Results 30,861-30,880 of 36,192 for speaker:Pearse Doherty

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Departmental Expenditure (15 May 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 120. To ask the Minister for Finance the fees paid, both directly and indirectly by Anglo Irish Bank to Morgan Stanley in respect of advice and services connected to the so-called Maple 10 or Anglo Golden Circle transaction in 2008. [23161/13]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Private Residential Tenancies Board Staff (15 May 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 192. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government further to the publication of the 2011 annual report and accounts for the Private Residential Tenancies Board, the reason agency staff costs of €869,429 were incurred in 2011 in a relatively small organisation which employs 30 full time staff; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23157/13]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Private Residential Tenancies Board Staff (15 May 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 193. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government further to the publication of the 2011 annual report and accounts for the Private Residential Tenancies Board, if he will provide an analysis by recipient and amount of the €1,410,445 incurred in 2011 on legal and professional fees. [23166/13]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Crime Statistics (15 May 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 212. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 900 of 16 April 2013 and 286 of 7 May 2013, the steps a member of the public can take to check that a reported crime has been captured on the Garda PULSE system. [23162/13]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Crime Statistics (15 May 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 213. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 900 of 16 April 2013 and 286 of 7 May 2013, if only crimes in respect of which Gardaí have provided a crime number to the victim can be registered on PULSE. [23163/13]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Inter-Country Adoptions (15 May 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 244. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will confirm for each of 2009, 2010, 2011 and 2012 the total number of adoption registrations here. [23165/13]

Good Friday Agreement: Motion [Private Members] (14 May 2013)

Pearse Doherty: Tá áthas orm bheith ag caint mar Theachta Dála as contae atá buailte ar an Teorainn agus mar phoblachtach, agus go bhfuilimid ag plé na ceiste tábhachtaí seo anocht, 15 bliain ar aghaidh ó síníodh an socrú stairiúil sin, Comhaontú Aoine an Chéasta. There is no doubt that much has changed in the 15 years since the Good...

Topical Issue Debate: Special Educational Needs Services Provision (14 May 2013)

Pearse Doherty: While this is no reflection on the Minister of State present, as has been raised in the Chamber previously, it is wholly inappropriate that the Minister for Education and Skills, or at least a Minister of State at that Department, is not here. I have had this issue down for debate as a Topical Issue matter for the past two weeks. It was only selected today and I am very glad it has been...

Topical Issue Debate: Special Educational Needs Services Provision (14 May 2013)

Pearse Doherty: I will conclude on this. The letter continues:What will happen, is that he will begin to fall behind in a class and as the gap widens between him and his peers, we will then have to go through the lengthy and time consuming process of reassessing him. A bit like closing the gate when the horse has already bolted!!

Topical Issue Debate: Special Educational Needs Services Provision (14 May 2013)

Pearse Doherty: The letter continues: "I urge you; give him and every child with Down Syndrome ... [an] automatic entitlement to Resource hours."

Topical Issue Debate: Special Educational Needs Services Provision (14 May 2013)

Pearse Doherty: I thank the Minister of State for the response, although it sheds no more light on the issue. Indeed, I can provide more information than she has provided. For example, the Minister of State said the NCSE would provide the policy advice in the near future. It will do so directly to the Minister for Education and Skills at 11.30 a.m. on Friday at a public launch event. The key question is...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products Supply (14 May 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 659. To ask the Minister for Health if he will consider including pirfenidone on the drug payment scheme for sufferers of lung fibrosis; if he will confirm that is the only drug available to treat patients with idiopathic lung fibrosis; and when the Health Service Executive will conclude its negotiations with the manufacturer [22656/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Expenditure (14 May 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 133. To ask the Minister for Health if he will outline the scope of the cuts he proposes to impose on health services, other than staff pay cuts, during 2014 and 2015; if he has carried out an impact analysis of such cuts to date since 2008; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22561/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Non-Consultant Hospital Doctors Recruitment (14 May 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 145. To ask the Minister for Health if he has addressed with the Health Service Executive the concern that there will not be sufficient junior doctors at Letterkenny General Hospital, County Donegal; the action, if any, he proposes to take; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22560/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Budget 2014 Issues (14 May 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 188. To ask the Minister for Finance the minimum adjustment that would be required to be made in Budget 2014 to meet the original agreed deficit target as set out in the Troika Programme. [22364/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Bank Debt Restructuring (14 May 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 189. To ask the Minister for Finance of the ten persons, commonly known together as the Maple 10 or Anglo Golden Circle, if he will confirm the number of persons that continue to have outstanding loans at the Irish Bank Resolution Corporation; if these persons have currently outstanding loans other than those related to the Maple 10 transaction. [22365/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Bank Debt Restructuring (14 May 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 190. To ask the Minister for Finance of the ten loans provided to the group commonly known together as the Maple 10 or Anglo Golden Circle, if he will confirm the number of loans which were provided originally on a recourse basis, but which were subsequently changed to non-recourse loans. [22366/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Bank Debt Restructuring (14 May 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 191. To ask the Minister for Finance of the ten loans provided to the group commonly known together as the Maple 10 or Anglo Golden Circle, if he will confirm the total of all repayments made and the current outstanding balance including interest and any other charges. [22367/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Bank Debt Restructuring (14 May 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 192. To ask the Minister for Finance of the ten loans provided to the group commonly known together as the Maple 10 or Anglo Golden Circle, if he will confirm the number of loans on which the bank has initiated court proceedings to recover sums outstanding. [22368/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: IBRC Liquidation (14 May 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 193. To ask the Minister for Finance the reason the Irish Bank Resolution Corporation borrowers will be eligible to buy their own loans at less than par value when such loans over €10m are offered to the market imminently, but that borrowers at the National Asset Management Agency are precluded by the NAMA Act from buying their own loans at below par value. [22369/13]