Parliamentary questions

Property Taxation Exemptions

Seamus Healy

149. Deputy Seamus Healy asked the Minister for Finance the position regarding homes purchased under the local authority shared ownership schemes; if these homes are subject to the local property tax; if so, the person responsible for the payment of this tax; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11272/13]

State Savings Schemes

Seamus Healy

150. Deputy Seamus Healy asked the Minister for Finance if returns arising from the investments in the ten year national solidarity bond issued under the national instalment savings scheme will be subject to deductions for PRSI and/or universal social charge; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11275/13]

Income Data

Seamus Healy

3. Deputy Seamus Healy asked the Minister for Finance noting that in the course of a reply to Deputy Boyd Barrett on 3 October 2012, he provided data for year 2012 on the incomes of the top 10,000, top 1%, top 5%, top 10% of taxable units and their tax payments and effective tax rates (details supplied) and that the data were based on projections by the Revenue Commissioners of expected earnings and expected revenue in that year, in view of the distribution of incomes in 2009 and subsequent developments, if he will provide equivalent data for the year 2012. as revised. in view of actual revenue outcomes for year 2012; if he will further provide the equivalent data for the year 2011 based on actual revenue outcomes for that year and the number of public servants in each earning category for the years 2011 and 2012; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10749/13]

Tax Code

Seamus Healy

231. Deputy Seamus Healy asked the Minister for Finance if he will outline the details of the legislation underpinning the importation of motor homes here; the details of changes made in recent years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10320/13]

Tenant Purchase Scheme Eligibility

Seamus Healy

470. Deputy Seamus Healy asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if he will confirm the details of the recently announced local authority tenant purchase scheme; the date of publication; the date of commencement of the scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10315/13]

Child and Family Agency Remit

Seamus Healy

613. Deputy Seamus Healy asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will review her decision to move psychology services out of the Health Service Executive and into the new Child and Family Support Agency and consider an alternative proposal where psychology services remain in primary care with contractual arrangements with the Child and Family Support Agency; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10313/13]

HIQA Investigations

Seamus Healy

739. Deputy Seamus Healy asked the Minister for Health when he intends to introduce legislation to enable the Health Information and Quality Authority to inspect and investigate any problems, should they exist, in sheltered homes for the elderly; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10318/13]

Industrial Development

Seamus Healy

3. Deputy Seamus Healy asked the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of visits by industrialists to south Tipperary in 2012 facilitated by his Department and the various job development agencies; the number of visits specifically targeted at vacant advance factories and vacant private facilities in 2012 and 2013; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9406/13]

Departmental Staff Rehiring

Seamus Healy

103. Deputy Seamus Healy asked the Minister for Finance in view of the recent resignation of a senior official (details supplied) who was head of shareholder management unit in his Department to take up a senior position at Bank of Ireland and his possession of vital up-to-date information which might be of advantage to the now privately owned Bank of Ireland and its North American investor, the fact that the current Government had agreed to the sale of over 35% of BOI to North American investors for €1.1 billion though the State had invested circa €5 billion in BOI and now holds a mere 15% share of ownership, less than half that owned by the North American investor, the possession by the senior official of knowledge of the affairs of competitors of BOI, including the State-owned Allied Irish Bank and Permanent TSB which may be of advantage to BOI, the prohibition on senior civil servants taking up employment in private sector for 12 months after resignation from the public service to avoid such conflicts of interest, the fact that the senior official in question was employed by the National Treasury Management Agency and seconded to his Department, if he will state if the senior official concerned and-or the section of his Department of which he was head was involved in any way in the process that led to the sale of 35% of BOI to the North American investor in Summer 2011 whether by advice or otherwise; if he will extend the 12-month stay on senior public servants taking up employment in private sector employments to those on secondment in order to preclude conflicts of interest; and if he will further extend the same 12 month stay to senior employees of the National Treasury Management Agency. [9532/13]

