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Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Departmental Records (17 Dec 2013)

Lucinda Creighton: 107. To ask the Taoiseach the current location of file reference S12368 Harry Gleeson: death sentence, which was recalled by his Department from the National Archives on 6 October 1995; the reasons for the recall of the file; and the reasons for its retention in his Department for over 18 years. [53690/13]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Departmental Records (17 Dec 2013)

Lucinda Creighton: 108. To ask the Taoiseach if he will confirm the existence of file reference S12369; if he will confirm that it was recalled by his Department from the National Archives on 6 October 1995, and if he will reveal the subject matter of the file. [53691/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Living City Initiative (17 Dec 2013)

Lucinda Creighton: 139. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 77 of 3 December 2013, if he will provide the names of the economists in Indecon International Economic Consultants which authored ex ante evaluation of the Living City Initiative for Urban Regeneration; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53875/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Credit Unions Regulation (17 Dec 2013)

Lucinda Creighton: 140. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 65 of 3 December 2013, the total number of persons employed within the registry of credit unions; if he will provide some estimate if even one member of staff employed within the registry of credit unions has ever worked for or volunteered for a credit union; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53874/13]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Summer Works Scheme Applications (17 Dec 2013)

Lucinda Creighton: 212. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 65 of 13 November 2013, if he will ensure that priority be given to those schools who did not apply in previous years or were unsuccessful in their applications in previous years; if he will confirm that those who, because of the failure of the website on the deadline day for applications, were unable to...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Legal Services Regulation (17 Dec 2013)

Lucinda Creighton: 441. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 98 of 10 December 2013, if he will elaborate further on the specific business models for the delivery of legal services he envisages would introduce costs efficiencies that could be captured to the benefit of consumers arising from the enactment of the Bill; if he will publish or cite publications or case...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Reports (17 Dec 2013)

Lucinda Creighton: 542. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 445 of December 2013, in view of the fact that a person (details supplied), from VHI stated at the Joint Committee on Health and Children on 28 November 2013 that VHI had never seen the Matheson Goodbody report, if he will explain the way he determined the commercial sensitivity ruling with respect to the information...

Companies (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2013 [Seanad]: Report and Final Stages (12 Dec 2013)

Lucinda Creighton: None of the examiners has been consulted.

Companies (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2013 [Seanad]: Report and Final Stages (12 Dec 2013)

Lucinda Creighton: I might be pushing my luck, but I wish to make two points. First, all of the examiners with whom I spoke stated that they had not been consulted, although I am sure the stakeholders were. Second, if I am interpreting the Minister correctly, he stated that the idea of an estimate of upfront fees would almost exclude the company from entering into a negotiating process and close...

Companies (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2013 [Seanad]: Report and Final Stages (12 Dec 2013)

Lucinda Creighton: I appreciate that, at this point, it is difficult for the Minister to accept amendments to legislation. The practice in this House is to be not all that interested in accepting amendments from the Opposition or from backbenchers, which is unfortunate. We are all essentially trying to paddle in the same direction. Some of the Minister's logic for declining to entertain this amendment is a...

Companies (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2013 [Seanad]: Report and Final Stages (12 Dec 2013)

Lucinda Creighton: I move amendment No. 1:In page 5, between lines 11 and 12, to insert the following:“(3) The Companies (Amendment) Act 1990 is further amended—(a) in section 29 by amending subsection (4) to read:“(4) The functions of an examiner should be performed with the maximum use of the services of the staff and facilities of the company to which he has been appointed to assist him...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Mortgage Schemes (12 Dec 2013)

Lucinda Creighton: 59. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on the latest developments of multiple domestic Irish Banks restarting buy to let mortgage lending including a new non-banking firm (details supplied) entering the market; if he is monitoring the extent to which these mortgages are being loaned geographically in Ireland and that there is no disproportionate concentration of lending into the rising...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Mortgage Schemes (12 Dec 2013)

Lucinda Creighton: 60. To ask the Minister for Finance if he is concerned about the decision of a company (details supplied) to renege on its original plan to offer up to €300 million in new Irish mortgages; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53624/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Mortgage Debt (12 Dec 2013)

Lucinda Creighton: 61. To ask the Minister for Finance if any assessment has been undertaken on the total outstanding mortgage debt secured on residences here that was sought by creditors in ongoing proceedings before the Courts in advance of the enactment of the Land and Conveyancing Law Reform Bill 2013; the total outstanding mortgage debt secured on residences that was sought by creditors in proceedings...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Pensions Levy Issues (12 Dec 2013)

Lucinda Creighton: 115. To ask the Minister for Social Protection her views on whether using the pension levy as the sole means in which to fulfil European Court of Justice court ruling requirements concerning insolvent pension schemes is inequitable; her views that in so far as the pension levy is a levy on private pensions and therefore the burden of meeting the State's obligations for insolvent pension...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Industrial Relations Issues (12 Dec 2013)

Lucinda Creighton: 129. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the total number of meetings he, his special adviser or his officials have had with a person (details supplied) since March of 2011; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53627/13]

Order of Business (11 Dec 2013)

Lucinda Creighton: I would like to ask the Taoiseach about the health service delivery plan for 2014, which has been delayed. It was supposed to go before the health committee this week. Is there a reason for the delay? When is it likely to go to the Cabinet? When will it come before the health committee? In light of the extent of the cuts that are proposed for 2014, is there any prospect of having the...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Property Taxation Administration (11 Dec 2013)

Lucinda Creighton: 43. To ask the Minister for Finance in the absence of local property tax registered property details being provided, if persons will be subjected to a penalty for delay in payment for failing to register in advance of 27 November; if he will specifically consider the properties (details supplied) which were recently acquired and where the owner has attempted to pay the tax in advance of the...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Records (11 Dec 2013)

Lucinda Creighton: 118. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the current location of a file (details supplied) apparently recalled by the Department on 6 October 1995; the reason the file was recalled; and the provision, under section 8(4) of the National Archives Act 1986, which provided the basis for closing the Department's prisoner files from public inspection. [53181/13]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Legal Services Regulation (10 Dec 2013)

Lucinda Creighton: 98. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the measures in the Legal Services Bill 2011 that are likely to lead to the greatest cost savings to the consumer; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52656/13]