Parliamentary questions

Jobseeker's Benefit Applications

Thomas Pringle

43. Deputy Thomas Pringle asked the Minister for Social Protection the number of claimants of jobseeker's benefit who have been removed from benefit after the change to assessing their claims on a five day basis in July this year and the number projected to be removed when Sunday working will be assessed in April 2013; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [54656/12]

Local Authorities Management

Thomas Pringle

369. Deputy Thomas Pringle asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide in tabular form a list of all companies or persons providing an external professional service to the Local Government Management Services Board in 2011 such as legal advice, advertising, project management and including any other external professional service not listed; the amount invoiced by each company; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53812/12]

Official Travel

Thomas Pringle

422. Deputy Thomas Pringle asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if he will outline in tabular form the total cost to the Exchequer of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change Summit in Doha including accommodation, cost per person and the number of person's attending from the Irish delegation, and flights; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54562/12]

Exploration Licences Approvals

Thomas Pringle

43. Deputy Thomas Pringle asked the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources in view of the Government's passing of the Aarhus convention what if any public onsultation processes is he going to put in place around the applications for granting exploration licences; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53324/12]

Student Grant Scheme Applications

Thomas Pringle

273. Deputy Thomas Pringle asked the Minister for Education and Skills if he will restore the funding for the Student Assistance Fund to €10 million in view of the hardship that many students are experiencing; and if he will commit to not cutting this fund any further. [52189/12]

Supplementary Welfare Allowance Eligibility

Thomas Pringle

353. Deputy Thomas Pringle asked the Minister for Social Protection if she will consider making supplementary welfare allowance available to those who are awaiting their student grants. [52188/12]

Public Services Card

Thomas Pringle

392. Deputy Thomas Pringle asked the Minister for Social Protection the progress of the roll out of the public services card; and her views on the duration of the validity of these cards. [52598/12]

Departmental Funding

Thomas Pringle

501. Deputy Thomas Pringle asked the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will list all integration funding currently available for prospective applicants. [52261/12]

Social Welfare Code Issues

Thomas Pringle

343. Deputy Thomas Pringle asked the Minister for Social Protection if she has considered changing the way property is assessed in the means test for social welfare claimants; if she will change to a system of assessing the rental income rather than the capital value as a measure of the income attributed to the property; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50936/12]

Turbary Rights

Thomas Pringle

498. Deputy Thomas Pringle asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will supply the second schedule of the Q3 (details supplied) to clarify the turbary rights attached to the Q3 lease. [50932/12]

Narcolepsy Issues

Thomas Pringle

574. Deputy Thomas Pringle asked the Minister for Health the date on which he will publish the package of supports from the National Narcolepsy Steering Committee Study, to assist sufferers, that was due to have been published in July; the reason for the delay; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50931/12]

Health Insurance Cover

Thomas Pringle

576. Deputy Thomas Pringle asked the Minister for Health the position regarding medical card holders that have been hospitalised after a road traffic accident in the Isle of Man in relation to hospital charges and fees; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50937/12]

Road Improvement Schemes

Thomas Pringle

655. Deputy Thomas Pringle asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to provide funding for local improvement schemes in 2013; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50938/12]

Roads Maintenance

Thomas Pringle

656. Deputy Thomas Pringle asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide bridge replacement funding for non-national roads in 2013 and in particular for the replacement of Fintra Bridge on the R263 in County Donegal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50939/12]

Public Sector Management Remuneration

Thomas Pringle

131. Deputy Thomas Pringle asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of public and civil servants who earn more than €100,000 annually; and the proportion this number represents in the public sector pay bill. [50213/12]

Gender Recognition

Thomas Pringle

141. Deputy Thomas Pringle asked the Minister for Social Protection her plans to introduce gender recognition legislation in order to comply with obligations under the European Convention on Human Rights; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50227/12]

Rent Supplement Scheme Payments

Thomas Pringle

125. Deputy Thomas Pringle asked the Minister for Social Protection if she will examine the cases of persons (details supplied) in relation to community welfare offices having flexibility in making payments. [49920/12]

