Parliamentary questions

Home Care Packages

Richard Boyd Barrett

645. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Health if he will provide the full facts and figures of the costs involved in supporting elderly and disabled people and children with life-limiting illnesses to live independently in their own homes through the public provision of home help/home care services; if he will also provide a similar cost breakdown in relation to caring for elderly and disabled people and children with life-limiting illnesses in residential nursing homes and acute hospital beds; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43122/12]

Home Help Service Provision

Richard Boyd Barrett

646. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Health the number of voluntary/and not-for-profit home help/home care organisations are there currently operating in Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43123/12]

Home Help Service

Richard Boyd Barrett

647. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Health if he will provide a breakdown of the location of and to whom the new home help/home care service tenders are being given/or have been for the past 12 months; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43124/12]

Home Help Service Redundancies

Richard Boyd Barrett

664. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to concerns being raised by home helps with regards to their lack of contracts and conditions of employment; his plans to take action regarding same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41675/12]

Home Help Service Redundancies

Richard Boyd Barrett

665. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Health his plans to ensure that there are standard contracts with detailed terms and conditions for workers in the home help sector; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41674/12]

Harbour Authorities Appointments

Richard Boyd Barrett

699. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Transport; Tourism and Sport if he will outline all plans for the Diaspora Centre, Dun Laoghaire, Dublin; the stage they are at including origin of all funding; if any staff have been appointed at this stage; and the pay scale of same. [43179/12]

Tax Code

Richard Boyd Barrett

53. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Finance if he will consider higher taxes on incomes of more than €100,000; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42323/12]

Tax Collection

Richard Boyd Barrett

57. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Finance if he will consider a wealth tax as an alternative to property tax; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42283/12]

Tax Reliefs Availability

Richard Boyd Barrett

63. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Finance the tax relief for approved retirement funds in respect of earners if more than €80,000 and for earners more than €100,000; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42351/12]

Tax Reliefs Availability

Richard Boyd Barrett

64. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Finance the amount of tax relief foregone by the provision for patent income relief; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42352/12]

Tax Yield

Richard Boyd Barrett

65. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Finance if he will provide the latest figures in tabular form on the total earnings of the top 10,000 income earners; the top 1% of income earners; the top 5% of income earners; the top 10% of income earners and the top 20% of income earners; the number of earners in those groups; the average earnings of those groups; the total amount of tax on earnings paid by these groups in absolute terms, in percentage terms and in effective tax rate terms and including additional columns showing liability for the universal social charge and the effect of the universal social charge on the total tax take and the effective tax rate. [42353/12]

Tax Collection

Richard Boyd Barrett

66. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Finance if he will provide the latest figures on income tax in tabular form in bands of €10,000 ranging from €0 to €5 million; the gross income in each band; the numbers in each band; the percentage of total numbers in each band; the average income in each band; the income tax paid in each band; the universal social charge paid in each band; the PRSI paid in each band; the total tax including USC and PRSI paid in each band; the total income after all taxes paid in each band; the average income after all tax is paid in each band and the effective tax rate after all taxes, including USC and PRSI, as a percentage of income paid in each band. [42354/12]

Economic Growth Rate

Richard Boyd Barrett

78. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Finance if he will report on the most recent figures for growth and for the economy here; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34961/12]

Residential Institutions Redress Scheme

Richard Boyd Barrett

96. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No 468 of 18 September 2012, when he expects to provide the full information. [42087/12]

Official Engagements

Richard Boyd Barrett

6. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Taoiseach if he will report on the recent discussions with British Prime Minister David Cameron; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41631/12]

Job Creation Targets

Richard Boyd Barrett

241. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Jobs; Enterprise and Innovation if he has targets for creating jobs so as to reduce unemployment over the coming year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39029/12]

Hospital Services

Richard Boyd Barrett

16. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Health the reason for the medical treatment being provided in respect of a person (details supplied) in terms of rehabilitation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41009/12]

Child Care Services Provision

Richard Boyd Barrett

35. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will ensure that a creche at a centre (details supplied), Dublin, receives the funding it needs in order that the residential treatment centre for women and children will remain open. [40662/12]

Tax Yield

Richard Boyd Barrett

54. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Finance the actual effective corporate tax rate over the past five years, breaking it down year by year and the amount of corporate tax paid over the past five years, broken down year by year. [40932/12]

