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Topical Issue Debate: Special Educational Needs Services Provision (14 May 2013)

Pearse Doherty: While this is no reflection on the Minister of State present, as has been raised in the Chamber previously, it is wholly inappropriate that the Minister for Education and Skills, or at least a Minister of State at that Department, is not here. I have had this issue down for debate as a Topical Issue matter for the past two weeks. It was only selected today and I am very glad it has been...

Topical Issue Debate: Special Educational Needs Services Provision (14 May 2013)

Pearse Doherty: I will conclude on this. The letter continues:What will happen, is that he will begin to fall behind in a class and as the gap widens between him and his peers, we will then have to go through the lengthy and time consuming process of reassessing him. A bit like closing the gate when the horse has already bolted!!

Topical Issue Debate: Special Educational Needs Services Provision (14 May 2013)

Pearse Doherty: The letter continues: "I urge you; give him and every child with Down Syndrome ... [an] automatic entitlement to Resource hours."

Topical Issue Debate: Special Educational Needs Services Provision (14 May 2013)

Pearse Doherty: I thank the Minister of State for the response, although it sheds no more light on the issue. Indeed, I can provide more information than she has provided. For example, the Minister of State said the NCSE would provide the policy advice in the near future. It will do so directly to the Minister for Education and Skills at 11.30 a.m. on Friday at a public launch event. The key question is...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products Supply (14 May 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 659. To ask the Minister for Health if he will consider including pirfenidone on the drug payment scheme for sufferers of lung fibrosis; if he will confirm that is the only drug available to treat patients with idiopathic lung fibrosis; and when the Health Service Executive will conclude its negotiations with the manufacturer [22656/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Expenditure (14 May 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 133. To ask the Minister for Health if he will outline the scope of the cuts he proposes to impose on health services, other than staff pay cuts, during 2014 and 2015; if he has carried out an impact analysis of such cuts to date since 2008; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22561/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Non-Consultant Hospital Doctors Recruitment (14 May 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 145. To ask the Minister for Health if he has addressed with the Health Service Executive the concern that there will not be sufficient junior doctors at Letterkenny General Hospital, County Donegal; the action, if any, he proposes to take; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22560/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Budget 2014 Issues (14 May 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 188. To ask the Minister for Finance the minimum adjustment that would be required to be made in Budget 2014 to meet the original agreed deficit target as set out in the Troika Programme. [22364/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Bank Debt Restructuring (14 May 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 189. To ask the Minister for Finance of the ten persons, commonly known together as the Maple 10 or Anglo Golden Circle, if he will confirm the number of persons that continue to have outstanding loans at the Irish Bank Resolution Corporation; if these persons have currently outstanding loans other than those related to the Maple 10 transaction. [22365/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Bank Debt Restructuring (14 May 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 190. To ask the Minister for Finance of the ten loans provided to the group commonly known together as the Maple 10 or Anglo Golden Circle, if he will confirm the number of loans which were provided originally on a recourse basis, but which were subsequently changed to non-recourse loans. [22366/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Bank Debt Restructuring (14 May 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 191. To ask the Minister for Finance of the ten loans provided to the group commonly known together as the Maple 10 or Anglo Golden Circle, if he will confirm the total of all repayments made and the current outstanding balance including interest and any other charges. [22367/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Bank Debt Restructuring (14 May 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 192. To ask the Minister for Finance of the ten loans provided to the group commonly known together as the Maple 10 or Anglo Golden Circle, if he will confirm the number of loans on which the bank has initiated court proceedings to recover sums outstanding. [22368/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: IBRC Liquidation (14 May 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 193. To ask the Minister for Finance the reason the Irish Bank Resolution Corporation borrowers will be eligible to buy their own loans at less than par value when such loans over €10m are offered to the market imminently, but that borrowers at the National Asset Management Agency are precluded by the NAMA Act from buying their own loans at below par value. [22369/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: NAMA Expenditure (14 May 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 194. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will confirm the sums paid by the National Asset Management Agency to each of the ratings agencies Fitch, Moody’s, Standard and Poor’s and Dominion Bond Rating Service in each of 2010, 2011, 2012 and to date in 2013. [22370/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Financial Services Sector Remuneration (14 May 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 195. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 208 and 210 of 23 April 2013, if he will confirm by year, separately, the salary and benefits and total remuneration of the Financial Regulator for 2010, 2011 and 2012. [22371/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Banking Sector Issues (14 May 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 196. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 79 of 1 May 2013, if the increase in the State’s shareholding of the ordinary shares in Allied Irish Banks as a result of receiving the €280m dividend in kind rather than in cash, will affect the stock exchange listing status of AIB. [22372/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Banks Recapitalisation (14 May 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 197. To ask the Minister for Finance the reason he has not been obliged to make an offer for all outstanding shares in Allied Irish Banks and Permanent TSB in view of his shareholding in both banks, 99.8% in the former and 99.5% in the latter. [22373/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Banking Licence Applications (14 May 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 198. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will confirm by year for each of end of 2010, end of 2011, end of 2012 and currently, the number of extant banking licences issued to banks operating in the International Financial Services Centre; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22374/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Central Bank of Ireland Issues (14 May 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 199. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will confirm that the Central Bank of Ireland is considering outsourcing security for the bank's operations; if all security operations, or specific activities are being outsourced; the value of the contract that is being offered; the way it is being tendered and the closing date for tendering; the cost of the tendering process; the savings of net...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Competition Authority Funding (14 May 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 309. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will lay the latest annual financial statements of the Competition Authority before the Houses of the Oireachtas. [22377/13]