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Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Commercial Rates Valuation Process (8 Jun 2016)

Willie Penrose: 259. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if she will consider reform of the rateable valuation system, with a view to modernising same, so as to ensure that any referred system provides for appropriate valuations rates reductions and abatements, particularly where new businesses are starting up, and where same are located in rural areas; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Departmental Correspondence (8 Jun 2016)

Willie Penrose: 301. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the steps he will take not to allow any further communiques to issue from his Department exhorting jobseekers to use financial institutions rather than post offices to collect their payments (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14544/16]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Basic Payment Scheme Applications (8 Jun 2016)

Willie Penrose: 553. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will confirm that a person (details supplied) has applied before the deadline for basic farm entitlements pursuant to the Scottish derogation provisions from the national reserve, if he will further confirm that they have been awarded their entitlements pursuant to the said provisions; and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Projects (8 Jun 2016)

Willie Penrose: 627. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will take steps to ensure that the necessary funding to enable the N4 realignment project between counties Westmeath and Longford to proceed is allocated, as the route corridor has been identified, necessitating a decision he made on the emerging preferred route, without further delay; and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Children and Young People’s Policy Framework (8 Jun 2016)

Willie Penrose: 678. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the steps he will take pursuant to the programme for Government to implement the National Policy Framework for Children and Young People 2014-2020, Better Outcomes, Brighter Futures; the objectives of the National Youth Strategy 2015-2020; to reverse the reductions in financial support afforded to various organisations which are...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Care Packages Provision (2 Jun 2016)

Willie Penrose: 89. To ask the Minister for Health if he will ensure that there will be no reduction in home help and home care packages for elderly persons and persons with a disability in 2016; the total funding available for home help and home care packages; and if there is a funding shortfall within the Health Service Executive for the provision of these vital supports. [13735/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff Recruitment (2 Jun 2016)

Willie Penrose: 95. To ask the Minister for Health if the Health Service Executive has suspended recruitment of doctors, nurses and midwives in hospitals until further notice, given the significant number of vacant posts across the health system; if so, when the moratorium will be lifted; and the levels of additional recruitment across all sectors of the Health Service Executive he expects in 2016. [13734/16]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Domiciliary Care Allowance Applications (2 Jun 2016)

Willie Penrose: 209. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the status of an appeal by a person (details supplied) under the domiciliary care allowance scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter.. [14168/16]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Domiciliary Care Allowance Applications (2 Jun 2016)

Willie Penrose: 210. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the status of an appeal by a person (details supplied) under the domiciliary care allowance scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14169/16]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Disability Allowance Payments (2 Jun 2016)

Willie Penrose: 211. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the status of an appeal by a person (details supplied) under the disability allowance scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14170/16]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Basic Payment Scheme Applications (2 Jun 2016)

Willie Penrose: 282. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will take steps to address and rectify the issues referred to in correspondence (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14182/16]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Scheme Payments (2 Jun 2016)

Willie Penrose: 283. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a person (details supplied) will receive payments under the basic payment scheme for the past number of years; payments under the areas of natural constraint and disadvantaged areas schemes for 2014 and 2015; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14183/16]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Property Tax (1 Jun 2016)

Willie Penrose: 119. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will consider issuing directions to local authorities to provide a small portion of the local property tax to estates which have been taken in charge and have their own established residents associations, so as to facilitate them in maintaining open spaces, landscaping, grass cutting and other decorative works; and...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Delays (1 Jun 2016)

Willie Penrose: 126. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the steps he will take to expedite an application by a person (details supplied) under the carer's allowance scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13870/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (1 Jun 2016)

Willie Penrose: 173. To ask the Minister for Health how he will ensure a person (details supplied) is admitted to a hospital (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13867/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Staff (1 Jun 2016)

Willie Penrose: 174. To ask the Minister for Health his proposals to enable persons employed by the Health Service Executive at clerical officer and other grades to continue employment beyond 65 years of age if they so desire; if he is considering amending the statutory framework to allow persons who express this desire to do so, particularly in the context of other changes in recent years in the welfare...

Workers' Rights: Motion [Private Members] (31 May 2016)

Willie Penrose: Fairness and decency at work sum up the aspirations of all working people throughout the world in their working lives. This involves opportunities for work that are productive and deliver fair outcomes, security in the workplace, better prospects for personal development and social integration. In Ireland it means, among other things, paying a living wage and giving decent terms and...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Property Tax Exemptions (26 May 2016)

Willie Penrose: 77. To ask the Minister for Finance the steps he will take to communicate with the Revenue Commissioners to ensure that a person (details supplied) whose house was under construction in 2014 and which has been completed and is fit for habitation is not subject to the local property tax until 2017, which is in accordance with the correspondence furnished upon inquiry in February 2014 by the...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: State Pension (Contributory) (26 May 2016)

Willie Penrose: 135. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the assets and income an adult dependant must have before being disqualified from receiving the adult dependant allowance where a spouse is entitled to the state pension (contributory); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12435/16]

Ceisteanna - Questions (resumed) - Priority Questions: Departmental Legal Cases (25 May 2016)

Willie Penrose: 28. To ask the Minister for Social Protection to commit to initiating a legal case under section 599 of the Companies Act 2014 in an effort to recover moneys paid by the State to cover the statutory redundancy entitlements of the former workers of Clerys department store who were made redundant in June 2015; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11890/16]