Ceisteanna Parlaiminte

Family Income Supplement

Seamus Healy

40. Deputy Seamus Healy asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 38 of 8 July 2015, if she will examine the policy, budgetary and operational implications of the family income supplement with a view to amending the regulation accordingly; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29240/15]

Family Income Supplement

Seamus Healy

38. Deputy Seamus Healy asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection if she will amend the social welfare legislation to end the discrimination under the family income supplement whereby pension contributions made directly to providers by family income supplement applicants are not disregarded, while pension contributions made by way of wage and salary deduction by family income supplement applicants are disregarded; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27730/15]

Company Closures

Seamus Healy

88. Deputy Seamus Healy asked the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the steps being taken to avert the closure of a company (details supplied) in County Tipperary. [27795/15]

Illness Benefit Eligibility

Seamus Healy

99. Deputy Seamus Healy asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection the position regarding an claim for illness benefit by a person (details supplied) in County Tipperary, as this claim has been ongoing for a considerable length of time; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27646/15]

Credit Union Fund

Seamus Healy

149. Deputy Seamus Healy asked the Minister for Finance if he will use some of the credit union fund of €250 million already established to develop the credit union movement for the wider social benefit of society, and in particular to support credit unions to develop electronic financial services, including current accounts; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27680/15]

Social and Affordable Housing Provision

Seamus Healy

155. Deputy Seamus Healy asked the Minister for Finance if he will establish a credit union supported, State-backed fund for social housing, given the availability of €7 to €8 billion for such a fund from the credit union movement, and the huge social housing waiting lists; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27686/15]

Credit Union Regulation

Seamus Healy

156. Deputy Seamus Healy asked the Minister for Finance if he will ensure effective ongoing dialogue between Oireachtas Members and the Registry of Credit Unions by requiring the Registry of Credit Unions to appear before the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform on a regular basis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27687/15]

IDA Data

Seamus Healy

180. Deputy Seamus Healy asked the Minister for Jobs; Enterprise and Innovation further to Parliamentary Question No. 6 of 12 February 2015, the position regarding the location of a tenant for a former plant (details supplied) in County Tipperary; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27672/15]

HSE Reports

Seamus Healy

427. Deputy Seamus Healy asked the Minister for Health the terms of reference for the review and assessment of needs at South Tipperary General Hospital being undertaken by a person (details supplied); the nature and extent of the review; the timeframe for the completion of the report; the persons and organisations being consulted; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27629/15]

Medical Card Eligibility

Seamus Healy

430. Deputy Seamus Healy asked the Minister for Health if he will reimburse a person (details supplied) in County Tipperary for medication and general practitioner charges for the period 1 November 2013 to 25 June 2014, inclusive, when the person's medical card was restored; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27673/15]

Irish Water Remit

Seamus Healy

548. Deputy Seamus Healy asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if he will instruct Irish Water to clear sewerage blockages in Clonmel in County Tipperary, as has been previously undertaken by the local authority; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27630/15]

Child Care Costs

Seamus Healy

185. Deputy Seamus Healy asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection in view of the failure of the Government, through the Department of Children and Youth Affairs, to establish a system of safe, affordable and accessible child care, similar to that in place in the Scandinavian countries, if she will withdraw the measures in relation to lone parents to be implemented on 2 July 2015 and, in particular, the reduction in the age of the youngest child to seven years as the threshold above which the one-parent family payment will not be payable. [26059/15]

Garda College

Seamus Healy

142. Deputy Seamus Healy asked the Minister for Justice and Equality if she is aware that jobs have been advertised at the Garda College in Templemore, County Tipperary, with starting salaries below the minimum wage (details supplied); if she will direct her staff to re-advertise the positions at or above the minimum wage; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19370/15]

Legislative Process

Seamus Healy

387. Deputy Seamus Healy asked the Minister for Justice and Equality the current timeframe for the passage of the Spent Convictions Bill 2012 through the Houses of the Oireachtas; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18103/15]

Office of Public Works Projects

Seamus Healy

177. Deputy Seamus Healy asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the position regarding the proposal by a former Minister (details supplied), whereby the Office of Public Works would take charge of the Bolton Library, Cashel, County Tipperary; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17861/15]

National Disability Strategy Implementation Plan

Seamus Healy

352. Deputy Seamus Healy asked the Minister for Health in view of the fact that persons with disabilities lost basic and critical income and service supports during the course of the recession, if he will immediately implement the national disability strategy; if he will confirm that persons with disabilities will now be prioritised for funding and services, into the future; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17621/15]

