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Written Answers — Departmental Reports: Departmental Reports (19 Nov 2009)

James Reilly: Question 75: To ask the Minister for Finance his view on the recommendations of the interdepartmental review group made in 2002 on tax concessions for disabled drivers and disabled passengers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42453/09]

Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (19 Nov 2009)

James Reilly: Question 103: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when a person (details supplied) in County Dublin will expect to have a peg feed put in place at Beaumont Hospital, Dublin; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42435/09]

Written Answers — Health Insurance: Health Insurance (19 Nov 2009)

James Reilly: Question 104: To ask the Minister for Health and Children her plans to replace the health insurance levy scheme with a risk equalisation scheme; the timeframe for same; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42454/09]

Order of Business (19 Nov 2009)

James Reilly: Were there raisins in it?

Order of Business (19 Nov 2009)

James Reilly: Yesterday I asked the Taoiseach a question he had difficulty in understanding so perhaps the Tánaiste might be able to help me, particularly because it falls within her remit.

Order of Business (19 Nov 2009)

James Reilly: It clearly relates to legislation. It relates to the Finance Act and whether the current situation, which allows a particular company to recruit off-shore and avoid PRSI, with uncertainty about whether those people, who are resident in Ireland, pay tax-----

Order of Business (19 Nov 2009)

James Reilly: This is too important. There are hundreds of jobs at risk, and the finance Bill is coming up.

Order of Business (19 Nov 2009)

James Reilly: I am sorry a Cheann Comhairle, but I am referring to the finance Bill. Other people have been given a good deal of latitude and I am asking a simple question. Is this legal, has Revenue given an opinion and if it is legal, is it intended to close it off in the finance Bill?

Order of Business (19 Nov 2009)

James Reilly: I am trying to find out if legislation is promised to correct this loophole.

Order of Business (19 Nov 2009)

James Reilly: That is the bottom line.

Order of Business (19 Nov 2009)

James Reilly: Well, they did not work-----

Written Answers — Nursing Homes Support Scheme: Nursing Homes Support Scheme (18 Nov 2009)

James Reilly: Question 177: To ask the Minister for Health and Children, with regard to private nursing homes approved under the nursing homes support scheme, if the €190 licensing fee per designated place in a nursing home was included in the detailed costing that formed part of the negotiations on the cost of care with the National Treatment Purchase Fund; and if she will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Nursing Homes Support Scheme: Nursing Homes Support Scheme (18 Nov 2009)

James Reilly: Question 178: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the amount of funding she will make available to the nursing homes support scheme in 2010; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42078/09]

Written Answers — Nursing Homes Support Scheme: Nursing Homes Support Scheme (18 Nov 2009)

James Reilly: Question 179: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the role the county registrar will play in approving care representatives to the nursing homes support scheme; if county registrars have been briefed on the processes and procedures with regard to this; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42079/09]

Written Answers — Nursing Homes Support Scheme: Nursing Homes Support Scheme (18 Nov 2009)

James Reilly: Question 180: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if patients registered under the nursing homes support scheme in public hospital care who do not have a medical card will be charged additional moneys for care services such as physiotherapy, occupational therapy, speech therapy, special incontinence wear, special bandages and so on; and if she will make a statement on the matter....

International Human Trafficking: Motion (Resumed) (18 Nov 2009)

James Reilly: I congratulate Deputy Naughten on bringing forward this motion to address the current weaknesses in the approach to trafficking, which is facilitating the development of the slave and sex trade in Ireland. It is generally seen that Ireland is a haven for the sex and slave trade. The illegal sex industry here is reckoned to be worth €180 million a year, with an estimated 1,000 men paying...

Adoption Bill 2009 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (18 Nov 2009)

James Reilly: That is fine.

Order of Business (18 Nov 2009)

James Reilly: I want to raise two issues. Last week, I raised this issue vis-À-vis a matter which has serious implications for saving existing jobs and also revenue to the State at a time when we can do with every bit of revenue we can get. I recently met with the pilots of our national airline who told me that hundreds of jobs are at risk because of contractual arrangements-----

Order of Business (18 Nov 2009)

James Reilly: Yes. There is promised business. A budget will come to this House in a few weeks' time. I asked last week if the Minister for Finance was aware of the loophole where recruiting can take place outside the country for jobs in this country which has two effects. First-----

Order of Business (18 Nov 2009)

James Reilly: No, it is not. If I could be allowed to finish-----