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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teachers' Panel Rights (9 Jun 2015)

Michael Creed: 945. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the way a qualified primary school teacher with five years' experience may access panel rights to secure a permanent position; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21504/15]

Aer Lingus Share Disposal: Motion (Resumed) (28 May 2015)

Michael Creed: I welcome the opportunity to say a few words on the proposal to sell the State's remaining minority shareholding in Aer Lingus. I listened earlier to Deputy Dooley's contribution. It is interesting to note that not a single member of either of the two main Opposition parties in the House is present for this debate. Deputy Dooley made an observation on the strength of the Aer Lingus balance...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Disability Allowance Payments (27 May 2015)

Michael Creed: 43. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a person (details supplied) in County Cork will receive arrears on a claim for disability allowance; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20890/15]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: European Commission Country Specific Recommendations: Commissioner for Economic and Financial Affairs, Taxation and Customs (26 May 2015)

Michael Creed: I welcome the Commissioner and his colleagues and apologise for being unavoidably late. I am interested in a couple of the country-specific recommendations to which he referred in his script and which were in the published recommendations. One has to do with VAT. The document from the Commission states that the Commission questions the efficiency of reduced and zero-rated consumption taxes...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Disability Allowance Applications (26 May 2015)

Michael Creed: 222. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a person (details supplied) in County Cork will receive a decision on a claim for a disability allowance; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20450/15]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Overview of the Banking Sector in Ireland (Resumed): Permanent TSB (13 May 2015)

Michael Creed: I welcome Mr. Masding and his colleagues and thank them for the presentation. I thank them also for the progress they have made in terms of the bank's financial stability, which is important to the State. I welcome in that regard the progress Permanent TSB has made with the Commission on its capital reserves. That has been reflected in external credit agencies - I think it was Moody's -...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Overview of the Banking Sector in Ireland (Resumed): Permanent TSB (13 May 2015)

Michael Creed: Retail and corporate deposits are a significant element of the bank's funding. Given the historically low levels of deposits, what is the flight risk? In other words, what is the risk given that people would say that only a marginal differential is available? It does not seem to me that anyone is chasing yield on deposits any more. The bank is actually losing money. Is Mr. Masding...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Overview of the Banking Sector in Ireland (Resumed): Permanent TSB (13 May 2015)

Michael Creed: How many of the bank's standard variable rate mortgage holders for principal private dwellings - family homes - are fully compliant and making their repayments on a monthly basis? What is the total number of mortgage holders? I am sure the information was provided but I have not seen that figure. Does the bank have that figure?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Overview of the Banking Sector in Ireland (Resumed): Permanent TSB (13 May 2015)

Michael Creed: The reason I am asking that question is that in the health insurance market and other areas we have seen the big switch. The bank's premium customers are causing the bank no hassle and paying every month but they may feel aggrieved. If they felt there was a competitor which would offer them a significant reduction in their standard variable rate and that it was of such a magnitude that it...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Overview of the Banking Sector in Ireland (Resumed): Permanent TSB (13 May 2015)

Michael Creed: I would go with that word.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Overview of the Banking Sector in Ireland (Resumed): Permanent TSB (13 May 2015)

Michael Creed: Certainly not.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Overview of the Banking Sector in Ireland (Resumed): Permanent TSB (13 May 2015)

Michael Creed: Some are more collegiate than others.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Overview of the Banking Sector in Ireland (Resumed): Permanent TSB (13 May 2015)

Michael Creed: Does the bank have a contingency plan for those compliant mortgage holders in the event of a big switch initiative? If the bank was in danger of losing 50,000 compliant mortgage holders in the morning, I am sure Mr. Masding would sit up and take notice.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Overview of the Banking Sector in Ireland (Resumed): Permanent TSB (13 May 2015)

Michael Creed: Mr. Masding might give me the number of compliant mortgage holders on standard variable rates when he gets a chance.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Overview of the Banking Sector in Ireland (Resumed): Permanent TSB (13 May 2015)

Michael Creed: The point is that some of the products are washing two faces. They are washing the face of a tracker mortgage as well as their own face.

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals (12 May 2015)

Michael Creed: 222. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason a social welfare pension appeal, which was acknowledged by the appeals office in January 2015, has yet to be decided upon; if she will expedite a decision in this case; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18113/15]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Appeals (12 May 2015)

Michael Creed: 245. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a decision will issue on a carer's allowance appeal in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Cork; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18455/15]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Invalidity Pension Appeals (12 May 2015)

Michael Creed: 253. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a decision will be made on an invalidity pension review in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Cork; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18571/15]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Agencies (12 May 2015)

Michael Creed: 301. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will outline progress made by the agency rationalisation programme: the number of agencies which have been merged or abolished since the Government came into office, and the remaining issues to be addressed during the lifetime of this Government; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18132/15]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Land Parcel Identification System (12 May 2015)

Michael Creed: 352. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide details of the membership of the land parcel identification system appeals committee; its modus operandi; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18363/15]