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Written Answers — Debt Collection Agencies: Debt Collection Agencies (10 May 2012)

Martin Ferris: Question 112: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he has satisfied himself that a company (details supplied) that is contracted to collect debts for Bord Gáis are fully in compliance with the Irish code of practise governing this area. [23608/12]

Written Answers — Local Authority Charges: Local Authority Charges (10 May 2012)

Martin Ferris: Question 117: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if his Department have contracted companies to collect outstanding household charges. [23609/12]

Departmental Programmes (15 May 2012)

Martin Ferris: Question 95: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the date on which she will publish her Department's Early Years Strategy. [23962/12]

Financial Services Regulation (15 May 2012)

Martin Ferris: I have raised this issue on foot of the problems people are encountering in the context of so-called sub-prime mortgages. We are all aware of the general difficulties experienced by people whose mortgages are in arrears as a result of unemployment and reductions in income. These difficulties are greatly exacerbated in the case of certain lenders who charge huge interest rates, impose...

Financial Services Regulation (15 May 2012)

Martin Ferris: Given that the company to which I refer is currently in the process of attempting to repossess properties, particularly a number of farms throughout the country, I request that the Department of Finance and the Central Bank investigate the legal position and status of this company as a matter of urgency. I hope the Minister of State will relay my request to the relevant entities.

Financial Services Regulation (15 May 2012)

Martin Ferris: I thank the Minister of State for his reply. Obviously, he does not have the details I have regarding the Wise Mortgage Company and Mr. Weisz's finance company. I have been aware of his operation for several years when he attempted to repossess a farm in my constituency. Vulnerable people borrowed money at a rate of 9%, but once they had missed one repayment, it doubled to 18%. It would...

Written Answers — Social Work Staff: Social Work Staff (15 May 2012)

Martin Ferris: Question 127: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she has replaced the 31 social worker staff that retired in February 2012; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23963/12]

Written Answers — Community Employment Schemes: Community Employment Schemes (15 May 2012)

Martin Ferris: Question 269: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if her attention had been drawn to the fact a recent survey of 1,421 former community employment scheme participants found that 54% had found employment or moved into further education; and if she agrees that this supports the maintenance of the programme. [24041/12]

Written Answers — Carer's Allowance: Carer's Allowance (15 May 2012)

Martin Ferris: Question 307: To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a person (details supplied) will receive a decision on their carer's allowance application. [24113/12]

Written Answers — Hospital Waiting Lists: Hospital Waiting Lists (15 May 2012)

Martin Ferris: Question 507: To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Limerick will be called for a cataract operation in view of the fact that they are blind in one eye and the other is deteriorating [24136/12]

Written Answers — Health Service Staff: Health Service Staff (16 May 2012)

Martin Ferris: Question 31: To ask the Minister for Health if he will confirm that a FETAC level 5 qualification is not required for long-standing care staff including multi-task assistants and or carers on night duty in community hospitals or otherwise; the qualifications required for such staff; if such standards are applied consistently across the State; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (16 May 2012)

Martin Ferris: Question 63: To ask the Minister for Health if he will ensure continuing and adequate funding for the established organisations for those women whose health has been damaged by infected blood products; the meetings he has held to address the funding issue and their outcome; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24216/12]

Written Answers — Financial Services Regulation: Financial Services Regulation (16 May 2012)

Martin Ferris: Question 87: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will undertake to legislate in the area of debt collection in line with the Fine Gael Private Members Motion of 30 March 2009, which inter alia pointed out that unlike many other EU countries, Ireland has no system of regulation of debt collectors and called on the then Government to introduce legislation to regulate debt collection and to...

Written Answers — Deportation Orders: Deportation Orders (16 May 2012)

Martin Ferris: Question 148: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the options open to a person who has been deported in the past but now has residency in Ireland to prevent them from being questioned at airports because of the deportation on their passport; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24412/12]

British-Irish Parliamentary Assembly: Statements (17 May 2012)

Martin Ferris: In 1990, the year of the setting-up of the then British-Irish Inter-Parliamentary Body, we lived in a different place in so far as circumstances prevailing at that time meant there was conflict, there were people being killed, there were bombings, there was state violence, and there were arrests, detentions and imprisonments. There was, around that time and maybe a few years earlier, the...

British-Irish Parliamentary Assembly: Statements (17 May 2012)

Martin Ferris: Some 34 people were killed on 17 May 1974 and, as yet, they have not received justice. Neither have their families received the support of or a commitment from the Garda or the British authorities in the context of a resolution of the outstanding problems. Those of us who are members of the Joint Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement have met the victims' families on...

British-Irish Parliamentary Assembly: Statements (17 May 2012)

Martin Ferris: Through that involvement, both I and those to whom I refer learned the benefit of negotiation and dialogue. Having being in involved in the struggle, I can state absolutely we are now in a much better place. I give credit to those who were responsible for instigating the process under discussion. I refer, in particular, to very courageous people such as Deputy Adams and John Hume, who were...

Written Answers — Defence Forces Expenditure: Defence Forces Expenditure (17 May 2012)

Martin Ferris: Question 14: To ask the Minister for Defence the average cost of deploying the Explosive Ordnance Disposal Team on a single occasion. [24531/12]

Written Answers — Defence Forces Training: Defence Forces Training (17 May 2012)

Martin Ferris: Question 15: To ask the Minister for Defence his plans to increase training on military vehicle safety in view of the high level of compensation paid out by his Department arising from accidents involving Defence Force vehicles. [24530/12]

Private Members' Business. National Monuments: Motion (22 May 2012)

Martin Ferris: I welcome the relatives of the men and women of 1916 here tonight. The fact that the buildings at Nos. 14 to 17 Moore Street are under renewed threat due to deterioration, despite the 2007 preservation order, is a cause for concern. For that reason, it is important that the broad support in this motion for both the building and the surrounding district to be preserved in a fitting manner is...