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Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: State Properties Data (19 Nov 2013)

John Deasy: 265. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of State-owned buildings in each county that were unoccupied in each of the years 2007 to 2012 inclusive. [49465/13]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: State Properties Data (19 Nov 2013)

John Deasy: 266. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the annual maintenance and security costs attached to unoccupied State-owned buildings in each of the years 2007 to 2012 inclusive. [49466/13]

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: National Monuments (19 Nov 2013)

John Deasy: 386. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the progress that has been made through mapping and other means by his Department’s underwater archaeology unit to establish the location of the estimated 15,000 shipwrecks lying in Irish territorial waters. [49467/13]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Offshore Exploration (19 Nov 2013)

John Deasy: 411. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the latest estimates regarding the potential oil and gas reserves within Ireland's 652,000 sq. km of offshore; and his plans to encourage greater exploration. [49468/13]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Broadcasting Sector Regulation (19 Nov 2013)

John Deasy: 412. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the position regarding the advertising rates charged to registered charities by RTE television and radio; and the State subsidy, if any, that is given towards the cost of suicide prevention and awareness campaigns on RTE. [49469/13]

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 22 - Eligibility for Medical Cards (14 Nov 2013)

John Deasy: As the witnesses have been in attendance for a long time, I will be brief. An article appeared a few weeks ago in a national newspaper about general practitioners claiming treatment fees for dead medical card holders. It referred to family doctors having claimed more than €1.5 million in taxpayers' money for treating medical card holders who were dead or who do not exist. According...

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 22 - Eligibility for Medical Cards (14 Nov 2013)

John Deasy: Can someone respond to that article? I am aware that in the meantime, for example, it has been denied that this is the case in The Medical Independent, in a certain fashion. The witnesses should tell me whether this is a problem and whether money is outstanding.

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 22 - Eligibility for Medical Cards (14 Nov 2013)

John Deasy: Right.

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 22 - Eligibility for Medical Cards (14 Nov 2013)

John Deasy: It is stated in The Medical Independent that "no payments were made to GPs for deceased payments". I am simply clarifying this matter.

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 22 - Eligibility for Medical Cards (14 Nov 2013)

John Deasy: Okay.

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 22 - Eligibility for Medical Cards (14 Nov 2013)

John Deasy: Mr. Burke is saying that no moneys are outstanding in respect of overpayments.

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 22 - Eligibility for Medical Cards (14 Nov 2013)

John Deasy: Okay.

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 22 - Eligibility for Medical Cards (14 Nov 2013)

John Deasy: Okay. In the reply to the parliamentary question I tabled, it was stated: GPs can update the database to reflect the death of patients on their GP list. In 2012, GPs made 4,400 such amendments and in all of these cases payments to the GP are ceased immediately.

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 22 - Eligibility for Medical Cards (14 Nov 2013)

John Deasy: Mr. Burke is telling me the HSE has got back all overpayments to GPs in respect of deceased medical card holders and that it has not found payments that have not been made in respect of deceased medical card holders.

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 22 - Eligibility for Medical Cards (14 Nov 2013)

John Deasy: Does the HSE consider the system to be clean at this point?

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 22 - Eligibility for Medical Cards (14 Nov 2013)

John Deasy: It deserved-----

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 22 - Eligibility for Medical Cards (14 Nov 2013)

John Deasy: This issue deserved clarification today because an article appeared a few weeks ago in a national newspaper stating that this was occurring. Regardless of that, when I read The Medical Independent, it still was not clear to me. When I tabled a parliamentary question in the Dáil, I thought the issue deserved a response. However, Mr. Burke now has clarified it and that is fair enough.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (14 Nov 2013)

John Deasy: The person we should invite is the director of credit institutions supervision who is the head of oversight within the Central Bank when it comes to credit unions, as opposed to the Financial Regulator as such.

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Charges Non-Payment (13 Nov 2013)

John Deasy: 106. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the number of persons who are accumulating penalties as a result of not paying the non-principal private residence charge; and the amount outstanding. [48418/13]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Non-Principal Private Residence Charge Collection (12 Nov 2013)

John Deasy: 294. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will examine the possibility of introducing an easy-payment system for persons who inadvertently did not pay their non-private principal private residence charge in time and who wish to comply but have accumulated penalties and are unable to pay this amount in one full payment as is currently requested; and if he...