Tax Yield

Richard Boyd Barrett

55. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Finance the projected effective corporate tax rate for the next year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40933/12]

Tax Reliefs Availability

Richard Boyd Barrett

56. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Finance the cost of the tax break for private medical insurance; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40934/12]

Tax Reliefs Availability

Richard Boyd Barrett

57. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Finance the cost of the tax break for private medical insurance according to band A, B and C in VHI and equivalent bands in all private medical insurance companies in the state; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40935/12]

Health Services Expenditure

Richard Boyd Barrett

203. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Health if he will give details of the €700 million cuts to the health budget; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41012/12]

Medicinal Products Expenditure

Richard Boyd Barrett

204. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Health if he will report on the progress made of receiving price reductions on generic drugs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41013/12]

Cabinet Committee Meetings

Richard Boyd Barrett

21. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Taoiseach when the Cabinet sub Committee on Health will next meet. [39030/12]

Cabinet Committee Meetings

Richard Boyd Barrett

22. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Taoiseach when the next meeting of the Economic Management Council will take place. [40450/12]

Ministerial Meetings

Richard Boyd Barrett

56. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Agriculture; Food and the Marine if he will meet with Iascairí Intíre na hÉireann, a fishermen's organisation representing inshore fishermen; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40445/12]

Fisheries Protection

Richard Boyd Barrett

63. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Agriculture; Food and the Marine his plans regarding the lobster stock numbers; his plans to provide for access to stock in a limited and sustainable way; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40444/12]

Tax Yield

Richard Boyd Barrett

97. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Finance the amount of tax that hospital consultants with private practices paid on their total income in 2011 and the effective tax rate. [40157/12]

Residency Permits

Richard Boyd Barrett

315. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will grant a person (details supplied) whose Stamp 4 expired on 3 September, a temporary stamp pending the outcome of their application to renew it in order that they can return to their job; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40323/12]

Hospital Consultants Remuneration

Richard Boyd Barrett

388. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Health if he will provide a breakdown of the earnings of all hospital consultants who engage in private practice. [40158/12]

Hospital Consultants Remuneration

Richard Boyd Barrett

406. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Health the amount paid in consultants' fees by private health insurers annually; and the amount additionally paid to them by persons [40155/12]

Hospital Consultants Remuneration

Richard Boyd Barrett

407. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Health the number of hospital consultants that engage in private practice [40156/12]

Discussions with European Leaders

Richard Boyd Barrett

10. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Taoiseach the EU leaders he intends to meet in the autumn and winter period; the issues he intends to raise; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39031/12]

Local Authority Housing Waiting Lists

Richard Boyd Barrett

53. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government his plans for dealing with the 96,000 families on the housing list and to reduce substantially the long waiting times for permanent, secure and affordable housing for those families; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39035/12]

Foreshore Licences Applications

Richard Boyd Barrett

55. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government his intentions regarding a foreshore drilling licence applied for by a company (details supplied) concerning an area six kilometres off the Dalkey and Killiney coast, Dublin; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39036/12]

Residential Institutions Redress Scheme

Richard Boyd Barrett

468. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Education and Skills his views on a matter (details supplied) with regard to the redress board for victims of abuse. [39285/12]

Schools Building Projects Status

Richard Boyd Barrett

469. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Education and Skills when construction of the new building at a school (details supplied) in County Dublin will commence. [39286/12]

Social Welfare Benefits Applications

Richard Boyd Barrett

871. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Social Protection if he will review the case of a person (details supplied) in County Dublin. [39219/12]

Work Placement Programme

Richard Boyd Barrett

875. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Social Protection with regard to Tús - community work placement initiative, the number of letters of invitation that have been issued to date; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39270/12]

Work Placement Programme

Richard Boyd Barrett

876. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Social Protection the percentage of recipients that responded positively to the letters of invitation to participate in the Tús scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39271/12]

Work Placement Programme

Richard Boyd Barrett

877. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Social Protection the percentage that gave good cause for non-participation in Tús - community work placement initiative; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39272/12]

Work Placement Programme

Richard Boyd Barrett

878. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Social Protection if she will clarify what constitutes good cause as per letter of invitation for not attending the interview to take part in Tús; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39273/12]

