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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (13 Oct 2020)

Cormac Devlin: 287. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to increase the basic rate of the old age pension or provide a special Covid-19 top up for the duration of the pandemic in view of the additional costs associated with the Covid-19 pandemic such as purchasing personal protective equipment, PPE. [30020/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (13 Oct 2020)

Cormac Devlin: 288. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to increase the basic rate of the carer's allowance or provide a special Covid-19 top-up for the duration of the pandemic in view of the additional costs associated with the Covid-19 pandemic (details supplied). [30021/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (13 Oct 2020)

Cormac Devlin: 289. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to increase the basic rate of jobseeker's allowance or provide a special Covid-19 top-up for the duration of the pandemic in view of the additional costs associated with the Covid-19 pandemic (details supplied). [30022/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (13 Oct 2020)

Cormac Devlin: 290. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to increase the basic rate of all disability and illness payments or provide a special Covid-19 top-up for the duration of the pandemic in view of the additional costs associated with the Covid-19 pandemic (details supplied). [30023/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (13 Oct 2020)

Cormac Devlin: 315. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her attention has been drawn to the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30090/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (13 Oct 2020)

Cormac Devlin: 351. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide an update on the way the leaving certificate process in 2020 impacted Disability Access Route to Education and Higher Education Access Route students; the supports that will be put in place for same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29784/20]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Deportation Orders (13 Oct 2020)

Cormac Devlin: 387. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if her attention has been drawn to the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29788/20]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Operations (13 Oct 2020)

Cormac Devlin: 388. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will provide extra funding to An Garda Síochána to increase overtime and reinitiate the public order units that were available during the acute phase of the pandemic during April and May 2020; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29789/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Dental Services (13 Oct 2020)

Cormac Devlin: 474. To ask the Minister for Health if he will request increased funding in budget 2021 to ensure the oral hygiene and dental sector is supported in the form of enhanced subsidies for general medical services, GMS, and PRSI patients and increase tax reliefs for private patients; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29790/20]

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report 109 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency
National Asset Management Agency - Financial Statements 2019 (8 Oct 2020)

Cormac Devlin: I welcome the witnesses and thank them for attending. I understand that €4.5 billion is already secured and realised through the organisation. Credit is due to the work on that. There is a projection that €4 billion is to be realised between 2019 and the end of the organisation's role, as it were. Is that still on track?

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report 109 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency
National Asset Management Agency - Financial Statements 2019 (8 Oct 2020)

Cormac Devlin: Absolutely.

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report 109 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency
National Asset Management Agency - Financial Statements 2019 (8 Oct 2020)

Cormac Devlin: The Comptroller and Auditor General's report says there was a large number of high-risk, equity-backed loans, which had no property or collateral. This relates to Project Nantes, which NAMA acquired from participating banks for a nominal amount of €1 per loan. Most other loans were property backed and related to properties in the US and across Europe. With regard to that portfolio,...

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report 109 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency
National Asset Management Agency - Financial Statements 2019 (8 Oct 2020)

Cormac Devlin: Okay. According to the Comptroller and Auditor General's report, the negotiations were continuing. It states: "It then went on to agree adjustments ...". Basically, it was not finalised and was continuing. How long did that process continue?

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report 109 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency
National Asset Management Agency - Financial Statements 2019 (8 Oct 2020)

Cormac Devlin: Did the price change from that originally mooted in October through to December?

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report 109 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency
National Asset Management Agency - Financial Statements 2019 (8 Oct 2020)

Cormac Devlin: Obviously, the concern of the committee is not only the connection with that individual, which I heard the witness say he regrets, and it would have been better if it had been made known in advance of all this, but also the losses that materialised at the end of the day. We want to see the full value realised on behalf of the taxpayer. I have a question for the Comptroller and Auditor...

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report 109 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency
National Asset Management Agency - Financial Statements 2019 (8 Oct 2020)

Cormac Devlin: Which is it - a competitive process or if there was more information available to him?

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report 109 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency
National Asset Management Agency - Financial Statements 2019 (8 Oct 2020)

Cormac Devlin: I have two quick questions. In terms of the lands and sites NAMA currently has to dispose of before 2025 or thereabouts and previous land it has sold, has NAMA kept the full planning permissions attached to those sites active or did it let them lapse? If so, roughly how many are we talking about? I would have hoped and expected that extensions to planning permissions would have been...

Written Answers — Department of Trade, Enterprise and Employment: Company Liquidations (8 Oct 2020)

Cormac Devlin: 63. To ask the Minister for Trade, Enterprise and Employment if his attention has been drawn to reports that stock and other assets from a company (details supplied) have been transferred abroad; if the matter will be referred to the Office of Corporate Enforcement for investigation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29435/20]

Written Answers — Department of Trade, Enterprise and Employment: Company Liquidations (8 Oct 2020)

Cormac Devlin: 64. To ask the Minister for Trade, Enterprise and Employment if he will request the LRC to consider nominating a mediator to examine if a resolution can be reached between a company (details supplied) and the liquidator of the company; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29437/20]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Test (8 Oct 2020)

Cormac Devlin: 101. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will consider instructing the RSA to waive the requirement for the biannual test for driver instructors which involves spending an hour with a RSA tester in a vehicle in view of the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29432/20]