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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education and Training Provision (31 Jan 2017)

Pearse Doherty: 235. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the total funding allocated to County Donegal-based training facilities for the provision of tourism and hospitality related training courses and programmes for 2015 and 2016; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4420/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education and Training Provision (31 Jan 2017)

Pearse Doherty: 236. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the total funding allocated to all institutions and training facilities for the provision of tourism and hospitality related training courses and programmes for 2015 and 2016; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4421/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education and Training Provision (31 Jan 2017)

Pearse Doherty: 237. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the role which his Department plays in the development of tourism and hospitality skills and training policy; the extent to which co-operation exists with other Departments, agencies, bodies and other stakeholders in policy development; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4422/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Defibrillators in Schools Provision (31 Jan 2017)

Pearse Doherty: 192. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if consideration will be given to a request from a school (details supplied) in County Donegal for the provision of a defibrillator; the funding options and appropriate channels through which such a device may be applied for and sought; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4115/17]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: European Fund for Strategic Investments (31 Jan 2017)

Pearse Doherty: 375. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the funding drawn down by the State to date under the Juncker plan, by project, in tabular form; the date the spending of the funding began; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4499/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff Recruitment (31 Jan 2017)

Pearse Doherty: 472. To ask the Minister for Health the current staffing vacancies which have yet to be filled at the oncology department at Letterkenny University Hospital, in tabular form, including all vacancies at the hospital for which post holders are ordinarily responsible or involved in the administering of chemotherapy treatments to patients; the date on which each such post became vacant; the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff Data (31 Jan 2017)

Pearse Doherty: 473. To ask the Minister for Health the periods of leave and or time off work taken by staff at the oncology department at Letterkenny University Hospital during 2016 and in 2017 to date, in tabular form, including all such leave periods taken by post holders who are ordinarily responsible for or involved in the administering of chemotherapy treatments to patients; the dates on which each...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Consultant Recruitment (31 Jan 2017)

Pearse Doherty: 526. To ask the Minister for Health the date on which authorities were first formally notified that the vacant consultant medical oncologist post at Letterkenny University Hospital was to become vacant; the date on which the post became vacant; the date on which the vacant post was first advertised; the dates on which the vacant post was subsequently re-advertised, if applicable; and if he...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff Recruitment (31 Jan 2017)

Pearse Doherty: 527. To ask the Minister for Health the date on which authorities were first formally notified that a locum (details supplied) was to vacate the post; the date on which the locum vacated the post; the date on which a successor locum was appointed; the date on which this successor is expected to take up this position at the hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3995/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Services for People with Disabilities (31 Jan 2017)

Pearse Doherty: 578. To ask the Minister for Health his plans for the establishment of a database for children born with complex needs and rare conditions; if he has considered the merit of such information gathering, specifically in terms of more accurately measuring existing demographic trends and the enhanced forecasting of future service need, particularly concerning both the provision of health and...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: GLAS Payments (31 Jan 2017)

Pearse Doherty: 642. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason for the delay in a 2016 GLAS payment for a person (details supplied) in County Donegal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4000/17]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Correspondence (31 Jan 2017)

Pearse Doherty: 661. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason a response has not yet been issued to correspondence he has received from a person (details supplied) in which the sender outlines a number of very serious concerns relating to a food production facility; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4544/17]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Live Exports (31 Jan 2017)

Pearse Doherty: 662. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 257 of 2 February 2016, the progress which has been made to ease these restrictions since that date; if he has discussed this matter with his Chinese Government counterpart; the role he has taken to date to persuade the Chinese authorities to lift these restrictions; if his attention has been...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Energy Policy (31 Jan 2017)

Pearse Doherty: 680. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the way in which he plans to ensure the costs incurred by households which opt to heat their properties using renewable energy sources such as renewable biofuels are no greater than those incurred by households whose heating and energy needs are met by the utilisation of non-renewable energy sources such as fossil...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Tourism Employment Data (31 Jan 2017)

Pearse Doherty: 732. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the role which his Department plays in the development of tourism and hospitality skills and training policy; the extent to which co-operation exists with other Departments, agencies, bodies and other stakeholders in policy development; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4478/17]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Tourism Funding (31 Jan 2017)

Pearse Doherty: 730. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the total funding allocated by his Department to County Donegal-based training facilities for the provision of tourism and-or hospitality related training courses and programmes for 2015 and 2016; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4476/17]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Tourism Funding (31 Jan 2017)

Pearse Doherty: 731. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the total funding allocated by his Department to all institutions and training facilities for the provision of tourism and-or hospitality related training courses and programmes for 2015 and 2016; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4477/17]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Business and Banking: Discussion. (26 Jan 2017)

Pearse Doherty: Cuirim fáilte roimh gach éinne. I agree with the Chairman and Deputy Michael McGrath that the three groups put forward very good and strong presentations. My colleague, Senator Rose Conway-Walsh will focus more on public banking and the submission from the chairman of the Friends of Banking Ireland. I will touch on some of those issues later but first I focus on the issue of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Business and Banking: Discussion. (26 Jan 2017)

Pearse Doherty: Ulster Bank continued to claim that it was outside the scope of the Tomlinson report. Is that correct?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Business and Banking: Discussion. (26 Jan 2017)

Pearse Doherty: From Ms Lavin's engagement with Mr. Tomlinson at that meeting, was she led to believe that she was within the scope of his report?