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Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Prisoner Data (13 May 2014)

Ciarán Lynch: 562. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of prisoners under 21 years of age; the number in each of the institutions in which they are held; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21375/14]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Prison Education Service (13 May 2014)

Ciarán Lynch: 563. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of workshop and work-training posts that are vacant in each prison; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21376/14]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Prison Library Facilities (13 May 2014)

Ciarán Lynch: 564. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of hours the library in each prison is scheduled to open each week; the percentage of scheduled opening times that these libraries were actually open during 2013; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21377/14]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Prison Education Service (13 May 2014)

Ciarán Lynch: 565. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of prisoners actively following a course with the Open University at the present time, in total and in each institution; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21381/14]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Prison Education Service (13 May 2014)

Ciarán Lynch: 566. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if her attention has been drawn to the fact that a highly successful fine art programme run by the National College of Art and Design in Portlaoise Prison from 1987 to 2010 was terminated by her Department in 2011; if she has read the positive review of this programme conducted by a person (details supplied); if she has seen the RTE...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (13 May 2014)

Ciarán Lynch: 583. To ask the Minister for Health his plans regarding the future of the gait clinic in County Cork; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20944/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Administration (13 May 2014)

Ciarán Lynch: 584. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Cork may expect to be given a neurological appointment; the average waiting time from general practitioner referral to neurologist appointment in the Health Service Executive south area; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20945/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Appeals (1 May 2014)

Ciarán Lynch: 176. To ask the Minister for Health if he will review the refusal of a medical card in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Cork; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19793/14]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Mortgage Arrears Resolution Process (Resumed): Central Bank of Ireland (30 Apr 2014)

Ciarán Lynch: I thank Professor Honohan. With the committee's permission, I will excuse myself and Deputy O'Donnell will take the Chair temporarily, after which the Vice Chairman will assume the Chair for the remainder of the meeting. Is that agreed? Agreed.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Mortgage Arrears Resolution Process (Resumed): Central Bank of Ireland (30 Apr 2014)

Ciarán Lynch: That is a long question.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Mortgage Arrears Resolution Process (Resumed): Central Bank of Ireland (30 Apr 2014)

Ciarán Lynch: The Deputy should wrap up.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Mortgage Arrears Resolution Process (Resumed): Central Bank of Ireland (30 Apr 2014)

Ciarán Lynch: Outside of the order of the-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Mortgage Arrears Resolution Process (Resumed): Central Bank of Ireland (30 Apr 2014)

Ciarán Lynch: I call Deputy O'Donnell who is sharing his time with Senator Paul Coghlan.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Mortgage Arrears Resolution Process (Resumed): Central Bank of Ireland (30 Apr 2014)

Ciarán Lynch: Does Professor Honohan wish to respond?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Mortgage Arrears Resolution Process (Resumed): Central Bank of Ireland (30 Apr 2014)

Ciarán Lynch: I will let Senator Coghlan get a response and move on to Deputy O'Donnell.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Mortgage Arrears Resolution Process (Resumed): Central Bank of Ireland (30 Apr 2014)

Ciarán Lynch: There are some very specific Standing Orders and rulings in that regard. I remind all present that the purpose of this meeting is to discuss the mortgage arrears resolution targets. I remind members that in the event of there being any reference in the course of the meeting to court proceedings that concluded yesterday, it is well-established that decisions or judgments of a duly...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Mortgage Arrears Resolution Process (Resumed): Central Bank of Ireland (30 Apr 2014)

Ciarán Lynch: Sorry, voluntary surrenders.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Mortgage Arrears Resolution Process (Resumed): Central Bank of Ireland (30 Apr 2014)

Ciarán Lynch: One of the improvements we are looking for is consistency across the board, that is, not that there is the same approach to every given solution but that there is a level of consistency and a level of information flow so that borrowers can see what is happening. In terms of the Central Bank, it has been meeting the banks and the credit unions to see how secured and unsecured debt can be...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Mortgage Arrears Resolution Process (Resumed): Central Bank of Ireland (30 Apr 2014)

Ciarán Lynch: I have a final question - other members may pick this up as we go over it in the afternoon - which relates to the issue of how the Central Bank collates its data on those in arrears. Is there a requirement to review same? We are seeing situations, or an implied consequence arising, where borrowers are in a mortgage arrears resolution process, MARP, but seem to be falling out of it,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Mortgage Arrears Resolution Process (Resumed): Central Bank of Ireland (30 Apr 2014)

Ciarán Lynch: Before I pass on to Deputy Michael McGrath, I must say that what Professor Honohan has done this afternoon is clear up something necessary, that is, that ambiguity with regard to a resolution process for that particular coterie of borrower I mentioned. Would it be too bold of me to ask the Central Bank to issue a statement along those lines so that it gets formalised, that it is not merely...