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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Grant Scheme Eligibility (23 Jan 2014)

Pearse Doherty: 86. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will consider amending the student grant provisions to allow social welfare payments such as illness benefit or supplementary welfare to be recognised as one of the payments required to satisfy the criteria for the special rate of maintenance in circumstances where the income is beneath the required threshold; his views on whether such a...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Severe Weather Events Response (23 Jan 2014)

Pearse Doherty: 114. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if funding will be put in place to recompense persons who have had property damaged in the recent storms; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3435/14]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Live Register Data (23 Jan 2014)

Pearse Doherty: 120. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide in tabular form the percentage of claimants on the live register in December 2013 who were single claimants; the percentage who were couples; the percentage who were couples with one child; the percentage who were couples with two children; the percentage who were couples with three children; the percentage who were couples...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Motor Tax Collection (23 Jan 2014)

Pearse Doherty: 165. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the reasons it is not allowed to declare a vehicle off the road if arrears of motor tax are owed and a minimum of three months motor tax has not been paid; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3433/14]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Building Regulations Compliance (23 Jan 2014)

Pearse Doherty: 166. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he has considered the financial burden placed on builders of one-off properties, such as those in rural areas building a family home, by the requirement under the Building Control (Amendment) Regulations 2013 to contract an assigned certifier; his plans to introduce measures to keep such costs to a minimum; and if he...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Stations Opening Hours (23 Jan 2014)

Pearse Doherty: 179. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality his plans to increase the service hours at Killybegs Garda station to 24 hours as a result of the closure of Glenties District Headquarters; if there were such plans in place; if such plans are in place when they will be implemented; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3440/14]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horse and Greyhound Fund (23 Jan 2014)

Pearse Doherty: 192. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the State funding that is given to the Irish Responsible Gambling Board directly or indirectly through the Horse and Greyhound Racing Fund. [3219/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Applications (23 Jan 2014)

Pearse Doherty: 224. To ask the Minister for Health if it is the policy of medical card administrators to refuse to speak to members of the public in relation to a complaint; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3292/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Issues (23 Jan 2014)

Pearse Doherty: 225. To ask the Minister for Health if calls to the medical review section are recorded; the reason callers are not notified of this; his views on whether this practice is in line with the data protection rules; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3293/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Delays (23 Jan 2014)

Pearse Doherty: 232. To ask the Minister for Health the reason for the delay in granting a discretionary medical card in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Sligo; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3397/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (23 Jan 2014)

Pearse Doherty: 233. To ask the Minister for Health if he will confirm that the Rheumatology Clinic in Letterkenny General Hospital has been reinstated; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3398/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Funding (23 Jan 2014)

Pearse Doherty: 234. To ask the Minister for Health the financial supports that are provided by the Health Service Executive towards a sheltered housing complex (details supplied) in County Donegal; the current responsibilities of the HSE in the running, funding or otherwise of the complex; the capacity of the complex; the current occupancy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3399/14]

Charities (Amendment) Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) [Private Members] (22 Jan 2014)

Pearse Doherty: Cuirim fáilte roimh an mBille agus tá moladh mór tuilte ag an Teachta Mac Lochlainn. Ceist tábhacht agus ceist atá i mbéal an phobail mar gheall ar an méid atá le cloisteáil i gcoistí an tOireachtas, sna páipéir, sna meáin agus an rud atá ag tarlú sa CRC agus áiteanna eile. Níl dabht ar bith go bhfuil...

Topical Issue Debate: Foreshore Licence Applications (22 Jan 2014)

Pearse Doherty: I welcome the Minister of State's final comments, although I was aware of the earlier issues mentioned. My colleague in the local authority, Councillor Marie Therese Gallagher, has been pursuing the issue at a local level with the local authority for many years. I should reiterate that this started in 2003; we have had a boom and bust since then, along with a banking expansion and collapse....

Topical Issue Debate: Foreshore Licence Applications (22 Jan 2014)

Pearse Doherty: I appreciate that.

Topical Issue Debate: Foreshore Licence Applications (22 Jan 2014)

Pearse Doherty: The Minister of State is familiar with this case through parliamentary questions she has answered. The Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Deputy Coveney, and the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government, Deputy Phil Hogan, have also responded. During the Fianna Fáil Administration, Deputy Eamon Ó Cuív responded to parliamentary questions on it....

Leaders' Questions (21 Jan 2014)

Pearse Doherty: It is unfair.

Leaders' Questions (21 Jan 2014)

Pearse Doherty: Is the health service good enough for the Taoiseach?

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Departmental Records (21 Jan 2014)

Pearse Doherty: 224. To ask the Minister for Finance if he is investigating the loss of documents related to the bank guarantee in 2009. [2866/14]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Departmental Records (21 Jan 2014)

Pearse Doherty: 225. To ask the Minister for Finance the officeholders in the previous and current Government who would have had access to the letters that cannot be found at his Department relating to the bank guarantee in 2009. [2867/14]