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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Operations and Functions: Office of Public Works (10 Dec 2014)

Michael Creed: There is no legal dispute.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Operations and Functions: Office of Public Works (10 Dec 2014)

Michael Creed: I want to finish this important issue.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Operations and Functions: Office of Public Works (10 Dec 2014)

Michael Creed: I appreciate that. I do not accept the point made. Cork County Council has been left with the property. It bought it for the OPW. I have a copy of all correspondence. In recent times the OPW sought-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Operations and Functions: Office of Public Works (10 Dec 2014)

Michael Creed: I will be parochial and return to what is driving efficiency in the State's footprint. This relates to the purchase of a site in Kanturk for a decentralised office and I am conscious that the advice is in respect of individuals. I reference correspondence, dated 21 May, sent by the private secretary to the Minister of State with responsibility for the Office of Public Works to the then...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Operations and Functions: Office of Public Works (10 Dec 2014)

Michael Creed: I am not mentioning any name. The Acting Chairman need not worry; I am around long enough not to do so. I found most unacceptable the behaviour of the OPW and the local authority is out of pocket for a substantial six figure sum. Does Ms McGrath accept that invoking the term, "Without Prejudice / Subject to Contract", at this late stage is not acceptable and is tantamount to an abuse of a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Operations and Functions: Office of Public Works (10 Dec 2014)

Michael Creed: I flagged the issue as one I wanted to raise and it is only fair that it be raised.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Operations and Functions: Office of Public Works (10 Dec 2014)

Michael Creed: I am disappointed with that reply because it seems to be evading the issue. I asked the secretariat to flag it and it was flagged to Ms McGrath as one I wished to raise. If the circumstances are as I have outlined, does Ms McGrath believe the OPW is obliged to repay Cork County Council moneys it spent in acquiring lands on behalf of the OPW for decentralised offices? After the local...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Operations and Functions: Office of Public Works (10 Dec 2014)

Michael Creed: Cork County Council has briefed me on this issue. It finds the approach of the OPW obtrusive and obstructive in protecting its interests in this debacle. I have found the OPW to be most unco-operative.

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Projects (11 Dec 2014)

Michael Creed: 214. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the position regarding the requirement to spend a percentage of the funding for new roads on commissioning art works and if this requirement is flexible in so far as the location of where the works are located; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47553/14]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Jobseeker's Allowance Eligibility (16 Dec 2014)

Michael Creed: 168. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason parents whose eligibility for one-parent family payment ceases due to their youngest child turning 16 are ineligible for the jobseeker's allowance transition payment; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [48250/14]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Back to Work Allowance Eligibility (16 Dec 2014)

Michael Creed: 171. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding persons who are self-employed participating in the back to work scheme; the position regarding eligibility to switch to jobseeker's allowance during slack periods of self employment under the scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [48267/14]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Single Payment Scheme Eligibility (16 Dec 2014)

Michael Creed: 323. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason forestry lands were excluded from a 2014 single farm payment in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Cork; the position regarding the financial discipline deduction in the single farm payment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48268/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (17 Dec 2014)

Michael Creed: 169. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 694 of 4 November 2014, the position regarding recognition by An Bord Altranais of nursing qualifications awarded in Australia; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48616/14]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Back to Work Allowance (14 Jan 2015)

Michael Creed: 46. To ask the Minister for Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 171 of 16 December if she will clarify the final paragraph of her reply wherein she makes reference to the second year of a business plan; if there is an entitlement to a jobseeker's payment in the first year of the back to work enterprise allowance; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49673/14]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Domiciliary Care Allowance Appeals (14 Jan 2015)

Michael Creed: 64. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if a person (details supplied) in County Cork will be approved for domiciliary care allowance; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1194/15]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: EU Regulations (14 Jan 2015)

Michael Creed: 294. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the position regarding tail docking in dairy herds; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49716/14]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Single Payment Scheme Appeals (14 Jan 2015)

Michael Creed: 315. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a decision will issue on a single farm payment appeal in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Cork regarding a 5% penalty on their 2013 single farm payment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1197/15]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: IBRC Mortgage Loan Book (15 Jan 2015)

Michael Creed: 61. To ask the Minister for Finance if individual mortgage holders with IBRC or Irish Nationwide Building Society will be entitled to pay in full the balance of their mortgages either to the IBRC or the purchasers of the mortgage loan book; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1908/15]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Foreign Adoptions (15 Jan 2015)

Michael Creed: 159. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if a bilateral agreement with Russia on adoption will be concluded in 2015; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1911/15]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Mortgage Arrears Rate (20 Jan 2015)

Michael Creed: 233. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of mortgages in substantial arrears; the number of these mortgages that are provided by subprime lenders; his plans to address this cohort of home owners in substantial arrears with their mortgages to subprime lenders; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2297/15]