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Written Answers — Department of Health: Primary Care Centres (23 Oct 2012)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Health if he or his representatives have had contact with the National Asset Management Agency in respect of a property at 66, 68,70 Dublin Street, Balbriggan, County Dublin; and if so, the dates and nature of the contact [45959/12]

Written Answers — Department of Health: EU-IMF Agreement (23 Oct 2012)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Health if he will confirm the requirements to reform competition and practice in the health sector set out in the Memorandum of Understanding with the programme Troika; the dates on which such requirements are to be complied with. [45961/12]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Service Allowances (23 Oct 2012)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Health if he will confirm that the funded individual social programme allowance has been suspended as of 1 November 2012; the number of persons currently in receipt of this allowance; the total savings to the Exchequer arising from this cut; and if he will provide in tabular form a breakdown of the recipients of by county and within Dublin city by postcode; and if he...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Service Allowances (23 Oct 2012)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons currently in receipt of the funded individual social programme allowance in Clondalkin Dublin 22, Palmerstown Dublin 20, Lucan, Newcastle, Rathcoole, Saggart and Brittas County Dublin [46295/12]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Service Staff (23 Oct 2012)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Health the measures taken by the Health Service Executive to implement Labour Relations Commission Recommendation No LRC20312 issued on the 29 June 2012 regarding to contracts for home helps; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46378/12]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Service Staff (23 Oct 2012)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Health in view of Labour Relations Commission Recommendation No LRC20312, the reason the Health Service Executive is currently allocating home help hours to a company (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46379/12]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Service Staff (23 Oct 2012)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Health in view of the fact the Health Service Executive has allocated more than 15,260 hours of home help to a company (details supplied) between 2011 and 2012, if he is satisfied that all home help workers employed by the HSE in County Donegal are currently operating at the full contracted hours as agreed between them and the HSE in 2009; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Tourism Promotion (23 Oct 2012)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will lay before the Dail Éireann the business case which justifies the reported spending of €495,000 by Tourism Ireland on the Ireland.com domain name, acquired from the Irish Times. [45986/12]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Tourism Promotion (23 Oct 2012)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he was consulted on and subsequently approved the spending by Tourism Ireland of €495,000 on the purchase of the domain name Ireland.com from the Irish Times; the date on which he was first consulted and the date on which he provided any approval. [45987/12]

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Fiscal Responsibility Bill 2012: Committee Stage (18 Oct 2012)

Pearse Doherty: Is this the last question to be posed on the Bill?

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Fiscal Responsibility Bill 2012: Committee Stage (18 Oct 2012)

Pearse Doherty: It is not agreed.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Fiscal Responsibility Bill 2012: Committee Stage (18 Oct 2012)

Pearse Doherty: We have come from a decade where advice went unheard, unnoticed or basically dismissed, in particular by the previous Government. That has been well-documented in independent reports on the collapse of the Irish economy. One of the reports on the Department of Finance showed that advice was given to the previous Government to establish a fiscal advisory council, and I welcome the fact we...

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Fiscal Responsibility Bill 2012: Committee Stage (18 Oct 2012)

Pearse Doherty: I agree with the amendment. It provides that the Minister would be obliged to respond whether the Government agreed or disagreed with the assessment made under subsection (3). My amendment, No. 16, goes further than that. This is a weakness in the Bill and, although the formula of words could be re-examined on Report Stage, it is important that an amendment such as this is included. Under...

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Fiscal Responsibility Bill 2012: Committee Stage (18 Oct 2012)

Pearse Doherty: I move amendment No. 11: In page 8, subsection (4), between lines 15 and 16, to insert the following:"(a) provide an assessment of whether the fiscal and budgetary policy of the Government is contributing to economic growth, job creation, the delivery of high quality public services, greater income equality, social inclusion and poverty reduction,".I will not go on about this as we have...

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Fiscal Responsibility Bill 2012: Committee Stage (18 Oct 2012)

Pearse Doherty: I wish to make two brief points. As a number of amendments are grouped, I will focus on two and ask the Minister how they cause violence to the article. First, my amendment on equality and anti-poverty impact assessments reads: "All revenue and expenditure measures contained in the plan must be subject to equality and anti-poverty impact assessments the details of which will be published as...

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Fiscal Responsibility Bill 2012: Committee Stage (18 Oct 2012)

Pearse Doherty: The Minister's answer may be clever, but there was no fiction about the person who telephoned "Liveline". Under the Minister's watch in 2012, a man stole so that his children could have breakfast in the morning.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Fiscal Responsibility Bill 2012: Committee Stage (18 Oct 2012)

Pearse Doherty: He existed. He exists today under the Minister's watch.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Fiscal Responsibility Bill 2012: Committee Stage (18 Oct 2012)

Pearse Doherty: The Minister may claim that such people did not exist under British rule at the time of the Famine. Of course they existed, and they still exist. They are very real today. That is the Minister's legacy. There is no equality or poverty proofing of these measures. The Minister must admit that a man who shoplifted so that his children could have the bare necessities was convicted for doing so.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Fiscal Responsibility Bill 2012: Committee Stage (18 Oct 2012)

Pearse Doherty: I move amendment No. 6: In page 7, subsection (2)(a), line 6, after "achieved" to insert the following:"in a manner consistent with paragraph (a)".

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Fiscal Responsibility Bill 2012: Committee Stage (18 Oct 2012)

Pearse Doherty: I move amendment No. 7: In page 7, subsection (2), between lines 14 and 15, to insert the following:"(e) outline how revenue and expenditure measures will contribute to the objectives of greater income equality, social inclusion and poverty reduction.".