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Written Answers — Social Welfare Code: Social Welfare Code (9 Dec 2010)

Noel Ahern: Question 77: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if a person evicted from a local authority house can be considered for rent allowance; the way this can be achieved since they are banned from applying for local authority housing; if arrangements can be made since they are in private rented housing for seven months at their own expense; and if they can receive rent allowance. [46794/10]

Written Answers — Social Welfare Code: Social Welfare Code (9 Dec 2010)

Noel Ahern: Question 85: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding the way family income supplement payments are treated with rent allowance applications; if same can be outlined and if such treatment is consistent with other benefits. [46810/10]

Written Answers — Local Authority Housing: Local Authority Housing (9 Dec 2010)

Noel Ahern: Question 93: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the position regarding the entitlement to housing by a person evicted from local authority housing on anti-social grounds; if the two year ban from consideration for local authority housing is a national rule or set by individual local authorities; [46794/10]

Written Answers — Water Charges: Water Charges (9 Dec 2010)

Noel Ahern: Question 94: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the position regarding the installation of domestic water meters; the timescale for installation of meters; if the contract or contracts have been awarded or when same will be advertised; the way plumbers indicate or register their interest in being involved; if the Department is involved in training courses...

Financial Resolution No. 18: Capital Acquisitions Tax (7 Dec 2010)

Noel Ahern: I welcome the change. I understand the point some Members are making. They regret that first-time buyers will not get the benefits they previously did. Traditionally, we always tried to stand up for and support the first-time buyer but, to be fair, such buyers are no longer the most needy group.

Financial Resolution No. 18: Capital Acquisitions Tax (7 Dec 2010)

Noel Ahern: If such buyers can get a loan, they do rather well. The group people want to help now are those who bought houses or, in particular, apartments, some years ago and now want to trade up and buy a family home but are in negative equity. We probably cannot do anything very positive for them but at least we are now asking them to pay only 1% if they trade up with their negative equity rather...

Order of Business (2 Dec 2010)

Noel Ahern: It was always done before Christmas.

Written Answers — National Treatment Purchase Fund: National Treatment Purchase Fund (25 Nov 2010)

Noel Ahern: Question 107: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the position regarding the National Treatment Purchase Fund; if any provision has been made this year for outpatient appointments; if a person (details supplied) in Dublin 9 with an ongoing condition, who has been told that they will have to wait one year before they can see a consultant, can access this scheme with a view to getting...

Written Answers — Prescription Charges: Prescription Charges (25 Nov 2010)

Noel Ahern: Question 108: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the position regarding the 50 cent charge on all prescription items for medical card holders; the position regarding the €10 monthly limit per household on this charge; the position when a household's total prescription charges exceed this limit; if the €10 limit is a cut-off point, beyond which the family are no longer charged,...

Written Answers — Civil Partnership: Civil Partnership (24 Nov 2010)

Noel Ahern: Question 94: To ask the Minister for Justice and Law Reform the position regarding the Civil Partnerships Act; if all sections have been implemented to date or the sections that have been implemented to date; the further position regarding inheritance of the home owned or occupied by both partners; if persons can now complete the legalities for such properties or if this provision has to be...

Written Answers — Mental Health Services: Mental Health Services (18 Nov 2010)

Noel Ahern: Question 92: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will provide an update on the development of community-based mental health services as envisioned in the A Vision for Change policy of 2006; the number of patients that have been moved from institutional care settings to the type of community based accommodation proposed in this report; if the progress in implementing this...

Written Answers — Ambulance Service: Ambulance Service (18 Nov 2010)

Noel Ahern: Question 93: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the situation regarding the withdrawal of the Swords ambulance as notified by Dublin City Council management and in view of the fact that the withdrawal is founded in an inter-agency dispute with the Health Service Executive refusing to pay for same, if she will arrange to sort matters out with the various agencies under their remit....

Written Answers — Cash for Gold Schemes: Cash for Gold Schemes (18 Nov 2010)

Noel Ahern: Question 114: To ask the Minister for Justice and Law Reform his views on the recent proliferation of cash for gold shops; if persons selling gold to these shops need to provide personal identification or receipts for the item they are selling, and if these shops are required to keep records of same; if the proprietors of these outlets require any kind of licence or permit to operate; his...

Written Answers — Local Authority Housing: Local Authority Housing (18 Nov 2010)

Noel Ahern: Question 145: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the position regarding the average waiting time for local authority tenants who are due to get a home extension on medical grounds; the criteria used in deciding which applicants are prioritised on these lists; if such extensions are funded from housing capital grants for the relevant year; if his Department...

Written Answers — Retail Sector Developments: Retail Sector Developments (18 Nov 2010)

Noel Ahern: Question 146: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government in the context of the recent proliferation of cash-for-gold shops, if planning approval or change of use permission is required for such premises. [43441/10]

Written Answers — Local Authority Housing: Local Authority Housing (18 Nov 2010)

Noel Ahern: Question 147: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the position regarding arrangements with financial institutions in his Department's various housing schemes; the financial institutions that currently provide mortgages for affordable homes and the arrangement with first and second claim; the arrangement with the low-cost sites scheme; if it differs from the...

Written Answers — Postal Services: Postal Services (18 Nov 2010)

Noel Ahern: Question 153: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will clarify the situation regarding the third postal directive; the way this matter is being dealt with; if it is being dealt with by primary legislation or statutory instrument; if he anticipates job losses in An Post following the liberalisation of the postal market and if they envisage the need to...

Local Government (Mayor and Regional Authority of Dublin) Bill 2010: Second Stage (Resumed) (17 Nov 2010)

Noel Ahern: I was a member of a local authority, Dublin City Council, for 17 years. Generally, I regard that period as a positive time for me. I began to get involved in and learn the ropes of politics. It often surprises me when I hear people of all sides criticising, lamenting or complaining about their time in local authorities. Before the dual mandate was done away with many of us served on a...

Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (16 Nov 2010)

Noel Ahern: Question 176: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the situation regarding the provision of MRI scans and if they are provided free as part of the general medical services to inpatients and outpatients; the number of MRI scans that took place in the past year or any recent year for which data is available; if she will provide details of the waiting list for MRI scans in each of the...

Written Answers — Towing Services: Towing Services (16 Nov 2010)

Noel Ahern: Question 239: To ask the Minister for Justice and Law Reform the position regarding contracts entered into by the gardaí with towing operators with or without car park compounds; if draft guidance documents are provided by his Department to assist with such contracts; his views on cases where persons co-operated with gardaí and allowed their cars to be taken away for forensic examination...