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Written Answers — Department of Finance: Legislative Programme (24 Jan 2017)

Pearse Doherty: 153. To ask the Minister for Finance the purpose of each item of legislation listed in the legislative programme for his Department. [3188/17]

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: State Bodies Data (24 Jan 2017)

Pearse Doherty: 377. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the details of all projects for which funding and business supports have been approved by Údarás na Gaeltachta, including details of the business type and activities carried out with respect to each; the details of the funding type and headings under which funding was granted with respect to each, for each of the years...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Proposed Legislation (24 Jan 2017)

Pearse Doherty: 456. To ask the Minister for Health the progress which has been made concerning the drafting of legislation to establish a new transport support scheme, which will replace the now closed motorised transport grant scheme; when it is expected that this process will be formally completed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2820/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cancer Services Provision (24 Jan 2017)

Pearse Doherty: 465. To ask the Minister for Health if patient referrals to the oncology department at a hospital (details supplied) for chemotherapy treatment are currently being made; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2852/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cancer Services Provision (24 Jan 2017)

Pearse Doherty: 466. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons who have received chemotherapy treatment as part of cancer services at a hospital (details supplied) for each month in 2016 and to date in 2017, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2853/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cancer Services Provision (24 Jan 2017)

Pearse Doherty: 467. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons who have been referred from the oncology department at Letterkenny University Hospital to Galway University Hospital in order to receive chemotherapy treatment for each month in 2016 and to date in 2017, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2854/17]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agri-Environment Options Scheme Payments (24 Jan 2017)

Pearse Doherty: 527. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a person (details supplied) in County Donegal will receive an AEOS, agri-environment options scheme payment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2819/17]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Scheme Payments (24 Jan 2017)

Pearse Doherty: 539. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a person (details supplied) in County Donegal will receive outstanding farm payments; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2875/17]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Company Law (24 Jan 2017)

Pearse Doherty: 615. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the reason Ireland is one of only four countries, including Belgium, Portugal and China, with audit firms registered with the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board, PCAOB, that does not allow PCAOB inspectors examine registered firms; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [2710/17]

Consumer Insurance Contracts Bill 2017: First Stage (19 Jan 2017)

Pearse Doherty: I move: "That the Bill be taken in Private Members' time."

Consumer Insurance Contracts Bill 2017: First Stage (19 Jan 2017)

Pearse Doherty: I move:That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to reform the law of consumer insurance contracts and to provide for related matters. In recent years we have seen the insurance industry treat its customers with arrogance and, over the last couple of years, completely unjustified and unjustifiable increases in motor insurance premiums. An incredible level of defensive spin...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Statement of Strategy 2017: Department of Finance (19 Jan 2017)

Pearse Doherty: I welcome Mr. Moran. I, too, shared his view that there would never be a soft Brexit and I said very quickly that we needed to figure out what we could and could not control. Pretending there would be some type of soft Brexit, whatever that means, was just a bit of chat. The focus of the British was always going to be on trying to secure their borders. If we look back at different times...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Statement of Strategy 2017: Department of Finance (19 Jan 2017)

Pearse Doherty: Is the witness satisfied that the four people in the core co-ordinating team is a sufficient number, or does he want one other?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Statement of Strategy 2017: Department of Finance (19 Jan 2017)

Pearse Doherty: If the proverbial hits the fan in a couple of years time, I do not want to find out that Mr. Moran was asking for additional staff or believed that there was a need for an additional capacity within the Department of Finance. I want him to tell the committee now or I want him to say that he is satisfied and, therefore, if things go wrong, we can hold him to account. I want him to tell this...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Statement of Strategy 2017: Department of Finance (19 Jan 2017)

Pearse Doherty: Has the Department been approved for 340 staff?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Statement of Strategy 2017: Department of Finance (19 Jan 2017)

Pearse Doherty: Okay. Finance is the constraint of the overall package-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Statement of Strategy 2017: Department of Finance (19 Jan 2017)

Pearse Doherty: Okay. In regard-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Statement of Strategy 2017: Department of Finance (19 Jan 2017)

Pearse Doherty: The witness mentioned the different divisions within the Department. There is a co-ordinating group that the divisions feed into. With regard to the job descriptions of individuals working within the divisions, how many of them have been assigned Brexit-particular parts to their job description? That would not have been the case heretofore. People with specific responsibilities have now...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Statement of Strategy 2017: Department of Finance (19 Jan 2017)

Pearse Doherty: I make the point that we are a number of months out from Brexit. The witness's own view was that it was never going to be a soft Brexit. For people like myself and the witness who share that view, there was nothing really major announced in the speech of Ms Theresa May. Her major announcement, in my view, was that she was going to put the vote to the House of Commons at a later stage....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Statement of Strategy 2017: Department of Finance (19 Jan 2017)

Pearse Doherty: Of course it does. Qualifications are one thing, but experience is another-----