IBRC Liquidation

Seamus Healy

273. Deputy Seamus Healy asked the Minister for Finance if he will confirm the position of Credit Union Investments in the Irish Bank Resolutions Corporation and if these investments will be repaid in full, particularly since these investment bonds offered 100% capital security through an eight year three months fixed term deposit facility due to mature in September 2013; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8630/13]

Hospital Staff

Seamus Healy

724. Deputy Seamus Healy asked the Minister for Health if he will ensure there will be sufficient medical intern places for graduates of medical schools here available in hospitals from July 2013 as recommended in various reports including the Fottrell Report 2006, the NCMET report and the second interim report on the implementation of the reform of the intern year, April 2012; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8628/13]

NSAI Staff

Seamus Healy

97. Deputy Seamus Healy asked the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of certification officers who have retired in the past five years from the National Standards Authority of Ireland; and the number who have been re-engaged on a contractual basis or on a consultancy basis to carry out certification duties from NSAI clients, for new clients and or for the authority. [7664/13]

General Practitioner Services

Seamus Healy

716. Deputy Seamus Healy asked the Minister for Health if it is order for general practitioners to charge medical card holders for Warfarin readings; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7277/13]

Medical Card Applications

Seamus Healy

200. Deputy Seamus Healy asked the Minister for Health the position regarding a medical card application in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Tipperary whose application is awaiting decision by the medical officer in PCRS since October 2012; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4850/13]

Civil Service Code of Conduct

Seamus Healy

265. Deputy Seamus Healy asked the Minister for Finance if, in view of the recent resignation of a senior official (details supplied) who was head of Shareholder Management Unit, in his Department to take up a senior position at Bank of Ireland and their possession of vital up to date information which might be of advantage to now privately owned Bank of Ireland and its North American investor, and in view of the fact that the current Government had agreed to the sale of over 35% of BOI to North American investors for €1.1 billion though the State had invested circa €5 billion in BOI and now holds a mere 15% share of ownership, less than half that owned by the North American investor, the possession by the senior official of knowledge of the affairs of competitors of BOI, including State owned AIB and Permanent TSB which may be of advantage to BOI, the prohibition on senior civil servants taking up employment in private sector for 12 months after resignation from the public service to avoid such conflicts of interest, the fact that the senior official in question was employed by the National Treasury Management Agency and seconded to his Department, the senior official concerned and or the section of his Department of which he was head was involved in anyway in the process that lead to the sale of 35% of BOI to the North American investor in Summer 2011 whether by advice or otherwise; if he will extend the 12 month stay on senior public servants taking up employment in private sector employment to those on secondment in order to preclude conflicts of interest; if he will further extent the same 12 month stay to senior employees of the National Treasury Management Agency [4209/13]

Hospital Accommodation Provision

Seamus Healy

714. Deputy Seamus Healy asked the Minister for Health in view of commitments to re-open closed beds at the Community Hospital of the Assumption, Thurles, County Tipperary, if he will ensure that the re-opening of the beds will form part of the Health Service Executive West Service Plan 2013; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4339/13]

Medical Card Applications

Seamus Healy

1010. Deputy Seamus Healy asked the Minister for Health the position regarding a medical card application in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Tipperary which is awaiting a decision by the medical officer since September 2012; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1029/13]

Child and Family Support Agency Establishment

Seamus Healy

62. Deputy Seamus Healy asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her policy for the continuation of family resource centres into the future having regard to the establishment of the Child and Family Support Agency; if she will confirm the continuation and extension of the delivery of community based universal services and early intervention programmes as heretofore; if she will confirm that the ethos and culture of the Family Resource Programme will be maintained through the delivery of family supports in local communities through a community development approach; if she will confirm that the Family Resource Centre National Forum will have representation at board level within the new agency; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [56896/12]

Unfinished Housing Developments

Seamus Healy

426. Deputy Seamus Healy asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the position regarding the redevelopment of an estate (details supplied) with particular reference to the current builder, his continued involvement with the work and timescales for completion; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56350/12]

Rail Network

Seamus Healy

677. Deputy Seamus Healy asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the details of the track and infrastructure alterations proposed at the railway station in Carrick-on-Suir County Tipperary and the timescales involved; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56349/12]