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Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Taxi Regulations (13 Oct 2020)

Cormac Devlin: 61. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide details of the nomination and election process for the taxi advisory committee; if there are vacancies on same at present; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29787/20]

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

Cormac Devlin: 225. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to the case of persons (details supplied); if she will investigate the case to ensure all procedures were correctly followed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29781/20]

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

Cormac Devlin: 226. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to the case of a person (details supplied); if she will investigate the case to ensure all procedures were correctly followed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29782/20]

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

Cormac Devlin: 227. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will consider extending the deadline for leaving certificate appeals in view of the calculated grade errors; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29783/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Autism Support Services (13 Oct 2020)

Cormac Devlin: 228. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will increase the number of autism spectrum disorder places in primary schools, with particular emphasis on south County Dublin which is suffering a shortage; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29785/20]

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...