Questions asked 8 total

• Finance 2 questions

  • 2019-11-05 Deputy Dara Calleary asked the Minister for Finance if the 10% penalty for not paying local property tax that is charged on income tax returns is applied to PAYE workers; the reason for the difference between the treatment of self-employed persons and PAYE workers who have not paid the tax; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44699/19]
  • 2019-11-05 Deputy Dara Calleary asked the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to the fact that companies in the leisure sector are still receiving insurance premium increase demands considerably in excess of insurance inflation, including those with no claim history; if his attention has been further drawn to the damage caused to the sector and to employment in the sector by these premium demands; and the actions he has taken to assist business owners and employers in this regard. [45165/19]
• Public 1 question

  • 2019-11-05 Deputy Dara Calleary asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he has considered a proposal for a rural unused Garda station (details supplied) in County Mayo. [44225/19]
• Education 1 question

  • 2019-11-05 Deputy Dara Calleary asked the Minister for Education and Skills if a summer works application by a school (details supplied) in County Mayo has been received; if the fact that the school has not received a reply to the application to date will be acknowledged; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44266/19]
• Health 1 question

  • 2019-11-05 Deputy Dara Calleary asked the Minister for Health the recruitment plans of the HSE in 2020, particularly for healthcare assistants; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44284/19]
• Communications 1 question

  • 2019-11-05 Deputy Dara Calleary asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if funding will be made available in late 2019 to SEAI to conduct energy efficiency works on homes of persons in receipt of eligible social welfare payments whose homes previously had limited works carried out under the remit of the free upgrade scheme; his views on whether a home that may have received nominal works in the past, such as attic insulation, would benefit greatly from full energy efficient works; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44691/19]
• Rural 1 question

  • 2019-11-05 Deputy Dara Calleary asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development if he has examined the possibility of enabling private applicants for LEADER funding to qualify for the grant aid rate of 75% for projects that fall under capital investment, investment and other supports including capital+ as is permitted for community applicants; the reason private applicants receive only 50% grant aid; if the 50% grant rate is a domestic or European rule; when the rule was first introduced; the corresponding regulation or circular for same; the estimated annual cost of adapting the current rate to 75%; and the definitions of private and community applicants. [45332/19]
• Employment 1 question

  • 2019-11-05 Deputy Dara Calleary asked the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her attention has been drawn to the fact that the decision to remove lone parents from jobseeker's transitional payment automatically when the youngest child turns 14 years of age is having a negative impact on such applications for other funding streams such as SUSI (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44903/19]