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Written Answers — Banking Sector Regulation: Banking Sector Regulation (11 Jan 2012)

Brendan Ryan: Question 95: To ask the Minister for Finance his views that staff at team leader level and below at the State-supported Educational Building Society are not to be paid their annual Christmas payment when EBS staff from assistant manager level upwards are being awarded the payment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41429/11]

Written Answers — Banking Sector Regulation: Banking Sector Regulation (11 Jan 2012)

Brendan Ryan: Question 84: To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to tackle the discrepancies in variable mortgage rates between State-guaranteed banks; his further plans to tackle the State-guaranteed banks (details supplied) which offer the highest rates of variable interest; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41214/11]

Written Answers — School Accommodation: School Accommodation (11 Jan 2012)

Brendan Ryan: Question 162: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to the situation in a school (details supplied) in County Dublin whereby students in fourth and fifth class are sent home when the weather gets too cold in view of the fact that the prefabs they are educated in are insufficiently insulated; his plans to improve the facilities in this school; and if he...

Written Answers — Oireachtas Members' Remuneration: Oireachtas Members' Remuneration (11 Jan 2012)

Brendan Ryan: Question 266: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of members of the 31st Dáil and 24th Seanad that have requested, through the Department of Finance, to receive only the average industrial wage; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41387/11]

Written Answers — Public Service Staff: Public Service Staff (17 Jan 2012)

Brendan Ryan: Question 204: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of retired civil or public servants who returned to work in their Departments or semi-State agencies on a short-term or consultancy basis in 2011; the cost to the Exchequer of same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2467/12]

Written Answers — Public Service Staff: Public Service Staff (17 Jan 2012)

Brendan Ryan: Question 205: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his plans to end the practice of civil or public servants who took the early retirement package under the Croke Park agreement returning to work in their previous Departments on a short-term or consultancy basis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2468/12]

Written Answers — School Accommodation: School Accommodation (18 Jan 2012)

Brendan Ryan: Question 83: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will remove the disused prefabs adjacent to the schools (details supplied) in County Dublin in view of the fact that they are falling into disrepair and becoming a centre for anti-social behaviour; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2684/12]

Written Answers — Departmental Programmes: Departmental Programmes (19 Jan 2012)

Brendan Ryan: Question 156: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will consider opening the better energy scheme to local authority tenants on the proviso that the tenants will pay any balance of costs above the individual grant threshold; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3026/12]

Written Answers — Local Authority Housing: Local Authority Housing (19 Jan 2012)

Brendan Ryan: Question 163: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government with regard to the €31 million allocated to local authorities to improve the insulation of local authority houses, the amount of the €31 million that was drawn down by local authorities; the amount that went to each local authority; the number of local authority houses that benefited from the scheme;...

Written Answers — Pension Provisions: Pension Provisions (19 Jan 2012)

Brendan Ryan: Question 184: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if he will report on the implementation of the decision taken to approve a revised system of pension entitlements for local government non-officer grade whose pensions are integrated with social welfare and which was to be applied retrospectively to the 1 January 2004; if the scheme has been applied in all...

Written Answers — Redundancy Payments: Redundancy Payments (24 Jan 2012)

Brendan Ryan: Question 205: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding the redundancy claim in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Tipperary; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3650/12]

Written Answers — Household Charge: Household Charge (24 Jan 2012)

Brendan Ryan: Question 448: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if all local authorities in the State have been instructed to accept payments of the household charge; and, if so, if he will confirm or otherwise if he is accepting these charges and from which local authorities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3644/12]

Written Answers — Waste Management: Waste Management (24 Jan 2012)

Brendan Ryan: Question 461: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if he will investigate the feasibility of locating a State supervised dedicated landfill for all future incinerator ash at the currently unused €40 million state-of-the-art public landfill facility at Bottlehill, County Cork which has some apparent site advantages (details supplied); and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Departmental Schemes: Departmental Schemes (25 Jan 2012)

Brendan Ryan: Question 109: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide the following information on the Tús scheme: the number of positions available; the number that have been taken up as at 13 January 2012; the method used to fill the positions; the type of work being carried out by the participants; the budget provision for the scheme; the effect budget 2012 has made to the scheme;...

Written Answers — School Accommodation: School Accommodation (31 Jan 2012)

Brendan Ryan: Question 241: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding the application by a school (details supplied) in County Dublin for the construction of permanent classrooms to replace prefabs which are costing the school tens of thousands of euro in rent per annum; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5490/12]

Written Answers — Garda Transport: Garda Transport (1 Feb 2012)

Brendan Ryan: Question 144: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality, in view of the closure of the Garda station in Rush, County Dublin, if he will detail the number of squad cars currently available to the Garda to service the towns and surrounding areas of Balbriggan, Skerries, Rush and Lusk in County Dublin; his views on whether the current number of patrol cars is adequate to cover these areas;...

Written Answers — School Staffing: School Staffing (2 Feb 2012)

Brendan Ryan: Question 104: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the changes to the general allocation model in relation to learning support teachers has disproportionately affected Church of Ireland schools; if an analysis has been conducted regarding same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6067/12]

Written Answers — School Patronage: School Patronage (7 Feb 2012)

Brendan Ryan: Question 189: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills on foot of speculation in the media, if there are any plans to divest a primary school in the Malahide, Portmarnock or Kinsealy area of north Dublin of its Catholic patronage; if this is the case, is there a consultancy process currently taking place with schools in the area; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6854/12]

Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (7 Feb 2012)

Brendan Ryan: Question 267: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the current average waiting time for an application for carer's allowance to be processed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6613/12]

Written Answers — Proposed Legislation: Proposed Legislation (7 Feb 2012)

Brendan Ryan: Question 375: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if there is any legislation in place to regulate cash for gold shops to ensure that all purchased gold has been sourced legally; if there are plans to introduce such legislation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6614/12]