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Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Household Charge Collection (6 Nov 2012)

Brendan Ryan: To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will investigate the situation in an estate in North County Dublin (details supplied) which is unfinished and exempt from the household charge but where residents living in the unfinished section of the estate have been issued with late payment penalty notices, when no resident should have to pay any household charge;...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (23 Oct 2012)

Brendan Ryan: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason incapacity supplement is not a qualifying payment for partial capacity benefit; and if there are plans to extend the partial capacity benefit scheme to make it available to those in receipt of incapacity supplement. [46480/12]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Waste Management (23 Oct 2012)

Brendan Ryan: To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government when the interdepartmental working group established following the publication of the national waste policy A Resource Opportunity will report to him with its recommendations on measures to minimise the impact of waste charges on low income houses; when he will implement the working group's recommendations; and if he will...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (23 Oct 2012)

Brendan Ryan: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason incapacity supplement is not a qualifying payment for partial capacity benefit; and if there are plans to extend the partial capacity benefit scheme to make it available to those in receipt of incapacity supplement. [46480/12]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Waste Management (23 Oct 2012)

Brendan Ryan: To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government when the interdepartmental working group established following the publication of the national waste policy A Resource Opportunity will report to him with its recommendations on measures to minimise the impact of waste charges on low income houses; when he will implement the working group's recommendations; and if he will...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (23 Oct 2012)

Brendan Ryan: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason incapacity supplement is not a qualifying payment for partial capacity benefit; and if there are plans to extend the partial capacity benefit scheme to make it available to those in receipt of incapacity supplement. [46480/12]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Waste Management (23 Oct 2012)

Brendan Ryan: To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government when the interdepartmental working group established following the publication of the national waste policy A Resource Opportunity will report to him with its recommendations on measures to minimise the impact of waste charges on low income houses; when he will implement the working group's recommendations; and if he will...

Report of the Pyrite Panel: Statements (Resumed) (18 Oct 2012)

Brendan Ryan: We need action by the Government to tackle the pyrite crisis and we need it urgently. The pyrite panel report can lay the foundations for a path out of the pyrite crisis. It is nowhere near perfect but it is a basis from which to begin to resolve the crisis and this process must begin now. In July, when the much delayed report was finally released, I stated I saw no reason to delay the...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: IDA Site Visits (16 Oct 2012)

Brendan Ryan: To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of times sites in the Balbriggan area of North County Dublin have been shown to prospective investors in the past five years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44792/12]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Gas and Electricity Disconnections (16 Oct 2012)

Brendan Ryan: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will engage with existing energy suppliers with a view to coming up with a national scheme for State funded schools in order to cut energy costs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44790/12]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Water Charges (16 Oct 2012)

Brendan Ryan: To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will consider working with other Departments and private operators, to deliver waivers and/or cost reductions for water charges and waste charges for all State funded schools in order to alleviate cost burdens on the schools; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44789/12]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Services for People with Disabilities (16 Oct 2012)

Brendan Ryan: To ask the Minister for Health the Health Service Executive's policy regarding young persons with disabilities leaving a foster care situation; if the HSE continues to be responsible for the provision of care to these young persons; the supports that are offered by adult disability services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44775/12]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Services for People with Disabilities (16 Oct 2012)

Brendan Ryan: To ask the Minister for Health the average cost to the State of care provision to a person with a disability living in State residential care [44776/12]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Pension Provisions (16 Oct 2012)

Brendan Ryan: To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update of the progress made in the retrospective application of Circular 20/2005, which provides for the recalculation of pension entitlements for low paid workers in the Health Service Executive for the Eastern region; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44797/12]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Managing Back to School Costs: Discussion (10 Oct 2012)

Brendan Ryan: I thank the patron bodies for their contributions, which were very practical and enjoyable. We are having this meeting in the context of a difficult budgetary situation that has occurred over recent years and that is likely to continue. By and large, while every group referred to that fact and to the reductions in funding, they all remained positive and tried to come up with solutions. The...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Fees (9 Oct 2012)

Brendan Ryan: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to any circumstances under which a person can be denied access to free fees by a third level institution on grounds of residency status while a family member of the same status can be granted access to free fees. [42719/12]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Fees (9 Oct 2012)

Brendan Ryan: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he is satisfied that young persons resident here under a Stamp 4 are not eligible for free fees unless a determination has also been made by the Minister for Justice not to make a deportation under section three of the Immigration Act 1999; if he is satisfied that the difference between these two residency statuses is sufficient grounds for them...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Policy to Minimise Unemployment: Discussion with Department of Social Protection (3 Oct 2012)

Brendan Ryan: It is the partial capacity benefit scheme. Do the witnesses have any early thoughts on how it is working? It appears that many of the people who apply for it are people who might have had an exemption and a disability pension and the exemption has been removed. They apply for the partial capacity benefit in order to keep working. It also appears that many of them are applying initially...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: VAT Rates (18 Sep 2012)

Brendan Ryan: To ask the Minister for Finance if VAT is charged on crested and official primary school uniforms; if so, does this run contrary to the zero VAT rate on clothes labelled and marketed for children under 11 years of age; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37037/12]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Staffing (18 Sep 2012)

Brendan Ryan: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide the current number of autistic spectrum units in North County Dublin; if there are plans for more ASD units to be rolled out in the area over the next few years; if there are details of such plans; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37800/12]