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Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Help Service Provision (11 Oct 2012)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons in receipt of home help services in the Dublin 22 area and in Lucan and Palmerstown; the total number of home help hours the persons in these specified areas currently receive; the number of hours that will be lost to the persons in these specified areas as a result of the planned €130 million cut to home help services; the number of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Quinn Insurance and Insurance Compensation Fund: Discussion (10 Oct 2012)

Pearse Doherty: The Minister said in the Chamber that it was important that he was satisfied that the appropriate systems and processes were sufficiently robust to ensure that the call upon the fund is kept to an absolute minimum. In light of that he asked the State Claims Agency, which has specialist skills in the area, to undertake a review of the process in Quinn Insurance Limited. He was satisfied....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Quinn Insurance and Insurance Compensation Fund: Discussion (10 Oct 2012)

Pearse Doherty: The other question was on when the State will recoup the money it has expended to the fund.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Quinn Insurance and Insurance Compensation Fund: Discussion (10 Oct 2012)

Pearse Doherty: Will the recoupment process start in 15 years or will it begin before that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Quinn Insurance and Insurance Compensation Fund: Discussion (10 Oct 2012)

Pearse Doherty: One of the frustrations is that the losses relating to Quinn Insurance Limited exist and there is not much we can do about that at this point. I am sure many other people share my frustration that the agencies of the State failed to recognise what was happening and failed to act appropriately in advance to limit the losses or the liability of the State. We have had problems with the banks...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Quinn Insurance and Insurance Compensation Fund: Discussion (10 Oct 2012)

Pearse Doherty: Okay.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Quinn Insurance and Insurance Compensation Fund: Discussion (10 Oct 2012)

Pearse Doherty: Mr. McAteer has outlined the amount of money that has been paid to his company in respect of this process. Grant Thornton stated in 2010 that there would be no call on the fund. At the time of the sale of Quinn Insurance, it indicated that there could be a potential call of €600 million on the fund. When the Dáil was passing legislation last October, it stated that the call...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Quinn Insurance and Insurance Compensation Fund: Discussion (10 Oct 2012)

Pearse Doherty: This is my final question. How many people were employed by QIL when Grant Thornton took over as administrators? How many were employed by it on the day of the sale?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Quinn Insurance and Insurance Compensation Fund: Discussion (10 Oct 2012)

Pearse Doherty: I agree that the claims existed beforehand. Grant Thornton was appointed and paid a great deal of money to do its job. Mr. McAteer admits that the call on the fund rose from zero to €600 million to €738 million to €775 million. Does he admit that all of those figures were wrong?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Quinn Insurance and Insurance Compensation Fund: Discussion (10 Oct 2012)

Pearse Doherty: As an administrator, does Mr. McAteer not have a responsibility to check the accuracy or validity of such figures?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Quinn Insurance and Insurance Compensation Fund: Discussion (10 Oct 2012)

Pearse Doherty: Cuirim fáilte roimh na finnéithe go dtí an coiste. I am astonished at some of the contributions I have heard. It does not surprise me, however, that the call on the insurance fund has gone up. If one looks back at the transcripts of the committee from September or October of last year, when the legislation was being rushed through the Oireachtas, this issue was flagged up by...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Quinn Insurance and Insurance Compensation Fund: Discussion (10 Oct 2012)

Pearse Doherty: Yes. There are no representatives of the company here today, that is, no representation by the culprits who incurred these losses. The issue is that the State sold an insurance company without full knowledge of its status. Last August, Mr. Justice Nicholas Kearns described the escalation in the cost as "truly shocking". He said the courts were informed in the first instance that there...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Election of Chairman (10 Oct 2012)

Pearse Doherty: On behalf of Sinn Féin I congratulate the Chairman on his appointment. I hope we can all live up to his opening remarks and that we can work by consensus. It is a good reflection on all of us if the committee does well. I have congratulated him personally, but I also wish to state here my congratulations to the former Chairman, the Minister of State, Deputy Alex White. The Chairman...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Election of Chairman (10 Oct 2012)

Pearse Doherty: We will work together.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Business of Joint Committee (10 Oct 2012)

Pearse Doherty: I do not have the minutes to hand, but it was agreed in private session at the previous meeting that we would circulate the cost since the election of travel to conferences. Has this note been agreed?

Written Answers — Department of Finance: NAMA Transactions (10 Oct 2012)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Finance in respect of a site at 66, 68 and 70 Dublin street, Balbriggan, North County Dublin if the National Asset Management Agency has been contacted by the Minister for Health or his Department or his representatives or the Health Service Executive, and if there has been such contact on the subject of this site, the date of the contract or contacts; the identity of...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: NAMA Code of Conduct (10 Oct 2012)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Finance if, pursuant to the anti-lobbying rules set out in Section 221 of the National Asset Management Agency Act 2009, NAMA would be duty-bound to report to An Garda Síochána contact from a Minister or his Department or his representatives, which sought to promote a property subject to a loan from NAMA or contact which sought to influence a decision by...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: NAMA Debtor Agreements (10 Oct 2012)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will confirm that details of loans managed by the National Asset Management Agency and its debtors are confidential, and that in relation to any specific NAMA debtor, details of the sums outstanding on loans and the value of collateral and specifically if the sums outstanding on loans are greater than the value of collateral, are not details that are...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Cross-Border Co-operation (10 Oct 2012)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he has given due regard to commitments in the Good Friday Agreement to make efficiencies in the delivery of public services through cross-border co operation and harmonisation services; and if any cost analysis has been undertaken as to the way in which this cooperation could provide savings for the State's budgetary calculations. [43752/12]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Capital Expenditure Programme Issues (10 Oct 2012)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform further to Parliamentary Question No. 210 of 2 October 2012, if he will estimate the number of new jobs that would have been created if the 2012 infrastructure and capital spend budget, which to the end of August 2012 was underspent by €120m compared with profile, and to the end of September 2012 was underspent by €268m...