Senator Micheál Carrigy

1.To ask the Minister for Health if he will request the VHI to desist from using the Government health insurance levy as a means of preventing persons in financial difficulties from downgrading their policies; and if he will make a statement on the matter? 2. To ask the Minister for Health if, in view of the reports that VHI are allowing customers who have been made redundant downgrade their policies without penalty, he accepts the VHI explanation that they must charge other customers downgrading their policies such high penalties because of the health insurance levy; and if he will make a statement on the matter?

French companies pay less tax than Irish companies by writing off three-quarters of their tax bill

To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if, in cases of clear inability to pay, payment of the 3rd level registration fee can be postponed pending receipt of the grant which does not come for some months after the registration payment deadline; and if he will make a statement on the matter?

To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will clarify when the special schools (details supplied) in County Dublin will go to construction in view of the fact that the principals were under the impression that they would go to construction at the end of this year; and if he will make a statement on the matter?

To ask the Minister for Health if he has received an interim report from the group reviewing the mobility allowance and motorised transport grant as payments under both of these heads terminate in June; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

Fine Gael Kerry Senator and Seanad Chief Whip, Paul Coghlan, has said that significant progress has been made on introducing fresh blood onto the boards of our State-supported banks.

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