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Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Immigrant Investor Programme Data (27 Mar 2018)

Pearse Doherty: 291. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of affordable and social homes built and the value of investment in these areas made through the immigrant investor programme to date and in the future; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13577/18]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Personal Insolvency Practitioners (27 Mar 2018)

Pearse Doherty: 293. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality his plans for legislative change in view of the ruling regarding the standing of personal insolvency practitioners, PIPs, in reviews as per section 115A of the Personal Insolvency Act 2012 in order to remove ambiguity; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13616/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (27 Mar 2018)

Pearse Doherty: 331. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Donegal will have a procedure carried out at Sligo University Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13521/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Services for People with Disabilities (27 Mar 2018)

Pearse Doherty: 334. To ask the Minister for Health if a reply will issue to correspondence from a group (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13524/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Beds Data (27 Mar 2018)

Pearse Doherty: 347. To ask the Minister for Health the bed capacity at each of the community hospitals in County Donegal in each of the years 2011 to 2017 and to date in 2018; the number of bed closures which have occurred at each of these facilities during this period; the reason for each such closure; the average percentage occupancy rate experienced at each of these facilities during this period in...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Home Services (27 Mar 2018)

Pearse Doherty: 348. To ask the Minister for Health when the review of the pricing system in respect of long-term residential care with service providers, and as recommended by the review of the fair deal scheme will be published; the steps being taken to develop a fit-for-purpose funding model for nursing home care; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13689/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Home Services (27 Mar 2018)

Pearse Doherty: 349. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to introduce an appeals mechanism as part of the fair deal scheme to provide recourse for service providers unable to formally agree fees and pricing with the NTPF; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13690/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Applications (27 Mar 2018)

Pearse Doherty: 403. To ask the Minister for Health when a medical card application by a person (details supplied) in County Donegal will be processed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13962/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Qualifications (27 Mar 2018)

Pearse Doherty: 410. To ask the Minister for Health the progress which has been made to establish a recognised standard of training for practitioners of acupuncture (details supplied); if academic validation of training programmes in this field by QQI is in place; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13987/18]

Other Questions: Brexit Issues (22 Mar 2018)

Pearse Doherty: 15. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the steps he has taken to ensure Ireland, North and South, will continue to receive the maximum benefits from the Structural Funds programmes in the next period of the Cohesion Fund; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13219/18]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Capital Expenditure Programme (22 Mar 2018)

Pearse Doherty: 4. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the flexibility in terms of capital spend he has sought from the European Union in view of Ireland’s need to catch up on capital investment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13218/18]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: National Lottery Licence Sale (22 Mar 2018)

Pearse Doherty: 2. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the reason unclaimed lottery prizes are no longer returned to the prize fund; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13519/18]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Proposed Sale of Non-Performing Loans to Private Investment Funds (Vulture Funds): Permanent TSB (22 Mar 2018)

Pearse Doherty: Go raibh maith agaibh as ucht an cur i láthair. At the end of 2017 the total value of non-performing loans was €5.3 billion. Of how many loans is that figure made up?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Proposed Sale of Non-Performing Loans to Private Investment Funds (Vulture Funds): Permanent TSB (22 Mar 2018)

Pearse Doherty: That takes us to the next graph which shows a figure of 32,000 loans.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Proposed Sale of Non-Performing Loans to Private Investment Funds (Vulture Funds): Permanent TSB (22 Mar 2018)

Pearse Doherty: I will come back to the point when I look at the slide. With regard to split mortgages, an issue raised by Deputy Michael McGrath, the delegates state the current guideline is that split mortgages are non-performing. I questioned AIB about this, particularly Mr. Jim O'Keeffe. I asked him whether the view of the ECB was that the warehouse portion of the split mortgage was non-performing....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Proposed Sale of Non-Performing Loans to Private Investment Funds (Vulture Funds): Permanent TSB (22 Mar 2018)

Pearse Doherty: I understand they are not meeting the criteria in Permanent TSB, but my understanding is they are meeting the criteria in other banks. Is that Mr. Groarke's understanding?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Proposed Sale of Non-Performing Loans to Private Investment Funds (Vulture Funds): Permanent TSB (22 Mar 2018)

Pearse Doherty: I appreciate that. Last year my colleague Mr. Matt Carthy asked questions about the working group. It has now been established. I am interested in hearing whether the bank has been given any feedback by the group. I am sure some of the delegates, as senior bankers in a State-owned institution, know what their competitor is doing. Can they tell us that their understanding is the split...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Proposed Sale of Non-Performing Loans to Private Investment Funds (Vulture Funds): Permanent TSB (22 Mar 2018)

Pearse Doherty: Would the delegation be shocked to find out that a portion of AIB's split mortgages are deemed to be performing?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Proposed Sale of Non-Performing Loans to Private Investment Funds (Vulture Funds): Permanent TSB (22 Mar 2018)

Pearse Doherty: Would the delegation be shocked to find out that a bank operating in the State under the same guidelines has split mortgages that are deemed to be performing?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Proposed Sale of Non-Performing Loans to Private Investment Funds (Vulture Funds): Permanent TSB (22 Mar 2018)

Pearse Doherty: I take it from the delegation that it expects the position to be the same across all financial institutions, that is, that the loans would be deemed to be non-performing.