Results 141-160 of 1,168 for "section:" . (isset($hansardmajors[$1]["title"]) ? $hansardmajors[$z[1]]["title"] : "$z[1]") speaker:Mary Butler

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits Data (11 Jun 2019)

Mary Butler: 886. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated cost of increasing the weekly State pension by €9 per week to build towards achieving the commitment in the national pensions framework of a State pension set at 35% of average weekly earnings; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23639/19]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits Data (11 Jun 2019)

Mary Butler: 887. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated cost of increasing the living alone allowance by €3 per week to current recipients; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23640/19]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits Data (11 Jun 2019)

Mary Butler: 888. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated cost of increasing the over 80s allowance by €2 per week to current recipients; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23641/19]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits Data (11 Jun 2019)

Mary Butler: 890. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated cost of restoring the fuel allowance to 32 weeks, up from 27 weeks, to those eligible; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23643/19]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Bereavement Grant (11 Jun 2019)

Mary Butler: 889. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated cost of restoring the bereavement grant; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23642/19]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Schemes Expenditure (11 Jun 2019)

Mary Butler: 891. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated cost of removing income barriers to older persons getting online by creating a digital support allowance of €5 per week for all persons in receipt of the State pension; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23644/19]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: River Basin Management Plans (11 Jun 2019)

Mary Butler: 943. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of the surveys being carried out under the water framework directive in the south east of the country; the expected timeframe for surveys to be complete; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23203/19]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Issues (11 Jun 2019)

Mary Butler: 948. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the estimated cost of restoring the housing aid for older people scheme budget to 2010 levels; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23645/19]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Issues (11 Jun 2019)

Mary Butler: 949. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the estimated cost of reversing the changes to criteria introduced to the housing aid scheme in January 2014 to ensure better access to grants for disadvantaged older persons; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23646/19]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Home Loan Scheme (11 Jun 2019)

Mary Butler: 991. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of applications made in 2018, by county for the Rebuilding Ireland home loan scheme; the number of applications approved; the value of applications versus funds approved in tabular form; his plans for the scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24106/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Autism Support Services (29 May 2019)

Mary Butler: 96. To ask the Minister for Health the number of assessments of need carried out by the ASD team located in Waterford city and county in each of the years 2016 to 2018, by age groups of zero to six, seven to 12 and 13 to 18 years of age in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22901/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Autism Support Services (29 May 2019)

Mary Butler: 97. To ask the Minister for Health the average length of time a child may be waiting for an assessment of need for an ASD diagnosis in Waterford city and county; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22902/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Autism Support Services (29 May 2019)

Mary Butler: 98. To ask the Minister for Health the reason some HSE disability services in various CHOs are reluctant to accept privately sourced assessment of needs diagnosis for ASD which parents have privately undertaken from qualified medical personnel due to the length of the waiting lists; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22903/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Autism Support Services (29 May 2019)

Mary Butler: 99. To ask the Minister for Health when and they way in which the 15 additional posts promised under the 2019 National Service Plan of the HSE to improve access and assessments for children in County Waterford and the south-east will be allocated; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22904/19]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Disease Controls (29 May 2019)

Mary Butler: 128. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the procedures in place to detect disease on imported bees; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22924/19]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Intellectual Property Management (28 May 2019)

Mary Butler: 37. To ask the Taoiseach the value which the development of intellectual property contributed to the economy in 2018. [22525/19]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Applications (28 May 2019)

Mary Butler: 110. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when an application for funding by a school (details supplied) will be determined; the status of same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22639/19]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Intellectual Property Management (28 May 2019)

Mary Butler: 187. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the specific measures being put in place to attract foreign direct investment from companies engaged in the commercialisation of all forms of intellectual property; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22523/19]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Intellectual Property Management (28 May 2019)

Mary Butler: 188. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation her views on whether uncertainty over the treatment of intellectual property assets in the tax system is hampering efforts to attract foreign direct investment; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22524/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Emergency Departments Waiting Times (28 May 2019)

Mary Butler: 269. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons aged 75 years of age and over who experienced an emergency department wait time of more than 24 hours in the first quarter of 2019; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22608/19]