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Written Answers — Pension Provisions: Pension Provisions (16 Dec 2010)

Róisín Shortall: Question 147: To ask the Minister for Finance if the universal social charge will be applied to a single person in receipt of a State pension with an occupational pension of less than €4,004 that is, where their gross income is greater than €4,004 but where the gross income less the value of the State pension is less than the €4,004 threshold [47936/10]

Written Answers — Community Employment Schemes: Community Employment Schemes (15 Dec 2010)

Róisín Shortall: Question 89: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills the FÁS training and community employment rates that will apply in 2011. [47556/10]

Written Answers — Passport Applications: Passport Applications (15 Dec 2010)

Róisín Shortall: Question 162: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs the charges that will apply to pensioners in respect of passports in 2011. [47554/10]

Written Answers — Social Insurance: Social Insurance (15 Dec 2010)

Róisín Shortall: Question 164: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the basis on which the estimate for the yield of €145 million from the abolition of the PRSI ceiling was arrived at when all previous estimates and replies given to parliamentary questions put the figure at €119 million in a full year [47550/10]

Written Answers — Departmental Expenditure: Departmental Expenditure (15 Dec 2010)

Róisín Shortall: Question 180: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the steps he is taking to ensure a €30 saving on the household benefit package in 2011. [47549/10]

Written Answers — Departmental Expenditure: Departmental Expenditure (15 Dec 2010)

Róisín Shortall: Question 181: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the way in which he intends to reform rent supplement to yield savings of €60m in 2011. [47551/10]

Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (15 Dec 2010)

Róisín Shortall: Question 182: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the way the treatment benefit scheme will operate in 2011. [47552/10]

Written Answers — Departmental Expenditure: Departmental Expenditure (15 Dec 2010)

Róisín Shortall: Question 183: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if he will provide full details of the measures relating to control, eligibility and structural reform referred to in the Budget documentation and the way cumulatively these will yield €49m in 2011. [47553/10]

Written Answers — Motor Taxation: Motor Taxation (15 Dec 2010)

Róisín Shortall: Question 199: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the motor tax rates that will apply in 2011 and the way these compare to 2010. [47555/10]

Written Answers — Departmental Properties: Departmental Properties (14 Dec 2010)

Róisín Shortall: Question 347: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Innovation if he will report on a recent planning permission obtained by Enterprise Ireland for works to their premises on Old Finglas Road, Dublin 11; the estimated cost of these works; if it is intended to proceed with them in view of the changed economic cost of these works and pressure of departmental budgets; and if he will...

Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) (No. 2) Bill 2010: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (14 Dec 2010)

Róisín Shortall: German bonds have a lower yield.

Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) (No. 2) Bill 2010: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (14 Dec 2010)

Róisín Shortall: The whole purpose of this was that Irish bonds had a high yield, so there was a win-win situation.

Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) (No. 2) Bill 2010: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (14 Dec 2010)

Róisín Shortall: Why did the Minister not limit it to Irish bonds?

Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) (No. 2) Bill 2010: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (14 Dec 2010)

Róisín Shortall: Under the existing rules, annuities must be priced against German bonds.

Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) (No. 2) Bill 2010: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (14 Dec 2010)

Róisín Shortall: I am saying that under the current rules Irish annuities must be priced against German bonds. Why can the Government not simply change that regulation to allow them to be priced against Irish bonds? It does not have to be EU bonds.

Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) (No. 2) Bill 2010: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (14 Dec 2010)

Róisín Shortall: That is why I am saying the measure will not necessarily achieve what it is intended to achieve.

Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) (No. 2) Bill 2010: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (14 Dec 2010)

Róisín Shortall: Is it fair?

Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) (No. 2) Bill 2010: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (14 Dec 2010)

Róisín Shortall: I am not talking about Deputies. It applies to other people.

Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) (No. 2) Bill 2010: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (14 Dec 2010)

Róisín Shortall: In general, I have an open mind in respect of this matter. If it is possible for the Department to use electronic means of operating in order to save money, that is fine provided the proper safeguards are put in place. However, the Department has not distinguished itself in the context of adopting modern technologies. In the past, it proved to be incapable of even collecting the PPS...

Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) (No. 2) Bill 2010: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (14 Dec 2010)

Róisín Shortall: I move amendment No. 7: In page 10, line 35, after "number" to insert "and a tax clearance certificate". These two amendments and the following couple all relate to the payment of rent supplement. Rent supplement probably is the area of social welfare that is crying out most for reform. The manner in which it operates at present poses the greatest poverty trap to people in receipt of social...