Results 30,241-30,260 of 36,188 for speaker:Pearse Doherty

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Banking Sector Issues (16 Jul 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 249. To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to news reports in Spain that Deloitte may lose its Spanish licence to operate in the country as an auditor as a result of the very serious violations found by the Economy Ministry's ICAC Accounting and Audit Institute in their investigation of the firm's role as Bankia's auditor, if he will confirm whether these types of...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: NAMA Legal Issues (16 Jul 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 260. To ask the Minister for Finance ff his attention has been drawn to a letter sent on 17 June from the National Assets Management Agency to a number of litigants in a case in New York, where the issue of Anglo overcharging interest on loans is being heard the contents of which include an implicit threat to the litigants to cease their action or face potential loan foreclosure and...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: NAMA Legal Issues (16 Jul 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 261. To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to evidence given in a trial currently taking place involving the National Assets Management Agency and a person (details supplied) where it has been alleged that David Drumm in his role in Anglo Irish Bank at the time, agreed to the transfer of interest in a loan that was held in this person's name to other members of their...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: NAMA Loan Book (16 Jul 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 262. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of asset management companies that have been commissioned by the National Asset Management Agency to date; their names; the total value of the assets being managed by these third party companies; the individual and total fees being paid to these third party companies; and his views that NAMA, an asset management company, has chosen this policy...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Garda Investigations (16 Jul 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 263. To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to the allegations made in a national newspaper on Tuesday 9 July by former Irish Life and Permanent Chairman (details supplied), where they state they made a statement to the Office of the Director of Corporate Enforcement and the Garda Bureau of Fraud Investigation on the window dressing of Anglo Irish’s end of year...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Garda Investigations (16 Jul 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 264. To ask the Minister for Finance if it was a policy of the Central Bank of Ireland in the years leading up to 2008 and following, to allow banks to make deposit transfers between themselves to address deficiencies in end of year accounts; if this was an overt policy of the Central Bank of Ireland or did the Bank simply tolerate the policy, as has been alleged. [34766/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Garda Investigations (16 Jul 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 265. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on the statement made by former Irish Life and Permanent chairman (details supplied) that support provided by IL&P to Anglo Irish bank arose solely as a result of a request by the Central Bank of Ireland and Financial Regulator, and that the two had requested IL&P to protect the stability of the Irish financial system. [34767/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Banking Sector Issues (16 Jul 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 266. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will confirm that Anglo Irish Bank sought as a solution to its difficulties on 29 and 30 September 2008, the provision of short term liquidity support; and if he will explain the reason an alternative to a blanket guarantee, if proposed, was ruled out. [34780/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Yield (16 Jul 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 267. To ask the Minister for Finance the revenue that could be raised for the Exchequer with the Standard Fund Threshold for pensions reduced to the amount proposed by budget 2013; the income ceiling link for pension tax reliefs reduced to €70,000 per annum, and the tax relief for pension contributions standardised. [34782/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Departmental Expenditure (16 Jul 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 268. To ask the Minister for Finance the amount of fees paid to a person (details supplied) by his Department since vacating the position as Attorney General on the 9 March 2011. [34910/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Collection (16 Jul 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 271. To ask the Minister for Finance if capital gains tax is collated in such a way as to be able to determine the revenue that would be raised if capital gains tax was higher on vacant land that has benefitted in value from rezoning-planning developments; and what the revenue would be if capital gains tax on those occasions was charged at 50%, 60%, 70% and 80% respectively. [34931/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Banking Sector Regulation (16 Jul 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 273. To ask the Minister for Finance if an observer on behalf of the Central Bank or the Department of Finance was ever present at an Anglo Irish Bank board meeting subsequent to the 2008 bank guarantee; if there was a capacity for the presence of such an observer; if so, on what dates the observers were present and on whose behalf; and if the observers ever heard a reference to the existence...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Central Bank of Ireland Investigations (16 Jul 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 275. To ask the Minister for Finance when the Central Bank of Ireland first learned of the existence of, as distinct to the content of, the Anglo Irish Bank tapes. [34946/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Income Data (16 Jul 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 280. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will set out the effective tax rates paid by income earners in certain categories (details supplied). [35112/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: European Banking Sector (16 Jul 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 281. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on comments (details supplied) by Commissioner Barnier on 10 July stating that the proposed bank resolution scheme would not have fully protected the State from the collapse of Anglo Irish Bank. [35119/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Corporation Tax (16 Jul 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 285. To ask the Minister for Finance the once-off saving that could be made for the Exchequer if he ended the provision allowing companies to carry back losses for tax rebate purposes. [35154/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Yield (16 Jul 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 286. To ask the Minister for Finance the current treatment of undistributed reserves in companies; if he will set out the revenue that could be raised for the Exchequer if the tax-free lump sum upon retirement for directors, who withdrew them from the undistributed reserves, be reduced to €200,000 and capital acquisitions tax, at a rate of 40%, was applied to the remainder of the money...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: NAMA Transactions (16 Jul 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 288. To ask the Minister for Finance if the National Asset Management Agency has advanced a project completion loan to a person (details supplied); the amount of the loan that has been advanced and the project for which this loan has been advanced. [35179/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: NAMA Transactions (16 Jul 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 289. To ask the Minister for Finance if Anglo Irish Bank advanced a loan to a person (details supplied) in 2009; if so, his views on a loan being advanced to this person, despite their being a member of the Maple ten; and his views on whether a loan like this should not have drawn the attention of the public interest directors in the bank. [35180/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Credits (16 Jul 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 298. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No.74 of 3 July 2013, if he will set out the increase in the effective tax rates that would be incurred if the measures set out in the parliamentary question were applied (details supplied). [35450/13]