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Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Care Packages (10 Nov 2015)

Pearse Doherty: 405. To ask the Minister for Health if a dedicated report into inadequate and unreliable home care provision for a person (details supplied) in County Donegal has been compiled; the progress that has been made to date in progressing such a report; when this document will be made available; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39287/15]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport Eligibility (10 Nov 2015)

Pearse Doherty: 492. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a school (details supplied) in County Donegal is classified as an all-Irish school when assessing the eligibility of applicants for the post-primary school transport scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39286/15]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education and Training Provision (10 Nov 2015)

Pearse Doherty: 496. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will confirm whether only approximately €500,000 of the €2.49 million of the European Commission's contribution to the Lufthansa Technik European globalisation adjustment fund has been spent to date; whether, given that the deadline for expenditure is 19 September 2016, this programme could end with a significant...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education and Training Provision (10 Nov 2015)

Pearse Doherty: 497. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views on whether as of May 2015 only 127 of the 424 eligible redundant workers and only 54 of the 200 not-in-education, employment or training person cohort had accessed programme measures under the Lufthansa Technik European globalisation adjustment fund programme; whether enough is being done to ensure that all eligible persons can...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education and Training Provision (10 Nov 2015)

Pearse Doherty: 498. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the south Dublin partnership and community-based training centres, such as Áras Rualach on the Neilstown Road in Clondalkin in Dublin 22, have been invited to assist in ensuring a greater participation rate from among the not-in-employment, education or training person cohort in the Lufthansa Technik European globalisation adjustment...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education and Training Provision (10 Nov 2015)

Pearse Doherty: 499. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for a breakdown of all moneys returned to the European Commission from previous European Globalisation Adjustment Fund programmes, expressed in nominal terms and as a percentage of the total amount awarded for each programme by the European Commission. [39388/15]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Environmental Regulations (10 Nov 2015)

Pearse Doherty: 545. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government in relation to a report compiled in 2010 by the Convention for the Protection of the Marine Environment of the North-East Commission into past dumping at sea of chemical weapons and munitions in the commission's maritime area, which gave details of chemical munition dump sites off the County Donegal coast, if he is aware...

Order of Business (5 Nov 2015)

Pearse Doherty: On behalf of Sinn Féin I strongly oppose the guillotining of this Bill and also the Bill that will follow. This is about proper parliamentary practice and there needs to be an opportunity for every Member of the House to have an input into the Finance Bill. There are details within the Bill that were not discussed on budget day, yet there was a lengthy discussion in terms of the Budget...

Leaders' Questions (5 Nov 2015)

Pearse Doherty: As I said, these are not isolated cases. The individual circumstances are obviously particular to these families, as are the tragedies that unfolded. We all know of different cases. Yesterday, there were more than 400 people on hospital trolleys and this is likely to continue. The Taoiseach's answer to this question yesterday was that things were likely to get worse and that we would hear...

Leaders' Questions (5 Nov 2015)

Pearse Doherty: Why is it not working?

Leaders' Questions (5 Nov 2015)

Pearse Doherty: Some €383 million should have been allocated to the health services.

Leaders' Questions (5 Nov 2015)

Pearse Doherty: We need actions, not words. We need actions, not more commentary.

Leaders' Questions (5 Nov 2015)

Pearse Doherty: Across the State people woke up this morning to the horrific newspaper reports on our health services. An elderly woman, placed in an all-male ward due to overcrowding in South Tipperary General Hospital, was allegedly subjected to a horrific sexual assault. In another report we read of Dualtagh Donnelly, the father of two who, having cut his arm on a glass door, bled to death while waiting...

Leaders' Questions (5 Nov 2015)

Pearse Doherty: The Minister may not want to hear it but I said on budget night that when he deploys policies like that, this is what we will get. We will get our elderly people on hospital trolleys and people dying in their homes because the emergency service will not get to them within the appropriate time. Does the Minister accept that the Government has failed spectacularly to deal with the crisis in...

Leaders' Questions (5 Nov 2015)

Pearse Doherty: There are more people, too.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Public Procurement Contracts (5 Nov 2015)

Pearse Doherty: 205. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she has received correspondence from an organisation representing bus and coach operators (details supplied) in which concerns have been expressed regarding the current procurement process employed by Bus Éireann for contracts relating to the school transport scheme; if he is considering the establishment of an oversight and appeals...

Finance Bill 2015: Second Stage (4 Nov 2015)

Pearse Doherty: For the fifth year in a row we are presented with a regressive budget followed by a regressive Finance Bill. This is the also the fifth year in a row for us to get the big lie, that there is no alternative. When one takes a step back and looks at the Finance Bill in its entirety and asks who benefits the most, the answer is very clear. This is a budget and Finance Bill for the...

Order of Business (4 Nov 2015)

Pearse Doherty: I wish to raise the matter of two pieces of legislation. I have asked about the first of these on many occasions. It relates to the release of the 1926 census. The Minister of State, Deputy Deenihan, has promised this and it was promised in the programme for Government. Indeed, on 9 March 2012 it was said that the legislation had been approved by Cabinet. The legislation has not come...

Travellers' Rights: Motion [Private Members] (3 Nov 2015)

Pearse Doherty: I welcome tonight's debate, in particular the focus, attention and the contribution by Deputy Mac Lochlainn, who has been to the forefront of advocating on behalf of Travellers long before he got elected to this Chamber. Despite the fact that it might not be very popular in some areas he has never shirked his responsibilities to confront the racist views that are held by a minority. I...

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Single Resolution Fund Motion: Discussion (3 Nov 2015)

Pearse Doherty: Deputy Michael McGrath spoke about the three banks. What happens to any other financial institution that is not contributing to this fund? Where do they lie in terms of access to the fund in the future if they get into trouble?