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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Report on Licensed Moneylending Industry: Central Bank of Ireland (29 Jan 2014)

Arthur Spring: I would agree with many of those who have contributed already on the issue of the interest rates. I believe there should be a cap on those rates. The Government must tackle this issue. Is there anything the Central Bank can do on that at the moment? If there are 360,000 customers of legal moneylenders, how many customers do the illegal moneylenders have?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Report on Licensed Moneylending Industry: Central Bank of Ireland (29 Jan 2014)

Arthur Spring: Yes; how many customers do the illegal moneylenders have?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Report on Licensed Moneylending Industry: Central Bank of Ireland (29 Jan 2014)

Arthur Spring: Sorry, but that does not make sense -13% of what?

Industrial Development (Forfás Dissolution) Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (29 Jan 2014)

Arthur Spring: There are a couple of issues in the Bill that pertain to Kerry with which I disagree, but I will try to stick to the Bill as much as possible. I acknowledge that the purpose of the Bill is to give effect to the decision to integrate the research and policy adviser functions of Forfás into the Department. It also mentions the fact that Shannon Development, which exists in my area at...

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (29 Jan 2014)

Arthur Spring: Come over the mountains and move into Kerry for a second. I raised this one day in the House when we were given one minute and 36 seconds to raise the plight of a €20 million disaster on the coast of Kerry. It is the largest coastline in the country. Of the €68 million in additional funds outside the Estimate the Minister used last year, what percentage-----

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (29 Jan 2014)

Arthur Spring: What percentage of that was used for flood measures? The Minister of State has indicated that we need to spend some money on the damage that occurred at Christmas time. He is hoping to be on his way to Europe to learn about the European solidarity fund, and I wish him the best of luck with that. In the meantime, have we made an application to the European solidarity fund for places such as...

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (29 Jan 2014)

Arthur Spring: If the estimate for this year is up to €70 million for the recent storm, the Minister will need additional funds to the tune of €45 million.

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Third Level Fees (29 Jan 2014)

Arthur Spring: 75. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he considers it necessary that an exemption from international student fees should be given to children of an Irish person working for an Enterprise Ireland assisted company and has been required to live outside the EU for more than three of the past five years in an attempt to grow the company. [4529/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Care Packages (29 Jan 2014)

Arthur Spring: 202. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding an application for home help in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry [4452/14]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: IDA Site Visits (28 Jan 2014)

Arthur Spring: 330. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation his views on whether the number of Industrial Development Agency-led visits by potential investors to County Kerry will be increased in future years; the changes to regional aid grants that are required to make County Kerry more attractive to potential investors; and if strategies to rectify the imbalance between the number of IDA...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: IDA Site Visits (28 Jan 2014)

Arthur Spring: 335. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation his views on whether the number of Industrial Development Agency led visits by potential investors to County Kerry will be increased in future years; the changes to regional aid grants that are required to make County Kerry more attractive to potential investors; and if strategies to rectify the imbalance between the number of IDA...

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Departmental Reports (28 Jan 2014)

Arthur Spring: 446. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if he is considering implementing the main points of the Bacon report on rural towns to encourage the refurbishment and modernisation of disused commercial premises in order that some commercial and residential activity in traditional town centres will be restored to correct the imbalance consequent upon the proliferation of...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Aids and Appliances Provision (28 Jan 2014)

Arthur Spring: 720. To ask the Minister for Health the number of insulin pumps the Health Service Executive currently has in stock; if the current roll-out of these pumps is adequate; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3860/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Eligibility (28 Jan 2014)

Arthur Spring: 756. To ask the Minister for Health the reason in the event of a delay of a medical card being renewed that payments are not backdated to the time of the expiry of the medical card, thus leaving the patient who is worthy of a medical card to pay for medical services when he or she cannot afford to do so; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4080/14]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Severe Weather Events Expenditure (21 Jan 2014)

Arthur Spring: 431. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if an application will be made to the EU solidarity fund to seek financial assistance with the clean-up and repair costs of the damage caused along the Irish coastline by recent storms. [2437/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Properties (21 Jan 2014)

Arthur Spring: 625. To ask the Minister for Health the costs incurred by the Health Service Executive in maintaining the building and in the provision of security at Dingle District Hospital, County Kerry; and if the HSE plan to sell the building or if sections of the building can be assigned for use of community groups in the area [2606/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Properties (21 Jan 2014)

Arthur Spring: 626. To ask the Minister for Health the costs incurred by the Health Service Executive in maintaining the building and in the provision of security at St. Finian's Hospital, Killarney, County Kerry; if the HSE plan to sell the building or if sections of the building can be assigned for use of community groups in the area. [2607/14]

Recent Severe Storm Damage: Statements (16 Jan 2014)

Arthur Spring: Time and tide wait for no man. County Kerry's key attraction is tourism. The county has experienced €20 million worth of damage as some of my colleagues have outlined. Enormous damage has been done to places such as Ballybunion, Barrow, Ballyheigue, Kells, Cromane and Rossbeigh. I spoke to the Minister of State earlier about job creation in Kerry. Tourism is where it is at and we...

Recent Severe Storm Damage: Statements (16 Jan 2014)

Arthur Spring: Is that under water?

Irish Water: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (16 Jan 2014)

Arthur Spring: If one were to run the political and media activity and the hysteria surrounding this matter in recent weeks through the filter at the end of a pipeline, I am not sure that one would find anything of great substance when the filtration process was complete. The one word which has continually arisen during the debate on this subject is "consultant". The entire country became upset at the...