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Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Capital Expenditure (12 Feb 2013)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform further to the publication of the Exchequer Statement for January 2013, if he will confirm the total spent on capital projects in the month of January 2013; if he will provide the annual budget for capital expenditure in 2013 and for his assessment of the impact on unemployment if the capital budget were spent evenly throughout the year or...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Child Benefit Payments (12 Feb 2013)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if he will confirm the total expenditure on child benefit in January 2013 as recorded in the January 2013 Exchequer Statement and if he will provide the equivalent figure for January 2012. [7207/13]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Insurance Yield (12 Feb 2013)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will confirm the total PRSI receipts in January 2013, as recorded in the January 2013 Exchequer Statement; if she will provide the equivalent figure for January 2012. [7208/13]

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Údarás na Gaeltachta Properties (12 Feb 2013)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the location of all Údarás premises in counties Mayo, Galway, Waterford, Cork and Meath; if he will provide the breakdown by county; the size of these premises; when they were last occupied; the name of the occupying company; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7282/13]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Strength (12 Feb 2013)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will indicate the provisions in the Memorandum of Understanding with the Troika of the IMF, EU and ECB, which directly impinge on the number of employees in an Garda Síochána; and if he will indicate where the Memorandum of Understanding requires him to reduce Garda numbers to 13,000. [6615/13]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Stations Opening Hours (12 Feb 2013)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality his plans for the Garda station in Rathcoole, County Dublin; if there are any plans to reduce the opening hours, staffing or funding of that Garda station in 2013 or 2014; and if there are any plans or consideration currently being given to the closure of the station in the near future. [6824/13]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: EU Funding (12 Feb 2013)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the proposed macro-economic conditionality in the next round of EU funds will lead to a suspension of direct payments to farmers and any possible payments to fisherman if Ireland fails to meet the macro-economic conditions. [6815/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Defence Union (12 Feb 2013)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Health further to the publication of the December 2012 Exchequer Statement, if he will explain the source of the €45 million titled Medical Defence Union Receipts. [6626/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (12 Feb 2013)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to a person (details supplied) suffering from multiple sclerosis, whose condition is deteriorating; if he will provide clarification on when this patient may expect an appointment to alleviate their pain; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6732/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Primary Care Centres (12 Feb 2013)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Health following the announcement on 17 July 2012 that a new primary health centre will be built in Dungloe, County Donegal, if he will provide a full update on the progress made to date on this announcement; and if he will consider investing this allocation to the health campus/facilities currently in Dungloe [7365/13]

Promissory Notes: Statements (7 Feb 2013)

Pearse Doherty: Last year, we had to endure Ministers telling us there was a seismic shift and that the State had secured a great deal in Europe on the separation of sovereign debt from private, toxic banking debt. Today, they come before the Chamber and tell us that they will replace the promissory note with a sovereign bond for €28 billion with no write-down whatsoever. So much for the separation...

Promissory Notes: Statements (7 Feb 2013)

Pearse Doherty: The Taoiseach is aware that due to the construction of the promissory note, the interest paid on it was to the Central Bank, which ended up coming back to the State. If the promissory note ran its course it would have been cancelled out by 2022. The Central Bank would have received €28 billion in capital and that would be it.

Promissory Notes: Statements (7 Feb 2013)

Pearse Doherty: The Taoiseach has said that not only will the full €28 billion will be paid back in a sovereign bond but €1 billion of interest will be paid on top of that every single year. The payment will no longer be circular because the Central Bank will not hold the bond for a 40-year period. Bondholders will get the interest paid by the State. One could ask what all of that will mean....

Promissory Notes: Statements (7 Feb 2013)

Pearse Doherty: Every single year for at least the first 25 years when the bonds start to be redeemed, there will be approximately €1 billion of interest to be paid. At the end of the process we must pay back the total value of the bonds. What the Government has done is double the cost of bailing out Anglo Irish Bank.

Promissory Notes: Statements (7 Feb 2013)

Pearse Doherty: People will stop me in the street to ask what it will mean for them.

Promissory Notes: Statements (7 Feb 2013)

Pearse Doherty: If they are one of the four-----

Promissory Notes: Statements (7 Feb 2013)

Pearse Doherty: I appreciate that the Government would like to spin to the effect that it got rid of the toxic debt but sometimes it can be difficult to listen to hard truths. People want to know what the deal will mean for them. They want to know what it will mean for the person in mortgage distress, the mother whose child is planning to emigrate or the person who is unemployed. Does it mean they will...

Promissory Notes: Statements (7 Feb 2013)

Pearse Doherty: This is not the type of deal the Irish people wanted. They demanded a write-down and they deserve a write-down. The debt should not be heaped on generations to come.

Promissory Notes: Statements (7 Feb 2013)

Pearse Doherty: It is simply more spin from the Government. It might bring benefits in terms of the general Government balance, but it has not removed the burden of the placement of the Anglo Irish Bank on the shoulders of taxpayers, which was wrong. It has increased it. This was the time - the golden hour - to secure a deal, to say to the ECB that we are not in a position to pay back this debt.

Promissory Notes: Statements (7 Feb 2013)

Pearse Doherty: Let us look at our unemployment rates, the 430,000 people who are unemployed – 60% of whom are long-term unemployed. Let us look at the 87,000 who emigrated last year and the similar number who are planning to emigrate next year. Let us look at the one in four people who are in mortgage distress, who have either interest-only repayments or are in mortgage arrears. Look at the...