Work Placement Programme

Richard Boyd Barrett

879. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Social Protection the number of recipients that did not reply to the letter of invitation to participate in Tús - community work placement initiative; and of these, the number that signed-off jobseeker's payment; and, the number that have been referred on to her Department for follow-up action. [39274/12]

Work Placement Programme

Richard Boyd Barrett

880. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Social Protection of those who have completed Tús – community work placement initiative, the percentage that entered employment; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39275/12]

Garda Vetting of Personnel

Richard Boyd Barrett

1287. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Justice and Equality if a person (details supplied) in County Dublin will receive his Garda vetting as a matter of urgency to ensure he is able to take up the job he has been offered and can stop claiming social welfare. [39220/12]

Residency Permits

Richard Boyd Barrett

1288. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Justice and Equality the reason the marriage certificate supplied by a person (details supplied) in County Dublin is not sufficient to grant them permission to remain on the basis of marriage to an Irish citizen [39221/12]

Dental Services Provision

Richard Boyd Barrett

1847. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Health if he will review the case of a person (details supplied) in County Dublin regarding dental surgery. [39216/12]

Health Services Provision

Richard Boyd Barrett

1848. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Health if he will review the case of a person (details supplied) in County Dublin. [39217/12]

Health Services Provision

Richard Boyd Barrett

1849. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Health if he will review the case of a person (details supplied) in County Dublin. [39218/12]

Ports Merger

Richard Boyd Barrett

1938. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Transport; Tourism and Sport if he is currently considering a merger of Dún Laoghaire harbour with Dublin Port or into Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council or any other merger of the harbour; and if so, the stage these negotiations are at. [39283/12]

Harbour Authorities Membership

Richard Boyd Barrett

1939. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Transport; Tourism and Sport his views on the report in a newspaper (details supplied) regarding a pay rise for the CEO of Dún Laoghaire Harbour Company. [39284/12]

Arts Funding

Richard Boyd Barrett

21 Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the advice he would give for alternative funding for an organisation (details supplied) which has studios in Swords, Athlone, Navan, Ashbourne, Finglas, Balbriggan and Portlaoise in view of the fact they do not qualify for funding from the Arts Council; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
[35362/12]

Public Sector Pay

Richard Boyd Barrett

87 Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Finance if he will provide a full list of all those paid over €100,000 with public money including semi-States; if he will also provide a breakdown by Department and by semi-State detailing the number in each area achieving these earnings and their salaries; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
[35903/12]

Public Sector Pay

Richard Boyd Barrett

88 Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Finance if he will provide full lists and details on all those paid with public money in State and semi-State sector whose salaries breach the salary cap, naming the persons, the salary amount and the reasons the cap was breached in each instance; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
[35904/12]

Homeless Persons

Richard Boyd Barrett

23 Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Social Protection if she will review a matter regarding jobseeker’s allowance for young persons (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34957/12]

Departmental Records

Richard Boyd Barrett

5 Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Taoiseach the circumstances in which documents related to the bank guarantee were shredded in his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34958/12]

Rent Supplement Scheme

Richard Boyd Barrett

46 Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Social Protection if she will consider reversing the new rent allowance caps brought in last January in view of the hardship these caps are causing to some of the most vulnerable families and the ineffectiveness of this strategy in reducing rents; if she will consider, instead, introducing rent controls; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
[34956/12]

Rent Supplement Scheme

Richard Boyd Barrett

322 Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Social Protection if she will examine the case of persons (details supplied) who have been living in the same house for 14 years and now face homelessness as they cannot find a new home within the rent allowance caps and their landlord cannot reduce their rent any more than he already has.
[35019/12]

Local Authority Funding

Richard Boyd Barrett

400 Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the reason Dalkey Island, an important asset to the heritage of Dublin, remains closed to the public; if he will ensure that the necessary funding is available to Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council to allow visitors to the island; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
[35450/12]

Treatment Abroad Scheme

Richard Boyd Barrett

796 Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Health the status of an appeal for an application for the treatment abroad scheme E112 of a person (details supplied) currently in St. James's Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
[35002/12]

Commuter Coach Parking

Richard Boyd Barrett

900 Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the cost of the February 2012 report on Dublin commuter coach parking facilities carried out by a company (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter.
[35001/12]

