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Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (22 May 2012)

Pearse Doherty: Question 337: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she has given consideration to the effect on the availability of accommodation to rent supplement recipients in the single person category of the implementation of articles 6 and 7 of statutory instrument 534 of 2008 in February 2013; if rent supplement will still be payable to tenants in accommodation which falls below these...

Written Answers — Local Authority Housing: Local Authority Housing (22 May 2012)

Pearse Doherty: Question 473: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide in tabular form, the par value of loans that have been transferred by the 34 local authorities to the Housing and Sustainable Communities Agency, showing by year and by local authority, when the loans were originally obtained; if he will show the valuations of any properties transferred...

Written Answers — Private Rented Accommodation: Private Rented Accommodation (22 May 2012)

Pearse Doherty: Question 475: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the consideration he has given to the effect of the implementation of Articles 6 and 7 of statutory instrument 534 of 2008 in February 2013 on the private rental market, particularly for those on the lowest incomes; if he has any data on the number of currently rented units which will be affected by the...

Written Answers — Social and Affordable Housing: Social and Affordable Housing (22 May 2012)

Pearse Doherty: Question 476: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide a list of the National Assets Management Agency related housing units to be transferred into social housing that will be provided in Dublin city and county, broken down by local authority and by post code or townland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24907/12]

Written Answers — Social and Affordable Housing: Social and Affordable Housing (22 May 2012)

Pearse Doherty: Question 477: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the total number of National Assets Management Agency related housing units he expects to be transferred into social use by the end of 2012; if NAMA has identified additional units to replace those from the original 2000 announced that have been deemed unsuitable following local authority inspections and...

Written Answers — Garda Investigations: Garda Investigations (22 May 2012)

Pearse Doherty: Question 530: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he has received the final report from An Garda Síochána in response to his request for information regarding the circumstances surrounding the continued employment at a school of a person (details supplied) in County Donegal despite their conviction for child abuse; if the report will be made public; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (22 May 2012)

Pearse Doherty: Question 599: To ask the Minister for Health the recent changes in the transport provided for patients from Letterkenny Hospital, County Donegal, travelling to Dublin hospitals for dialysis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24839/12]

Written Answers — Tourism Promotion: Tourism Promotion (22 May 2012)

Pearse Doherty: Question 694: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport in view of his strategy to increase tourism numbers, if his attention has been drawn to the fact that Fáilte Ireland has withdrawn staffing provision for the Tourist Information Centre in Dungloe, County Donegal; if he is satisfied with this situation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25215/12]

Order of Business (22 May 2012)

Pearse Doherty: I wish to raise two points from this legislation. As for the strategic investment bank, when should Members expect legislation to be brought forward in this regard? It has been a major policy position of the Government in respect of getting people back to work. As Members have heard already what is happening in Donegal, there is a need for such initiatives. One year after the formation of...

Order of Business (22 May 2012)

Pearse Doherty: I ask the Taoiseach to review the legislation and stop this practise which might have been acceptable 20 years ago but is not now given the infrastructure on our islands.

Order of Business (22 May 2012)

Pearse Doherty: What about the strategic investment bank?

Order of Business (22 May 2012)

Pearse Doherty: When?

Order of Business (17 May 2012)

Pearse Doherty: The board of Tallaght hospital is considering the Health Information and Quality Authority, HIQA, report on safety standards at the hospital's emergency department. I understand the recommendations contained in the report will have consequences and implications for emergency departments throughout the State. The report was commissioned in the light of the unsafe practice at Tallaght of...

Order of Business (17 May 2012)

Pearse Doherty: -----whether it might be safer for patients to remain at home rather than attend the emergency facility at Tallaght hospital. Will the Tánaiste indicate when the report will be published? Given that many agree there is a sense of drift prevailing in the health service, when will the Government bring forward the HSE governance Bill?

Leaders' Questions (17 May 2012)

Pearse Doherty: Yesterday, the Minister for Finance made headlines, as he is adept at doing with his soundbites. He told us the economy is in a better position than this time last year-----

Leaders' Questions (17 May 2012)

Pearse Doherty: -----and that the only effect of a Greek departure from the euro would be less feta cheese in our shopping baskets.

Leaders' Questions (17 May 2012)

Pearse Doherty: Many people listening to the Minister yesterday would not recognise the economy he was talking about. Life in the real economy, for the 440,000 people on the live register, the 1,500 people who emigrate every week and the 91 people who fall into mortgage distress every day, has got harder. Five austerity budgets have seen the living standards of the majority of people drop dramatically, and...

Leaders' Questions (17 May 2012)

Pearse Doherty: A reply would be helpful. The Tánaiste does not want to acknowledge that the CSO has said we are officially back in recession. What is happening in Greece is symptomatic of the failure of the policy of austerity, which is the same policy the Government is pursuing with gusto.

Leaders' Questions (17 May 2012)

Pearse Doherty: People know from their own real life experience that austerity is not working. The Tánaiste, the trade unions and the Labour Party's own supporters know that austerity has not and will not work. Sinn Féin has argued consistently that we need investment and stimulus to get people back to work.

Leaders' Questions (17 May 2012)

Pearse Doherty: This can be funded by the National Pensions Reserve Fund, the European Investment Bank and the private pensions industry. The Tánaiste wants to sell off profitable State assets at some time in the distant future. He also wants to cut €7.2 billion from the capital budget over the lifetime of the Government. It is now that people need investment in jobs.