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Written Answers — Financial Institutions Support Scheme: Financial Institutions Support Scheme (8 Nov 2011)

Pearse Doherty: Question 131: To ask the Minister for Finance the date from which the six covered institutions were legally covered by the Credit Institutions (Financial Support) Scheme 2008; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33369/11]

Written Answers — Tax Yield: Tax Yield (8 Nov 2011)

Pearse Doherty: Question 132: To ask the Minister for Finance the amount of money that was brought in during the full year 2010 from the income levy on the proportion that was levied at 2% that is income up to €75,000; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33370/11]

Written Answers — EU Funding: EU Funding (8 Nov 2011)

Pearse Doherty: Question 153: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if moneys secured under the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund for retraining of redundant workers from a company (details supplied) were returned unspent to the fund; the amounts returned from each application; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33109/11]

Written Answers — EU Funding: EU Funding (8 Nov 2011)

Pearse Doherty: Question 154: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if any of the redundant construction workers named in the most recent application to the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund were contacted in advance of the application being made in 2010 or since he came into office; the number who were contacted; the date on which they were contacted; the number currently in a position to...

Written Answers — EU Funding: EU Funding (8 Nov 2011)

Pearse Doherty: Question 155: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a review of the use of the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund programmes for redundant workers in companies (details supplied) has been conducted; if he will place the report on the record of Dáil Éireann; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33111/11]

Written Answers — Social Welfare Code: Social Welfare Code (8 Nov 2011)

Pearse Doherty: Question 282: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if there is any provision or discretion allowed for persons claiming carer's allowance who are from the State but who have moved to Northern Ireland and wish to continue to care for their elderly parents or family relations. [33400/11]

Written Answers — Social Welfare Code: Social Welfare Code (8 Nov 2011)

Pearse Doherty: Question 283: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if there is any provision's or discretion for a person to claim carer's allowance if they now live in close proximity to the Border in the North of Ireland but are originally from the South and wish to care for their relatives who live in close proximity south of the Border, based on the premise that they satisfy all other eligibility...

Written Answers — Energy Efficiency: Energy Efficiency (8 Nov 2011)

Pearse Doherty: Question 352: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if there are any programmes provided by him or other State agencies to assist council tenants improve the energy efficiency of their homes, particularly with reference to providing insulation upgrades or switching to more energy fuels. [33377/11]

Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (8 Nov 2011)

Pearse Doherty: Question 458: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason the single farm payment for 2011 has not been paid to a person (details supplied) in County Donegal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33315/11]

Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (8 Nov 2011)

Pearse Doherty: Question 565: To ask the Minister for Health his plans for the development of the Cu Chulainn, Old Convent site, in Falcarragh, County Donegal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33374/11]

Written Answers — Public Transport: Public Transport (9 Nov 2011)

Pearse Doherty: Question 47: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to ensure that a free official smartphone application for the most common operating systems is available with real-time information on all public transport options. [33437/11]

Written Answers — Irish Language: Irish Language (9 Nov 2011)

Pearse Doherty: Question 51: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the way he will contribute to the maximisation of the potential of the Irish language and cultural tourism; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33408/11]

Written Answers — Human Rights Issues: Human Rights Issues (10 Nov 2011)

Pearse Doherty: Question 13: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his position on the tragic circumstances of the landless peasant communities in the Bajo Aguán region of northern Honduras where peasant communities who fight for access to land in order to exercise their right to feed themselves are faced with a situation of permanent harassment and abuse by public security...

Written Answers — Human Rights Issues: Human Rights Issues (10 Nov 2011)

Pearse Doherty: Question 17: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his views that women in post-earthquake Haiti have been failed by the international community in recovery efforts and that the needs and rights of women and girls, particularly their rights to health and security, have been neglected as evidenced in a report by Human Rights Watch which describes the way hunger has...

Banking Sector Regulation (15 Nov 2011)

Pearse Doherty: Question 30: To ask the Minister for Finance if he has received the report from the Financial Regulator regarding the additional powers required to force banks to pass on ECB interest rate reductions to customers; if so, if he will outline the contents of this report; if he will proceed with the necessary emergency legislation on this matter irrespective of whether the regulator requests...

Banking Sector Regulation (15 Nov 2011)

Pearse Doherty: People on the street who are in mortgage distress or are in danger of slipping in it, particularly those who have mortgages with Bank of Ireland, want to know what the elected Government of this State is going to do to enforce its stated policy, namely, that banks pass on the ECB interest rate decrease. We are not talking about a Government interfering in the private market. The bank is...

Banking Sector Regulation (15 Nov 2011)

Pearse Doherty: I will repeat the question because Bank of Ireland knows Mr. Matthew Elderfield and the House do not have the powers to force it to reduce interest rates. The chief executive of Bank of Ireland rubbed the noses of the Government in it when he was invited to a meeting with the Taoiseach. The Minister of State, Deputy Hayes, called the decision pathetic. The question on behalf of struggling...

Banking Sector Regulation (15 Nov 2011)

Pearse Doherty: He is not elected.

EU-IMF Programme (15 Nov 2011)

Pearse Doherty: The Minister should check his banking policy.

Economic and Monetary Union (15 Nov 2011)

Pearse Doherty: Question 33: To ask the Minister for Finance in view of recent events in Greece and Italy and the news that the French and German governments are actively considering a radical restructuring and re-sizing of the Euro, if he is actively preparing for the possibility of a collapse of the Euro or any attempt by France and Germany to exclude indebted States from the Euro or to impose...