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Written Answers — Department of Finance: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (21 Jan 2021)

Pearse Doherty: 93. To ask the Minister for Finance the breakdown of the programmes and allocations to each programme that will be funded through the Government’s allocation through the recovery and resilience facility; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3462/21]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Housing Policy (21 Jan 2021)

Pearse Doherty: 96. To ask the Minister for Finance if he or his officials have met lenders or an organisation (details supplied) regarding the affordable purchase shared equity scheme that will come under the remit of his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3490/21]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Housing Policy (21 Jan 2021)

Pearse Doherty: 97. To ask the Minister for Finance if he has sought views from the Central Bank on the proposed affordable purchase shared equity scheme, including its interaction with the mortgage lending rules; if so, the views of the Central Bank in this regard; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3493/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing (21 Jan 2021)

Pearse Doherty: 124. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the interest payable on the equity loan under the affordable purchase shared equity scheme will be linked to harmonised indices of consumer prices, HICP; if not, if it will be linked to any other index; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3491/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing (21 Jan 2021)

Pearse Doherty: 125. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the initial rate of interest that will be on equity loan repayments under the affordable purchase shared equity scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3492/21]

Report of the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes: Statements (Resumed) (20 Jan 2021)

Pearse Doherty: I begin by paying tribute to all the women and children who spent time in these institutions, including those in my county of Donegal. I pay tribute to the bravery shown by the survivors who engaged with the commission. I know there are many who did not have the opportunity to do so. Tá moladh tuillte ag na mná, a gcuid teaghlaigh agus a gcuid páistí don...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan (20 Jan 2021)

Pearse Doherty: 51. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when broadband will be available at a property (details supplied); the steps that person can take to accelerate the process; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2759/21]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Pensions (20 Jan 2021)

Pearse Doherty: 173. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if a person who has surpassed 40 years' service in the HSE and has contributed to a public service pension during that time is required to continue making pension contributions from his or her salary; if these pensions contributions will be taken into account for the purposes of calculating his or her pension amount; and if he will...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Personal Public Service Numbers (20 Jan 2021)

Pearse Doherty: 354. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when an application for personal public service numbers will be processed for persons (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [2760/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Tests (20 Jan 2021)

Pearse Doherty: 624. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons recruited in County Donegal to work in Covid-19 testing centres; if there are any vacancies for such positions within the county; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2756/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (20 Jan 2021)

Pearse Doherty: 625. To ask the Minister for Health if changes to circulars 064/2020 and 074/2020 relating to special sick pay leave for HSE health workers who tested positive for Covid-19 in 2020 and 2021 affect entitlement to sick pay; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2757/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (20 Jan 2021)

Pearse Doherty: 626. To ask the Minister for Health if HSE health workers who tested positive for Covid-19 in 2020 are entitled to special sick pay for the entirety of their sick leave; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2758/21]

Insurance (Restriction on Differential Pricing and Profiling) Bill 2021: First Stage (14 Jan 2021)

Pearse Doherty: I move: That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to prohibit the discriminatory pricing of certain insurance premiums payable by certain persons to the extent that such pricing is on the basis that any such person is a pre-existing customer of an insurance provider, to prohibit the use of profiling techniques in the calculation of such insurance premiums to determine...

Insurance (Restriction on Differential Pricing and Profiling) Bill 2021: First Stage (14 Jan 2021)

Pearse Doherty: I move:"That the Bill be taken in Private Member's time."

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (14 Jan 2021)

Pearse Doherty: -----for Covid payment breaks. The Government has not even asked the banks to bring forward these payment breaks. Can the Tánaiste explain to hard-pressed customers why the Government will not ask the banks to instigate these payment breaks?

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (14 Jan 2021)

Pearse Doherty: The Tánaiste is the Minister with responsibility.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (14 Jan 2021)

Pearse Doherty: The Tánaiste has responsibility.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (14 Jan 2021)

Pearse Doherty: I appreciate that. It is regrettable that the Tánaiste has used the pandemic to score cheap political points. The Tánaiste knows more than most that Sinn Féin actually proposed a travel ban to the Executive and that the DUP, UUP and the Alliance Party voted that down. This is regrettable given the sacrifices and the suffering that so many people are going through at this...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 Jan 2021)

Pearse Doherty: The issue is very serious. My local hospital in Letterkenny had seven ambulances parked outside on Sunday night. Patients were being treated in the forecourt of Letterkenny University Hospital in ambulances because there was no capacity. A total of 11 beds were closed within the hospital because of staffing shortages. As the Tánaiste says, many are out sick. Up to 180 are either...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 Jan 2021)

Pearse Doherty: Ba mhaith liom ceist na n-ospidéal a phlé leis an Tánaiste, go háirithe ó thaobh na leapacha in ICU. Tá a fhios againn ón eolas a tháinig chun solais inné go bhfuil 13 dár n-ospidéil ar fud na Stáit nach bhfuil leaba ar bith ICU ar fáil iontu, agus i seacht gcinn eile níl ach leaba amháin le fáil. Tá an...