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]

Property Tax Application

Olivia Mitchell

215. Deputy Olivia Mitchell asked the Minister for Finance if there is a legislative requirement to pay the difference in local property tax should the sale price of a property turn out to be more than one band above the declared value, as it appears vendors are now being charged for such a difference in value for both 2013 and 2014; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33395/14]

Tax and Social Welfare Codes

Olivia Mitchell

234. Deputy Olivia Mitchell asked the Minister for Finance if any consideration has been given to the unfair treatment of the secondary carer, who is also a major financial contributor to the child, being unable to receive the single person child carer credit when the primary carer chooses to cohabit and is no longer able to relinquish the credit to the secondary carer; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33534/14]

Asylum Seeker Accommodation

Olivia Mitchell

642. Deputy Olivia Mitchell asked the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will ensure that young asylum seekers with opportunities for further education are not deprived of such opportunities due to their forced relocation; and her views on the two cases reported in a newspaper (details supplied) on 30 August 2014. [33926/14]

Firearms Licences

Olivia Mitchell

657. Deputy Olivia Mitchell asked the Minister for Justice and Equality if her examination of key policy, legislative, administrative and other issues relating to firearms licensing will affect the licensing of CCTV monitoring centres that is due to come into effect on 1 November 2014; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34151/14]

Olivia Mitchell

685. Deputy Olivia Mitchell asked the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of asylum seekers currently resident in direct provision centres; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34635/14]

Deportation Orders Data

Olivia Mitchell

686. Deputy Olivia Mitchell asked the Minister for Justice and Equality the percentage of asylum cases determined in each of the last three years that have resulted in the issue of deportation orders; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34636/14]

Abortion Legislation

Olivia Mitchell

920. Deputy Olivia Mitchell asked the Minister for Health the changes that are proposed either to legislation and-or guidelines to ensure that a clear pathway of referral for an assessment for a pregnancy termination is established; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33496/14]

Abortion Services Provision

Olivia Mitchell

921. Deputy Olivia Mitchell asked the Minister for Health if he is satisfied that adequate communication and liaison exists between the Health Service Executive and the Department of Justice and Equality direct provision service to ensure that vulnerable women receive the advice and services they are entitled to under constitutional provision 40.3.3° and subsequent legislation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33497/14]

Public Transport Subsidies

Olivia Mitchell

1699. Deputy Olivia Mitchell asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the average subsidy per passenger rail journey paid by CIE to Iarnród Éireann in 2013; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33811/14]

Medical Card Reviews

Olivia Mitchell

624. Deputy Olivia Mitchell asked the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the generic letter requesting further details of savings and investments sent to over-70s undergoing the medical card review is causing much confusion and duplication of documents, as the information needed in each individual case is not specified; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30834/14]

Medical Card Reviews

Olivia Mitchell

625. Deputy Olivia Mitchell asked the Minister for Health the reason it is necessary for those over-70s who are in nursing home care under the fair deal scheme to undergo a medical card review based on gross income when their income has already been assessed by his Department and is directly related to the provision of their care; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30835/14]

Aviation Policy

Olivia Mitchell

739. Deputy Olivia Mitchell asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his response to concerns expressed by those in the Irish airline industry regarding the proposal in the draft national policy for aviation which would permit non-EU-USA airlines pick up passengers in competition with EU airlines. [30996/14]

Overseas Development Aid

Olivia Mitchell

31. Deputy Olivia Mitchell asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will communicate his disagreement with the World Health Organisation proposal which excludes universal access to reproductive health (currently MDG 5B) from its submission for a new health goal for the post-2015 framework; if he will further request that this vital health right is included in the final WHO proposal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28793/14]

Social Welfare Code

Olivia Mitchell

241. Deputy Olivia Mitchell asked the Minister for Social Protection the reason jobseekers who take up part-time employment that is under 20 hours over five days a week and not allowed for three days, and who are also within the means test are not able to apply for jobseeker's allowance for the hours not worked, as this could be seen as a disincentive to take up part-time employment; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [28252/14]

