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Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Incident Management (13 Nov 2018)

Pearse Doherty: 333. To ask the Minister for Health if the HSE 2018 incident management framework document designed to provide health and social care services with a practical and proportionate approach to the management of incidents is mandatory for all staff across all HSE community health organisation, CHO, areas; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46615/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (13 Nov 2018)

Pearse Doherty: 386. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Donegal will be called for an operation in Letterkenny University Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46869/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Admissions (13 Nov 2018)

Pearse Doherty: 418. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will be admitted to Letterkenny University Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47010/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Help Service Provision (13 Nov 2018)

Pearse Doherty: 449. To ask the Minister for Health if weekend home support, including newly approved support, will continue and include all cover according to days and times in their care plan for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47141/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Help Service Provision (13 Nov 2018)

Pearse Doherty: 450. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to commence recruitment of home support staff in County Donegal to replace staff who have made it known they are due to and will retire, ensuring the continuation of home support; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47142/18]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Ministerial Correspondence (13 Nov 2018)

Pearse Doherty: 515. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if a request from a service provider (details supplied) to meet with her has been received; if so, if this request will be facilitated; when a response will be issued to the provider; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46593/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Illness Benefit Applications (13 Nov 2018)

Pearse Doherty: 539. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when an application for illness benefit by a person (details supplied) will be processed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46469/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Illness Benefit Payments (13 Nov 2018)

Pearse Doherty: 540. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason a person (details supplied) is receiving reduced and varying rates of illness benefit payments over the past number of weeks; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46472/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Illness Benefit Payments (13 Nov 2018)

Pearse Doherty: 552. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a person (details supplied) in County Donegal will receive regular illness benefit payments; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46590/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Illness Benefit Payments (13 Nov 2018)

Pearse Doherty: 556. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a person (details supplied) in County Donegal can expect to receive an illness benefit payment; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46711/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Illness Benefit Applications (13 Nov 2018)

Pearse Doherty: 563. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when an application for illness benefit will be processed in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Donegal; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46844/18]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: European Monetary Policy: Exchange of Views with Mr. Mario Draghi (8 Nov 2018)

Pearse Doherty: Cuirim fáilte roimh Mr. Draghi, Professor Lane agus Johannes Lindner. The Irish people have paid a huge price for bailing out the Irish banking system and the ECB played a very negative role in that regard. Some would say it played a very sinister role in increasing the costs to them. The refusal at the time of the ECB to support the Government's desire to burn senior bondholders has...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: European Monetary Policy: Exchange of Views with Mr. Mario Draghi (8 Nov 2018)

Pearse Doherty: The reality is those bondholders should have been burnt and the ECB did not support the Government when a Cabinet decision was taken to burn senior bondholders. It is now the policy of Europe if such an event were to happen that there would be a bail-in of senior bondholders. All the advice was not correct. Indeed, not everything is great in Ireland. The GDP figures are going well, the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: European Monetary Policy: Exchange of Views with Mr. Mario Draghi (8 Nov 2018)

Pearse Doherty: Let me finish. There are 4,000 children who will not have a home and will wake up in emergency accommodation on Christmas Day. Not everything is going well. I ask Mr. Draghi particularly about the European Commission's proposal for a suite of legislative measures on non-performing loan, NPLs. One proposal includes the rules for establishing a vehicle to buy non-performing loans without...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: European Monetary Policy: Exchange of Views with Mr. Mario Draghi (8 Nov 2018)

Pearse Doherty: Would a NAMA for mortgages be permissible for the ECB as a way of Ireland dealing with the NPL issue and avoiding the sales to vulture funds? What are Mr. Draghi's views on MEPs' proposals on the legislative proposals, especially the refusals that their loans would be sold to another institution?

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (8 Nov 2018)

Pearse Doherty: Ba mhaith liom fosta cur leis an méid a bhí ráite fá bhás Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin agus comhbhrón a chur in iúl ó mé féin agus ó pháirtí Shinn Féin dá theaghlach, don chlann ar fad agus dá chairde ar fad. Níl dabht ar bith ann gur laoch mór é ó thaobh an cultúir de...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (8 Nov 2018)

Pearse Doherty: I appreciate that. Since August there have been ongoing problems relating to the payment of illness benefit which have resulted in some of our most vulnerable citizens not getting any payment and others receiving varied payments from week to week. On Tuesday the Minister, Deputy Regina Doherty, took to her feet and blamed the problems with payments on the transition to a new system. She...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí (Atógáil) - Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (8 Nov 2018)

Pearse Doherty: Before the winter.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Nov 2018)

Pearse Doherty: On Tuesday, the Taoiseach disgracefully tried to shift the blame for his and the Government's failure to tackle the perpetual trolley crisis in hospitals by attacking our hard-working and diligent nurses and doctors. Not content with insulting tens of thousands of front-line workers once, yesterday, the Taoiseach doubled down on his remarks. The Minister for Health, Deputy Simon Harris, who...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Nov 2018)

Pearse Doherty: It absolutely was.