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Credit Union Bill 2012: Second Stage (Resumed) (8 Nov 2012)

Regina Doherty: We have very good reason to be proud of our community based co-operative savings institutions. There are over 500 credit unions across the country and they have helped to promote the values of thrift in neglected communities, saving many from penury in the process. In the current crisis, banks are withdrawing from poorer areas and they are leaving credit unions as the main linchpin for...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion with Community and Voluntary Groups (8 Nov 2012)

Regina Doherty: I thank the delegations for coming in today. I have a number of questions but before I pose them I wish to pay particular tribute to Ms Corbett and her team for their sterling work in advocating a "Yes" vote in the forthcoming referendum. I ask Dr. McDaid, based on the exceptionally touching and moving interview with Ms Una Butler last Friday, to comment on her proposition that families...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion with Community and Voluntary Groups (8 Nov 2012)

Regina Doherty: I thank all the groups for attending this meeting. They all do wonderful work. I am not ignoring the gentlemen from the Irish Heart Foundation but I have three or four questions for the other witnesses. It is almost like "speed questioning" so I will not waste time. I have particular respect for the work done by Mr. Dillon's organisation. I believe we could have found the €8...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Property Taxation (6 Nov 2012)

Regina Doherty: To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if a decision has been made to exempt listed buildings from the proposed property tax; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47434/12]

Order of Business (25 Oct 2012)

Regina Doherty: What about Deputy Boyd Barrett's leader's allowance?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Health Insurance Sector: Discussion (25 Oct 2012)

Regina Doherty: My question relates to a point raised earlier. The witnesses said that the person starting an insurance life in the early 20s pays much less by the time they get to 55 or 60 years than the person who enters the insurance market at 55 or 60 years of age. How much less?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Health Insurance Sector: Discussion (25 Oct 2012)

Regina Doherty: I am ignorant with regard to some of these matters but when I started my insurance at 21 or 22 years of age, I was of the view that by the time I got to 55 for 60 years, when people get ill, my premium would be reduced. For those leaving health insurance by the tens of thousand what benefit is there to them staying with their insurance cover?

Prospects for Irish Economy: Statements (Resumed) (24 Oct 2012)

Regina Doherty: Job creation is central to Ireland's economic recovery. The programme for Government has this target at its core. I note the recent jobs announcements by Paddy Power and the Kerry Group which highlight the important role of indigenous companies in the country's economic recovery. Paddy Power and the Kerry Group could have taken their good tidings elsewhere. They are publicly traded...

Leaders' Questions (24 Oct 2012)

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Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Overseas Development Aid (24 Oct 2012)

Regina Doherty: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the amount of financial support given to overseas development organisations, in tabular form for the past year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46835/12]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (24 Oct 2012)

Regina Doherty: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide the dates for the intended extension for a school (details supplied) in County Meath as approved in 2006; the reason for the delay to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46691/12]

Topical Issue Debate: Vocational Training Opportunities Scheme (18 Oct 2012)

Regina Doherty: I appreciate the Minister of State taking the time to attend the House to answer my query, somewhat. However, with respect to him, I must inform those who write ministerial responses that I already know what the VTOS scheme is, its purpose, the criteria for taking part in it and how one applies for it. The Minister of State has read a page and a half of information that everyone in the...

Topical Issue Debate: Vocational Training Opportunities Scheme (18 Oct 2012)

Regina Doherty: I will not be long-winded or engage in a long rant. The purpose behind the vocational training opportunities scheme, VTOS, and the back to education scheme is to take some of the thousands of people on the dole queue, who are unemployed and have no prospects, and give them an opportunity to re-educate themselves and reskill in an attempt to return to the workforce re-energised and with a new...

Report of the Pyrite Panel: Statements (Resumed) (18 Oct 2012)

Regina Doherty: I have spoken to people in my constituency who been unfortunate to have come across pyrite in their homes. We are all aware that it is not just about devastation to buildings, but also about devastation to people's lives. Tens of thousands of home owners are suffering the agony of having their homes either disintegrate around them from pyrite-induced heave or because they have become...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Airport Development Projects (18 Oct 2012)

Regina Doherty: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his view on whether aviation leasing is a sector in which there is considerable potential for growth here; if so, the way he proposes to take advantage of this; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44937/12]

Home Help and Home Care Services: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (17 Oct 2012)

Regina Doherty: The opening statement in the Private Members' motion refers to the rights of older people to live in dignity and independence and to age well in their own homes and communities for as long as possible. That is something all of us endorse. This year, 2012, is the European year for active ageing and solidarity between generations. Together with other member states, the Government has...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (17 Oct 2012)

Regina Doherty: To ask the Minister for Health the way the Expert Medical Group on Whooping Cough Vaccination set up in 1984 by the them Minister Mr. Barry Desmond TD arrived at its decision of reasonable doubt where symptoms of persistent screaming, collapse, convulsions, infantile spasms, paralyses and development of mental retardation were present in a child (details supplied), after their vaccination in...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (17 Oct 2012)

Regina Doherty: To ask the Minister for Health the reasonable doubt as determined in the case of a person (details supplied) on examination by the expert group on whooping cough vaccination; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45305/12]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Records (17 Oct 2012)

Regina Doherty: To ask the Minister for Health the reason access to the medical records of a person (details supplied) complied during their stay at the Health Service Executive, Sisters of Charity of Jesus and Mary have been refused; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45275/12]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Records (17 Oct 2012)

Regina Doherty: To ask the Minister for Health the services that were provided to a person (details supplied) from the Health Service Executive Sisters of Charity of Jesus and Mary, Delvin County Westmeath during their stay there from November 1981 to June 2005; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45283/12]