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Tue, 26 May 2015
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Disability Allowance Eligibility
Arthur Spring
213. Deputy Arthur Spring asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection if a person on disability allowance who is allowed to work for rehabilitative purposes through the partial capacity benefit scheme is permitted to work as an employee and a self-employed person simultaneously. [20371/15]
Tue, 26 May 2015
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Penalty Points System
Arthur Spring
1042. Deputy Arthur Spring asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the existing penalty points on a person's driving licence (details supplied) in County Kerry should have expired, due to the fact that the relevant person was given these points in 2007 and emigrated from 2011 to 2013; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20611/15]
Thu, 7 May 2015
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Nitrates Action Programme Implementation
Arthur Spring
199. Deputy Arthur Spring asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government in view of the abolition of milk quotas, if he will consider extending the current derogation under the nitrates directive to 300 kg per hectare per year, targeted specifically at smaller farms with the ambition to expand. [17963/15]
Thu, 16 Apr 2015
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General Medical Services Scheme
Arthur Spring
137. Deputy Arthur Spring asked the Minister for Health the waiting period for a person who has been removed from a general practitioner's general medical services list at the request of the general practitioner to be put on a new list list with an alternative general practitioner. [15026/15]
Wed, 15 Apr 2015
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Mortgage Interest Rates
Arthur Spring
148. Deputy Arthur Spring asked the Minister for Finance the level of oversight and input his Department and the Central Bank of Ireland have in retail banks setting interest rates. [14280/15]
Wed, 15 Apr 2015
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Legislative Programme
Arthur Spring
383. Deputy Arthur Spring asked the Minister for Justice and Equality her plans to introduce legislation to resolve the issue of children of adults with dementia being denied access to see their parent by the adult's carer, who happens to be in their own home and the sibling of those denied access to their parent, due to a breakdown of the sibling relationship; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14718/15]
Wed, 15 Apr 2015
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General Medical Services Scheme Administration
Arthur Spring
632. Deputy Arthur Spring asked the Minister for Health if there is an appeals process available to a medical card patient if a general practitioner removes that patient from his or her general medical services list; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14862/15]
Wed, 15 Apr 2015
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Motor Tax Exemptions
Arthur Spring
746. Deputy Arthur Spring asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if a person who is in receipt of invalidity pension or illness benefit, and previously purchased a commercial vehicle in a period when the person availed of the exemption arrangements where persons on illness benefit or invalidity pension could receive permission to work part-time for rehabilitative or therapeutic purposes and keep their full social welfare payment, should be entitled to continue to tax the vehicle as a commercial vehicle, when the exemption expired as a consequence of the person's reduced income; and if such a proposal should be brought to the relevant Minister and Department. [14012/15]
Wed, 15 Apr 2015
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Fire Safety Regulations
Arthur Spring
811. Deputy Arthur Spring asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the procedures the housing sections of local authorities have in place to safeguard against the spread of domestic fires in terraced houses due to interconnected flammable materials existing between dwellings. [14690/15]
Thu, 2 Apr 2015
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Fire Safety
Arthur Spring
242. Deputy Arthur Spring asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if the National Directorate for Fire and Emergency Management will publish the risk assessment associated with the keeping communities safe document. [13845/15]
Thu, 2 Apr 2015
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Fire Safety
Arthur Spring
243. Deputy Arthur Spring asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if the National Directorate for Fire and Emergency Management will publish the isochrone drive time maps associated with the keeping communities safe document. [13846/15]
Thu, 2 Apr 2015
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Fire Safety
Arthur Spring
244. Deputy Arthur Spring asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if he will publish the details concerning the keeping communities safe document and ancillary documentation. [13847/15]
Thu, 2 Apr 2015
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Fire Safety
Arthur Spring
245. Deputy Arthur Spring asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the reason the National Directorate for Fire and Emergency Management, through the local chief fire officers, is attempting to utilise section 26 of the Fire Services Act 1981 to implement the keeping communities safe document, and to transfer complete and overall responsibility for the provision of the fire and rescue service, within the respective local authorities, to elected councillors and representatives. [13848/15]
Tue, 31 Mar 2015
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Medical Card Reviews
Arthur Spring
485. Deputy Arthur Spring asked the Minister for Health if he will provide, in tabular form, the number of medical card reviews issued by the Health Service Executive to persons under 70 years of age for each month since January 2013 to date in 2015. [13154/15]
Tue, 31 Mar 2015
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Medical Card Reviews
Arthur Spring
486. Deputy Arthur Spring asked the Minister for Health if he will provide, in tabular form, the number of medical card reviews issued by the Health Service Executive to persons over 70 years of age for each month since January 2013 to date in 2015. [13155/15]
Tue, 31 Mar 2015
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Fire Service Staff
Arthur Spring
611. Deputy Arthur Spring asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government to set out the terms and conditions that exist for fire fighters in respect of the payment of pension entitlements by local authorities. [12730/15]
Tue, 31 Mar 2015
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Fire Service Staff
Arthur Spring
612. Deputy Arthur Spring asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government to set out the pension entitlements local authority fire fighters are entitled to as a result of paying a pension levy. [12731/15]
Tue, 31 Mar 2015
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Fire Service
Arthur Spring
613. Deputy Arthur Spring asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if a risk assessment was conducted on the potential outcomes of the implementation of the national directorate for fire and emergency management Keeping Communities Safe document. [12732/15]
Tue, 31 Mar 2015
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Road Improvement Schemes
Arthur Spring
701. Deputy Arthur Spring asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to allocate funding for the upgrading of the R556 and R551 between Abbeydorney and Ballyduff in County Kerry, as the state of the road is not safe for drivers. [12729/15]
Thu, 26 Mar 2015
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Garda Operations
Arthur Spring
155. Deputy Arthur Spring asked the Minister for Justice and Equality the action that is being taken to prevent and to prosecute persons for the cloning of vehicle licence plates. [12462/15]