Sovereign Debt

Seamus Healy

431. Deputy Seamus Healy asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he attended the United Nations debt resolution meeting in New York in the United States of America from 28 to 30 April 2015; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17580/15]

Departmental Schemes

Seamus Healy

499. Deputy Seamus Healy asked the Minister for Education and Skills if she will amend the Caranua survivor scheme to allow the children of survivors avail of education grants, which were available under the previous Nova scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17699/15]

Schools Refurbishment

Seamus Healy

501. Deputy Seamus Healy asked the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 401 of 9 December 2014, if she will confirm that the tender process to appoint the design team to complete the design of the extension and refurbishment works required in a school (details supplied) in County Tipperary has been completed; if a successful tenderer has been appointed and an approximate date for the completion of the design; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17727/15]

Library Services Provision

Seamus Healy

614. Deputy Seamus Healy asked the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the position regarding the future of Bolton Library, Cashel, County Tipperary; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17860/15]

Third Level Facilities

Seamus Healy

394. Deputy Seamus Healy asked the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide capital funding to Mary Immaculate College, County Limerick, for the upgrading and development of library services at the college to provide equal learning opportunities to students at the college as are available to other third level students; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16710/15]

Job Losses

Seamus Healy

458. Deputy Seamus Healy asked the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will urgently address the threats to employment, of layoffs, short-term and part-time working and job losses at the Bord na Móna factory at Littleton, Thurles, County Tipperary; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16709/15]

IDA Funding

Seamus Healy

89. Deputy Seamus Healy asked the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the State and State agency grants paid to and-or payable in the future to a company (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16158/15]

Job Retention

Seamus Healy

90. Deputy Seamus Healy asked the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will intervene with a company (details supplied) to save 160 jobs at risk at the Intellicom contact centre in Clonmel, County Tipperary; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16159/15]

Social Welfare Benefits

Seamus Healy

40. Deputy Seamus Healy asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection if she will restore the entitlement of working widows and working lone parents who are respectively in receipt of a survivor's pension, the one-parent family payment or illness benefit; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15855/15]

Child Care Services Provision

Seamus Healy

3. Deputy Seamus Healy asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if, in view of the fact that, effective from 2 July 2015, single parents of children over seven years of age will be required to participate in activation measures outside the home in order to receive the full jobseeker's transition payment, he will provide free child care outside school hours and in school holiday periods for the children affected as a matter of urgency; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14646/15]

Early Childhood Care and Education

Seamus Healy

5. Deputy Seamus Healy asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if he will increase the capitation fee payable under the early childhood care and education scheme to the level required to provide the service; if he will reinstate the 2011 level of capitation as an interim measure; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14647/15]

Child Care Services Provision

Seamus Healy

14. Deputy Seamus Healy asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if he is now in a position to provide extra resources to child care providers, in respect of children with additional and special needs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14456/15]

School Completion Programme

Seamus Healy

22. Deputy Seamus Healy asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs in view of the fact that funding of the school completion programme has been cut from €32.9 million in 2008 to €24.7 million currently, including a cut of 6.5% in the current year, if he will restore the level of funding to this vital programme for young persons; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14459/15]

Early Childhood Care and Education

Seamus Healy

24. Deputy Seamus Healy asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if he will provide a second full free preschool year for all children from the beginning of the new school year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14458/15]

Youth Services Funding

Seamus Healy

25. Deputy Seamus Healy asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if he will restore the 30% cut in youth services provision since 2008, including the cuts made by his Government since coming to office; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14460/15]

Library Services Provision

Seamus Healy

1005. Deputy Seamus Healy asked the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the steps she will take to secure the future of Bolton Library in Cashel in County Tipperary; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11520/15]

Momentum Programme

Seamus Healy

122. Deputy Seamus Healy asked the Minister for Education and Skills if she will introduce a travel allowance for participants of the Momentum scheme, in view of the fact that the lack of an allowance is creating hardship and preventing take-up of the scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4989/15]

Child Care Services Funding

Seamus Healy

122. Deputy Seamus Healy asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if he will provide a clear timeframe according to which he will move Ireland from the current investment in child care provision of 0.2% of gross domestic product to 0.7% of gross domestic product; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7975/15]

Services for People with Disabilities

Seamus Healy

124. Deputy Seamus Healy asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if he will provide extra resources to child care providers in respect of children with additional and special needs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7976/15]

