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Written Answers — Members' Allowances: Members' Allowances (31 Jan 2012)

Pearse Doherty: Question 258: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will detail the full provisions of the party leaders' allowance as it is paid to independent TDs, including the amounts of money paid out to individual TDs on an annual basis since 2001; the tax liability of this allowance; the accounting and auditing practice for the allowances; the range of activities covered by this...

Written Answers — Public Service Staff: Public Service Staff (31 Jan 2012)

Pearse Doherty: Question 265: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide a full list of public sector professions that provide extended leaves of absence or career breaks for staff members elected to the Oireachtas; the legislative basis for such leaves of absence or extended career breaks; if he will provide a full list of all sitting TDs and Senators currently availing of...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Appeals: Social Welfare Appeals (31 Jan 2012)

Pearse Doherty: Question 342: To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a final decision on the application for disability allowance will be made in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Donegal; and if he will provide an explanation for the delay. [4983/12]

Written Answers — Social and Affordable Housing: Social and Affordable Housing (31 Jan 2012)

Pearse Doherty: Question 431: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if the current legal owners of the 2,045 housing units being made available by the National Asset Management Agency for social housing are developers or banks, or if the debts connected to the properties have been foreclosed by NAMA making NAMA the current legal owners; and if he will provide a breakdown of...

Written Answers — Social and Affordable Housing: Social and Affordable Housing (31 Jan 2012)

Pearse Doherty: Question 432: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if the leasing arrangements to be put in place for the 2,045 housing units being made available by NAMA for social housing will result in the final ownership of the units resting with the developers, voluntary housing associations, local authorities or a combination of these categories; and if he will make...

Written Answers — Departmental Funding: Departmental Funding (31 Jan 2012)

Pearse Doherty: Question 442: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide a report on the withdrawal of funding from community safety forum workers, listing the total reduction for these posts; the number of and location of the posts affected; the date on which the decision was taken to withdraw these funds; the date on which the relevant local authorities and...

Written Answers — Medical Negligence: Medical Negligence (31 Jan 2012)

Pearse Doherty: Question 565: To ask the Minister for Health if he intends to pilot a no-fault compensation scheme for children who suffer catastrophic birth injuries, utilising scarce resources to support families rather than paying massive legal bills. [4810/12]

Private Members' Business. Small Primary Schools: Motion (31 Jan 2012)

Pearse Doherty: I listened to the Minister's speech and contributions from some of his Government colleagues. I heard them slag the proposers of the motion, Fianna Fáil, argue about party politics and warn the INTO not to give into the clutches of Fianna Fáil. I did not hear them talk about children. There has been a lot of focus on teachers who will lose their positions in school as a result-----

Private Members' Business. Small Primary Schools: Motion (31 Jan 2012)

Pearse Doherty: Allow me to finish. There has been a lot of focus on the teachers who will lose their positions as a result of the changes introduced by the Minister. I will declare my interest. My wife is one of the teachers who will lose her position. The Minister is correct. No teacher will lose his or her job. The new recruits from Marino and St. Pat's will not be able to get a job as a result of...

Written Answers — Employment Support Services: Employment Support Services (26 Jan 2012)

Pearse Doherty: Question 31: To ask the Minister for Social Protection her views that the six month transitional one parent family payment was a valuable activation support making work pay; and if she will reverse her decision to abolish same. [4350/12]

Written Answers — Redundancy Payments: Redundancy Payments (26 Jan 2012)

Pearse Doherty: Question 34: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason she failed to conduct an assessment of the impact of her budgetary measure cutting the redundancy rebate from 60% to 15% on companies; and the reason she did not direct her Department to explore whether the measure could be linked in some way to the size of the firm, its profitability or capacity to absorb the cut. [4355/12]

Written Answers — Social and Affordable Housing: Social and Affordable Housing (26 Jan 2012)

Pearse Doherty: Question 148: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government, further to Parliamentary Question No. 164 of 18 January 2012, if he will provide a breakdown of the housing leasing initiative units for 2009, 2010 and 2011, indicating the number of units in each year sourced from unsold affordable housing; the number of units in each year managed by voluntary housing...

Written Answers — Intellectual Property: Intellectual Property (25 Jan 2012)

Pearse Doherty: Question 16: To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the steps he is taking to promote Irish owned business to apply for patents and safeguard intellectual property rights. [4118/12]

Written Answers — Job Creation: Job Creation (25 Jan 2012)

Pearse Doherty: Question 32: To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the total amount invested in job creation in 2009, 2010, 2011 and set aside for 2012. [4119/12]

Written Answers — Telecommunications Services: Telecommunications Services (25 Jan 2012)

Pearse Doherty: Question 142: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he is satisfied with the after sales service provided to customers in the rural areas of County Donegal who find that a company (details supplied) do not have engineers servicing the county; if the modem provided to customers from this company has a power surge arrester fitted; and whether the plugs are...

Written Answers — Social and Affordable Housing: Social and Affordable Housing (25 Jan 2012)

Pearse Doherty: Question 145: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide a detailed report on the operation of the capital assistance scheme in 2009, 2010 and 2011 detailing the total amount of money allocated to the CAS in each year; the amount of money spent in each year; the amount of the allocation for each year which was already committed to projects...

Written Answers — Departmental Agencies: Departmental Agencies (25 Jan 2012)

Pearse Doherty: Question 227: To ask the Minister for Health if robust service level agreements between parent Departments and State bodies are now in place for all non-commercial State agencies. [4812/12]

Private Members' Business. Promissory Notes: Motion (24 Jan 2012)

Pearse Doherty: Cuirim fáilte roimh an rún atá os comhair na Dála ón nGrúpa Teicniúil. Tá sé fíor-thábhachtach go bhfuil an cheist seo, a bhaineann le Banc Angla-Éireannach, á phlé againn. I welcome the opportunity to discuss this motion. I am conscious Sinn Féin brought a similar motion before the House last year. It is opportune, in particular on the eve of this Government's handing over...

Written Answers — Public Service Reform: Public Service Reform (24 Jan 2012)

Pearse Doherty: Question 79: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the measures that have been put in place to date with regard to rationalisation of the State bodies under his aegis listed in Appendix IIA of the Government statement on public service reform as announced on 17 November 2011. [3785/12]

Written Answers — Public Service Reform: Public Service Reform (24 Jan 2012)

Pearse Doherty: Question 64: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if robust service level agreements between parent Departments and State bodies are now in place for all non-commercial State agencies. [3786/12]