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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Macroeconomic Forecast for 2016: Department of Finance (6 Oct 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: With regard to aircraft transactions, which is a very big sector, these must create distortions and I think they are being included in GDP. What distortion effects are they having in the national accounts?

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Banking Sector (6 Oct 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: 270. To ask the Minister for Finance the residential properties and development land in the ownership of the banks, of which the State is a shareholder; if he will detail the availability of both categories by county; the steps taken to use these assets to alleviate the housing emergency; and the timescales for the delivery of these steps and plans. [34491/15]

Leaders' Questions (1 Oct 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: It is not a business decision.

Leaders' Questions (1 Oct 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: The Tánaiste is not a bystander in this.

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Training (1 Oct 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: 132. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality to provide the maximum number of trainee gardaí that the Garda Síochána Training College in Templemore can accommodate in a calendar year. [33772/15]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Training (1 Oct 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: 133. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the maximum number of trainee gardaí the Garda Síochána Training College in Templemore can accommodate in 2016. [33773/15]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Schemes (1 Oct 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: 225. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the first-year and full-year cost of extending the school books grant scheme to all students in primary and post-primary schools. [33774/15]

Other Questions: Insurance Compensation Fund (29 Sep 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: There is confusion on this because the Attorney General's office contradicted the Minister's initial opinion in this House that it would be the MIBI. The advice of the Attorney General's office has proved inaccurate because of the High Court decision. Urgency is not something, obviously, one associates with the Government's approach and accuracy is not something that we would necessarily...

Other Questions: Insurance Compensation Fund (29 Sep 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: These are not allegations: they are facts.

Other Questions: Insurance Compensation Fund (29 Sep 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: Will the Minister review his interactions-----

Other Questions: Insurance Compensation Fund (29 Sep 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: 124. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide an update on the liquidation process at Setanta Insurance; and the estimated total cost to the State through the use of the insurance compensation fund, and any legal costs arising from same. [32879/15]

Other Questions: Insurance Compensation Fund (29 Sep 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: I am seeking to discover what is to become of the hundreds of people who are in insurance limbo in the context of the problems relating to Setanta Insurance. Many of these people have suffered delays due to legal inaccuracies and confusion at Government level. What are the costs to the State of this?

Other Questions: Insurance Compensation Fund (29 Sep 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: I welcome the developments in respect of this issue and the fact that the High Court has ruled the MIBI liable for this. When my colleague, Deputy Pearse Doherty, raised this issue with the Minister a great many months ago, the Minister said, on the record, that he felt the MIBI would be called upon, saying "The Motor Insurers' Bureau of Ireland, MIBI, has indicated that it intends to accept...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Child Benefit Data (29 Sep 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: 203. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection the cost, in tabular form, of increasing the monthly child benefit rates by certain margins (details supplied). [33222/15]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (29 Sep 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: 204. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection if the medical assessors who determine applications for disability allowance and other illness-related claims are qualified medical professionals; and their qualifications to make contradictory judgments based on medical facts and evidence supplied by other highly-qualified physicians in support of their...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Bereavement Grant (29 Sep 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: 212. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection the first-year and full-year cost of restoring the bereavement grant, which was abolished by the Government in budget 2014. [33343/15]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: School Meals Programme (29 Sep 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: 213. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection if she will provide, in tabular form, the first-year and full-year cost of extending the school meals programme to all primary schools. [33346/15]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: School Meals Programme (29 Sep 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: 214. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection if she will provide, in tabular form, the first-year and full-year cost of extending the school meals programme to all secondary schools. [33347/15]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: School Meals Programme (29 Sep 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: 215. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection if she will provide, in tabular form, the first-year and full-year cost of expanding the school meals programme by 15%, and of extending the expanded programme to include an additional breakfast meal. [33348/15]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: School Meals Programme (29 Sep 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: 216. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection if she will provide, in tabular form, the first-year and full-year cost of increasing the current funding for the school meals programme to local groups and voluntary organisations which operate their own school meals projects by 5%, 10%, 15% and 20%. [33349/15]