Schools Building Projects Status

Olivia Mitchell

73. Deputy Olivia Mitchell asked the Minister for Education and Skills when building of a permanent school building for a school (details supplied) in County Dublin will commence; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27474/14]

School Curriculum

Olivia Mitchell

215. Deputy Olivia Mitchell asked the Minister for Education and Skills the measures his Department is taking to ensure that citizenship and human rights education is a priority under the new CSPE junior cycle curriculum at post-primary level; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27144/14]

Visa Agreements

Olivia Mitchell

474. Deputy Olivia Mitchell asked the Minister for Justice and Equality if the shared visa system between Ireland, China and India also includes Taiwan; if this is not the case can it be extended to include Taiwan in view of the success of previous visa initiatives with that country; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26938/14]

European Council Meetings

Olivia Mitchell

156. Deputy Olivia Mitchell asked the Minister for Justice and Equality the measures agreed by the task force for the Mediterranean at the June Council of Ministers meeting; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26209/14]

Pensions Levy Yield

Olivia Mitchell

164. Deputy Olivia Mitchell asked the Minister for Finance to detail the total income to the State from the private pension levy in each year of operation to date, including the estimated value for the current year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25578/14]

Pupil-Teacher Ratio

Olivia Mitchell

239. Deputy Olivia Mitchell asked the Minister for Education and Skills if a decision has been taken to continue to increase the pupil-teacher ratio in fee paying schools until it reaches 28:1 as suggested in the McCarthy report and causing concern; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25575/14]

Pensions Reform

Olivia Mitchell

329. Deputy Olivia Mitchell asked the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding the implementation of the recommendations of the Report on Pension Charges 2012; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25579/14]

Garda Vetting of Personnel

Olivia Mitchell

562. Deputy Olivia Mitchell asked the Minister for Justice and Equality her plans to introduce an e-vetting system; the speed with which it will cut the waiting times for persons on a community employment scheme awaiting Garda clearance; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25577/14]

International Agreements

Olivia Mitchell

24. Deputy Olivia Mitchell asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade on the 20th anniversary of the International Conference on Population and Development, his views on the current status of the action programme; his plans to ensure its approach is reflected in the post-2015 framework; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24011/14]

Consular Services Representations

Olivia Mitchell

24. Deputy Olivia Mitchell asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the action that has been taken on the release of an Irish citizen (details supplied) who is imprisoned in Egypt; if further pressure on the Egyptian Government to obtain their release is possible; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23684/14]

Humanitarian Aid

Olivia Mitchell

67. Deputy Olivia Mitchell asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if emergency aid has been considered for flood relief in Serbia and Bosnia-Herzegovina; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23137/14]

Mortgage Debt

Olivia Mitchell

115. Deputy Olivia Mitchell asked the Minister for Finance if he will confirm that mortgages sold to Lone Star will be covered by the code of conduct for mortgage arrears and any future enactment of it if Lone Star sells on the loans; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22668/14]

Mortgage Repayments

Olivia Mitchell

162. Deputy Olivia Mitchell asked the Minister for Finance the measures that exist for those persons who were sold endowment mortgages in the 1990s and who now, on coming near the end of the mortgage term, have been advised that there will be a major shortfall in the policy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23235/14]

Mortgage Repayments

Olivia Mitchell

163. Deputy Olivia Mitchell asked the Minister for Finance if there are regulations governing endowment mortgage policies; if there is recourse for those who believe they were mis-sold such a policy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23236/14]

Legislative Measures

Olivia Mitchell

314. Deputy Olivia Mitchell asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform when the emergency legislation, Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Acts, will no longer be needed and be allowed to lapse; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22640/14]

Hospital Waiting Lists

Olivia Mitchell

255. Deputy Olivia Mitchell asked the Minister for Health the average time for those waiting for hip replacement surgery at Cappagh National Orthopaedic Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22102/14]