Parliamentary questions

Community Employment Schemes Places

Aengus Ó Snodaigh

14. Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide an update on the introduction of a community employment programme for those who wish to become childcare providers; the number of places that will be available and their locations; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18824/13]

Exceptional Needs Payments

Aengus Ó Snodaigh

44. Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Minister for Social Protection the average payment made under the exceptional needs payment scheme during each of the first three months of 2013. [18825/13]

International Agreements

Aengus Ó Snodaigh

130. Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Minister for Social Protection if there is a mutual tax/social welfare agreement between Ireland and Canada which would allow a returning emigrant to have a disability payment being paid to them in Ontario, Canada, to be paid in Ireland where they have family who can help support them with their disablement or if he will be entitled to an Irish social welfare payment if he returned home, having worked in Ireland until 1975 and is 61 years of age. [19298/13]

Postal Services

Aengus Ó Snodaigh

279. Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will clarify aviation rules that make the sending of sealed electronic equipment phones, games consoles and so on illegal to send for repair in Britain via An Post and thus through air freight; if his attention has been drawn to the fact that these same items can be bought online and are shipped into the country via air freight on a daily basis, and that those who wish to avail of a guarantee from the makers (details supplied) cannot interfere with the device or risk losing the warranty and that they demand that they be sent to their repair companies more often than not in Britain; if this restriction is on all air freight operators; the reason when a postee unaware of the restrictions sends such an item, that the package is destroyed instead of being returned to them. [19308/13]

Economic Competitiveness

Aengus Ó Snodaigh

124. Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the steps he has taken to address the property costs to small and medium enterprises. [18620/13]

Job Creation

Aengus Ó Snodaigh

138. Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the steps he has taken to ensure that all job creation bodies, which seek to promote enterprises, do not pass on excessive cost to client companies. [18621/13]

Proposed Legislation

Aengus Ó Snodaigh

33. Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform when he will introduce the Houses of the Oireachtas (Inquiries, Privileges and Procedures) Bill 2012 in the Dáil. [17840/13]

Youth Services Provision

Aengus Ó Snodaigh

125. Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if her attention has been drawn to the full impact of her recent funding cuts to youth projects via the City of Dublin Youth Services Board; if she accepts that she needs to reverse the cuts and increase funding to these struggling youth services in Dublin and throughout the country (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17280/13]

Land Issues

Aengus Ó Snodaigh

191. Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his attention has been drawn to the proposed displacement of the Masai tribes from their grazing lands in Tanzania; and if he raised concern with the UN that this appears to be proposed in order to accommodate unsustainable hunting tourism. [16883/13]

Property Taxation Exemptions

Aengus Ó Snodaigh

323. Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Minister for Finance if any relief or rebate from the local property tax is available for any property dwellers in estates or apartment complexes with management companies who are required to pay an annual management charge, who are responsible for street lighting, sewerage, road and paths and the general upkeep of the complex or estate, rather than the local authority and is charging such property dwellers the local property tax not a double tax. [17205/13]

Social Welfare Appeals Status

Aengus Ó Snodaigh

579. Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Minister for Social Protection when a person (details supplied) in Dublin 12 will receive a response to their appeal. [16136/13]

Rural Development Policy

Aengus Ó Snodaigh

757. Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the proposals he has to re-energise the rural resettlement programme which was available for city tenants in the past. [16127/13]

Water Services Provision

Aengus Ó Snodaigh

793. Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government in view of the state of water supplies for Dublin City, the steps he has taken to ensure that the deteoriating Vartry tunnel is refurbished to ensure continuity of supply in the future; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16687/13]

Animal Welfare

Aengus Ó Snodaigh

1022. Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when he will introduce legislation to regulate the sale and keeping of exotic pets here; the supports that are given to State veterinary services, An Garda Síochána and local authorities to deal with incidents of stray or abandoned exotic animals; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16664/13]

Child Poverty

Aengus Ó Snodaigh

1092. Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the amount spent on area based approach to child poverty to date; and the plans and projected cost for further improvement in this year. [11372/13]

Long-Term Illness Scheme Coverage

Aengus Ó Snodaigh

1212. Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Minister for Health if he will consider adding Dilated Cardiomopathy as one of the conditions that qualify for a long-term illness card due to the severity of the condition. [16649/13]

International Criminal Court

Aengus Ó Snodaigh

34. Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his views on whether it would be a positive step for Palestine to become a party to the Rome Statute and accept the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court. [15531/13]

Foreign Conflicts

Aengus Ó Snodaigh

44. Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his attention has been drawn to the deteriorating human rights situation in the Democratic Republic of Congo; the reason the DRC situation was not on the work agenda of the UN Human Rights Council, of which Ireland is a member; and if he will agree to work towards placing the DRC situation on the work agenda of the UN Human Rights Council. [15529/13]

Social Welfare Code Issues

Aengus Ó Snodaigh

143. Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Minister for Social Protection if a decision by the Athlone social welfare office not to pay social entitlements to retained fire fighters in Athlone, although they are actively seeking employment, is in contravention of the Minister of State’s statement on the matter recently. [15940/13]

Public Transport Provision

Aengus Ó Snodaigh

6. Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to help increase numbers using public transport options available to them particularly in areas with heavy commuter traffic. [15053/13]