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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Sale of IBRC Mortgage Loan Book: Discussion (26 Feb 2014)

Arthur Spring: Then any purchaser who is watching what is going on will automatically build that into the value and bring the price down as if the Government had legislated today. Is that not a fair assumption? Mr. Wallace might be best placed to answer that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Sale of IBRC Mortgage Loan Book: Discussion (26 Feb 2014)

Arthur Spring: What is the difference between a special liquidator and a liquidator?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Sale of IBRC Mortgage Loan Book: Discussion (26 Feb 2014)

Arthur Spring: Correct, and the IBRC Act was put in place for the purpose, as Mr. Wallace pointed out at the beginning, of getting the country out of the promissory note trouble for the betterment of the State. This is for the betterment of the individuals of the State.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Sale of IBRC Mortgage Loan Book: Discussion (26 Feb 2014)

Arthur Spring: Let me impress upon Mr. Wallace that saying we will legislate in the event that they do not comply is the same in valuation terms as making them comply now. I ask Mr. Wallace to discuss this further with those who are bidding because no person putting a valuation together would see a difference at the moment but that would give security and protection to those who are purchasing. I have a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Sale of IBRC Mortgage Loan Book: Discussion (26 Feb 2014)

Arthur Spring: I am sorry, Chairman, but can we have those data?

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Eligibility (26 Feb 2014)

Arthur Spring: 225. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to alter the income limits for medical card applicants; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9796/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cancer Screening Programmes (26 Feb 2014)

Arthur Spring: 256. To ask the Minister for Health if a safety statement is available for digital mammogram machines or if a risk assessment has been conducted; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9927/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cancer Screening Programmes (26 Feb 2014)

Arthur Spring: 257. To ask the Minister for Health if BreastCheck women's charter represents an abrogation of responsibility to women; if the charter confines the promise to recalling women; if the remainder of the charter is aspirational; if the consortium has any duty of care to women under this charter; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9928/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cancer Screening Programmes (26 Feb 2014)

Arthur Spring: 258. To ask the Minister for Health if a standardised detection ratio is the preferred method to ensure unit performance; if the unit performance has taken precedence over women’s health and safety; if other methods are utilised to ensure unit performance; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9929/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cancer Screening Programmes (26 Feb 2014)

Arthur Spring: 259. To ask the Minister for Health if multi-disciplinary teams are utilised to make cancer diagnoses; the way they are configured; the radiologists involved; the pathologists involved; if there is any provision for oversight in the system; if there is any provision to allow access to digital X-rays at the time of acquisition; if there is provision to provide women with tissue samples to...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cancer Screening Programmes (26 Feb 2014)

Arthur Spring: 260. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the 1,298 women who have developed breast cancer subsequent to a clear screening National Cancer Register and that the interval cancer rate at 38% of anticipated cancer rate with an additional 525 women who also developed cancer subsequent to clear screening places Ireland firmly at the top of breast cancer interval cancer...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cancer Screening Programmes (26 Feb 2014)

Arthur Spring: 261. To ask the Minister for Health if the clinical trial published in 2009 demonstrated a statistically significant increase in breast cancer on each occasion the digital mammogram machine was used; if it is reasonable to use this machine at all; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9932/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cancer Screening Programmes (26 Feb 2014)

Arthur Spring: 262. To ask the Minister for Health if the publication of the Swiss Medical Board might influence his decision; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9933/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cancer Screening Programmes (26 Feb 2014)

Arthur Spring: 263. To ask the Minister for Health if a phase one clinical trial has taken place here on digital mammography; If so, were the women consulted on the risks involved in a clinical trial; where the trial was initiated; if the outcomes demonstrate an increase in breast cancer in the women screened with the digital machine; the corrective action taken at that point; and if he will make a...

Leaders' Questions (25 Feb 2014)

Arthur Spring: Is that Jerry McCabe?

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Water and Sewerage Schemes Funding (25 Feb 2014)

Arthur Spring: 497. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will be allocating funding for group sewerage schemes in County Kerry in view of the recent flooding and the resulting health hazards which can be avoided by the introduction of GSS as opposed to septic tanks; and if he anticipates penalties from Europe as a result of newly introduced standards regarding pollution....

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Housing Adaptation Grant Applications (25 Feb 2014)

Arthur Spring: 507. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if there are financial or medical exceptions to the housing grants scheme which permit a person aged under 66 to qualify for the housing adaptation grant for older people. [9684/14]

Leaders' Questions (20 Feb 2014)

Arthur Spring: We need Judge Smithwick back again.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Grant Scheme Applications (20 Feb 2014)

Arthur Spring: 116. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the parent's pension contributions in relation to a child's student grant application that can be disregarded; if the pension contributions have to appear on the parent's P21; and if so, the panels of the P21 must the pension contributions be found on. [8877/14]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: School Meals Programme (20 Feb 2014)

Arthur Spring: 126. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the criteria involved in assessing non-DEIS schools which qualified for the school meals programme prior to 2005, under the following schemes, school completion programme, designated disadvantaged, home school community liaison, giving children an even break and early start; and if any non-DEIS schools have been included in the scheme since 2005....