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Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance
Chapter 1 - Exchequer Financial Outturn for 2013
Chapter 2 - Government Debt and Finance Accounts 2013 (14 May 2015)

Seán Fleming: Fine. If it is valued at €320 million, what is on offer in the public arena? I am not going to get into----

Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance
Chapter 1 - Exchequer Financial Outturn for 2013
Chapter 2 - Government Debt and Finance Accounts 2013 (14 May 2015)

Seán Fleming: So what is on offer for the share is just at the current market value.

Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance
Chapter 1 - Exchequer Financial Outturn for 2013
Chapter 2 - Government Debt and Finance Accounts 2013 (14 May 2015)

Seán Fleming: That €320 million is the offer price?

Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance
Chapter 1 - Exchequer Financial Outturn for 2013
Chapter 2 - Government Debt and Finance Accounts 2013 (14 May 2015)

Seán Fleming: Prior to the offer price, what value did the Department have? Was it a bit below that?

Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance
Chapter 1 - Exchequer Financial Outturn for 2013
Chapter 2 - Government Debt and Finance Accounts 2013 (14 May 2015)

Seán Fleming: That would be useful because the last reference we have is from 14 months ago. My next question concerns the same document in page 45. The officials will know what I am talking about. Under the EU-IMF programme in 2013, €61 million was paid in fees and expenses, I presume for the European Commission, the ECB and the IMF. In 2012, €85 million was paid, making a total of...

Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance
Chapter 1 - Exchequer Financial Outturn for 2013
Chapter 2 - Government Debt and Finance Accounts 2013 (14 May 2015)

Seán Fleming: No, I am looking for a total for the EU-IMF programme. I am sure there is something for 2011 as well, for 2011-2014.

Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance
Chapter 1 - Exchequer Financial Outturn for 2013
Chapter 2 - Government Debt and Finance Accounts 2013 (14 May 2015)

Seán Fleming: Are the payments finished? The officials might give the committee the breakdown of the figure. I suspect we are well over the €200 million; I do not know. The officials might give the breakdown of who got the payments between the IMF, the ECB and the Commission. They can send that on. Another schedule the officials can send on is that of the loans we drew down from the three...

Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance
Chapter 1 - Exchequer Financial Outturn for 2013
Chapter 2 - Government Debt and Finance Accounts 2013 (14 May 2015)

Seán Fleming: They had a hole in the balance sheet and were given money to fill it.

Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance
Chapter 1 - Exchequer Financial Outturn for 2013
Chapter 2 - Government Debt and Finance Accounts 2013 (14 May 2015)

Seán Fleming: The Department should know, though, as it put the money in on the basis of their projected write-offs and it had to fix a hole-----

Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance
Chapter 1 - Exchequer Financial Outturn for 2013
Chapter 2 - Government Debt and Finance Accounts 2013 (14 May 2015)

Seán Fleming: Pay it back, Ms Nolan means.

Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance
Chapter 1 - Exchequer Financial Outturn for 2013
Chapter 2 - Government Debt and Finance Accounts 2013 (14 May 2015)

Seán Fleming: I understand the information the officials are to come back to me with. They said that as part of the stress test done by the Central Bank or whoever, there was provision for some write-down of mortgages in some of the banks. What I am asking is, how much of the funding in respect of possible mortgage write-downs that went to the banks as a result of the stress test did the banks actually...

Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance
Chapter 1 - Exchequer Financial Outturn for 2013
Chapter 2 - Government Debt and Finance Accounts 2013 (14 May 2015)

Seán Fleming: Ms Nolan knows my question.

Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance
Chapter 1 - Exchequer Financial Outturn for 2013
Chapter 2 - Government Debt and Finance Accounts 2013 (14 May 2015)

Seán Fleming: The stress test must have included some estimate of the different categories of provision they were going to make.

Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance
Chapter 1 - Exchequer Financial Outturn for 2013
Chapter 2 - Government Debt and Finance Accounts 2013 (14 May 2015)

Seán Fleming: I will put it in my parliamentary question.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: HIQA Investigation into Midland Regional Hospital, Portlaoise: Health Information and Quality Authority (13 May 2015)

Seán Fleming: I thank the Chairman for this opportunity to speak at the committee. As a Laois person, I am sad that we are here again. I thank all the parents for the perseverance they have shown over the period, as otherwise we would not be here. I have a few straightforward questions which were referred to earlier. Mr. Quinn said that he could not say the service in Portlaoise hospital was safe....

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointment Status (13 May 2015)

Seán Fleming: 156. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Laois will receive a date for a heart bypass operation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18793/15]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Sovereign Debt (13 May 2015)

Seán Fleming: 165. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he attended the second committee session in relation to the sovereign debt restructuring processes to be considered by the United Nations in New York in the United States of America, from 28 to 30 April 2015; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18789/15]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (13 May 2015)

Seán Fleming: 179. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide a list, for each of the past three years, of the number of applications made for readers for leaving certificate examinations; the number of readers that were granted to students; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18792/15]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (13 May 2015)

Seán Fleming: 180. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide a list, for each of the past three years, of the number of applications made for readers for junior certificate examinations; the number of readers that were granted to students; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18794/15]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (13 May 2015)

Seán Fleming: 181. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a reader for the leaving certificate will be provided to a student (details supplied) in County Laois; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18796/15]