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Written Answers — National Asset Management Agency: National Asset Management Agency (3 Jul 2012)

Pearse Doherty: Question 198: To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 165 of 26 June 2012, the average percentage interest rate paid by the National Asset Management Agency on its senior bonds in the calendar year of 2011; if he will provide a breakdown of the interest paid including the interest calculated by reference to the six month Euribar interest rate specified in the...

Written Answers — National Asset Management Agency: National Asset Management Agency (3 Jul 2012)

Pearse Doherty: Question 207: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide a breakdown by National Asset Management Agency participating institutions of the €2bn of NAMA senior debt redeemed by the agency, which was announced on 27 June, 2012. [32451/12]

Written Answers — National Asset Management Agency: National Asset Management Agency (3 Jul 2012)

Pearse Doherty: Question 208: To ask the Minister for Finance the consideration the National Asset Management Agency gave to its over-riding objective of addressing the serious threat to the economy caused by the banking and property crisis, before taking the decision to redeem €2bn of its senior debt, announced on 27 June, 2012. [32452/12]

Written Answers — Departmental Staff: Departmental Staff (3 Jul 2012)

Pearse Doherty: Question 292: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of civil servants dismissed in the period 1 January 2000 to 30 June 2006. [32000/12]

Written Answers — Departmental Staff: Departmental Staff (3 Jul 2012)

Pearse Doherty: Question 293: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of civil servants dismissed in the period 1 July 2006 to 31 December 2011 by the Government and by a Minister for the Government; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32001/12]

Written Answers — Housing Grants: Housing Grants (3 Jul 2012)

Pearse Doherty: Question 458: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the number of CAS applications received in the 2012 round; the number of these received for homeless accommodation; when decisions will issue; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32007/12]

Written Answers — Agri-Environment Options Scheme: Agri-Environment Options Scheme (3 Jul 2012)

Pearse Doherty: Question 541: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when files submitted to his Department in relation to a single farm payment will be reviewed in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Donegal to enable an application for the agri environment option scheme to be processed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31667/12]

Written Answers — Treatment Abroad Scheme: Treatment Abroad Scheme (3 Jul 2012)

Pearse Doherty: Question 631: To ask the Minister for Health if he will clarify the procedures for a person (details supplied) in County Donegal who has been on the treatment abroad scheme since 1997 in view of the fact that the person may need treatment abroad up to three times per year and each time before travel approaches there are numerous forms that need to be completed by the consultant; if there is...

Education (Amendment) (Protection of Schools) Bill 2012: Second Stage (Resumed) [Private Members] (4 Jul 2012)

Pearse Doherty: This is not the first occasion in the past 12 months that I have been obliged to make a plea to the Government to reverse its decision in respect of attacking small rural schools. I use the word "attacking" in a very conscious fashion. In December's budget, the Government actually increased the pupil-teacher ratio for schools with fewer than four teachers. Prior to that, the State had...

Written Answers — Budget Timetable: Budget Timetable (4 Jul 2012)

Pearse Doherty: Question 16: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the ways in which the budgetary and estimates timetable here is influenced to an increasing extent by requirements at a European level. [32382/12]

Written Answers — National Pensions Reserve Fund: National Pensions Reserve Fund (4 Jul 2012)

Pearse Doherty: Question 49: To ask the Minister for Finance the remaining amount of discretionary funding in the National Pension Reserve Fund. [32550/12]

Written Answers — Election Management System: Election Management System (4 Jul 2012)

Pearse Doherty: Question 174: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the criteria in use for the awarding of Presiding Officer and Personation Agent positions; if he will consider applying a points based system which would afford unemployed and low income earners to avail of these positions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32628/12]

Written Answers — Departmental Investigations: Departmental Investigations (4 Jul 2012)

Pearse Doherty: Question 217: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he has given any consideration to the findings and recommendations of the Office of the Ombudsman with regard to the operation of his Department in relation to a person (details supplied) in County Donegal; and if he will work with this person to find a resolution. [32656/12]

Written Answers — Medical Cards: Medical Cards (4 Jul 2012)

Pearse Doherty: Question 244: To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 705 of 24 April 2012 and 583 of 12 June 2012, the reason a person (details supplied) in Dublin 22 has not yet been notified in writing of the decision regarding their medical application; when this notification will be issued; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32590/12]

Written Answers — Water Fluoridation: Water Fluoridation (4 Jul 2012)

Pearse Doherty: Question 247: To ask the Minister for Health his views on whether the practice of fluoridation of our water supplies needs to be altered taking into account that quantities of fluoride can be monitored at process stage, but the quantities of water drank by our population cannot be monitored; his further view on whether the fluoridation process can have detrimental effects with prolonged...

Bank Debt Restructuring (5 Jul 2012)

Pearse Doherty: Question 2: To ask the Minister for Finance if in view of the fact that the European Council has agreed in principle to the separation of banking debt from sovereign debt, and agreed in principle to the possibility of ESM funds being used to directly recapitalise the banks, and agreed to consider the retrospective application of such funding in the case of Ireland, he will confirm that it...

Bank Debt Restructuring (5 Jul 2012)

Pearse Doherty: The agreement reached at Council level was significant and could have significant benefits to this State and to our citizens. The Minister was at the finance committee last week when I wished him well in his attempts to separate the sovereign debt from the banking debt. I have listened to the conclusions of the summit and the devil is in the detail. I am afraid that he is not being...

Bank Debt Restructuring (5 Jul 2012)

Pearse Doherty: The agreement is that this vicious cycle of sovereign and banking debt is to be broken. If that were the case and if Anglo Irish Bank were to emerge in France and massive losses were to be incurred, it is likely the ESM would incur those losses. Is the Irish Government going to argue that if that is the process to be put in place - the ESM absorbs the losses rather than taxpayers - then we...

Financial Services Regulation (5 Jul 2012)

Pearse Doherty: Question 8: To ask the Minister for Finance his plans for improving the regulation of licensed money lenders and in particular the high interest rates these lenders may charge; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32744/12]

Financial Services Regulation (5 Jul 2012)

Pearse Doherty: I apologise for having to leave the Chamber. Credit unions have restrictions placed on them and this causes more people to go to moneylenders. I listened to a story on Joe Duffy's "Liveline" where a woman had to go to a moneylender. He sat outside the post office every week, gave her the post office card, she went into the post office to get payments and she handed the payments to the...