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Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes Eligibility (3 Mar 2015)

Pearse Doherty: 297. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he has received correspondence from a farmers' association (details supplied) regarding its concerns about how departmental inspectors are currently interpreting eligibility rules for upland, commonage and Natura land; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9318/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (3 Mar 2015)

Pearse Doherty: 358. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Donegal will receive an appointment for admittance to Galway University Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8727/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointment Status (3 Mar 2015)

Pearse Doherty: 460. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Donegal may expect an appointment in Letterkenny General Hospital, County Donegal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9383/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Long-Term Illness Scheme Coverage (26 Feb 2015)

Pearse Doherty: 184. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide details of all the recognised medical conditions, illnesses and syndromes, which a term (details supplied) encapsulates, regarding the Long-term Illness Scheme [8587/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Services for People with Disabilities (26 Feb 2015)

Pearse Doherty: 185. To ask the Minister for Health the reason for recent disruptions to services at a training and support centre (details supplied) for persons with disabilities in County Donegal; the number of persons who have been requested not to attend the unit over the past 12 months; if he will provide details in tabular form of the dates, together with the reason, persons were requested not to...

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (26 Feb 2015)

Pearse Doherty: Cuirim fáilte roimh Mr. McWilliams to the committee. I will follow on from Deputy Phelan's questioning. Mr. McWilliams has put on record his engagement with the Minister for Finance on that Wednesday night and we can read about it in his book, Follow the Money. The committee is gathering evidence and he will be the only person who can give us evidence on the other interactions he had...

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (26 Feb 2015)

Pearse Doherty: We will come to the detail in that respect.

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (26 Feb 2015)

Pearse Doherty: If Mr. McWilliams will allow me, I will get into that because the Chair will keep me tight to my time.

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (26 Feb 2015)

Pearse Doherty: Mr. McWilliams referred in his book to the call on Friday, 19 September saying that when the then Minister rang to say they were contemplating a partial guarantee, he indicated that his view was that such a guarantee would just alert the world. Did the Minister explain what they were thinking about in respect of a partial guarantee?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (26 Feb 2015)

Pearse Doherty: I appreciate that. I just wanted to know what the then Minister was saying.

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (26 Feb 2015)

Pearse Doherty: Mr. McWilliams said there were telephone calls on a daily basis. One of his comments regarding the calls was that the then Minister said his officials in the Department were dead set against a full guarantee. What did he say to Mr. McWilliams about the officials' opinion on such a guarantee?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (26 Feb 2015)

Pearse Doherty: Can I clarify this because we are taking evidence? Did the then Minister for Finance say to Mr. McWilliams that his officials were dead set against a full guarantee?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (26 Feb 2015)

Pearse Doherty: Did Mr. McWilliams have any other conversation with other members of the Cabinet during this period?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (26 Feb 2015)

Pearse Doherty: Did Mr. McWilliams have any conversation with John Gormley about a full guarantee?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (26 Feb 2015)

Pearse Doherty: With regard to nationalisation and conversations with the late Brian Lenihan, did Mr. McWilliams discuss the option of nationalisation? Can he inform us what Mr. Lenihan was saying about that issue if it was discussed?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (26 Feb 2015)

Pearse Doherty: I appreciate that.

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (26 Feb 2015)

Pearse Doherty: I am not getting the merits of nationalisation as opposed to not nationalising. It is more the thinking of the then Minister for Finance. Mr. McWilliams seems to have had a large amount of contact with the second most powerful politician in the State at a time of major financial crisis. During that contact, did the Minister indicate any time that he was in support of nationalisation,...

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (26 Feb 2015)

Pearse Doherty: The Governor of the Central Bank, Professor Honohan, gave evidence to the inquiry that Brian Lenihan "agreed with the idea of an overall guarantee but he also thought that INBS and Anglo should be nationalised there and then". Was that expressed to Mr. McWilliams?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (26 Feb 2015)

Pearse Doherty: There was daily contact and Mr. McWilliams gave advice on the first day. What was the reason for coming back for advice on a daily basis and phoning Mr. McWilliams when he was abroad?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (26 Feb 2015)

Pearse Doherty: Mr. McWilliams says that he was very discreet in his contact but also that Mr. Lenihan doubted the regulator and the Governor of the Central Bank.