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Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: DEIS Status (17 Oct 2018)

Pearse Doherty: It was the educational attainment of the pupils that ruled them out.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: DEIS Status (17 Oct 2018)

Pearse Doherty: This is new information, which the House has not been given previously. We were told something very different, namely, that there would be an update of all schools using the 2016 census data. The Department is still using the 2011 census data, which is already seven years out of date. As I said, all of these areas have become more disadvantaged, according to the HP deprivation index. The...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: DEIS Status (17 Oct 2018)

Pearse Doherty: I placed this matter on the agenda for debate because it is an important issue for schools in my and the Leas-Cheann Comhairle's county of Donegal and one with which the Minister for Education and Skills is familiar. It was the first opportunity for the Minister, Deputy McHugh, to address the house in his ministerial capacity, and I must say that I am disappointed that he has not shown up....

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (17 Oct 2018)

Pearse Doherty: That money is for next winter, not this winter.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (17 Oct 2018)

Pearse Doherty: The trolley crisis has continually escalated under the tenure of Deputy Harris as Minister for Health. Last year we saw the largest number of patients on trolleys in the history of the State, at almost 100,000. This year's trajectory is going the same way. As winter approaches, the number is beginning to rise. Yesterday 542 citizens were lying on trolleys in hospital wards and accident and...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Oct 2018)

Pearse Doherty: Every day that passes we are nearer to the end of the Brexit negotiations. I do not need to remind the Minister of the importance of this and of what is at stake at the heart of these negotiations. In December last year the British Government signed up to an agreement that included the provision of a backstop aimed at avoiding a hard border on the island of Ireland and that would safeguard...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Oct 2018)

Pearse Doherty: I advise the Minister to have a word with the Tánaiste in respect of what is going on in the Northern Assembly because the Tánaiste has addressed this House on numerous occasions in respect of the difficulties in the North. The Minister should know fine well. It is a little unsettling that he would take to his feet in this manner given that people in my constituency are asking me...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Insurance Fraud (17 Oct 2018)

Pearse Doherty: 57. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the progress in implementing the cost of insurance working group’s suggestion of setting up a Garda insurance fraud unit. [30973/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Applications (17 Oct 2018)

Pearse Doherty: 146. To ask the Minister for Health if a discretionary medical card will be awarded to a person (details supplied) in County Donegal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42583/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Drugs Payment Scheme Coverage (16 Oct 2018)

Pearse Doherty: 347. To ask the Minister for Health if the drug refund scheme will be extended to include drugs prescribed outside the State for persons accessing IVF treatment abroad; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41746/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Assisted Human Reproduction Services Provision (16 Oct 2018)

Pearse Doherty: 348. To ask the Minister for Health if fertility treatment will be offered to women with conditions such as endometriosis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41747/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Beds Data (16 Oct 2018)

Pearse Doherty: 439. To ask the Minister for Health the number of new hospital beds that will be introduced in 2019 and 2020, respectively, as per the measures announced as part of the health budget for 2019 in which additional hospital bed capacity is pledged; the individual hospitals to which these beds will be allocated; the number of beds each facility will receive; the timeline for their proposed...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Oct 2018)

Pearse Doherty: The tendering process under the national broadband plan, NBP, has been chaotic, to say the least. The big players, namely, Eir, the ESB and Vodafone, have pulled out. SSE Airtricity has left the consortium led by Mr. David McCourt. The John Laing Group, which was one of the companies providing cash and firepower, is also gone and Enet has been relegated to the role of a subcontractor in...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Oct 2018)

Pearse Doherty: I asked my questions of the Tánaiste in his capacity as the second most senior member of the Government. Does he have full confidence in the Minister? Would he have done what the Minister did repeatedly at a late stage in the tendering process, which is continue to meet one of the main bidders? Will he ensure the minutes of the meeting of 28 June, which we discovered yesterday, are...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Oct 2018)

Pearse Doherty: We also know that the meeting which emerged yesterday is not included in his official diary.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Oct 2018)

Pearse Doherty: Has the Tánaiste received any assurances in that regard and does he believe the Minister breached his own protocols?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Sale of Property Loans (Project Glas) By Permanent TSB: Discussion (11 Oct 2018)

Pearse Doherty: Fáilte chuig an choiste. Mr. Masding has talked about inflammatory comments by individuals and the care and respect that need to be shown to customers. I will put one case to him. It is the case of a loyal customer who banked with his bank for 20 years, who right throughout the recession continued to meet her mortgage repayments and who, in certain instances, went without fuel, food...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Sale of Property Loans (Project Glas) By Permanent TSB: Discussion (11 Oct 2018)

Pearse Doherty: Does Mr. Masding think the response of his bank and his response as its CEO are respectful and caring of that individual who, for 19 years, through very hard times, continued to meet every single repayment? In the last year she fell on hard times, entered into a restructuring arrangement with the bank, the terms of which she met for six months. The bank then told her that it was selling off...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Sale of Property Loans (Project Glas) By Permanent TSB: Discussion (11 Oct 2018)

Pearse Doherty: My question was specific. How many of the 7,400 family homes the bank is selling to the vulture fund are meeting the original terms of their agreement or a restructured agreement agreed by the bank?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Sale of Property Loans (Project Glas) By Permanent TSB: Discussion (11 Oct 2018)

Pearse Doherty: Arrears recapitalisation is deemed as a restructured loan but if the bank is to dress that up as a non-performing loan, which is in the same category as someone who might have €100,000 of arrears with none of it paid in the past seven years, it is not fair. The bank has not provided the figure yet but it is selling off hundreds, if not thousands, of loans that are meeting the...