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Written Answers — Private Rented Accommodation: Private Rented Accommodation (20 Oct 2011)

Pearse Doherty: Question 21: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government where he sees potential savings coming from in the transfer of the allocation of rent supplement to local councils. [30397/11]

Written Answers — Departmental Expenditure: Departmental Expenditure (20 Oct 2011)

Pearse Doherty: Question 40: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the cuts he has recommended to the Department of Finance in relation to housing. [30401/11]

Written Answers — Restorative Justice: Restorative Justice (25 Oct 2011)

Pearse Doherty: Question 49: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality when he expects to expand the community restorative projects in Tallaght, Dublin 24, and Nenagh, County Tipperary; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31241/11]

Written Answers — National Asset Management Agency: National Asset Management Agency (25 Oct 2011)

Pearse Doherty: Question 126: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will release NAMA Q2, 2011 accounts in advance of meeting of the Committee of Public Accounts on 26 October 2011; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31163/11]

Written Answers — Bank Staffing: Bank Staffing (25 Oct 2011)

Pearse Doherty: Question 131: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide a list of all the current members of the senior management team of Anglo Irish Bank. [31191/11]

Written Answers — Bank Staffing: Bank Staffing (25 Oct 2011)

Pearse Doherty: Question 132: To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 24 of 5 October 2011, if he will name the 22 persons who remain at Anglo Irish Bank from the 50 most senior persons employed pre-nationalisation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31192/11]

Written Answers — Bank Staffing: Bank Staffing (25 Oct 2011)

Pearse Doherty: Question 133: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will confirm that a person (details supplied) is currently an employee at Anglo Irish Bank; if he will detail the positions held by this person on the night of the nationalisation of Anglo Irish Bank, the day after the nationalisation of the bank and and currently within the bank; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31193/11]

Written Answers — Garda Vetting of Personnel: Garda Vetting of Personnel (25 Oct 2011)

Pearse Doherty: Question 433: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality when a person (details supplied) in County Dublin may expect to receive Garda clearance. [31422/11]

Written Answers — Hospital Waiting Lists: Hospital Waiting Lists (25 Oct 2011)

Pearse Doherty: Question 563: To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Donegal will receive an appointment for consultation in Tallaght Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31081/11]

Leaders' Questions (26 Oct 2011)

Pearse Doherty: The Minister, Deputy Noonan, announced it in Washington in March.

EU Funding (26 Oct 2011)

Pearse Doherty: In June 2010 the former Government applied for €41 million from the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund in order to provide tailored retraining for 9,000 named construction workers who were made redundant between June 2009 and March 2010. Moneys from this fund must be used within 24 months of the initial application. In other member states it is standard practice that national funds...

EU Funding (26 Oct 2011)

Pearse Doherty: The application and administration of these funds is a shambles. The Minister confirmed that the 5,987 construction workers under whose name an application was made will be contacted by the Department next month. This is 17 months after the application for specific tailor-made programmes to help them get back into work was made for them. These are early interventions yet they will only be...

Written Answers — Higher Education Grants: Higher Education Grants (26 Oct 2011)

Pearse Doherty: Question 41: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will clarify the vocational education committee calculation in awarding grants based on the milage; and if the VEC is using Google maps to calculate distances and choose the shortest distance irrespective of whether these routes are not available to bus services. [31663/11]

Developments in the Eurozone: Statements (Resumed) (2 Nov 2011)

Pearse Doherty: If there is one word which sums up Irish and European political leaders during the past week, it is "failure". In Brussels last Wednesday the European Council failed to reach the promised and much hyped comprehensive deal to end the eurozone crisis. Later that day the leaders of the European Council and the European Commission, together with the IMF and leaders of Europe's banking sector,...

Developments in the Eurozone: Statements (Resumed) (2 Nov 2011)

Pearse Doherty: It is a complete and utter lie to say that if Ireland got a 50% write-down of its debts then it would have 16 years of austerity.

Developments in the Eurozone: Statements (Resumed) (2 Nov 2011)

Pearse Doherty: I am not going to withdraw it. These were lies that were told on the radio. I believe the Minister is clever enough to know that the 16 years of austerity claim is not the case. I will continue.

Developments in the Eurozone: Statements (Resumed) (2 Nov 2011)

Pearse Doherty: Okay, I believe it was a deliberate mistruth that was told.

Developments in the Eurozone: Statements (Resumed) (2 Nov 2011)

Pearse Doherty: A deliberate mistruth was told by Government spokespersons in an effort to confuse the public. Anyone with any sense of economics knows that one does not compare a country with 180% of debt to GDP to one with less than 100%.

Developments in the Eurozone: Statements (Resumed) (2 Nov 2011)

Pearse Doherty: Tarraingím siar é sin.

Developments in the Eurozone: Statements (Resumed) (2 Nov 2011)

Pearse Doherty: Tá a fhios agam agus ag muintir na hÉireann go bhfuil an rud a dúirt mé fíor.