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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: SOLAS Training and Education Programmes (9 May 2018)

Pearse Doherty: 129. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the cost of each of the top ten most costly SOLAS courses provided by each education and training board in each of the past five years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20407/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (9 May 2018)

Pearse Doherty: 164. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Donegal will be referred to St. James's Hospital, Dublin 8; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20239/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (9 May 2018)

Pearse Doherty: 262. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her Department has an obligation to advise jobseekers who are taking up employment that they may have an entitlement to certain payments such as the back to work family dividend scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20269/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Back to Work Family Dividend Scheme (9 May 2018)

Pearse Doherty: 263. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason the back to work dividend scheme does not facilitate an arrangement whereby payments can be collected by recipients at post offices; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20270/18]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Oideachas Gaeilge (9 May 2018)

Pearse Doherty: 293. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht an bhfuil sí ar an eolas faoi na deacrachtaí atá ag coláiste Gaeilge i gContae Dhún na nGall (sonraí curtha ar fáil) maidir le tacaíochtaí airgeadais a fháil ó na gníomhaireachtaí ábhartha, rud a fhágann nach dtig leis an gcoláiste rochtain a...

Health Service Reform: Motion [Private Members] (8 May 2018)

Pearse Doherty: Gabhaim buíochas leis na Teachtaí Neamhspleácha ón tuath fá choinne an rún seo a chur os comhair na Dála. The wide range of issues covered by this Private Members' motion points to a system that is suffering from chronic under-investment by this and the previous Government. As my party's spokesperson on finance, I have said for the past few years, as we...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: State Claims Agency: Discussion (8 May 2018)

Pearse Doherty: I will pick up on a couple of the points raised by my colleague, Senator Conway-Walsh. In response to one of her questions, the witness said that his understanding was that all women were notified of the non-disclosure. This was during a period when the HSE was being taken to court by Ms Phelan because of non-disclosure. How is Mr. Breen satisfied to make that statement? How was he...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: State Claims Agency: Discussion (8 May 2018)

Pearse Doherty: All the 208 women who had been identified.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: State Claims Agency: Discussion (8 May 2018)

Pearse Doherty: What position was the person in CervicalCheck who gave Mr. Breen that assurance at that time in?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: State Claims Agency: Discussion (8 May 2018)

Pearse Doherty: What we know now is that that information was false.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: State Claims Agency: Discussion (8 May 2018)

Pearse Doherty: It was way off the mark. I am deeply alarmed that we have the State Claims Agency pursuing a victim, somebody who was let down badly by the State with regard to non-disclosure and CervicalCheck, and some senior person in there was telling Mr. Breen that all the women identified in the audit had actually been informed and that there were no other Vicky Phelans out there in terms of non-disclosure.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: State Claims Agency: Discussion (8 May 2018)

Pearse Doherty: We will come back to that. On the issue of the assurances the State Claims Agency was given, can Mr. Breen provide the committee with the position of the person within CervicalCheck who assured the State Claims Agency that all other women had been notified?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: State Claims Agency: Discussion (8 May 2018)

Pearse Doherty: What is Mr. Breen's view on the fact the State Claims Agency was given inaccurate information during a legal case - information which was clearly inaccurate - that these women were notified?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: State Claims Agency: Discussion (8 May 2018)

Pearse Doherty: Mr. Breen mentioned to Senator Conway-Walsh with regard to the quarterly meetings the State Claims Agency has with the HSE executive and the management team, at which they go through the list of cases the State Claims Agency is handling, that he is satisfied the director general is briefed by these individuals. Can he stand over that claim?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: State Claims Agency: Discussion (8 May 2018)

Pearse Doherty: Do those briefings identify the individuals who are taking claims?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: State Claims Agency: Discussion (8 May 2018)

Pearse Doherty: They deal with the substance of the claim or the generality.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: State Claims Agency: Discussion (8 May 2018)

Pearse Doherty: I will come back to the numbers. In Mr. Breen's opening statement, he talked about nine other similar cases. Tony O'Brien appeared before a committee of this House last Wednesday and he talked about a list he had received from the State Claims Agency and stated there were ten cases on that list. He said:There are ten on this list that I can see in front of me, but I cannot share it with...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: State Claims Agency: Discussion (8 May 2018)

Pearse Doherty: So when he described this as active and said they are listed as active, one of them was not active.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: State Claims Agency: Discussion (8 May 2018)

Pearse Doherty: There was also discussion about a prior case that did not involve the State Claim's Agency that was settled with a lab in America. Was the State Claims Agency aware of this settlement?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: State Claims Agency: Discussion (8 May 2018)

Pearse Doherty: Was it notified of it?