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Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Jobseeker's Allowance Applications (9 May 2017)

Pearse Doherty: 304. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a jobseeker's application will be processed for a person (details supplied) in County Donegal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22039/17]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Pension Provisions (9 May 2017)

Pearse Doherty: 325. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he has received a letter from this Deputy dated 3 April 2017 concerning the issue of pension entitlement for community employment scheme supervisors and assistant supervisors; when a response will issue; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21590/17]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Flood Prevention Measures (9 May 2017)

Pearse Doherty: 327. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the scores recorded for each area across the State in which a cost benefit analysis of planned flood defence schemes has been conducted by the OPW and the relevant authorities, in tabular form; the minimum cost benefit score required to be achieved by an area in order for scheme works to be deemed viable; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Flood Prevention Measures (9 May 2017)

Pearse Doherty: 328. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the steps which will be taken to provide flood protection and defences in areas in which schemes have been deemed to be financially unviable; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21674/17]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Flood Prevention Measures (9 May 2017)

Pearse Doherty: 329. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the parameters used and methodology employed in order to assess each flood defence scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21675/17]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Tender Process (9 May 2017)

Pearse Doherty: 332. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his plans to revise and update existing tendering practices and procurement procedures employed across the public sector with a view to ensuring that all private companies contracted to provide goods and or services and which are in receipt of public moneys are compliant with their legal obligations and responsibilities as employers;...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Applications (9 May 2017)

Pearse Doherty: 429. To ask the Minister for Health the reason for the delay in processing a medical card application by a person (details supplied) in County Donegal; when a decision in respect of this application will be made; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21600/17]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Employment Rights (9 May 2017)

Pearse Doherty: 657. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation her plans to amend the Organisation of Working Time Act 1997 in order to provide a clear and fixed definition of reasonable paid allowances, pay increases and or paid time off work with respect to Sunday premiums and supplemental provisions for workers; her views on whether the current lack of clarity in this area is enabling...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces Representative Organisations (9 May 2017)

Pearse Doherty: 681. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence his plans to review the restrictions on the rights of members of the Defence Forces to the collective bargaining process and to participate in various forms of industrial action; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22017/17]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Improving Investment Opportunities in the Wider Economy: Discussion (4 May 2017)

Pearse Doherty: Ba mhaith liom fáilte a chur roimh na finnéithe go dtí an coiste. Tá cúpla ceist agam i dtús báire. B'fhéidir go gcuirfidh mé ceist ar an tUasal Ashmore ar an gcéad dul síos. Could I ask Mr. Ashmore about the role of the Strategic Banking Corporation of Ireland, SBCI? I have met with it a number of times. The work it does is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Improving Investment Opportunities in the Wider Economy: Discussion (4 May 2017)

Pearse Doherty: I might write to the SBCI and ask the IFA, whose representatives raised it with me, to bring it to the SBCI's attention as well. In respect of the ambition of the organisation, where does Mr. Ashmore see it going? We see the figures here. The agricultural long lending is very impressive and has been hugely welcomed by farmers but we see other areas relating to SMEs. When one puts it in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Improving Investment Opportunities in the Wider Economy: Discussion (4 May 2017)

Pearse Doherty: Is there any vision or ambition for the SBCI to apply for a banking licence in the medium to longer term, for example?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Improving Investment Opportunities in the Wider Economy: Discussion (4 May 2017)

Pearse Doherty: On the support that SBCI provided to individuals and SMEs, what proportion of those loans, to Mr. Ashmore's knowledge, are in default or are non-performing?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Improving Investment Opportunities in the Wider Economy: Discussion (4 May 2017)

Pearse Doherty: Not with the recoverability of any of the loans?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Improving Investment Opportunities in the Wider Economy: Discussion (4 May 2017)

Pearse Doherty: It is early days yet.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Improving Investment Opportunities in the Wider Economy: Discussion (4 May 2017)

Pearse Doherty: I thank Mr. Ashmore. We welcome the work that he and his team are doing in that area. I welcome the establishment of an EIB office here in December. Mr. Andrew McDowell said last year that if he was giving Ireland a report card, it would read "could do better". Last year, the EIB group invested €950 million in the country through the European Investment Bank and the European...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Improving Investment Opportunities in the Wider Economy: Discussion (4 May 2017)

Pearse Doherty: I am not criticising Mr. McDowell for that, because there is an issue with Ireland. It is not just the State. These are private corporations that apply for funding from the EIB. To come up to the European average, we should be at approximately €1.4 billion per annum, yet we have the worst percentage of public investment in the European Union. The European average is made up of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Improving Investment Opportunities in the Wider Economy: Discussion (4 May 2017)

Pearse Doherty: On Mr. McDowell's comment on Brexit - and the British Government's role in and part ownership of the EIB will still have to be worked out - his view that the EIB will do less lending in the UK is natural, although it lends outside the European Union. Can he address concerns about the EIB's involvement in the North of Ireland? As we know, the population in the North voted to stay within the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Improving Investment Opportunities in the Wider Economy: Discussion (4 May 2017)

Pearse Doherty: Regarding social housing, there was a recent announcement of a €200 million investment by the EIB, forming part of an overall €405 million social housing package, to construct 1,400 new houses. What is Mr. McDowell's understanding of the timeframe for those house completions? Why are we not seeing a more ambitious programme? While we welcome what is the EIB's second round of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Improving Investment Opportunities in the Wider Economy: Discussion (4 May 2017)

Pearse Doherty: We have discussed this matter and the French model and, without knowing the details, I am encouraged to hear that there will be an announcement on social housing investment involving the EIB. Mr. McDowell mentioned structure funds. We have a fund, namely, the old pensions reserve fund. We have €8 billion in a discretionary portfolio. Some of it is used in the Irish Strategic...