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Order of Business (20 Feb 2018)

Pearse Doherty: -----some of which were passed unanimously in this House, to proceed to Committee Stage?

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Central Bank of Ireland Staff (20 Feb 2018)

Pearse Doherty: 139. To ask the Minister for Finance the rules or conventions in place regarding cooling off periods for Central Bank employees taking up positions in the private sector; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8074/18]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Corporate Governance (20 Feb 2018)

Pearse Doherty: 140. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of directorships a person may hold in different financial institutions; the safeguards in place to ensure there are no conflicts of interest such as holding a directorship in competing companies; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8075/18]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Credit Union Regulation (20 Feb 2018)

Pearse Doherty: 141. To ask the Minister for Finance if an alterative rule based on a minimum investment grade for bank bonds will be put in place of the current severe restrictions on credit unions investing in bank bonds; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8153/18]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Credit Union Regulation (20 Feb 2018)

Pearse Doherty: 142. To ask the Minister for Finance if the existing counterpart limit of 25% in regard to credit union investment will be maintained in view of the fact there have been no regulatory issues as a result of the current rate; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8154/18]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Credit Union Regulation (20 Feb 2018)

Pearse Doherty: 143. To ask the Minister for Finance if effective and proportionate regulations will be reintroduced further to section 43(5) of the Credit Union Act 1997. [8155/18]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tracker Mortgage Examination Data (20 Feb 2018)

Pearse Doherty: 146. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on whether it is just those that victims of the tracker mortgage scandal that employed a financial adviser may lose out on a percentage of compensation or redress in order to pay these advisers; his further views on whether the compensation and redress payable should reflect this additional cost; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Data (20 Feb 2018)

Pearse Doherty: 181. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of schools which have three or more special classrooms for children with special educational needs and-or low incidence disabilities and which are without an administrative principal; the names and addresses of the schools, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8207/18]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Data (20 Feb 2018)

Pearse Doherty: 182. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of schools which have three or more special classrooms for children with special educational needs and-or low incidence disabilities and which have administrative principal status; the names and addresses of the schools, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8208/18]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (20 Feb 2018)

Pearse Doherty: 183. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the calculation method used for determining the auxiliary service grant payable to schools takes into account factors which may result in individual schools incurring additional costs and overheads such as those associated with the presence of special classrooms and so on; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8217/18]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Dumping at Sea (20 Feb 2018)

Pearse Doherty: 459. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his Department received a formal request from Donegal County Council to investigate the contents of potentially toxic materials dumped off the coast between 2015 and 2017 and to date in 2018; if there has been formal communication between the local authority and his Department in relation to the 2010 OSPAR Commission report into...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Community Employment Schemes Data (20 Feb 2018)

Pearse Doherty: 568. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection further to Parliamentary Questions Nos 310 and 311 of 7 March 2017, the details in respect of community employment schemes for 2017 and to date in 2018; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8786/18]

Questions on Promised Legislation (15 Feb 2018)

Pearse Doherty: Approval.

Questions on Promised Legislation (15 Feb 2018)

Pearse Doherty: The Minister has misled the House. As he knows, the legislation does not talk about consultation but about approval by both Houses. It is disappointing that he has decided to do what the Taoiseach did in response to our questions.

Questions on Promised Legislation (15 Feb 2018)

Pearse Doherty: The Minister should acknowledge that he has misled the House.

Questions on Promised Legislation (15 Feb 2018)

Pearse Doherty: My question relates to the commitment in the programme for Government to introduce a range of measures to keep people in the family home. Nothing concrete has been delivered from that commitment and we learned this week that Permanent TSB was to sell thousands of family homes to vulture funds. A State-owned bank is selling off the mortgages of working families to unregulated vulture funds....

Questions on Promised Legislation (15 Feb 2018)

Pearse Doherty: Will the Minister who is the owner of Permanent TSB tell it to stop feeding the vulture funds? Will he pick up the telephone and tell Jeremy Masding that State banks are no longer allowed to sell to vulture funds? Will the Government support my legislation, the Consumer Protection (Regulation of Credit Servicing Firms) (Amendment) Bill 2017, which will, for once and for all, regulate...

Questions on Promised Legislation (15 Feb 2018)

Pearse Doherty: It is.

Questions on Promised Legislation (15 Feb 2018)

Pearse Doherty: The Minister agreed-----

Leaders' Questions (15 Feb 2018)

Pearse Doherty: Over the past year there has been a mammoth amount of work done to restore the political institutions in the North. Sinn Féin’s focus has been doing that on the basis of respect, integrity and equality for all sections of society. When the latest round of talks was announced in January, we said that a sharp focused negotiation was required to resolve the outstanding issues of...