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Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Future Growth Loan Scheme (3 Feb 2021)

Pearse Doherty: 27. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will consider reallocating the remaining capacity under the future growth loan scheme in order that fully subscribed lenders are in a position to lend under the scheme to business customers who wish to avail of the scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5649/21]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Licences (3 Feb 2021)

Pearse Doherty: 152. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when a learner permit will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Donegal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6007/21]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Vehicle Registration Tax (3 Feb 2021)

Pearse Doherty: 162. To ask the Minister for Finance when a VRT reimbursement will be paid to a person (details supplied) in County Donegal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6008/21]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Wage Subsidy Scheme (3 Feb 2021)

Pearse Doherty: 183. To ask the Minister for Finance if employees' resident in Northern Ireland are eligible employees under the employment wage subsidy scheme in cases in which their employers are resident here. [5275/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Personal Public Service Numbers (3 Feb 2021)

Pearse Doherty: 455. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a PPSN application by a person (details supplied) will be expedited; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6009/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Community Employment Schemes (3 Feb 2021)

Pearse Doherty: 456. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to extend the duration of community employment schemes due to Covid-19; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6010/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Funding (3 Feb 2021)

Pearse Doherty: 877. To ask the Minister for Health the reason no funding was allocated to the national eating disorder treatment plan in 2020; the reason none of the €1.6 million allocated in 2019 was spent in this area; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5914/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disabilities Assessments (3 Feb 2021)

Pearse Doherty: 910. To ask the Minister for Health when a child (details supplied) will have an ASD assessment before they reach 18 years of age in the coming months; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6013/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (3 Feb 2021)

Pearse Doherty: 911. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will receive an appointment for St. Vincent’s Hospital; if they are on the routine or urgent waiting list; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6014/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (3 Feb 2021)

Pearse Doherty: 912. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) was released from Letterkenny University Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6015/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (3 Feb 2021)

Pearse Doherty: 913. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Donegal can expect an appointment in Sligo University Hospital neurology department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6016/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fishing Industry (3 Feb 2021)

Pearse Doherty: 970. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of approved FLAG applications for 2020; when such applications will receive offers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6011/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fishing Industry (3 Feb 2021)

Pearse Doherty: 971. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the FLAG programme will open to new applications in 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6012/21]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Salary Increase for Position of Secretary General at the Department of Health: Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (2 Feb 2021)

Pearse Doherty: I welcome the Minister to the meeting. When was the Minister first made aware that an approach was to be made to Robert Watt to take up the position of interim Secretary General in the Department of Health?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Salary Increase for Position of Secretary General at the Department of Health: Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (2 Feb 2021)

Pearse Doherty: It was the first week in January. Before that, Robert Watt was not aware that he may be going to the Department of Health at that stage. The Secretary General of the Minister's Department was not aware that he could be moving to the Department of Health before that point in January. Is that correct?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Salary Increase for Position of Secretary General at the Department of Health: Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (2 Feb 2021)

Pearse Doherty: How did he know?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Salary Increase for Position of Secretary General at the Department of Health: Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (2 Feb 2021)

Pearse Doherty: Who would have informed Robert Watt of that possibility? Did the Minister talk to him about it?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Salary Increase for Position of Secretary General at the Department of Health: Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (2 Feb 2021)

Pearse Doherty: How did he know? There were four people in the room discussing the issue, Martin Fraser, the Taoiseach, the Minister, Deputy McGrath, and the Minister for Health. Which of those four relayed that to Robert Watt?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Salary Increase for Position of Secretary General at the Department of Health: Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (2 Feb 2021)

Pearse Doherty: He would have known, during this period where these documents were going back and forward, including the salary suggestion on 23 December, that he might be taking up the position as interim Secretary General or that it was at least a possibility.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Salary Increase for Position of Secretary General at the Department of Health: Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (2 Feb 2021)

Pearse Doherty: On 30 October, the Government looked at four options. One option was for a serving Secretary General to take up the role in a permanent capacity. The minutes indicate that option was dismissed and that five conditions would have to be met. It would have to be a single candidate. I presume Robert Watt is a suitable candidate since he has taken up the interim position. The second condition...