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Written Answers — Department of Finance: National Asset Management Agency (20 Nov 2012)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will list the non-pay allowances made to the national Assets Management Agency executives and employees including the provision of cars, private health insurance, credit cards for entertaining and moving allowances; if he will list each separate allowance paid in individual detail, including car type, insurance premia, sums allowed on credit cards and...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Grant Scheme Application Numbers (20 Nov 2012)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide the volume and value of third level grants paid by 13 November 2011 in respect of grant applications submitted in 2011. [51147/12]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Grant Scheme Application Numbers (20 Nov 2012)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide the volume and value of third level grants paid to date in respect of grant applications submitted in 2012. [51148/12]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Election Management System (20 Nov 2012)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 389 and 390 on 6 November 2012, if he will provide a breakdown of the rates of pay for those taking the polls and counting the votes that were laid out in advance of the Children's Referendum. [51141/12]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Election Management System (20 Nov 2012)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform further to Parliamentary Question No. 691 on 6 November 2012, if he will provide the total number of persons employed in the following roles in the Childrens Referendum; Special Presiding Officers, Presiding Officers, Supervisory Presiding Officers and Area Inspectors, Poll Clerks, Count Supervisors, Count Calculators, Counters. [51142/12]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Capital Expenditure (20 Nov 2012)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform further to Parliamentary Question 111 on 10 October 2012, if after the €120m cumulative underspend on the capital programme in August 2012 by reference to profile, the €236m underspend on the capital programme in September 2012 and the €336m underspend on the capital programme in October 2012, if Departments are...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Schools Building Projects (20 Nov 2012)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform further to a recent report in a national newspaper that Bank of Ireland is providing €50m funding to build eight schools in a public private partnership, if he will provide details of the eight schools reportedly being built; the overall budget and timescale for completion of construction and commissioning; and the terms under which...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Appeals (20 Nov 2012)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will an update on the review currently being carried out on a carer's allowance application in respect of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 22; when a decision on this application will be made; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [51237/12]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Election Management System (20 Nov 2012)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 691 on 6 November 2012, if he will provide the total of the persons employed in the following roles in the Childrens Referendum who were immediately previously unemployed or on the live register; Special Presiding Officers, Presiding Officers, Supervisory Presiding Officers and Area...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Mortgage to Rent Scheme (20 Nov 2012)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the total number of former mortgage holders who have been transferred to rental tenants under the mortgage to rent scheme; in view of the small numbers of former mortgage holders involved if he will account for the slow progress with this scheme; the plans that are being put in place to expand this scheme during 2013; if...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Asylum Seeker Accommodation (20 Nov 2012)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will provide, in tabular form, the total cost to the State per year for every year since it opened of the Towers Hotel direct provision hostel, Clondalkin, Dublin 22; the total number of adults and children resident at the hostel on 1 January each year for every year since the hostel opened; the number of inspections carried out by...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Appeals (20 Nov 2012)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if a decision has been made regarding an appeal in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Donegal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51042/12]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Banking Sector Remuneration (21 Nov 2012)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide the annual pension payment for 2011 paid to Dick Spring, Tom Considine, Joe Walsh, Ray MacSharry and Margaret Hayes. [51545/12]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Parliamentary Inquiries (21 Nov 2012)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform in the context of last year's rejection by referendum of increased powers for Oireachtas inquiries, his views on whether the proposed Houses of Oireachtas (Inquiries, Privileges and Procedures) Bill 2012 is the most appropriate approach to progressing this matter. [51556/12]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Rural Development (21 Nov 2012)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government in respect of the Commission for the Economic Development of Rural Areas, if he will provide the terms of reference for the Commission; the budget for the Commission for 2012, 2013 and 2014; the function of the Commission; if he will estimate the headcount that will be employed at the Commission when fully operational; if the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (21 Nov 2012)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Health if funding will be made available in 2013 under the clinical care programme for the establishment of a full time paediatric diabetic clinical nurse specialist for Letterkenny General Hospital, County Donegal, in view of the fact that expert advisory group recommends one paediatric diabetics clinical nurse specialist for every 100 children and there are currently...

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Credit Union Bill 2012: Committee Stage (21 Nov 2012)

Pearse Doherty: Tús maith, leath na hoibre. I welcome the Minister's opening comments on this section of the Bill. My concerns relate more to the next group of amendments we will deal with, submitted by opposition groups, and amendment No. 3 is fundamental in that regard. I listened to what the Minister had to say on this grouping. When his officials briefed my office on this grouping they...

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Credit Union Bill 2012: Committee Stage (21 Nov 2012)

Pearse Doherty: Perhaps I am misunderstanding the position but I was under the impression that the Minister was going to look at this section, that is, the interpretation of the financial services legislation, to try to ensure that it has the intended consequences that he, his officials, the Opposition and the League of Credit Unions would share. Is there a set of words that can be included somewhere in the...

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Credit Union Bill 2012: Committee Stage (21 Nov 2012)

Pearse Doherty: Yes, but the Minister and his officials are looking at the section itself and at possible wordings. Is that correct?

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Credit Union Bill 2012: Committee Stage (21 Nov 2012)

Pearse Doherty: This amendment is in the name of three Deputies, mine included. The point has been made and on the basis of the assurance of the Minister I will not be pressing it and I am happy to withdraw it. We need to ensure there are no unintended consequences in this section. While the proposal from myself and the other Deputies is to delete the section, we have no wish to delete existing...