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Topical Issue Debate: Special Educational Needs Service Provision (9 May 2017)

Michael D'Arcy: To clarify for the Minister, there is no ASD unit in Gorey community school. It is requesting that an ASD unit be built for 12 students in two classes. For the Minister's information, there is no unit. The teachers and students are working in spaces all around the school where they try to do their best. I just want to clarify that as a point of information.

Topical Issue Debate: Special Educational Needs Service Provision (9 May 2017)

Michael D'Arcy: I thank the Minister, Deputy Bruton, for taking this serious Topical Issue matter. Gorey community school is the largest post-primary school in Ireland with 1,577 students. It is an inclusive school with 211 students with identified special educational needs. The school does a lot of good work and is not selective with regard to students with learning difficulties. There are 40 students in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Cashflow Support Loan Scheme: Strategic Banking Corporation of Ireland (2 May 2017)

Michael D'Arcy: On the eligibility criteria, Mr. Ashmore indicated that he does not know how many people have been excluded from the scheme.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Cashflow Support Loan Scheme: Strategic Banking Corporation of Ireland (2 May 2017)

Michael D'Arcy: I am talking about the eligibility criteria.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Cashflow Support Loan Scheme: Strategic Banking Corporation of Ireland (2 May 2017)

Michael D'Arcy: I am talking about criteria relating to farm partnerships and the green low-carbon agri-environment scheme, GLAS.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Cashflow Support Loan Scheme: Strategic Banking Corporation of Ireland (2 May 2017)

Michael D'Arcy: Is Mr. Ashmore stating that nobody is being excluded?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Cashflow Support Loan Scheme: Strategic Banking Corporation of Ireland (2 May 2017)

Michael D'Arcy: I suggest such a survey be done now.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Cashflow Support Loan Scheme: Strategic Banking Corporation of Ireland (2 May 2017)

Michael D'Arcy: If the SBCI were to assess the information that is currently available, it would be able to ascertain whether people have been excluded. If people have applied to one of the three institutions and do not meet the criteria, they will not have an opportunity to secure a good value loan at an interest rate of 2.95%. Mr. Ashmore stated that the intelligence available to the SBCI from the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Cashflow Support Loan Scheme: Strategic Banking Corporation of Ireland (2 May 2017)

Michael D'Arcy: Perhaps Mr. Ashmore will make the specific regulation available to the committee.

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (2 May 2017)

Michael D'Arcy: 633. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if a person (details supplied) that is a UK passport holder living here for 12 years and married for 17 years to an Irish citizen who has both an Irish and a UK passport can automatically get an Irish passport based on his marriage to an Irish citizen; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19900/17]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: GLAS Applications (2 May 2017)

Michael D'Arcy: 1145. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of an application by persons (details supplied) in County Wexford for a GLAS payment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19230/17]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: GLAS Payments (2 May 2017)

Michael D'Arcy: 1227. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of a GLAS payment for a person (details supplied); the reason for the delay with regard to the remaining applications for payment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20462/17]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking and Financial Regulation: Discussion with Mr. Jonathan Sugarman (13 Apr 2017)

Michael D'Arcy: I thank Mr. Sugarman. He probably knows that I was a member of the banking inquiry. What two German banks did he work for prior to UniCredit?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking and Financial Regulation: Discussion with Mr. Jonathan Sugarman (13 Apr 2017)

Michael D'Arcy: Did Mr. Sugarman work for those two institutions in Dublin?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking and Financial Regulation: Discussion with Mr. Jonathan Sugarman (13 Apr 2017)

Michael D'Arcy: Mr. Sugarman worked for Hypo Real Estate, which was Depka.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking and Financial Regulation: Discussion with Mr. Jonathan Sugarman (13 Apr 2017)

Michael D'Arcy: At the time.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking and Financial Regulation: Discussion with Mr. Jonathan Sugarman (13 Apr 2017)

Michael D'Arcy: Will Mr. Sugarman jog my memory, please? Depka was a German bank.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking and Financial Regulation: Discussion with Mr. Jonathan Sugarman (13 Apr 2017)

Michael D'Arcy: For how long was it wholly Irish owned?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking and Financial Regulation: Discussion with Mr. Jonathan Sugarman (13 Apr 2017)

Michael D'Arcy: I was just wondering if Mr. Sugarman knew. The banking inquiry did not investigate any of the IFSC companies.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking and Financial Regulation: Discussion with Mr. Jonathan Sugarman (13 Apr 2017)

Michael D'Arcy: That was not part of our remit. We did not investigate Depfa.