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Written Answers — Department of Finance: Housing Data (20 Feb 2018)

Jackie Cahill: 132. To ask the Minister for Finance if an audit of the number of residential properties owned by a bank (details supplied) will be carried out by his Department; the plans the bank has to place those properties on the market to help ease the housing shortage; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8066/18]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Housing Data (20 Feb 2018)

Jackie Cahill: 133. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of residential properties owned by a bank (details supplied); if an audit of the number of residential properties owned by the bank will be carried out by his Department; the plans the bank has to place those properties on the market to help ease the housing shortage; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8067/18]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Housing Data (20 Feb 2018)

Jackie Cahill: 134. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of residential properties owned by a bank (details supplied); if an audit will be carried out by his Department regarding same; the plans the bank has to place those properties on the market to help ease the housing shortage; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8068/18]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Housing Data (20 Feb 2018)

Jackie Cahill: 135. To ask the Minister for Finance if an audit on all residential property mortgages sold by the mainstream banks to vulture funds in recent years was carried out to ascertain the number of properties available for placement on the market to ease the housing shortage (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8069/18]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Banking Operations (20 Feb 2018)

Jackie Cahill: 138. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to introduce legislation or regulations that would encourage the mainstream banks to make residential properties that are in their ownership available to the market to reduce the shortage of housing (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8070/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (20 Feb 2018)

Jackie Cahill: 584. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to introduce legislation or regulations that would encourage vulture funds to make residential properties that are in their ownership available to the market to reduce the shortage of housing (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8071/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Road Network (20 Feb 2018)

Jackie Cahill: 612. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the required funding will be made available to Tipperary County Council for the provision of infrastructure to provide pedestrian and cyclist access to the new ETB apprentice training centre at Archerstown, Thurles, County Tipperary from the N62 junction at Turtulla Cross; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Questions on Promised Legislation (15 Feb 2018)

Jackie Cahill: I am sure the Tánaiste has a strong sense of the urgency around this issue in terms of it having been raised this morning by Fianna Fáil, Sinn Féin and by members of Fine Gael. There is an urgent need to introduce legislation to protect mortgage holders, particularly families, from the vulture funds. Permanent TSB has announced that it proposes to sell off thousands of loans....

Central Bank (Amendment) Bill 2018: Second Stage [Private Members] (14 Feb 2018)

Jackie Cahill: As Deputy McGrath said, we support the Bill. He has been at the forefront of defending the rights of mortgage holders in this country. He introduced a Mortgage Resolution Bill, which is before the Dáil, that will go a long way towards trying to right some of the wrongs that have been done. Deputy McGrath referred to the sale by Permanent TSB of €4.5 billion worth of loans,...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Properties (14 Feb 2018)

Jackie Cahill: 119. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the person or body that owns a building (details supplied) and its grounds; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7657/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Reviews (14 Feb 2018)

Jackie Cahill: 186. To ask the Minister for Health the reason that when cases (details supplied) are being reviewed, a repeat financial assessment is carried out; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7677/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (14 Feb 2018)

Jackie Cahill: 199. To ask the Minister for Health the progress in respect of the upgrading of services to be offered at Our Lady's Hospital, Cashel, County Tipperary; the extra planned services that will be offered at the hospital; the timeframe for these services to be rolled out; the value of the investment that will be made to facilitate the upgrade; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7774/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospitals Building Programme (14 Feb 2018)

Jackie Cahill: 200. To ask the Minister for Health when patients and staff will move into the planned development at South Tipperary General Hospital, that is, to offer extra wards separate from but attached to the existing hospital; the position of the development in the planning process; the recruitment plan in place to ensure the proposed new development will be properly staffed; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospitals Capital Programme (14 Feb 2018)

Jackie Cahill: 201. To ask the Minister for Health the future capital investment planned for South Tipperary General Hospital that will complement the short-term plans for the hospital in order that the hospital is properly prepared to offer existing and enhanced acute services in the medium and longer term; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7776/18]

Roads Maintenance: Motion [Private Members] (13 Feb 2018)

Jackie Cahill: The road situation has reached a critical point in my county. Whether they be from Lorrha to Carrick-on-Suir or from Ballingarry to Solohead, the roads are in a dreadful state. Public meetings are being called in all areas across the county where people are venting their frustration at us as politicians for our failure to deliver a reasonable road structure. The Minister does not realise...

Priority Questions: Dairy Sector (13 Feb 2018)

Jackie Cahill: The Minister gave a very comprehensive reply but, unfortunately, I disagree completely with what he said. In fact, the Minister has reneged on his responsibility to Irish dairy farmers. He has allowed the Commission to set the precedent of taking away the floor price from milk. In 2016 only for the fact that all the product that was going into intervention was bought at a fixed price, milk...

Priority Questions: Dairy Sector (13 Feb 2018)

Jackie Cahill: I object to the Minister saying I am trying to talk down milk prices. As a dairy farmer and a man who represented dairy farmers for years that would never be my objective. It is incorrect of the Minister to say he has not taken away the floor price. It was written in stone that 109,000 tonnes had to be bought at a fixed price. The Minister has allowed that to be taken away. Let us...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Climate Change Issues specific to the Agriculture, Food and Marine Sectors: Discussion (13 Feb 2018)

Jackie Cahill: I thank the four organisations for their excellent presentations. My former colleague, Mr. McCormack, spoke about putting climate change to bed. I do not believe we will ever put it to bed. While we can meet the challenges it presents, we will face climate change challenges for as long as we are around. My conclusion, having listened to the four presentations, is that we can find...

Priority Questions: Dairy Sector (13 Feb 2018)

Jackie Cahill: 28. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason he agreed to European Commission plans to remove the fixed price for skimmed milk powder for public intervention stocks in 2018; and whether he will make a statement on the matter. [7417/18]

Priority Questions: Dairy Sector (13 Feb 2018)

Jackie Cahill: I would like to ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason he agreed to the European Commission's plans to remove the fixed price for skimmed milk powder for public intervention stocks in 2018, and if he will make a statement on the matter. There was always a fixed amount of product bought at a fixed price, amounting to 109,000 tonnes. How come the Minister allowed it...