Ceisteanna Parlaiminte

Departmental Staff Remuneration

Dessie Ellis

479. Deputy Dessie Ellis asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide in tabular form, the number of staff in their Department, or in bodies which fall under the remit of the Department, whose annual remuneration including salary, pension and benefits at 31 December 2011 fell into bands of €400,000 and above, between €300,000 to €399,999, between €200,000 to €299,999 and between €150,000 to €199,000; if he will provide a breakdown of the positions held by the staff in the relevant pay brackets [52554/12]

Departmental Staff Remuneration

Dessie Ellis

480. Deputy Dessie Ellis asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if he has made any contacts requesting staff whose annual salary is in excess of €200,000 in their Department or in any body under the remit of their Department, to waive 15% of their salary or such amount in excess of €200,000 whichever is the lesser; if he has, the date on which he/she first made this contact; the number of staff whose annual salaries were in excess of €200,000 at that date; the number of staff who acquiesced to the request for the waiver; the number of staff who refused the request for the waiver and the number of staff who have not responded to the request for the waiver. [52555/12]

Departmental Staff Remuneration

Dessie Ellis

718. Deputy Dessie Ellis asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide in tabular form, the number of staff in hi Department, or in bodies which fall under the remit of his Department, whose annual remuneration including salary, pension and benefits at 31 December 2011 fell into bands of €400,000 and above, between €300,000 to €399,999, between €200,000 to €299,999 and between €150,000 to €199,000; and if he will provide a breakdown of the positions held by the staff in the relevant pay brackets. [52564/12]

Departmental Staff Remuneration

Dessie Ellis

719. Deputy Dessie Ellis asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he has made any contacts requesting staff whose annual salary is in excess of €200,000 in his Department or in any body under the remit of his Department, to waive 15% of their salary or such amount in excess of €200,000 whichever is the lesser; if he has, the date on which he first made this contact; the number of staff whose annual salaries were in excess of €200,000 at that date; the number of staff who acquiesced to the request for the waiver; the number of staff who refused the request for the waiver and the number of staff who have not responded to the request for the waiver. [52565/12]

Small and Medium Enterprises Supports

Dessie Ellis

8. Deputy Dessie Ellis asked the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation his plans to safeguard and promote jobs within the faltering indigenous small and medium enterprises retail sector in the State. [51895/12]

Action Plan for Jobs

Dessie Ellis

17. Deputy Dessie Ellis asked the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the initiatives that his Department is taking to address the structural nature of long term unemployment through job creation. [51896/12]

Narcolepsy Issues

Dessie Ellis

630. Deputy Dessie Ellis asked the Minister for Health if he will make a commitment to provide supports for children who contracted narcolepsy associated with the Pandemrix vaccine after they turned 18 years, particularly those who are in continuing education. [51484/12]

Taxi Regulations

Dessie Ellis

664. Deputy Dessie Ellis asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he has any knowledge of plans to remove the taxi rank on the island of O'Connell Street, Dublin, outside a hotel (details supplied). [51405/12]

State Investments

Dessie Ellis

42. Deputy Dessie Ellis asked the Minister for Finance the value of cash reserves and all other investments held by the National Treasury Management Agency and the National Pensions Reserve Fund at the end of September 2012; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50245/12]

UN Resolutions

Dessie Ellis

43. Deputy Dessie Ellis asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will support the upcoming UN resolution on observer state status for Palestine, which is likely to occur this month; and if he has discussed this resolution with other EU States. [50106/12]

Social Welfare Code Issues

Dessie Ellis

135. Deputy Dessie Ellis asked the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide an update on any progress made and the nature of negotiations that she has had with energy and other suppliers with a view to receiving greater value under the household benefits package without cutting the scheme. [49855/12]

Social Welfare Appeals Status

Dessie Ellis

147. Deputy Dessie Ellis asked the Minister for Social Protection if she will direct that all unsuccessful applicants for social welfare payments be given their complete file, including comments of deciding officers automatically, to aid in their appeals, thereby avoiding the expense and inconvenience of having to go through the freedom of information procedure. [49854/12]

Social Welfare Benefits Applications

Dessie Ellis

349. Deputy Dessie Ellis asked the Minister for Social Protection the measures she will take to resolve the issue where taxi drivers who are unable to work due to an injury for an extended period are asked to give up their car insurance, and so lose their licence, to meet the requirements to be considered unable to work, even if they present their meter printouts which prove they are not operating the taxi on which they depend for their livelihood. [49544/12]

Health Services Provision

Dessie Ellis

624. Deputy Dessie Ellis asked the Minister for Health his plans for a health centre (details supplied) in Dublin 9 which has had a reduction in services recently causing many residents to fear there might be plans to close it [49726/12]

Vaccination Programme

Dessie Ellis

15. Deputy Dessie Ellis asked the Minister for Health if and when the signalled package of supports for children who contracted narcolepsy associated with the Pandemrix vaccine will be made available; the other measures that will be undertaken in this regard;; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48963/12]

Services for People with Disabilities

Dessie Ellis

34. Deputy Dessie Ellis asked the Minister for Health if he has carried out an audit of the cumulative effects of cuts to funding for disability services in recent years; if his attention has been drawn to the fact that such cuts are now threatening the very existence of basic services; and if he will ensure that no further cuts to funding of services for persons with disabilities will be imposed in the forthcoming budget 2013; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48962/12]

Áisíneachtaí Tras-Teorann

Dessie Ellis

178. D'fhiafraigh Deputy Dessie Ellis den an Tánaiste agus Aire Gnóthaí Eachtracha agus Trádála cén maoiniú atá curtha ar fáil do na háisíneachtaí trasteorann don bhliain 2012; cén céatadán den mhaoiniú a caitheadh ar thuarastail gach bliain ó 2008; an bhfuil fostaithe na n-áisíneachtaí atá lonnaithe ó dheas ag feidhmiú faoi ráta tuarastail atá bunaithe ar an gciorclán is déanaí de chuid na Státseirbhíse, Ciorclán 28/2009; ar íocadh incrimintí le foireann na n-áisíneachtaí sin ó 2008; agus an ndéanfaidh sé ráiteas ina thaobh. [48605/12]

Housing for People with Disabilities

Dessie Ellis

688. Deputy Dessie Ellis asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the steps he will take to assist the emerging generation of children with disabilities and their parents living in apartments, who through negative equity or being tied into affordable housing conditions cannot adapt their accommodation through housing adaption grants or council assistance and are as a result living in inaccessible, unadaptable accommodation that poses a severe health and safety risk to the whole family. [47749/12]

Garda Investigations

Dessie Ellis

790. Deputy Dessie Ellis asked the Minister for Justice and Equality if the forensic files relating to the attempted bombing of the Widow Scallan's pub and the murder of person (details supplied) will be released for scrutiny to his family. [47946/12]

Primary Care Centres Provision

Dessie Ellis

244. Deputy Dessie Ellis asked the Minister for Health if the Health Service Executive has designated an estate (details supplied) in County Longford as unsafe; and if this has any effect on the safety of the neighbouring primary care unit [46696/12]