Results 18,341-18,360 of 35,756 for speaker:Pearse Doherty
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Provision (5 Jul 2017)
Pearse Doherty: 171. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) in County Donegal has not been offered a long-term bed in a residential facility; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31615/17]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Provision (5 Jul 2017)
Pearse Doherty: 172. To ask the Minister for Health if there is a policy in a residential facility (details supplied) in County Donegal that persons awaiting long-term beds must vacate the premises to avail of such placements; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31616/17]
- Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Exceptional Needs Payment Applications (5 Jul 2017)
Pearse Doherty: 249. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason a person (details supplied) in County Donegal was refused an exceptional needs payment to purchase special equipment for a child with cerebral palsy; if this decision will be reconsidered in the event that supporting medical evidence is provided; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31662/17]
- Topical Issue Debate: Insurance Costs (4 Jul 2017)
Pearse Doherty: Táim buíoch don Leas-Cheann Comhairle as ucht an t-am a thabhairt dom an t-ábhar tábhachtach seo a phlé leis an Aire Stáit. Cuirim fáilte roimh an Aire Stáit. Táim ag cur an cheist árachas margaidh os comhair an Tí. Early this morning, it was confirmed that the Competition and Consumer Protection Commission carried out a series of...
- Topical Issue Debate: Insurance Costs (4 Jul 2017)
Pearse Doherty: I appreciate the Minister of State's comments. I will raise this matter with Insurance Ireland and ask the mart owners to do likewise. However, given that he is the Minister of State with responsibility for examining the cost of businesses, and I note his comments about the IFA, I can tell him that the businesses in Donegal with which I have spoken are seeing dramatic increases in their...
- Order of Business (4 Jul 2017)
Pearse Doherty: There are many grand statements, promises and commitments in the programme for Government. I want to address waiting times, in particular those with concerns for breast cancer treatment. What will the Government do about the fact that 143 women in County Donegal, who have been referred by their GPs to the systematic breast disease clinic, have been waiting over a year to be seen? Hundreds...
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank Bill 2017: Committee Stage (4 Jul 2017)
Pearse Doherty: I have no objections to the section and welcome that the Dáil needs to approve an amendment to the agreement. I have argued for such a provision in previous legislation, particularly the Finance (Certain European Union and Intergovernmental Obligations) Bill, which was originally the Single Resolution Board (Loan Facility Agreement) Bill. After some arguing we reached agreement that...
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank Bill 2017: Committee Stage (4 Jul 2017)
Pearse Doherty: The Bill is very short legislation with which I have no problem; in fact I welcome it. Why did it take so long to join the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank? Why did we not join in the first wave of European countries that signed up to the bank? We would have had additional advantages as founding members. As a result of the delay in joining, we are not deemed founding members and...
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank Bill 2017: Committee Stage (4 Jul 2017)
Pearse Doherty: What advantageous positions have we lost as a result of our delay and not joining the first wave of European countries, thereby not being deemed a founding member?
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank Bill 2017: Committee Stage (4 Jul 2017)
Pearse Doherty: That sounds like we could be outvoted. Will the Minister explain to the committee the significance of the voting weight of a member state at the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank and the impact that would have on, for example, capital stock and the profit that would be recorded within the bank that would be distributed to its shareholders?
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank Bill 2017: Committee Stage (4 Jul 2017)
Pearse Doherty: Is there a relationship between the vote share of a member and the capital stock that a member holds within the bank?
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank Bill 2017: Committee Stage (4 Jul 2017)
Pearse Doherty: How many shares?
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank Bill 2017: Committee Stage (4 Jul 2017)
Pearse Doherty: We have 1,300 shares.
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank Bill 2017: Committee Stage (4 Jul 2017)
Pearse Doherty: Do we have to provide anything to this bank for those shareholders? Is there a contingent liability in relation to those shareholdings? Is there a cost with those shareholdings?
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank Bill 2017: Committee Stage (4 Jul 2017)
Pearse Doherty: It is €25 million for 1,300 shares. Is that correct?
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank Bill 2017: Committee Stage (4 Jul 2017)
Pearse Doherty: How much is that per share roughly?
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank Bill 2017: Committee Stage (4 Jul 2017)
Pearse Doherty: My point is that if we had not dithered and waited, we would have got an extra 600 shares for free, which would have saved us about €12 million.
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank Bill 2017: Committee Stage (4 Jul 2017)
Pearse Doherty: I ask the Minister to just answer the question. Is that correct or false? Would we have got 600 shares for free if we had been one of the founding members? If we had one what some other European countries did, we would have got an additional 600 founding member share votes, which would have equalled our capital stock in the bank.
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank Bill 2017: Committee Stage (4 Jul 2017)
Pearse Doherty: So it would have saved €12 million.
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank Bill 2017: Committee Stage (4 Jul 2017)
Pearse Doherty: What about the 600 founding member votes?