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Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Contracts (16 Oct 2012)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Health the protocols and procedures used when his Department and its agencies lease property from the private sector, in order to ensure that the State achieves value for money [44278/12]

Written Answers — Department of Health: State Bodies Code of Conduct (16 Oct 2012)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Health the safeguards that exist in his Department and its agencies to prevent conflicts of interest on the part of staff responsible for purchasing or spending decisions for property, be that outright purchase, leasing or renting or public private partnerships [44279/12]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Consultants Remuneration (16 Oct 2012)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Health if he will estimate the number of new consultant recruits that will be subject to the recently-announced 30% reduction in remuneration for firstly the two months of November/December 2012 and secondly for the 12 months of 2013; if he will estimate the euro saving in each of 2012 and in 2013 resulting from the 30% reduction in remuneration for such new recruits...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Capital Programme Expenditure (16 Oct 2012)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide an update on when the list of the payments made by the State to private land owners in 2010 and 2011 to acquire land for use in the public capital programme. [44382/12]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Primary Care Centres Provision (11 Oct 2012)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Health the reason the proposed primary care centre in Rowlagh, Clondalkin, Dublin 22, was moved from the stated funded list to the public private partnership list; the date on which this decision was taken; if the decision will have any impact on the time scale for the delivery of the project; the current date for commencement and completion of the project; and if he...

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...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Primary Care Centres Provision (11 Oct 2012)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Health the reason the proposed primary care centre in Rowlagh, Clondalkin, Dublin 22, was moved from the stated funded list to the public private partnership list; the date on which this decision was taken; if the decision will have any impact on the time scale for the delivery of the project; the current date for commencement and completion of the project; and if he...

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...