Rent Supplement Scheme Eligibility

Thomas Pringle

150. Deputy Thomas Pringle asked the Minister for Social Protection the reason she does not introduce rent controls and legal penalties on landlords who discriminate against tenants in receipt of rent allowance in view of (details supplied); if she will achieve her stated aim of reducing rents; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49919/12]

Tax Credits

Thomas Pringle

189. Deputy Thomas Pringle asked the Minister for Finance if he will provide the number of tax credits and reliefs available to taxpayers; the number of taxpayers that have availed of these; and if he will provide a breakdown of the total cost of these credits and reliefs. [47218/12]

Fiscal Policy

Thomas Pringle

204. Deputy Thomas Pringle asked the Minister for Finance if any analyses are being undertaken in view of the IMF World Economic Outlook note on multipliers to establish the short-term multiplier for Government spending. [47386/12]

Departmental Expenditure

Thomas Pringle

708. Deputy Thomas Pringle asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the expenditure of regeneration funding for the Waterford Regeneration project in each of the years 2008, 2009 and 2010 spent on project staff salaries and wages, project office overheads and consultant fees; the total funding for the regeneration project recouped in 2008, 2009 and 2010; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48146/12]

Proposed Legislation

Thomas Pringle

166. Deputy Thomas Pringle asked the Minister for Justice and Equality the position regarding the review on the regulation on prostitution; when the review will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47020/12]

Regeneration Funding

Thomas Pringle

166. Deputy Thomas Pringle asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the expenditure of regeneration funding for an area (details supplied) in County Kerry in each of the years 2008, 2009 and 2010 spent on project staff salaries and wages, project office overheads and consultant fees; the total funding for the regeneration project recouped in 2008, 2009 and 2010; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46567/12]

Student Grant Scheme Reform

Thomas Pringle

210. Deputy Thomas Pringle asked the Minister for Education and Skills the funding available to students for part-time courses or if there are any plans to introduce funding for part-time courses; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45773/12]

Public Sector Management Remuneration

Thomas Pringle

282. Deputy Thomas Pringle asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide the number of public servants that earn more than €100,000 annually; and the proportion of this number that this represents of the public sector pay bill. [45732/12]

Site Acquisitions

Thomas Pringle

261. Deputy Thomas Pringle asked the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding the provision of a new primary school building for a school (details supplied) in County Donegal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44744/12]

Regeneration Projects

Thomas Pringle

412. Deputy Thomas Pringle asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the project supervision costs incurred by way of professional or consultants fees for a regeneration project (details supplied) in 2009; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44441/12]

Fish Quotas

Thomas Pringle

549. Deputy Thomas Pringle asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide a breakdown in tabular form of quota allocated to each vessel in the north west herring fishery in September 2012 and a comparative table for September 2011; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44745/12]

Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Eligibility

Thomas Pringle

550. Deputy Thomas Pringle asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will give any consideration to introducing another band in the disadvantaged area payment in view of the fact that some areas in the west and north west are particularly disadvantaged and farmers face severe difficulties in making their farming activities provide an adequate income; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44746/12]

Petroleum and Gas Exploration

Thomas Pringle

20. Deputy Thomas Pringle asked the Minister for Communications; Energy and Natural Resources if, in view of a possible oil find in Dublin Bay, if his attention has been drawn to the pamphlet, produced by Dublin Shell to Sea Campaign, Liquid assets: Ireland's oil and gas resources and how they can be managed for the people's benefit; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43747/12]

Exploration Licences Approvals

Thomas Pringle

33. Deputy Thomas Pringle asked the Minister for Communications; Energy and Natural Resources with regard to the exploratory licence recently granted to a company (details supplied), when the drilling in Dublin bay is due to commence; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43743/12]

Social Welfare Benefits Applications

Thomas Pringle

81. Deputy Thomas Pringle asked the Minister for Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 135 of 4 October 2012, if she will provide further analysis of the number of families that are recipients of both a social welfare payment and child dependent payment that receive a payment for more than one child; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43833/12]

European Stability Mechanism

Thomas Pringle

185. Deputy Thomas Pringle asked the Minister for Finance if he intends to pay public money to the ESM; and if so, the amount in advance of the legality of the ESM being considered by the ECJ. [43323/12]