Child Care Services

Richard Boyd Barrett

58 Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the reason a person (details supplied) in County Dublin has been excluded from school, has no respite and their father has no care at home for them.
[33393/12]

Prisoner Releases

Richard Boyd Barrett

99 Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he intends to raise the deteriorating health of Marion Price, who is being held without trial in prison in the North, with political leaders during his next visit to the North; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
[29470/12]

General Government Debt

Richard Boyd Barrett

17 Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Finance in view of the announcements emanating from the recent EU meetings on the European banking crisis, the relief Irish citizens may expect in terms of an end to and reversal of cuts and austerity measures over the coming period; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
[32814/12]

Bank Debt Restructuring

Richard Boyd Barrett

26 Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Finance if he will report on the latest developments in the negotiations regarding a deal on Ireland’s banking debt.
[28061/12]

Semi-State Sector Remuneration

Richard Boyd Barrett

17 Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the reason the pay level set in 2011 for the starting salary for the chief executive of a commercial State company was breached for in the incoming chief executive of the VHI; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32449/12]

Swimming Pool Projects

Richard Boyd Barrett

88 Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Transport; Tourism and Sport if he will provide funding to Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council, in the interests of promoting tourism, to ensure that the full plan to restore the baths in Dun Laoghaire is able to progress immediately; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32103/12]

European Council Meetings

Richard Boyd Barrett

16 Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Taoiseach the issues he intends to raise at the EU leaders’ summit on 23 May; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24035/12]

European Council Meetings

Richard Boyd Barrett

17 Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Taoiseach if he intends to raise the issue of debt write down for Ireland at the EU leaders’ summit on 23 May; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24037/12]

European Council Meetings

Richard Boyd Barrett

18 Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Taoiseach if he plans to raise the Troika policy of promoting privatisation or sale of State assets and natural resources particularly in programme countries at the EU leaders’ summit on 23 May; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24038/12]

European Council Meetings

Richard Boyd Barrett

42 Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Taoiseach if he will report on the June EU leaders meeting; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28062/12]

Tourism Promotion

Richard Boyd Barrett

102 Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will work with Fáilte Ireland in the interests of promoting tourism, to ensure that there is no cut to the opening hours of the James Joyce Museum at the Martello tower in Sandycove; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
[32101/12]

Tax Yield

Richard Boyd Barrett

187 Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Finance if he will provide the latest figures on the total earnings of the top 10,000 income earners; the average earnings of that group; and the total amount of tax on earnings paid by that group, in absolute terms and in percentage, effective tax rate, terms.
[31742/12]

Tax Yield

Richard Boyd Barrett

188 Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Finance if he will provide the latest figures on the total earnings of the top 1% of income earners; the number of earners in that group; the average earnings of that group, and the total amount of tax on earnings paid by that group, in absolute terms and in percentage, effective tax rate, terms.
[31743/12]

Tax Yield

Richard Boyd Barrett

189 Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Finance if he will provide the most up to date figures on the total earnings of the top 10% of income earners, the number of earners in that group; the average earnings of that group; the total amount of tax on earnings paid by this group, in absolute and percentage, effective tax rate, terms.
[31744/12]

Tax Yield

Richard Boyd Barrett

190 Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Finance if he will provide the most up to date figures on the total earnings of the top 20% of income earners; the number of earners in that group; the average earnings of this group; the total amount of tax on earnings paid by this group, in absolute and percentage effective tax rate, terms.
[31745/12]

Tax Yield

Richard Boyd Barrett

191 Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Finance the number of income earners that earn more than €100,000 per year; and the additional yield to the Exchequer if the effective minimum tax rate in all earnings in excess of €100,000 was increased to 50%.
[31746/12]

Social and Affordable Housing

Richard Boyd Barrett

424 Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if an unemployed person who owns a house that is in negative equity and that has been rented out in order to cover the mortgage repayments will be accepted on to the housing list in order to be able to access rent allowance to help with paying their rent in the house that they rent privately.
[32262/12]

Local Authority Staff

Richard Boyd Barrett

451 Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide details of the six senior executives for whom the Local Government Management Agency provided funding to attend the three week executive management programme delivered by the John F. Kennedy School of Government in Harvard University, USA.
[31936/12]