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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Collapse of Setanta Insurance: Central Bank and Department of Finance (9 Jul 2014)

Regina Doherty: The company was liquidated in April 2014. What steps are being taken by the insurance compensation fund, ICF, to ensure people who lodged claims against the company will not end up with a loss arising from those claims? I understand some claims were lodged long before the firm went into liquidation and there have judgments in some cases. Will those people be treated separately when it...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Collapse of Setanta Insurance: Central Bank and Department of Finance (9 Jul 2014)

Regina Doherty: Even though they have secured judgments against the company?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Collapse of Setanta Insurance: Central Bank and Department of Finance (9 Jul 2014)

Regina Doherty: Is Mr. Sheridan really of the view that the regulator acted in the best interest of Irish policyholders in this matter? The Central Bank was given information by a third-party source in September, which source Mr. Sheridan is not willing to share us, that there were irregularities in this company. When the bank undertook to investigate the matter its fears were confirmed and it reported its...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Collapse of Setanta Insurance: Central Bank and Department of Finance (9 Jul 2014)

Regina Doherty: I would say the Central Bank has a financial supervisory role which should have obliged it to act to protect Irish citizens who were buying from this company. There are 75,000 of them out of pocket.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Collapse of Setanta Insurance: Central Bank and Department of Finance (9 Jul 2014)

Regina Doherty: It did in this case.

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Water Charges Introduction (8 Jul 2014)

Regina Doherty: 554. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if any property which has been identified as currently not suitable for a meter will be considered suitable for installation during the metering roll out; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29834/14]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Water Charges Introduction (8 Jul 2014)

Regina Doherty: 555. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the way the CER will determine the tariff for those properties which are connected to the public water and wastewater system but who will not have a meter installed before the commencement of billing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29835/14]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Water Charges Introduction (8 Jul 2014)

Regina Doherty: 556. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the completion and implementation timeline for the public consultations to determine the water tariffs for those properties that will not have a water meter installed when billing commences; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29836/14]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Water Charges Introduction (8 Jul 2014)

Regina Doherty: 557. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the processes that are in place to facilitate the circumstances of a private property owner who wishes to have a water meter installed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29837/14]

Valuation Bill 2014: Second Stage [Private Members] (4 Jul 2014)

Regina Doherty: While I thank Deputy Cowen for introducing this Bill, the irony is not lost on Members that this is something that should have been included as part of the 2001 Act and that the current position has existed for 14 years.

Valuation Bill 2014: Second Stage [Private Members] (4 Jul 2014)

Regina Doherty: Nevertheless, I thank the Deputy for bringing it forward. I also thank my home town club of Ratoath for mounting its campaign a number of weeks ago, together with my county board. They obviously are passionate about the GAA, sport and its development, as well as the integral role it plays in communities. Arising from my husband's involvement in my own GAA club, I am aware of the countless...

Public Health (Standard Packaging of Tobacco) Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) (3 Jul 2014)

Regina Doherty: Deputy Penrose said that if he were Minister for Finance, he would be taxing the living daylights out of tobacco because he regards it as a discretionary product. I disagree with him because there is nothing discretionary about addiction. Anybody in this House who has ever had to watch somebody he or she cared about die from a tobacco-related disease caused by addiction knows full well it...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Expanding the Role of the Pharmacy: Irish Pharmacy Union (1 Jul 2014)

Regina Doherty: I thank the witnesses for appearing before the committee. This is like "Groundhog Day". Not only have we had this conversation in this room previously; we also had it at the Fine Gael committee. What the Irish Pharmacy Union has said today is exactly what it said six and nine months ago. I disagree with Senator John Crown that the service offered is a limping service. That it is such a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Expanding the Role of the Pharmacy: Irish Pharmacy Union (1 Jul 2014)

Regina Doherty: The Senator said the service was a limping service.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Care Packages (1 Jul 2014)

Regina Doherty: 570. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) in County Meath is to lose their home care package of three hours per week at the end of June; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28433/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Care Packages (25 Jun 2014)

Regina Doherty: 188. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) in County Meath is to lose their home care package of three hours per week at the end of June; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27556/14]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teacher Redeployment (24 Jun 2014)

Regina Doherty: 225. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to review the discrepancy in policy where a teacher seeking redeployment to another county has to resign his or her post in order to be eligible to apply for another county panel; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27260/14]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Broadband Services Provision (24 Jun 2014)

Regina Doherty: 335. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources when he anticipates the broadband connection between Carnaross and Moynalty to improve service in Maperath, Kells, County Meath; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26950/14]

Cooke Report: Statements (19 Jun 2014)

Regina Doherty: At the outset, I wish the new Minister well in her role. She has a heavy task of work to do in the coming months. Since the foundation of the State there has been great respect from the Irish people for An Garda Síochána. The GSOC bugging controversy set off a chain of events, and political and media responses have served to damage the reputation of An Garda and left GSOC in the...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Proposed Legislation (18 Jun 2014)

Regina Doherty: 114. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his plans for legislation against the manufacture and sale of products containing plastic microbeads; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26295/14]