Ceisteanna Parlaiminte

Property Taxation Rate

Olivia Mitchell

16. Deputy Olivia Mitchell asked the Minister for Finance if the 15% reduction which local authorities are permitted to apply to property taxes collected in their area is a once-off event or, alternatively, if it is envisaged that the 15% reduction can be applied every year, should local authorities so wish; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39335/14]

Disability Support Services Provision

Olivia Mitchell

152. Deputy Olivia Mitchell asked the Minister for Health if it is his Department or the Health Service Executive who will carry forward planned proposals to reduce, through mergers, the number of disability service providers; and if he will report on the progress. [38849/14]

Pyrite Issues

Olivia Mitchell

318. Deputy Olivia Mitchell asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the procedure for amending the scheme under the Pyrite Resolution Act to include home owners living in the council area of Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown, which is not included in the eligibility criteria but where category 2 damage consistent with pyrite heave has been identified; and if he will advise on the way concerned homeowners should proceed. [39103/14]

Pension Levy

Olivia Mitchell

167. Deputy Olivia Mitchell asked the Minister for Finance in view of the €2 billion collected for the State from private pension savings of a relatively small number of persons if he will reverse the decision to extend the levy into 2015 in view of the huge impact it is having on the retirement income of older contributors; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37953/14]

National Postcode System Establishment

Olivia Mitchell

574. Deputy Olivia Mitchell asked the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources in view of the serious reservations of many potential users of the proposed postcode and in view of its almost complete irrevocability once introduced, if he will consider postponing its introduction pending an examination of the extent to which it meets the criteria for a national postcode as defined by the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Energy and Natural Resources in 2010; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37954/14]

Jobseeker's Allowance Applications

Olivia Mitchell

177. Deputy Olivia Mitchell asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection if she will provide in tabular form the number of unsuccessful jobseeker applicants under 24 years of age whose application was unsuccessful due to the jobseeker's means assessment of parental income at the Nutgrove social protection office, Dublin 14; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37105/14]

HSE Properties

Olivia Mitchell

344. Deputy Olivia Mitchell asked the Minister for Health his plans to utilise the new facility purchased at Mount Carmel; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36570/14]

Medical Card Administration

Olivia Mitchell

447. Deputy Olivia Mitchell asked the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the apparently inordinate number of documents that go missing while processing applications for medical cards within the Health Service Executive; if an International Organisation for Standardisation is used to measure the performance of processing of applications within the HSE; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37121/14]

Environmental Policy

Olivia Mitchell

549. Deputy Olivia Mitchell asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if he will consider legislation similar to that in the United Kingdom limiting the height of trees in small suburban gardens; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36474/14]

Water Charges Administration

Olivia Mitchell

587. Deputy Olivia Mitchell asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if under legislation Irish Water is permitted to store PPS numbers of children; and if so, if it can be passed on to a third party. [37119/14]

National Postcode System Establishment

Olivia Mitchell

607. Deputy Olivia Mitchell asked the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the number of different proposals that were submitted as part of the tendering process for the postcode system subsequently awarded to Eircode; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37102/14]

Services for People with Disabilities

Olivia Mitchell

210. Deputy Olivia Mitchell asked the Minister for Health if he has given consideration to providing temporary cover for maternity leave of front line staff in the Health Service Executive's disability sector, particularly in the cases of early intervention services such as occupational therapy, physiotherapy and speech therapy for children as the delay without such intervention can have a very negative result on those who rely on such services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36314/14]

Sovereign Debt

Olivia Mitchell

55. Deputy Olivia Mitchell asked the Minister for Finance his position on UN Resolution No. 14 A/68/L.57/Rev.1 toward the establishment of a multilateral framework for sovereign debt restructuring processes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36092/14]

Jobseeker's Allowance Eligibility

Olivia Mitchell

124. Deputy Olivia Mitchell asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection her plans to reduce the age limit from 24 years to 22 years in the jobseeker's allowance assessment for those living with a parent or a step-parent in the family home, so that parents' income will no longer be considered in the jobseeker's means test after the age of 22 years. [35614/14]

National Internship Scheme Data

Olivia Mitchell

125. Deputy Olivia Mitchell asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection in light of recent statistics on the large number of young people unemployed, her plans to allow young people who are ineligible for jobseeker's allowance by virtue of their parents' income to participate in the JobBridge scheme from age 22 years rather than 24 years, by which time they may be considered long-term unemployed. [35615/14]

Trade Agreements

Olivia Mitchell

215. Deputy Olivia Mitchell asked the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the progress of the negotiation of the Transatlantic Trade Investment Partnership; his views regarding concerns expressed about the possible undue influence which could be exercised by multinationals; if he will support the current proposals. [35623/14]

Medical Card Applications

Olivia Mitchell

375. Deputy Olivia Mitchell asked the Minister for Health if he will expedite the reissuing of a medical card to a person (details supplied) in Dublin 16 whose medical card was withdrawn because of a clerical error on the part of the HSE. [35622/14]

Schools Site Acquisitions

Olivia Mitchell

453. Deputy Olivia Mitchell asked the Minister for Education and Skills if a site has been identified for the Educate Together school in Stepaside, County Dublin; and when construction will begin. [35600/14]

Teachers' Remuneration

Olivia Mitchell

454. Deputy Olivia Mitchell asked the Minister for Education and Skills the reason primary teachers who qualified in 2012 and entered the payscale in that year are on a significantly higher salary than primary teachers who qualified in 2012 but had been undertaking substitution work in 2011 and therefore entered the pay scale in 2011 (details supplied). [35610/14]

Pension Provisions

Olivia Mitchell

201. Deputy Olivia Mitchell asked the Minister for Finance if he will extend the approved retirement fund options to pensioners with a personal retirement bond; and his views on correspondence (details supplied) regarding the issue. [33256/14]