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Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (13 Mar 2014)

Pearse Doherty: 270. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Donegal will receive an appointment for a scan in Letterkenny General Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12649/14]

Gateway Scheme: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (12 Mar 2014)

Pearse Doherty: Cuirim fáilte roimh an díospóireacht seo. Caithfidh mé a rá go bhfuil eagla orm anocht do chomhairleoirí contae Fhine Gael as Contae Dhún na nGall agus do chomhairleoirí contae Pháirtí an Lucht Oibre as Dún na nGall mar vótáil an dá pháirtí sin, agus ina measc, Páirtí Fhianna Fáil agus na...

Gateway Scheme: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (12 Mar 2014)

Pearse Doherty: The Deputy should show some respect.

Gateway Scheme: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (12 Mar 2014)

Pearse Doherty: He should inform himself.

Government's Priorities for the Year Ahead: Statements (Resumed) (12 Mar 2014)

Pearse Doherty: The Minister of State will have her time to debate these issues. These are facts that are on the record. The Minister of State will have time to defend using the public's money in this way and the fact the Government has turned the toxic Anglo Irish Bank debt into a formalised sovereign debt. The more we learn about what happened at the bank and at Irish Nationwide Building Society, the...

Government's Priorities for the Year Ahead: Statements (Resumed) (12 Mar 2014)

Pearse Doherty: Ar dtús báire, ba mhaith liom a rá go raibh mé ag iarraidh moladh a thabhairt don Rialtas maidir leis an gcaoi ina bhfuil na focail bhreátha a bhí i gclár an Rialtas, a shocraigh siad trí bliana ó shin, á gcur i bhfeidhm acu. Bréag mhór a bheadh ann a leithéid a dhéanamh, áfach, ós rud é nach raibh focail...

Government's Priorities for the Year Ahead: Statements (Resumed) (12 Mar 2014)

Pearse Doherty: Time and time again - three times - the Government has voted to renew the bank guarantee. In fact, in the case of the toxic Anglo debt, the Government has actually formalised its sovereign debt.

Government's Priorities for the Year Ahead: Statements (Resumed) (12 Mar 2014)

Pearse Doherty: It has turned the promissory note, on which there was no vote in this House, into sovereign debt.

Government's Priorities for the Year Ahead: Statements (Resumed) (12 Mar 2014)

Pearse Doherty: The Minister of State, Deputy Lynch, may not understand the rules of the House and perhaps what I am saying about the Government is a bit uncomfortable in regard to Anglo debt. Can the Minister of State remember what it was she sanctioned and supported when the Government came into office three years ago? I will remind her. One of the Government's first actions was to issue a cheque to...

Order of Business (11 Mar 2014)

Pearse Doherty: I raise the public sector ethics Bill. Ethics is missing in many areas. The Taoiseach told the House on 24 April 2013 that he expected a substantial contribution from the leadership of the banks. Yesterday, we were told that Richie Boucher is again on €843,000. There has not been a single cent reduction in his pay despite what the Taoiseach said to the House last year that there...

Order of Business (11 Mar 2014)

Pearse Doherty: Does the Tánaiste believe the Minister for Finance should vote against the pay package of the CEO given the legislation on ethics in the public sector?

Order of Business (11 Mar 2014)

Pearse Doherty: I am asking in relation to ethics legislation.

Order of Business (11 Mar 2014)

Pearse Doherty: It is really important. Public interest directors have been appointed to the banks.

Order of Business (11 Mar 2014)

Pearse Doherty: We have a Taoiseach who was either misled or who misled the House in saying the leadership of the banks would take a reduction last year. We spend a huge amount of money on reports.

Order of Business (11 Mar 2014)

Pearse Doherty: I will surely, but I would like the Chair to offer the Tánaiste the opportunity to respond.

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Mortgage Arrears Proposals (11 Mar 2014)

Pearse Doherty: 104. To ask the Minister for Finance if the Central Bank is excluding mortgages, which have been packaged and sold by banks to other banking/loan/financing agencies, from its statistical analysis of mortgage arrears; and if so, the reason it is doing this and his views that this would not reflect fairly on the number of actual mortgages in distress. [12031/14]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: IBRC Loans (11 Mar 2014)

Pearse Doherty: 78. To ask the Minister for Finance if a person (details supplied) refinanced their €300 million loan at the Irish Bank Resolution Corporation at par value of 100% or if the full value entailed a refinancing at 97%, to allow for the cost of refinancing. [11662/14]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: IBRC Loans (11 Mar 2014)

Pearse Doherty: 79. To ask the Minister for Finance if any persons or companies have been allowed to buy back their loans from Irish Bank Resolution Corporation at a discount to allow for the cost of refinancing. [11663/14]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: IBRC Mortgage Loan Book (11 Mar 2014)

Pearse Doherty: 86. To ask the Minister for Finance if he has sought the legal status of the formal agreements with unregulated bodies which had purchased loan books and ascertained whether they are enforceable under contract law; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11773/14]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Postcode Implementation (11 Mar 2014)

Pearse Doherty: 313. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources further to Parliamentary Question No. 239 of 4 March 2014, in which he stated that his Department received correspondence from the EU Commission during 2012 in relation to the procurement process for the national postcode system, the case was fully examined by the EU Commission which informed his Department in November...