The National Consumer Agency has tips and information on staying safe this Hallowe’en.

The HSE has safety advice for parents and guardians on avoiding accidents or injuries.

Download Dublin City Council’s bonfire safety leaflet (pdf).

Update: The Department of Social Protection’s website, welfare.ie, is now available again and contact details for all offices administering Supplementary Welfare Allowance can be found there.

Visit the contact details page on welfare.ie.

The Society of Chartered Surveyors has some tips and pointers for people whose homes have been flooded.

Read their page Key points to consider after your home or business has been flooded.

Update: The Department of Social Protection’s website, welfare.ie, is now available again and all forms and publications can be downloaded from the site.

Visit welfare.ie.

The changes to the drink drive limits will see the current limit drop from 80 milligrams (mg) to 50 milligrams (mg) for all drivers and from 80 milligrams (mg) to 20 milligrams (mg) for learner, newly qualified drivers (for a period of two years after passing the driving test) and professional drivers such as bus, goods vehicle and public service vehicle drivers (PSV). The limits comes into effect from midnight on Thursday, 27 October 2011.

Find out more on the Road Safety Authority website.

For self-employed people, the final filing date for the paper version of the 2010 Income Tax return (Form 11/11E) is the 31st October 2011.

As this date falls on a Bank Holiday Monday, Revenue has put special arrangements in place.

Find out more about these arrangements from Revenue.

Customers using Revenue On-line Service to both file and pay have until midnight 15th November 2011.

There is still time to register for ROS to take advantage of the extension mentioned above.

The housing charity Threshold has published a set of tips for tenants affected by recent flooding.

View the document on the Threshold website (pdf).

The Ireland Involved Awards is part of a European-wide initiative to recognise the work of volunteers.

You can nominate a volunteer you know in one of 10 categories, including Health & Disability, Children & Young People, Community and Sports & Recreation.

Find out more from Volunteer Ireland.

Closing date for nominations: 31 October 2011.

The Department of Children and Youth Affairs is currently preparing a statement of strategy to cover the period 2011 – 2014.

Interested parties are invited to submit their views on the shape and content of the new strategy. Submissions should be sent before Thursday, 27 October 2011.

Find out more on the Department’s website.

The National Consumer Agency has just launched a new interactive banking cost comparisons feature on their website, itsyourmoney.ie. The comparison tool helps you to compare the deals available on current accounts, loans, savings products, mortgages and credit cards.