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Written Answers — Social Welfare Code: Social Welfare Code (22 Nov 2011)

Stephen Donnelly: Question 266: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide the entitlements and procedures applying to self-employed persons whose business has collapsed and who need social assistance; the difference between these entitlements and those applying to former PAYE workers who are now unemployed; if she will consider bringing these entitlements into parity; if she is considering...

Written Answers — Postal Services: Postal Services (22 Nov 2011)

Stephen Donnelly: Question 325: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the progress made on the introduction of a national postcode system, as per the Communications Regulation (Postal Services) Bill 2010; if he will give any deadlines for when this will be introduced; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35588/11]

Written Answers — EU Agreements: EU Agreements (22 Nov 2011)

Stephen Donnelly: Question 508: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his policy on the Fisheries Partnership Agreement between the EU and Morocco, which is currently under a one-year extension and may be renewed or extended; and if he has made any representations on this issue at the EU; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35590/11]

Written Answers — Hospital Staff: Hospital Staff (22 Nov 2011)

Stephen Donnelly: Question 623: To ask the Minister for Health the number and hospital location of consultants currently employed by the Health Service Executive and in voluntary hospitals who were initially employed on temporary contracts and who have been since awarded a contract of indefinite duration; the number and hospital location of consultants employed by the HSE and in voluntary hospitals who were...

Order of Business (17 Nov 2011)

Stephen Donnelly: We are all aware that the social welfare safety net in this country is under huge strain at the moment. One of the holes in the net is an idiosyncracy whereby self-employed people get either very little or nothing when they lose their jobs or their companies close. Like other Deputies, I have constituents in Wicklow and east Carlow whose businesses have folded but who are getting nothing...

Infrastructure and Capital Investment 2012-2016: Statements (Resumed) (16 Nov 2011)

Stephen Donnelly: Can the capital programme be changed before the budget and will the Minister immediately release to us what he can?

Infrastructure and Capital Investment 2012-2016: Statements (Resumed) (16 Nov 2011)

Stephen Donnelly: Will the Minister release the background information so we can consider it in more detail?

Infrastructure and Capital Investment 2012-2016: Statements (Resumed) (16 Nov 2011)

Stephen Donnelly: I understand. However, without background information it is impossible for us as parliamentarians to assess the capital programme, which is just a list. The Department of Public Expenditure and Reform must have decision criteria and must have reviewed cost-benefit analyses across a range of projects.

Infrastructure and Capital Investment 2012-2016: Statements (Resumed) (16 Nov 2011)

Stephen Donnelly: I commend the Minister and his officials on putting together a multi-year plan. It is very useful. I read through the document in some detail and there are some great ideas in it. My concern with the plan is that there is no detail which allows me, as a Member of Parliament, to understand why particular things have been allocated. The Minister picked four pillars and there is reference...

Infrastructure and Capital Investment 2012-2016: Statements (Resumed) (16 Nov 2011)

Stephen Donnelly: To clarify, is the Minister saying that there are proposals in this document which may be subject to change before the budget? Will he release the information on decision criteria and cost benefit analyses immediately so that we can digest it before the debate next week in the House?

Written Answers — Fiscal Policy: Fiscal Policy (15 Nov 2011)

Stephen Donnelly: Question 103: To ask the Minister for Finance, in view of his earlier implication that the ECB had effectively threatened that there would be consequences if the bond payments due by the former Anglo Irish Bank were not paid and his more recent statement that the threats of increased interest rates or of a turning off of the tap of liquidity to the banking system were never explicitly made,...

Written Answers — Overseas Student Enrolments: Overseas Student Enrolments (15 Nov 2011)

Stephen Donnelly: Question 175: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills with regard to the registration of students by private colleges for courses accredited by HETAC and FETAC, if he will confirm if it is the case that such students can only be registered if they have a PPS number, or the British equivalent; the reasons for same; if he has considered the negative impact that this may have on uptake by...

Mental Health Services: Motion (15 Nov 2011)

Stephen Donnelly: I am not an expert on mental health so in preparation for the motion, I spoke to mental health professionals on the medical side, the clinical therapeutic side and the complementary therapy side. I also spoke to people involved in community-based care and in hospital-based care and I have had input from constituents in Wicklow, both from those involved in community-based provision and those...

EU-IMF Programme (15 Nov 2011)

Stephen Donnelly: Question 31: To ask the Minister for Finance with regard to his assertion in Dáil Éireann last Wednesday that he had concern about the collapse of the programme that is, the EU-IMF programme were the bond due to be paid by the former Anglo Irish Bank last week not paid, and his warning that if the programme collapsed, we would have to make the full adjustment in one year, if there is any...

EU-IMF Programme (15 Nov 2011)

Stephen Donnelly: The Minister has given more or less the same statement that he gave in the House last week. Relative to the question I asked, it is nonsense. Both the Minister and the Taoiseach stated unambiguously in this Chamber last week that if we did not pay the senior bondholders at Anglo Irish Bank, the EU-IMF programme would stop. The Minister said that he would therefore have to make an €18...

EU-IMF Programme (15 Nov 2011)

Stephen Donnelly: If the Minister believed the statement the late Brian Lenihan made here, then coming up to the general election he should have told the people: "I believe Brian Lenihan. I believe the IMF deal is contingent upon us paying the bondholders. Therefore if you elect us into government, we are going to continue to pay the bondholders." If the Minister believed what he said, that is what he...

EU-IMF Programme (15 Nov 2011)

Stephen Donnelly: I have a supplementary question. Another of these bonds for €1.2 billion will come up in January. What does the Minister believe will happen if he keeps to the people's understanding of his election promise, which was to burn these bondholders or in this case secondary speculators who now own the bonds?

EU-IMF Programme (15 Nov 2011)

Stephen Donnelly: What does the Minister believe will happen in January?

Bank Guarantee Scheme (2 Nov 2011)

Stephen Donnelly: I think it is fair to say there is agreement across the House that there is no moral or legal obligation on us to pay the bond due to be paid today by the Irish Bank Resolution Corporation Limited, formerly Anglo Irish Bank Corporation Limited. I agree with the Minister's own assessment from last year that it is a disaster and obscene thing for us to be doing. Taking that for granted, I...

Bank Guarantee Scheme (2 Nov 2011)

Stephen Donnelly: In the Minister's prepared statement, the two arguments he gave from Mr. Trichet were ones that he himself dismissed when in Opposition. He absolutely dismissed them. I agree with his previous analysis and I do not accept Mr. Trichet's analysis. I do not accept that there is a significant risk of contagion from not paying bonds such as the one today. I simply think he is talking nonsense,...