise this matter which concerns an anomaly resulting from the decision to abolish the State transition pension from 2014 and what I believe to be a group of forgotten pensioners. The Government aims to save €60 million in a full year following the abolition of the State transition pension from next year. The effect is that, instead of a State pension...

Topical Issue Debate: Pension Provisions (13 Mar 2013)

Róisín Shortall: I do not disagree with anything the Minister of State said but he has not addressed the issue I raised. I said that there was a need for a plan to be devised to deal with this anomaly. The Minister of State knows from his own background that people have contractual arrangements whereby they are required to retire at 65. The State is abolishing the State pension transition so people are...

Finance Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (13 Mar 2013)

Róisín Shortall: I strongly support this amendment. We had a discussion on this issue on Committee Stage and I appeal to the Minister, on the grounds of transparency and the public's right to know how public money is being spent, to consider the amendment favourably. It is interesting that when we look at the cost of any of the social welfare schemes, we know exactly the number of claimants and exactly...

Finance Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (13 Mar 2013)

Róisín Shortall: Notwithstanding any election promise, I do not have a major problem with the price of alcohol being increased. I hope further proposals in this regard will be forthcoming from the Minister in the near future. Such proposals are very much overdue. Will the Minister of State address the issue of claims made for VAT rebates in respect of below cost sales of alcohol? In effect, the State,...

Finance Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (13 Mar 2013)

Róisín Shortall: I support the amendment. Whatever about the principle of a carbon tax, this provision impacts disproportionately on poor people and those on low incomes. The application of the tax as a blunt instrument means it takes no account of ability to pay. We already have a significant fuel poverty problem. If the Government was serious about the issue and took any account of ability to pay, it...

Finance Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (13 Mar 2013)

Róisín Shortall: I understand this measure has been poverty proofed, as indicated by the Minister of State. I ask him to arrange to make available to Opposition Members the relevant data, including the number of people on which this tax will have a negative impact. I would appreciate it if the Minister of State gave an undertaking to make the material available. Does the Minister of State accept that...

Finance Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (13 Mar 2013)

Róisín Shortall: Therefdore, there are no answers.

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Housing Adaptation Grants Funding (12 Mar 2013)

Róisín Shortall: To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the action he is taking to ensure that adequate funding is provided to local authorities to deal with the demand for the housing aid for older persons scheme, the mobility aids housing grant scheme and the housing adaptation grant for persons with a disability; and if he will outline any eligibility and or benefit changes...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Reliefs (12 Mar 2013)

Róisín Shortall: To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 81 of 23 January 2013, if he is now in a position to provide the data requested. [12744/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Reliefs (12 Mar 2013)

Róisín Shortall: To ask the Minister for Finance the approved bodies that have benefitted from tax relief on donations made to them in the last year for which figures are available; and the value of the tax relief that applied in each case. [12896/13]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Jobseeker's Allowance Eligibility (12 Mar 2013)

Róisín Shortall: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the basis on which the imputed annual income has been determined in respect of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 9; if her attention has been drawn to the fact that the applicant disputes this figure and has provided evidence of this to her Department; and if she will instruct her Department to take action so that the two figures are reconciled...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Jobseeker's Allowance Eligibility (12 Mar 2013)

Róisín Shortall: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason a claim for jobseeker's allowance claim in respect of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 9 was suspended; and the reason this person was not notified of this prior to this action. [12735/13]