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Written Answers — Local and Community Development Programme: Local and Community Development Programme (26 Jun 2012)

Pearse Doherty: Question 392: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if he will confirm that the Tallaght Area Partnership and the Clondalkin Palmerstown Lucan Area Partnership, Dublin, are to be merged; the date on which this merger is due to take place; the implications for funding, staff numbers and existing projects arising from this merger; if this merger will result in...

Written Answers — Agri-Environment Options Scheme: Agri-Environment Options Scheme (26 Jun 2012)

Pearse Doherty: Question 472: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when he will announce a replacement for the agri-environment option scheme; the likely benefits of such a scheme to farmers on disadvantaged lands; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30445/12]

Written Answers — Departmental Schemes: Departmental Schemes (26 Jun 2012)

Pearse Doherty: Question 474: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will consider increasing compensation amounts paid to farmers who receive compensation under the disease eradication scheme;if he will review the current on - farm market valuation scheme and take into account the fact that pedigree cows can sell for prices exceeding the levels paid under the current scheme; and if...

Written Answers — Tuberculosis Incidence: Tuberculosis Incidence (26 Jun 2012)

Pearse Doherty: Question 475: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide information regarding the incidence of TB in County Donegal; and if he will provide statistics on the reported levels of the disease in the county over the past number of years. [30504/12]

Written Answers — Child Care Services: Child Care Services (26 Jun 2012)

Pearse Doherty: Question 498: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if her attention has been drawn to the threat to the complementary funding stream to Donegal County Childcare Committee; if her attention has been drawn to the fact that this funding is directed towards child protection and upskilling of employees and that cuts to this funding will result in job losses and in childcare...

Written Answers — General Medical Services Scheme: General Medical Services Scheme (26 Jun 2012)

Pearse Doherty: Question 582: To ask the Minister for Health if he will advise definitively the position regarding general practitioners charging for filling in confidential health reports, as requested by colleges, from medical card patients; if his attention has been drawn to the extent of this practice; the steps he is taking to have this and any other inappropriate charging ended; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — National Asset Management Agency: National Asset Management Agency (21 Jun 2012)

Pearse Doherty: Question 43: To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 226 of 12 June 2012 wherein he stated that debt forgiveness has not formed part of agreements entered into by the National Asset Management Agency with debtors, if he will confirm if NAMA has entered into agreements in which personal financial commitments and obligations by debtors have been reduced or waived...

Written Answers — National Asset Management Agency: National Asset Management Agency (21 Jun 2012)

Pearse Doherty: Question 42: To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary question Nos. 104 and 108 of 6 June, 2012 if he will set out in tabular form the value of property controlled by the National Asset Management Agency and its debtors in each of the 32 counties here. [30218/12]

Written Answers — National Asset Management Agency: National Asset Management Agency (21 Jun 2012)

Pearse Doherty: Question 44: To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 215 of 12 June 2012, wherein he stated that the said National Asset Management Agency's provisional impairment charge of €810,000,000 was based on estimated future cash flows on individual loans including cash flow from the future disposal of assets, if he will set out the basis on which NAMA calculates the...

Written Answers — Child Abduction: Child Abduction (20 Jun 2012)

Pearse Doherty: Question 20: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will provide an update on the operation of the Child Response Ireland policy since its introduction; the number of child abduction incidents to date in 2012; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29755/12]

Written Answers — Departmental Funding: Departmental Funding (20 Jun 2012)

Pearse Doherty: Question 33: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he has drafted preliminary figures for the amount of funding that will be allocated to the newly merged human rights and equality body. [29765/12]

Local Government (Household Charge) (Repeal) Bill 2012: Second Stage (Resumed) [Private Members] (20 Jun 2012)

Pearse Doherty: During the debate, my colleagues have described in great detail the impact the household charge will have on low and middle income families. Not only is this flat rate charge unfair, it will make life demonstrably harder for many thousands of families struggling to make ends meet. I am sure the Minister of State must be aware from her constituency clinics of these people to whom I refer....

Local Government (Household Charge) (Repeal) Bill 2012: Second Stage (Resumed) [Private Members] (20 Jun 2012)

Pearse Doherty: I know it is difficult for the Minister of State to hear this, but that is what she is paid for.

Local Government (Household Charge) (Repeal) Bill 2012: Second Stage (Resumed) [Private Members] (20 Jun 2012)

Pearse Doherty: The story of the Government's failure is seen in the plight of the countless constituents who come to me and colleagues throughout the State in great distress. Some are waiting to receive carer's benefit, the waiting list for which has increased to 15 weeks since the Government took office. Applicants for disability pensions are facing a 31-week wait before their claims are processed....

Local Government (Household Charge) (Repeal) Bill 2012: Second Stage (Resumed) [Private Members] (20 Jun 2012)

Pearse Doherty: Fortunately, thousands upon thousands of people across my county have declared that enough is enough. They are standing up to this Government's incompetence and to the attacks it is launching on low and middle-income earners by refusing to pay the household charge. The Minister of State should heed the message they are sending.

Local Government (Household Charge) (Repeal) Bill 2012: Second Stage (Resumed) [Private Members] (20 Jun 2012)

Pearse Doherty: She should take on the board the fact that this was their only option to strike a blow to the heart of the Government and to assert that they have had enough of austerity. Their message to the Government parties is that they have betrayed the Irish people by failing to deliver the promised change in direction. The Minister of State and her colleagues have betrayed the founders of their...

Local Government (Household Charge) (Repeal) Bill 2012: Second Stage (Resumed) [Private Members] (20 Jun 2012)

Pearse Doherty: Many of the proposals we have put forward were championed by the Minister of State and her colleagues when they were on this side of the House.

European Stability Mechanism Bill 2012: Report and Final Stages (20 Jun 2012)

Pearse Doherty: Tá mise, fosta, ag cur in éadan an Bhille. Mar adúirt mé ar Chéim an Choiste, aontaíonn Sinn Féin gur chóir go mbeadh ionad i gcroílár na hEorpa inar féidir airgead práinneach a thabhairt do thíortha atá taobh amuigh des na margaidh idirnáisiúnta. Ach ní seo an t-ionad atá de dhíth. Tá lochtanna iontach móra sa Bhille. Go háirithe, tá an t-airgead ag teacht ó...

European Stability Mechanism Bill 2012: Report and Final Stages (20 Jun 2012)

Pearse Doherty: -----and the liabilities, in the form of a blank cheque, to be placed on Irish and European citizens.

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (19 Jun 2012)

Pearse Doherty: Question 148: To ask the Minister for Health his estimate of the total sum expended by the population on health services, including Exchequer funding, contributions to health insurance providers and direct payments by patients to general practitioners and to all other private health service providers; if he will provide the breakdown of the total by each of the above headings and any other...