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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Credit Union Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Dec 2015)

Pearse Doherty: I am all for very strong regulation of the financial industry but I have serious concerns over the fact that the regulation is not based on risk. We talked about the requirement for 10% capital in proportion to total assets. Do the witnesses accept that this is more than double what international peers have to carry? That is because it is not risk-weighted.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Credit Union Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Dec 2015)

Pearse Doherty: The Registrar of Credit Unions is asking credit unions to carry a capital risk weight of 100% for investment in Government bonds when, by international standards, it should be down at 20%. My next question is on lending to small businesses. Ms McKiernan said that lending to small businesses has to be 50% of the total capital requirement. Given that the capital requirement has no...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Credit Union Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Dec 2015)

Pearse Doherty: That time may have come. Surely not all of the 300 credit unions are going into ReBo. This crisis did not hit us just last month or last year. Surely the registrar knows that certain credit unions are sustainable, on a sound footing and with no questions over systemic risks, but measures are still in place which limit their potential and drive them into riskier lending. When will this...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Credit Union Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Dec 2015)

Pearse Doherty: Can I ask a final question?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Credit Union Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Dec 2015)

Pearse Doherty: It relates to the guidance that has been issued. When was the last time the registrar issued guidance on lending and credit risk management practices? The handbook does not cover these areas. Ms McKiernan has spoken of what the credit unions need to do but I want to ask what the Registrar of Credit Unions needs to do, and what the Central Bank needs to do.

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: School Meals Programme (17 Dec 2015)

Pearse Doherty: 47. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection why a school (details supplied) in County Donegal did not qualify for the full grant applied for under the school meal (local projects) scheme for 2015-2016; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45741/15]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: School Meals Programme (17 Dec 2015)

Pearse Doherty: 48. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection the appeal process under the school meal (local projects) scheme for 2015-2016. [45742/15]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Community Services Programme (17 Dec 2015)

Pearse Doherty: 54. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection her plans to increase current funding levels awarded to service providers under the community services programme as a result of the increases to the minimum wage, which is to come into effect from 1 January 2016; if she is aware of the need for additional funding to be made available under the programme in order for service...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Youth Guarantee (17 Dec 2015)

Pearse Doherty: 60. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection the status of the implementation of the Youth Guarantee, including the number of participants; the number of these who have received employment through the guarantee; and the amount spent implementing the Guarantee to date. [46006/15]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits Eligibility (17 Dec 2015)

Pearse Doherty: 61. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection the cost of introducing a derogation from the habitual residency clause for returning emigrants. [46011/15]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits Eligibility (17 Dec 2015)

Pearse Doherty: 62. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection the cost of altering the habitual residence test for social protection eligibility for those returning to care for elderly relatives, by applying the habitual residence test to the elderly relative as opposed to the returning emigrant. [46012/15]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Property Tax Yield (17 Dec 2015)

Pearse Doherty: 111. To ask the Minister for Finance the gross local property tax receipts with respect to properties in County Donegal for each of the years from 2013 to date, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45720/15]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Live Exports (17 Dec 2015)

Pearse Doherty: 238. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 120 of 19 November 2015, if he has successfully raised the issue of strict new limits imposed on cadmium levels for live crab intended for export to China with the authorities in China; the level of dialogue which has taken place with the Chinese authorities; if the Chinese authorities have...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Admissions (17 Dec 2015)

Pearse Doherty: 418. To ask the Minister for Health the number of elective surgical procedures which have been cancelled and-or postponed in each of the individual hospitals across the Saolta University Health Care Group in each month in 2014 and 2015, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45721/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Help Service Provision (17 Dec 2015)

Pearse Doherty: 434. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 195 of 19 November 2015, the criteria which were not met by a person (details supplied) in County Cavan to enable the person to receive home help hours, and the issues that were taken into account; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45900/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Palliative Care for Children (17 Dec 2015)

Pearse Doherty: 441. To ask the Minister for Health if and the first date on which a position for a paediatric palliative care nurse specialist to serve County Donegal, to be based at Letterkenny University Hospital, was advertised; the number of applicants for this post; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46008/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Magdalen Laundries Data (17 Dec 2015)

Pearse Doherty: 442. To ask the Minister for Health the cost of broadening the scheme for women living abroad who suffered in the Magdalen laundries, who are now entitled to free general practitioner services, prescribed drugs, surgical appliances, nursing and home help services, dental, ophthalmic and aural services, counselling, chiropody and physiotherapy, upon their return to Ireland, to include all...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Undocumented Irish in the USA (17 Dec 2015)

Pearse Doherty: 521. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the extent of communication and correspondence between his Department and authorities in the United States of America, as part of efforts to resolve the ongoing plight and difficulties of undocumented Irish citizens living there; the progress in regularising their status and in introducing a dedicated visa waiver programme; and if he will...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Undocumented Irish in the USA (17 Dec 2015)

Pearse Doherty: 522. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if the authorities in the United States of America have made a specific request for a visa waiver programme for undocumented Irish citizens living there; if he is aware of the success of the efforts of the Mexican Government to negotiate such a programme with the United States of America on behalf of its citizens living illegally there;...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staffing (17 Dec 2015)

Pearse Doherty: 537. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will amend the current rules under the school transport scheme whereby in determining eligibility for school transport, applicants must meet the relevant distance criteria and must attend their nearest school; having regard to ethos and language, if school-goers would enjoy greater freedom to choose which school they would attend if a...