Cancer Screening Programmes

Thomas Pringle

573. Deputy Thomas Pringle asked the Minister for Health his views on the progress of the national colorectal screening programme; and if he will list the sites of such screening centres currently running [42634/12]

Tax Yield

Thomas Pringle

6. Deputy Thomas Pringle asked the Minister for Finance if he will comment on reports that companies (details supplied) based in Shannon, County Clare, are paying very low effective rates of corporation tax; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42286/12]

European Stability Mechanism

Thomas Pringle

64. Deputy Thomas Pringle asked the Minister for Finance if he is concerned by the recent statement by the German, Dutch and Finnish foreign Ministers suggesting that the European Stability Mechanism should not be used to provide debt relief for past banking losses taken on by states such as Ireland; the implications that this has for Ireland's campaign for debt relief; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42285/12]

Banks Recapitalisation

Thomas Pringle

78. Deputy Thomas Pringle asked the Minister for Finance if he will provide a breakdown of the way the €7.5 billion given during the banks recapitalisation for mortgage debt has been used; which banks received this capital and the amount of this has been used to deal with the mortgage debt crisis. [42440/12]

Social Welfare Benefits Applications

Thomas Pringle

135. Deputy Thomas Pringle asked the Minister for Social Protection the number of people on a core social welfare payment who are also recipients of a child dependent payment; and if she will provide a breakdown of same [42442/12]

EU Programmes

Thomas Pringle

44. Deputy Thomas Pringle asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will comment on the de-facto upgrade of the EU-Israel Association Agreement strengthening trade relations between the two. [42126/12]

Departmental Staff Remuneration

Thomas Pringle

103. Deputy Thomas Pringle asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of public servants that earn between €80,000 and €100,000 annually; and the proportion that this number represents in the public sector pay bill. [42125/12]

Income Data

Thomas Pringle

99. Deputy Thomas Pringle asked the Minister for Finance the number of those with an income of €80,000 and more per annum; and the number of those with an income of €100,000 and more per annum. [40247/12]

Tax Credits

Thomas Pringle

100. Deputy Thomas Pringle asked the Minister for Finance the number of those whose annual income is €80,000 and more and who claim a home carer tax credit. [40248/12]

Tax Credits

Thomas Pringle

101. Deputy Thomas Pringle asked the Minister for Finance the number of taxpayers that claim a home carer tax credit. [40249/12]

Child Benefit Payments

Thomas Pringle

209. Deputy Thomas Pringle asked the Minister for Social Protection the number of recipients of child benefit who are also in receipt of a social welfare payment, including family income supplement, and the percentage that they compose of the child benefit budget. [40245/12]

Child Benefit Payments

Thomas Pringle

210. Deputy Thomas Pringle asked the Minister for Social Protection the number of the child benefit budget allocated to those who are not recipients of social welfare payments, including family income supplement. [40246/12]

Garda Investigations

Thomas Pringle

308. Deputy Thomas Pringle asked the Minister for Justice and Equality when the report regarding a particular series of events which took place after the conviction of a person (details supplied) in County Donegal will be completed; and when it is scheduled to be published. [40279/12]

Middle East Peace Process

Thomas Pringle

30 Deputy Thomas Pringle asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his plans, if any, to exert pressure on Israel to remove its illegal settlements and end its military occupation of Palestinian territories.
[36486/12]

Middle East Peace Process

Thomas Pringle

32 Deputy Thomas Pringle asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he intends to intervene in the continued Israeli military occupation of Palestinian territories.
[36518/12]

Cross-Border Education Initiatives

Thomas Pringle

148 Deputy Thomas Pringle asked the Minister for Education and Skills the progress that has been made on the cross-Border education survey; and if he can provide a timescale for completion of same.
[36137/12]

Social Welfare Benefits

Thomas Pringle

369 Deputy Thomas Pringle asked the Minister for Social Protection her plans, if any, to ensure that those who are over the age of 18 years who are made homeless but were not in care when under 18 years will be provided with a full adult payment .
[36241/12]