Preschool Services

Seamus Healy

135. Deputy Seamus Healy asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if he will provide a second full free preschool year for all children in the near future; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7741/15]

Child Care Services Funding

Seamus Healy

146. Deputy Seamus Healy asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if he will increase the capitation fee payable under the early childhood care and education scheme to the level required to provide the service; if he will re-instate 2011 levels of capitation as an interim measure; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7740/15]

Child Care Services Funding

Seamus Healy

153. Deputy Seamus Healy asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if he will provide a capitation grant for all children in child care until they are eligible to attend primary school; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7742/15]

Child Care Services Funding

Seamus Healy

161. Deputy Seamus Healy asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if he will provide the minimum salary levels for employees of child care providers, who are in receipt of the capitation fee, in view of the fact that the capitation rate for the free preschool year is a major factor affecting salary levels in child care provision; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7739/15]

Early Years Strategy Implementation

Seamus Healy

168. Deputy Seamus Healy asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if he will extend eligibility for the existing learner fund to all child care staff, in order to enable all staff to access third level qualifications; if he will fund child-free continuous professional development days, in order to enable child care workers to implement the national curriculum and quality frameworks; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7738/15]

Tax Data

Seamus Healy

66. Deputy Seamus Healy asked the Minister for Finance the number of workers in the construction sector that were taxed on a pay as you earn basis in each year since 2008; the total revenue earned by these workers in each of these years; the total amount of tax, universal social charge and employee's pay related social insurance paid by these workers in each of these years; the total amount of employer's pay related social insurance paid in respect of these workers in each of these years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7544/15]

Trade Agreements

Seamus Healy

150. Deputy Seamus Healy asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine in view of the prediction by the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation of up to 1 million displaced jobs in the European Union due to the proposed transatlantic trade and investment partnership between the United States of America and the European Union and the danger that the Irish food market will be flooded with low-grade, hormone-injected and genetically-modified products from the United States of America as a result of such a deal, if he will report to Dáil Éireann on a monthly basis on the progress of these negotiations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5841/15]

Job Creation

Seamus Healy

3. Deputy Seamus Healy asked the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of new jobs created in companies supported by IDA Ireland; the number of jobs lost in agency-supported companies; the number of site visits organised by the agency in the years 2012, 2013 and 2014 in Tipperary north, Tipperary south and County Tipperary as a whole; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6180/15]

Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership

Seamus Healy

5. Deputy Seamus Healy asked the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will withdraw his stated support for the inclusion in the transatlantic trade and investment partnership negotiations of a new investor state dispute settlement mechanism, which allows corporations to sue Governments for loss of revenue, bypassing the Irish courts, when Government regulations are seen to affect expected profits; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5842/15]

IDA Site Visits

Seamus Healy

6. Deputy Seamus Healy asked the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the plans in place to locate a new enterprise at a vacant plant (details supplied) in County Tipperary; the number of visits to the site that have been organised by the Industrial Development Agency in 2014 and 2015; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5843/15]

Industrial Development

Seamus Healy

9. Deputy Seamus Healy asked the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will provide a list of the sites owned by IDA Ireland in County Tipperary that have potential for use for inward investment in the future; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5839/15]

Local Enterprise Offices Remit

Seamus Healy

17. Deputy Seamus Healy asked the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will provide the budget and job creation targets for the local enterprise offices for County Tipperary for the years 2013, 2014 and 2015; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5840/15]

Child Poverty

Seamus Healy

3. Deputy Seamus Healy asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection in view of 400,000 children living in households experiencing multiple forms of deprivation and 135,000 children suffering daily material deprivation, according to the recent Central Statistics Office, SILC, report; the number of children living in consistent poverty, meaning they are living both at risk of poverty and experiencing deprivation, having doubled from 6% to just under 12% between 2008 and 2013; international comparisons that show how Poland and Chile have done a more effective job in protecting children during the recession than Ireland; and the cumulative reductions in child benefit per year from 2008 to 2015, including the reductions introduced by her (details supplied), if she will take immediate action in advance of the next budget to fully restore these child benefit reductions; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5089/15]

Household Benefits Scheme

Seamus Healy

12. Deputy Seamus Healy asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection if she will restore the fee electricity and gas units, the fuel allowance and the length of the heating period to the level obtaining in 2012; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4985/15]

One-Parent Family Payment Payments

Seamus Healy

27. Deputy Seamus Healy asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection if she will restore the income disregard for lone parents at work from €75 per week in 2015 to €146.50 per week, the level pertaining before budget 2012; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4987/15]