Richard Bruton, TD

To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will advise of the success of the partial capacity benefit scheme; the number of persons who have accessed the benefit; the number of persons who have returned to the workplace as a result; the savings it has made to the Exchequer since its establishment; and if she will make a statement on the matter.

To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of social welfare inspectors carrying out investigations in each region in 2010, 2011 and 2012; if she will outline the resources allocated to the inspection of welfare fraud in 2010, 2011 and 2012; the number of fraudulent claims that have been identified per inspector during each of these years; and if she will make a statement on the matter.

To ask the Minister for Finance if he will outline the full extent of benefits achieved for the Irish taxpayer and the Exchequer arising from various renegotiations at EU/ECB/IMF level...

To ask the Minister for Finance if in the context of any restructuring of family home mortgages, cognisance will be taken of the current income of the borrowers...

To ask the Minister for Health the extent, if any, to which health insurance premiums charged by the VHI or other private health insurers are affected by the fees charged for various procedures in both the public and private hospital sectors...

To ask the Minister for Health the extent to which intensive or any research continues to be conducted here with a view to a determination of the cause or causes of Autism, Asperger's Syndrome or similar conditions...

Speaking following the draft agreement that was reached at EU level last night on CAP reform, Fine Gael Louth Senator, Jim Darcy said: ‘The agreement at the Council of Ministers in relation to CAP is to be greatly welcomed’.

The Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Simon Coveney, has described as a watershed moment today’s agreement by European Agriculture Ministers of a Council position on the reform of the CAP.