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Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Help Service Provision (16 Dec 2014)

Michael McGrath: 483. To ask the Minister for Health the arrangements that are in place to ensure that substitute home help carers are available in the Health Service Executive South area to cover home help carers who are out sick or on annual leave; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48167/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Drug Treatment Programmes Funding (16 Dec 2014)

Michael McGrath: 524. To ask the Minister for Health the amount of methadone consumed and the amount of product supplied by manufacturers here in 2013 to pharmacies and the Health Service Executive; the amount of methadone product the State paid for in 2013; the amount of methadone, in the six presentations which was supplied to pharmacies and the HSE in 2013; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Health: Drug Treatment Programmes Policy (16 Dec 2014)

Michael McGrath: 525. To ask the Minister for Health if the Health Service Executive has any record of the number of children here who are dependants of methadone users; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48443/14]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Fáilte Ireland Issues (16 Dec 2014)

Michael McGrath: 640. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide the background to the way a certain site (details supplied) in County Cork came into the ownership of Fáilte Ireland; if the organisation will engage with a certain local group which is interested in purchasing or leasing it and using it for a purpose that would involve attracting additional tourists to the...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Projects Status (16 Dec 2014)

Michael McGrath: 663. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the position regarding plans for a new motorway between counties Cork and Limerick; the steps that have already been taken; the next steps in the process; the funding that is available; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48166/14]

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (17 Dec 2014)

Michael McGrath: Thank you Chairman. I welcome Mr. Nyberg. I want to deal with the night of the bank guarantee, which Mr. Nyberg examined in his report, and is an important part of this inquiry's body of work. Mr. Nyberg makes it clear in his report that minds were concentrated on the very short-term risk of at least one bank running out of money the following day and not being able to meet maturing...

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (17 Dec 2014)

Michael McGrath: What was the risk of all of that happening? What was the risk of those very serious consequences if at least one bank would not be able to meet its obligations the following day and the consequences of perhaps others banks not being able to open for business in the normal way? Based on Mr. Nyberg's assessment of what was known at the time, was there a reasonable likelihood of that risk...

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (17 Dec 2014)

Michael McGrath: Does Mr. Nyberg find it credible that there was a real risk of the banks not being able to function normally the following day, that is on 30 September?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (17 Dec 2014)

Michael McGrath: From my reading of his report, Mr. Nyberg saves some of his sharpest criticisms for the Financial Regulator and the Central Bank. He states that the regulator's approach was to trust bank leadership to make proper and prudent decisions; even when problems were identified, the regulator did not subsequently ensure sufficient corrective action was taken. He is critical of the appetite to...

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (17 Dec 2014)

Michael McGrath: I will conclude by referring to the issue of burden-sharing with creditors. This takes us beyond the mandate of Mr. Nyberg's report, which was up to January 2009, but I am interested in his opinion. Shareholders in the banks lost everything, as has been referred to, depositors were fully protected, junior bondholders lost about €15 billion up to the present position in respect of...

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (17 Dec 2014)

Michael McGrath: I just wanted to make the point and pose it as a question that the reason no losses were imposed on senior bondholders was at the insistence of the European Central Bank, both back in November 2010, when Ireland was negotiating a bailout programme with the troika, and subsequently on the election of the new Government, when the current Minister for Finance, in the summer of 2011, sought to...

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (17 Dec 2014)

Michael McGrath: Mr. Nyberg conducted a commission of investigation in private. We are conducting a parliamentary inquiry in public. Mr. Nyberg said a number of the witnesses he personally interviewed felt the need to be represented by their lawyers, as such. My question is what is his sense of the type of engagement we are likely to get from any of the main actors involved in the banking crisis, and how...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: NAMA Receivers (18 Dec 2014)

Michael McGrath: 98. To ask the Minister for Finance the amount of fees incurred by the National Asset Management Agency in respect of the appointment of receivers to NAMA debtors in each of the years to 2013 to date in 2014; the number of receivers that have been appointed by NAMA for each of these years; and the number of different professional firms that have been appointed as receivers by the agency....

Written Answers — Department of Finance: IBRC Mortgage Loan Book (18 Dec 2014)

Michael McGrath: 101. To ask the Minister for Finance the position regarding the disposal or transfer of the remaining Irish Bank Resolution Corporation loan book; if he has issued a direction order on the matter; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49267/14]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: IBRC Mortgage Loan Book (18 Dec 2014)

Michael McGrath: 102. To ask the Minister for Finance if the Irish Bank Resolution Corporation mortgage holders whose mortgages are currently still with IBRC have had an opportunity to bid for their own loans; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49268/14]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Promissory Notes (18 Dec 2014)

Michael McGrath: 103. To ask the Minister for Finance the interest rate that currently applies on the €25 billion of floating rate notes held by the Central Bank of Ireland as a result of the promissory note transaction; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49269/14]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Pension Provisions (18 Dec 2014)

Michael McGrath: 104. To ask the Minister for Finance the way he plans to provide for potential State liabilities which may emerge from pre-existing or future pension fund difficulties; if he has estimated the possible range of these liabilities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49270/14]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Financial Instruments (18 Dec 2014)

Michael McGrath: 105. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of initiatives he has announced which have not commenced as they are awaiting EU State aid approval; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49271/14]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: NAMA Social Housing Provision (18 Dec 2014)

Michael McGrath: 106. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of housing units by county that the National Asset Management Agency has approved and transferred for social housing to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49272/14]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: NAMA Social Housing Provision (18 Dec 2014)

Michael McGrath: 115. To ask the Minister for Finance the reason a high proportion of housing units identified by the National Asset Management Agency as suitable for social housing are not being taken up by local authorities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49283/14]