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Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Consultancy Contracts Data (3 Dec 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 30. To ask the Taoiseach the total number of contracts and their total financial cost awarded to a company (details supplied) by his Department in each of the years 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012 and to date in 2013, or whatever years practicable; if all the contracts were winning public tenders; and if he will provide a breakdown of the contracts by date, purpose and individual value. [51393/13]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Consultancy Contracts Data (3 Dec 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 31. To ask the Taoiseach the total number of contracts and their total financial cost awarded to a company (details supplied) by his Department in each of the years 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012 and to date in 2013, or whatever years practicable; if all the contracts were winning public tenders; and if he will provide a breakdown of the contracts by date, purpose and individual value. [51394/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Financial Services Regulation (3 Dec 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 54. To ask the Minister for Finance if he has confidence in the Governor of the Central Bank of Ireland's ability to ensure that Irish-regulated banks are adequately providing for loan losses in their books of account. [51325/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Financial Services Regulation (3 Dec 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 55. To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to statements made by the former chairman of the International Accounting Standards Board (details supplied), who criticised the Governor of the Central Bank at a British House of Commons parliamentary commission on banking standards in January 2013; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51326/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Financial Services Sector (3 Dec 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 56. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on the recent announcement by KBC Ireland that it expects to provide up to €775 million for loan losses in the fourth quarter of 2013, bringing its total 2013 provision for loan losses to €1.1 billion compared with €525m in 2010, €510 million in 2011 and €547 million in 2012. [51327/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Financial Services Regulation (3 Dec 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 57. To ask the Minister for Finance the total funds available to the Central Bank of Ireland in its deposit guarantee scheme to compensate potential claims by depositors of failed banks. [51330/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: IBRC Expenditure (3 Dec 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 74. To ask the Minister for Finance the total number of contracts and their total financial cost awarded to companies (details supplied) by the Irish Bank Resolution Corporation in each of the years 2010, 2011, 2012 and to date in 2013 or whatever years practicable; if all the contracts were winning public tenders; and if he will provide a breakdown of the contracts by date, purpose and...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Banking Sector Issues (3 Dec 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 84. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 214 of 23 April 2013, when he stated he welcomed KBC Group’s commitment to the Irish market and note that it is planning to develop its business in Ireland further with new retail branches and distribution platforms to be rolled out in 2013 and continued expansion of its retail product portfolio; if he will...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: SOLAS Training and Education Programmes Provision (3 Dec 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 92. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if FÁS has entered into a contract with a driving school in County Donegal for the delivery of the MOMENTUM project; if so, with whom is the contract; when was the contract tendered; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51890/13]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Labour Activation Measures (3 Dec 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 191. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide in tabular form details of JobBridge internships that have been offered in VEC premises in County Donegal since the commencement of the scheme; the number of these that have been completed and reoffered; the number of interns that have subsequently become employed by the VEC; the location of the premises in which they became...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Labour Activation Measures (3 Dec 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 192. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if there are any barriers to a person who has completed a JobBridge internship subsequently being offered a subsequent JobBridge internship or community employment scheme while they remain a jobseeker; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [51892/13]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Leader Programmes Applications (3 Dec 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 269. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 487 of 18 July 2013, if the further investigations and legal advice as a result of the decision of the Ombudsman in respect of a project (details supplied) are now completed; the outcome of those investigations; if the Ombudsman made a recommendation that funding should be paid in...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: New Entrants to Dairying Scheme (3 Dec 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 361. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if a grant for the establishment of a new farmer (details supplied) in County Donegal can be processed in the absence of a quota of €50,000 litres where the person in question was denied a quota under the new entrant scheme and has applied through the trading scheme; if he is satisfied that the milk quota arrangements in...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: New Entrants to Dairying Scheme (3 Dec 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 362. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason a dairy farmer (details supplied) in County Donegal was refused a quota under the new entrant scheme; the number of farmers in County Donegal who have applied under this scheme for a quota; the number granted a quota and details of the amount of quota granted; the number refused; and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Sports Capital Programme Administration (3 Dec 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 476. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to reintroduce the sports capital programme; the funding supports that exist at present for the development of sporting facilities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51896/13]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teaching Council of Ireland (28 Nov 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 68. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the total salary of the chair of the Teaching Council; if he receives more than one salary for the role, that is, from the Department of Education and Skills and the Teaching Council. [51271/13]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Trans European Transport Network Programme (28 Nov 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 183. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the cross-Border corridors he is lobbying to have included on the Trans-European Transport Networks, TEN-T, comprehensive network; the cross-Border planning in which he has engaged with his counterpart in the Six Counties to secure maximum funding from TEN-T; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51158/13]

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Finance (No. 2) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Nov 2013)

Pearse Doherty: I am not allowing the Minister of State to insinuate that I am in some way perpetrating a lie. He can show his income slip to whoever he wants. I have no intention of looking at what he earns or what anyone else earns. What a Minister of State earns is public knowledge. I do not think many people will shed a tear for any politician who earns about €100,000 in gross income. I do...

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Finance (No. 2) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Nov 2013)

Pearse Doherty: With respect, if he wants to pluck on the heartstrings of the Irish people, I think he is plucking on the wrong strings. He may feel that he is entitled to it and that is fine and that is to pay for his job at the moment------

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Finance (No. 2) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Nov 2013)

Pearse Doherty: My amendment is about the fairness of taxation measures and why the local property tax should be repealed. I will say again that Sinn Féin is committed to repealing this property tax if we are in government following the next election. The Minister of State may have a crystal ball and people may hope that their parties are returned, and that is fine. It is our commitment to abolish it...