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Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (1 Feb 2018)

Pearse Doherty: 191. To ask the Minister for Health the options available to a person (details supplied) who is unable to secure employment in the health sector here having previously worked outside of the State due to the requisite documentation being unattainable; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5009/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff Data (1 Feb 2018)

Pearse Doherty: 197. To ask the Minister for Health the staffing levels at a facility (details supplied) in County Donegal; the various positions held including all clinical and all non-clinical roles as at 1 January 2016, 2017 and 2018 respectively, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5039/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff Recruitment (1 Feb 2018)

Pearse Doherty: 198. To ask the Minister for Health if additional resources have been allocated to support a second consultant led adult diabetes team at Letterkenny university hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5040/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff Recruitment (1 Feb 2018)

Pearse Doherty: 200. To ask the Minister for Health if a full-time dietician based at Letterkenny University Hospital and dedicated to diabetes services is now in post; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5042/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff Recruitment (1 Feb 2018)

Pearse Doherty: 201. To ask the Minister for Health if the recently vacated diabetes clinical nurse specialist post at Letterkenny University Hospital has yet been advertised; the efforts being made to recruit for this role; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5043/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff Recruitment (1 Feb 2018)

Pearse Doherty: 202. To ask the Minister for Health if a suitable candidate has now been selected to fill the recently vacated paediatric diabetes clinical nurse specialist post at Letterkenny University Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5044/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (1 Feb 2018)

Pearse Doherty: 199. To ask the Minister for Health the waiting times in respect of review appointments as part of adult diabetes services at Letterkenny University Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5041/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (1 Feb 2018)

Pearse Doherty: 209. To ask the Minister for Health if a dedicated attendant will be provided to accompany persons on a bus service which operates and transports service users to and from a day care centre (details supplied) in County Donegal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5128/18]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Dublin Airport Authority (1 Feb 2018)

Pearse Doherty: 284. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the income and profit on parking at Dublin Airport for each of the past five years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5085/18]

Questions on Promised Legislation (31 Jan 2018)

Pearse Doherty: The Programme for a Partnership Government committed the Government not to sell any more than a 25% stake in any bank before the end of 2018. Unfortunately, the Government broke its own promise and proceeded with the sale of 28.75% of AIB. The investors who bought that stake are clinking glasses and popping champagne corks and toasting the Taoiseach and the Minister for Finance, Deputy...

Questions on Promised Legislation (31 Jan 2018)

Pearse Doherty: The Government blew €1 billion.

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Private Partnerships Data (31 Jan 2018)

Pearse Doherty: 149. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if all tenders for public private partnerships pending the implementation of a system that allows for a full cost-benefit analysis of such projects will be suspended; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4930/18]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Private Partnerships (31 Jan 2018)

Pearse Doherty: 150. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the additional safeguards he will put in place following the collapse of a company (details supplied) with regard to PPP contracts to safeguard the public interest; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4931/18]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Private Partnerships Data (31 Jan 2018)

Pearse Doherty: 151. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the value of PPPs awarded in each of the past ten years; the number of Irish companies that contracts were awarded to in each year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4932/18]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Tracker Mortgages: Bank of Ireland (30 Jan 2018)

Pearse Doherty: I thank Ms McDonagh for coming in. I had a brief conversation with her outside. I welcome her appointment to her position in the bank. I want to go over some ground with her. I will deal first with the cost to the bank of restoring the money it took from customers. The offers so far in terms of returning their money and the compensation above which amounts to €108 million. Is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Tracker Mortgages: Bank of Ireland (30 Jan 2018)

Pearse Doherty: So 10% of customers have not been contacted so far.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Tracker Mortgages: Bank of Ireland (30 Jan 2018)

Pearse Doherty: So 10%, if one was to do a linear calculation on it, would amount to another €11 million cost to the bank. There is provision for between €150 million and €175 million.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Tracker Mortgages: Bank of Ireland (30 Jan 2018)

Pearse Doherty: There are three legal cases against the bank as a result of the tracker mortgage issue. Has it provisioned for the possibility of large sums being awarded against the bank in those court cases?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Tracker Mortgages: Bank of Ireland (30 Jan 2018)

Pearse Doherty: We cannot go into any of the legal cases, but I will be rooting for the customers who are taking the bank to the courts and I encourage others to test these issues in the courts also. Appendix 2 refers to someone who was currently or previously in legal proceedings as a result of going into arrears, including the issuance of a demand letter. That could have been the person Ms McDonagh was...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Tracker Mortgages: Bank of Ireland (30 Jan 2018)

Pearse Doherty: We asked the bank a question about hearing from customers and it provided a written answer. It answered that the offer of redress and compensation is the offer and customers should go to the independent appeals panel so unless a customer informed the bank that he or she contemplated taking his or her own life, the bank would not be aware of it. If such a person was performing and not in...