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Written Answers — Disadvantaged Status: Disadvantaged Status (11 Jul 2012)

Pearse Doherty: Question 94: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will reinstate a secondary school (details supplied) in the County Donegal Gaeltacht that is currently ineligible for DEIS and Gaeltacht scholarships. [33989/12]

Written Answers — Disadvantaged Status: Disadvantaged Status (11 Jul 2012)

Pearse Doherty: Question 96: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on the County Donegal Gaeltacht region that has an unemployment rate higher than the national average; if he agrees that students living in Gaeltacht regions are being prevented from availing of third level education as a result of a range of social and economic factors; and if he will reverse the decision to stop Pobalscoil...

Written Answers — Disadvantaged Status: Disadvantaged Status (11 Jul 2012)

Pearse Doherty: Question 97: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he is committed to Straitéis 20 Bliain and if he will reinstate the Gaeltacht scholarships in Ghaoth Dobhair in order that young people living in that part of County Donegal have the opportunity to access third level education. [33992/12]

Written Answers — Irish Language: Irish Language (11 Jul 2012)

Pearse Doherty: Question 95: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills in view of the special status given to schools teaching through Gaeilge, and the importance of Irish speaking schools in nurturing the language within the Gaeltacht, if he agree that his policy should ensure the allocation of adequate resources to promote the language in a targeted and strategic way in order to ensure the...

Written Answers — Gaelscoileanna: Gaelscoileanna (11 Jul 2012)

Pearse Doherty: Question 99: To ask the Aire Oideachais agus Scileanna ag aithint an stádais speisialta a thugtar do scoileanna ina ndéantar an teagasc trí Ghaeilge agus an tábhacht atá le cothú scoileanna sa Ghaeltacht ina bhfuil an Ghaeilge mar theanga labhartha, an n-aontaíonn sé gur chóir cinnte a dhéanamh de trí pholasaí rialtais go mbeadh na hacmhainní cuí ar fáil chun an teanga a chur...

Written Answers — Energy Conservation: Energy Conservation (11 Jul 2012)

Pearse Doherty: Question 100: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if work has been done which lists the current BER rating of State-owned and semi-State owned buildings; if it is known which of these buildings have retrofitted; the number of same that have not; the cost of energy for these buildings; and if there is an estimate of what could be saved in energy costs if all public buildings...

Written Answers — Cork Docklands Project: Cork Docklands Project (11 Jul 2012)

Pearse Doherty: Question 225: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if there is an estimated cost for the building of the Cork docklands gateway bridge. [33745/12]

Personal Insolvency Bill 2012: Second Stage (Resumed) (11 Jul 2012)

Pearse Doherty: Tá mé buíoch go bhfuil deis agam labhairt ar an ábhar seo. Cé go bhfuilimid ag fanacht tamall fíor-fhada le haghaidh reachtaíocht ar an bhfadhb seo, atá ag cur isteach ar 100,000 duine faoi láthair, cuirim fáilte roimh go leor den mhéid atá sa Bhille atá foilsithe faoi dheireadh. Caithfidh mé a rá, áfach, go bhfuil sé lochtach i dtaobh an fíor-fhadhb atá sa tír seo, a...

Leaders' Questions (11 Jul 2012)

Pearse Doherty: He does not hide the fact.

Written Answers — CSO Quarterly Accounts: CSO Quarterly Accounts (10 Jul 2012)

Pearse Doherty: Question 65: To ask the Taoiseach the reason the Central Statistics Office has not yet released the national accounts for the first quarter of 2012; and if he will confirm when this information will be released. [33150/12]

Written Answers — Banking Sector Regulation: Banking Sector Regulation (10 Jul 2012)

Pearse Doherty: Question 116: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will set out the position of the credit institutions over which the State has total or majority control, towards persons declaring bankruptcy in other jurisdictions. [33151/12]

Written Answers — National Asset Management Agency: National Asset Management Agency (10 Jul 2012)

Pearse Doherty: Question 117: To ask the Minister for Finance in view of the recent direction issued by him to the National Asset Management Agency to loan €3.06bn to the Irish Bank Resolution Corporation in place of the planned payment by the State to IBRC, if he will set out the consideration given to borrowing further funds from NAMA, and if he considers that the 2.35% per annum interest rate charged...

Written Answers — Commercial Leases Database: Commercial Leases Database (10 Jul 2012)

Pearse Doherty: Question 118: To ask the Minister for Finance further to calls by the National Assets Management Agency chairman (details supplied) for the introduction of a public register of commercial property sales prices, if he will set out the consideration he has given to such a register and confirm if there are any plans for such a register; and if he will further set out the detail of any such...

Written Answers — National Asset Management Agency: National Asset Management Agency (10 Jul 2012)

Pearse Doherty: Question 137: To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 207 of 3 July 2012, the reason the National Assets Management Agency has redeemed senior debt from Permanent TSB since this organisation is not a NAMA participating institution. [33728/12]

Written Answers — State Debt: State Debt (10 Jul 2012)

Pearse Doherty: Question 138: To ask the Minister for Finance the contribution made by the State to the first bailout in Greece in 2010; the way this contribution was accounted for in the deficit and national debt figures; the amount of interest received by Ireland from this contribution; when the sum is due for repayment by Greece to Ireland; if he will provide an assessment of the prospects for the...

Written Answers — School Transport: School Transport (10 Jul 2012)

Pearse Doherty: Question 159: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the arrangements being put in place to provide school transport for students to attend their new amalgamated school who had previously attended a primary school in Donegal that has been amalgamated with another school in County Donegal (details supplied). [33100/12]

Written Answers — Patient Statistics: Patient Statistics (10 Jul 2012)

Pearse Doherty: Question 491: To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 674 of 19 June 2012, the steps he will take to deal with the dramatic increase in incidents of Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis among children; the resources he will invest in combatting the dramatic rise in Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis among children; and if he will make a statement on the...

Bank Debt Restructuring (5 Jul 2012)

Pearse Doherty: Question 2: To ask the Minister for Finance if in view of the fact that the European Council has agreed in principle to the separation of banking debt from sovereign debt, and agreed in principle to the possibility of ESM funds being used to directly recapitalise the banks, and agreed to consider the retrospective application of such funding in the case of Ireland, he will confirm that it...

Bank Debt Restructuring (5 Jul 2012)

Pearse Doherty: The agreement reached at Council level was significant and could have significant benefits to this State and to our citizens. The Minister was at the finance committee last week when I wished him well in his attempts to separate the sovereign debt from the banking debt. I have listened to the conclusions of the summit and the devil is in the detail. I am afraid that he is not being...

Bank Debt Restructuring (5 Jul 2012)

Pearse Doherty: The agreement is that this vicious cycle of sovereign and banking debt is to be broken. If that were the case and if Anglo Irish Bank were to emerge in France and massive losses were to be incurred, it is likely the ESM would incur those losses. Is the Irish Government going to argue that if that is the process to be put in place - the ESM absorbs the losses rather than taxpayers - then we...