Results 15,261-15,280 of 24,567 for speaker:Róisín Shortall

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (22 Jan 2013)

Róisín Shortall: 657. To ask the Minister for Health if he intends to publish outpatient waiting times for each publicly contracted hospital consultant in order that patients and their general practitioners may exercise choice based on the length of waiting time in each case; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2985/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Public Health Policy (22 Jan 2013)

Róisín Shortall: 658. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update in the finalisation of a public health policy arising from the launch of the consultative process which commenced in June 2011; and when these proposals are likely to be presented to Dáil Éireann. [2986/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Collection (17 Jan 2013)

Róisín Shortall: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide an analysis of the basis of calculation for the income tax profile figure of €15,860 million for 2013, an increase of €684 million on the 2012 total; if he will set out the tax value of each of the factors that will increase or decrease the yield over the 2012 figure of €15,176, for example, €90 million in...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Senior Alert Scheme (17 Jan 2013)

Róisín Shortall: To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the rationale regarding his decision to introduce changes to the criteria and operation of the seniors alert scheme; the consultation, if any, that was conducted with groups administering the scheme before the decision was made to unilaterally impose these changes; the rationale behind the decision to introduce a blanket...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Foster Care (17 Jan 2013)

Róisín Shortall: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs further to Parliamentary Question No. 118 of 6 December 2012, the rates for foster payments that will apply in 2013. [2185/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Service Executive Funding (17 Jan 2013)

Róisín Shortall: To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an analysis of the opening deficit referred to in table 1 page 3 of the Health Service Executive National Service Plan 2013 by method of funding, that is overdraft, medium term bank debt, trade creditor and outstanding taxes; in relation to outstanding balance due to the Revenue Commissioners, if he will provide a time based breakdown of the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (16 Jan 2013)

Róisín Shortall: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding an application for a reader on behalf of a student (details supplied) in Dublin 11 who is due to sit the Leaving Certificate in June 2013. [1434/13]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (16 Jan 2013)

Róisín Shortall: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if additional funding or a subsidy is available within the school transport scheme for a family (details supplied) who do not have the financial means to pay school transport costs; and if he will advise on the assistance available in this regard. [1620/13]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Tax Code (16 Jan 2013)

Róisín Shortall: To ask the Minister for Social Protection further to newspaper reports (details supplied) the exemptions he intends to apply to the decision to impose PRSI on unearned income; and the estimated cost of these exemptions. [1872/13]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Applications (16 Jan 2013)

Róisín Shortall: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding an application for carer's allowance in respect of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 9 and if she can expedite a decision on same. [1225/13]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Family Income Supplement Eligibility (16 Jan 2013)

Róisín Shortall: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the way in which superannuation is defined when determining the net wage of a person applying for family income supplement and the way in which additional voluntary contributions to pension funds are treated as part of the assessment process, that is, are AVCs reckonable as a deductible expense in determining the net wage of the applicant; if the...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Immigration Status (16 Jan 2013)

Róisín Shortall: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will examine a case (details supplied) in which a recent request was made for a replacement Garda National Immigration Bureau card following a robbery; if his Department will examine the possibility of a refund in this case in view of the fact that the stolen GNIB card was recovered days after a replacement card was purchased at much expense....

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Applications (16 Jan 2013)

Róisín Shortall: To ask the Minister for Health the timescale envisaged for the publication of legislation to provide for the changes to eligibility criteria for medical card applicants who are over-seventy; the way it is proposed to discontinue medical card entitlement in respect of people who currently hold a medical card but who will exceed the guidelines when the legislation is commenced, and in...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Service Executive Expenditure (16 Jan 2013)

Róisín Shortall: To ask the Minister for Health the projected accumulated savings for each month of 2013 for each of the savings measures identified under the total 2013 saving of €323 million for the primary care reimbursement service in the 2012 Health Service Executive service plan [1815/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Eligibility (16 Jan 2013)

Róisín Shortall: To ask the Minister for Health if the new local property tax will be a deductible expense for the purposes of determining the net wage of a medical card applicant. [1871/13]

Order of Business (20 Dec 2012)

Róisín Shortall: I would like to ask about three Bills in the health area that were promised this session, which clearly we are not going to get to at this stage. The first is the HSE governance Bill, which we were told was priority legislation and which went through the Seanad in September but has not appeared since. Where is that? What is the reason for the delay? The second is the free general...

Order of Business (20 Dec 2012)

Róisín Shortall: What is the reason for the delay? It is priority legislation.

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Mortgage Interest Relief (20 Dec 2012)

Róisín Shortall: To ask the Minister for Finance his estimate of the amount of tax foregone through the application of mortgage interest relief to landlords; if he will provide a breakdown of this amount between commercial and residential landlords and the number of people claiming relief in both cases; the number and value of cases where relief is being claimed for a property outside the Republic of Ireland;...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child Care Services (20 Dec 2012)

Róisín Shortall: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will provide clarity on the situation regarding the level of funding from the Health Service Executive that is provided in respect of a group (details supplied); if this funding is being withdrawn is it a national or local decision; if her attention has been drawn to only local support to non-regulated childminders is provided through...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Youth Services (20 Dec 2012)

Róisín Shortall: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs further to Parliamentary Question No. 961 of 6 November 2012, if she will detail the funding allocation for 2013 in respect of this front line youth service; the steps she is taking to safeguard the valuable work of this service; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [57681/12]