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Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fishing Industry Development (11 Jun 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 800. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the total amount of funding invested by Bórd Iascaigh Mhara in Killybegs, County Donegal, in each of the past five years for the purposes of job creation; the mechanisms in place to ensure compliance with any conditions upon which the funding was contingent; the total number of jobs created by the investments; and if he will...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mobility Allowance Decision (11 Jun 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 972. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the work being carried out by the project group appointed by him on 27 February 2013 to review the motorised transport grant and mobility allowance schemes; when he expects the review to be completed and new schemes put in place; his views on whether the review process will be complete prior to the current schemes ending; if...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service Provision (11 Jun 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 919. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the investigation undertaken by his Department into a matter raised on 19 December 2012 regarding the provision of ambulance service in County Donegal; the specific measures and actions taken by his Department as a result of this investigation; if he will give assurances that all appropriate action has been taken to prevent...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Provision (11 Jun 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 968. To ask the Minister for Health if it is the plan of the Health Service Executive in County Donegal to close the Ballaghderg special needs preschool in Letterkenny; the proposals in place to accommodate the 5% of children with special needs that cannot be facilitated in the mainstream preschool setting in County Donegal in the event of such a closure; and if he will make a statement on...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Expenditure (11 Jun 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 969. To ask the Minister for Health if he will outline in tabular form the total amount of funds allocated to the Health Service Executive in County Donegal over each of the past five years to allow for the provision of special needs assistant support in the pre-school sector; the number of applications made to the HSE by childcare providers in each of the past five years in County Donegal...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Expenditure (11 Jun 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 971. To ask the Minister for Health the total amount of funds allocated to the Health Service Executive in County Donegal over each of the past five years to each of the special needs pre-schools in the county; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27021/13]

Finance (Local Property Tax Repeal) Bill 2013 [Private Members]: Second Stage (Resumed) (12 Jun 2013)

Pearse Doherty: Of course, we do.

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Issues (12 Jun 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 59. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the recent call by NABCO and ICSH for investment in social housing which would support jobs; and if he is considering any proposals to undertake an investment package in social housing which would increase housing stock, improve conditions and create jobs. [27058/13]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Irish Water Funding (12 Jun 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 65. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the other sources of funding that are available to Irish Water apart from the National Pension Reserve Fund, public Exchequer and borrowing on the commercial market; and the way it will access this funding. [28067/13]

Leaders' Questions (13 Jun 2013)

Pearse Doherty: This morning the coastal communities of Passage East and Dunmore East are mourning the deaths of three brothers, Paul, Kenny and Shane Bolger. On behalf of Sinn Fein and, I am sure, all Members of the House, I express my condolences to their families and friends. We all know that no coastal community is immune to such tragedies. My home county of Donegal has seen its fair share of...

Leaders' Questions (13 Jun 2013)

Pearse Doherty: Gabhaim buíochas leis an Tánaiste as an cheist a fhreagairt. Last October, in response to a question by Senator David Cullinane, the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine indicated that it was his intention that his Department would take measures with a view to making the provision of personal locator beacons mandatory under appropriate legislation. This was first...

Leaders' Questions: Order of Business (13 Jun 2013)

Pearse Doherty: Two items of legislation were promised but I will not ask about the first because the legislation for the strategic investment bank is not included in the Government legislation programme and I am not sure it will ever happen. The strategic investment fund was announced in August 2011, over a year and a half ago. To set up the strategic investment fund, we need legislation. Legislation has...

Central Bank (Supervision and Enforcement) Bill 2011: Report and Final Stages (13 Jun 2013)

Pearse Doherty: I welcome the inclusion of the Government amendments. Amendment No. 11, in my name, deals with the same issue, which I raised on Committee Stage. I am glad the Minister of State has accepted my point because, in the past, it could have been the case that the reviewer could have also been working with the institution to provide false information to the Central Bank. The legislation now...

Central Bank (Supervision and Enforcement) Bill 2011: Report and Final Stages (13 Jun 2013)

Pearse Doherty: I have no issue with these drafting amendments.

Central Bank (Supervision and Enforcement) Bill 2011: Report and Final Stages (13 Jun 2013)

Pearse Doherty: I thank the Minister of State for his note on those amendments. They are improvements on what was in the original Bill. I am glad that the position we put on Committee Stage has been agreed to, in particular regarding whistleblowers and offering them respect while at the same time ensuring it does not curtail the necessary investigations. I am happy to support the amendments.

Central Bank (Supervision and Enforcement) Bill 2011: Report and Final Stages (13 Jun 2013)

Pearse Doherty: I move amendment No. 43:In page 48, between lines 22 and 23, to insert the following:“ 'debt collector' means a person who for remuneration collects or seeks to collect consumer credit debt;”.This deals with debt collectors, as does amendment No. 70. Debt collectors are currently unregulated and need to be brought into the fold. Recently the Society of St. Vincent de Paul...

Central Bank (Supervision and Enforcement) Bill 2011: Report and Final Stages (13 Jun 2013)

Pearse Doherty: I take the Minister of State's point in regard to my amendment No. 70 that the reference in section 62 to "such conditions or requirements or both as the Bank considers appropriate" would seem to allow the Central Bank to require these entities to publish their fees and charges. If he can tell me that this will actually happen, that is fair enough and there is no need to press the amendment....

Central Bank (Supervision and Enforcement) Bill 2011: Report and Final Stages (13 Jun 2013)

Pearse Doherty: In respect of amendment No. 70, based on what the Minister of State has said, I am aware that when an agency or the courts interpret legislation or the law, they will also consider the intention-----

Central Bank (Supervision and Enforcement) Bill 2011: Report and Final Stages (13 Jun 2013)

Pearse Doherty: Therefore, the Minister of State's statement is very welcome. On that basis, I will not press amendment No. 70. I welcome the commitment of the Minister for Justice and Equality to deal with this issue. What is absent is a timeframe and movement on this issue, although there have been efforts for quite a while to have the area regulated. On that basis, I will press the amendment...

Central Bank (Supervision and Enforcement) Bill 2011: Report and Final Stages (13 Jun 2013)

Pearse Doherty: I move amendment No. 72:In page 57, to delete lines 22 to 27 and substitute the following:“(5) A regulated financial service provider falls within this subsection if, in the preceding financial year, a complaint relating to the regulated financial service provider which has been made to the Financial Services Ombudsman has been found by that Ombudsman to be substantiated or partly...