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Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 32 - Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation (Revised) (21 Jun 2016)

Mary Butler: I am conscious of the time so let us move on.

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 32 - Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation (Revised) (21 Jun 2016)

Mary Butler: Do Members have any questions on programme D or the administrative subheads of programmes A, B and C? No.

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 32 - Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation (Revised) (21 Jun 2016)

Mary Butler: I thank the Minister of State. As there are no further questions we will conclude our consideration of the Revised Estimate, Vote 32 - Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation. I thank the Minister, Ministers of State and departmental officials for attending today's meeting. I also thank the clerk to the committee and the secretariat who have been very good to me in recent days in briefing me and...

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Message to Dáil (21 Jun 2016)

Mary Butler: In accordance with Standing Order 90, the following message will be sent to the Dáil:The Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation has completed its consideration of the following Revised Estimate for public services for the year ending 31 December 2016: Vote 32 - Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport Eligibility (28 Jun 2016)

Mary Butler: 101. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills why persons (details supplied) find themselves in a situation where the eldest child who is nine years of age qualifies for the school bus and the two younger members of the family who are six and eight years of age are concessionary; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18167/16]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Community Employment Schemes Supervisors (28 Jun 2016)

Mary Butler: 242. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if he is aware that supervisors working on community employment schemes reaching 66 years of age are being forced to retire from their jobs as funding for their salaries is being withdrawn when in fact there is no legal retirement age here; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18176/16]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Community Employment Schemes Data (28 Jun 2016)

Mary Butler: 271. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if he is aware that funding is being withdrawn from community employment schemes for supervisors reaching 66 years of age and thereby forcing supervisors into retirement when there is no legal retirement age here; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18178/16]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Community Employment Schemes Funding (28 Jun 2016)

Mary Butler: 272. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if he is aware that currently the financial viability of a large number of community employment schemes is at stake and may face closure due to the massive increases both in insurance premiums and accounting fees imposed on community and voluntary sponsors; if he will consider increasing the material grant per participant to 2011 rate of...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Pensions (28 Jun 2016)

Mary Butler: 340. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the progress the high level forum has made to date and if he envisages a final solution to issues raised with regard to the community and voluntary sector; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18182/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (28 Jun 2016)

Mary Butler: 408. To ask the Minister for Health when he will provide an operation for a person (details supplied); the reason for the delay; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18150/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (28 Jun 2016)

Mary Butler: 432. To ask the Minister for Health when an operation will be provided for a person (details supplied); the reason for the delay; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18338/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (29 Jun 2016)

Mary Butler: 155. To ask the Minister for Health to expedite an appointment for a person (details supplied). [18587/16]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Better Energy Homes Scheme (29 Jun 2016)

Mary Butler: 193. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources his plans to make further funding allocations available in 2016 for Waterford City and County Council towards the energy bureau of Waterford Council; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18620/16]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Better Energy Homes Scheme (29 Jun 2016)

Mary Butler: 194. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if and when he will make funding available under energy efficiency and renewable energy technology for a project; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18622/16]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Targeted Agricultural Modernisation Scheme (30 Jun 2016)

Mary Butler: 245. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 555 of 24 May 2016 when a targeted agricultural modernisation scheme II payment will be made to a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19028/16]

Banded Hours Contract Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (5 Jul 2016)

Mary Butler: Bringing clarity to working hours is essential to creating decent jobs. Workers in precarious zero-hour contract positions face uncertainty every week in terms of the hours they are required to work, which impacts greatly on the whole family. The argument for why zero-hour contracts are bad for workers is obvious. Without a set number of guaranteed working hours, many workers will struggle...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Tenant Purchase Scheme (5 Jul 2016)

Mary Butler: 232. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government why he is discriminating against persons living in council properties who earn under €15,000 per annum and who have lived in their home for in excess of 40 years by denying them the opportunity to purchase the property; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19362/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (5 Jul 2016)

Mary Butler: 454. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will be called for an operation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19129/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (5 Jul 2016)

Mary Butler: 504. To ask the Minister for Health if he will ensure a person (details supplied) receives surgery without further delay; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19310/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Care Packages (5 Jul 2016)

Mary Butler: 562. To ask the Minister for Health the number of home help hours allocated under the home care package in each of the years 2008 to 2016 to date, in tabular form. [19627/16]