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Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Avoidance Issues (29 May 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 78. To ask the Minister for Finance if he has considered imposing limits on the transfer of losses within group companies; if such a precedent exists for this limiting in other States; the conditions that currently apply to the transfer of losses in group companies. [26067/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Avoidance Issues (29 May 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 81. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated loss to the Exchequer in corporation tax as a result of loss transfers among group companies; his views on whether this is aggressive tax planning and avoidance; the steps he has taken to alleviate the impact of this on the Exchequer; and the steps he has taken at European level to ensure this type of activity is limited. [26070/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Data (29 May 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 79. To ask the Minister for Finance if tax data on multinational companies based here is collated separately; and if so, if he will state the minimum effective rate of tax paid by multinational corporations to the Exchequer. [26068/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Yield (29 May 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 80. To ask the Minister for Finance the amount that could be raised for the Exchequer if corporation tax was applied to dividends received by one Irish resident company from another Irish resident company. [26069/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Yield (29 May 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 82. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated loss to the Exchequer from the corporation tax exemption from capital gains on gains arising on the disposal of substantial shareholdings where the Irish parented group is engaged in trading activities and the subsidiary is resident in an EU Member State or a tax treaty country. [26071/13]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Companies Statistics (29 May 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 120. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of redomiciled public limited companies operating here; and the number that have been established in each of the past ten years. [25968/13]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Companies Law Issues (29 May 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 121. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation his views on whether, following a 1998 report on Irish Registered Non-Resident Companies, changes need to be made to IRNR companies including an activity test for all companies applying for registration that would see a precondition of applying for registration being required to demonstrate that it intends to carry on a business or...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Eligibility (29 May 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 127. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason a carer's allowance application 15 months to process and was refused in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Dublin. [25977/13]

Order of Business (28 May 2013)

Pearse Doherty: On election topics, the Taoiseach spoke about transparency and not hiding any truths from the people, regardless of how difficult were those truths. In that context, when will the Government lay before the Houses the report from Ernst & Young that was commissioned in 2009 into the actions of Irish Nationwide and how that financial institution was being run? Four years have elapsed...

Leaders' Questions (28 May 2013)

Pearse Doherty: One used Dáil privilege and the other did not.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Services Provision (28 May 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 96. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on the presentation made recently in the Oireachtas by Down Syndrome Ireland and the fact that Down syndrome is not included in one of the 11 low incidence disabilities that qualified for resource teaching hours; his views on whether Down syndrome should be reclassified as a low incidence disability. [25402/13]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Institutes of Technology Issues (28 May 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 104. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide details of the investigation by the Higher Education Authority that is to examine the expense claims by institutes of technology including its terms of reference; and the projected timescale for when it is to be completed. [25401/13]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: IFSC Clearing House Group (28 May 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 124. To ask the Taoiseach the number of officials who have been present at each IFSC Clearing House Group meeting since March 2011 including each working group. [25673/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Corporation Tax (28 May 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 159. To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to any arrangement explicit or implicit that has been entered into with Apple in order to limit tax paid by the company here; if there is such an arrangement; if he will provide details of that arrangement including the length of time it has been operable; the amount it has cost the State; and the person that negotiated the...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Corporation Tax (28 May 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 160. To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to any arrangements with any multi national corporations based here which allows special treatment for tax purposes; if any MNCs have made representations to him or his Department to avail of special tax reliefs; if any other organisation including business representatives or tax consultancy and advisory firms have made an...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Corporation Tax (28 May 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 177. To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to any tax incentive that was offered to Apple to enter Ireland in the 1980s; if so, if he will state what the incentive consisted of; and if he will confirm if other multi national corporations were offered incentives. [25524/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Yield (28 May 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 156. To ask the Minister for Finance the amount that could be raised for the Exchequer if the current withholding exemption on royalties was abolished and a 1% withholding tax was applied to outgoing royalties from Irish companies to foreign holding companies; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25295/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Yield (28 May 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 189. To ask the Minister for Finance the revenue that would be raised for the Exchequer if withholding tax was applied to dividends paid to treaty countries. [25592/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: NAMA Loan Offers (28 May 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 157. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will set out by region/country the percentage amount and individual monetary amounts of finance forwarded by National Assets Management Agency to developers to complete projects in 2012 and to date in 2013. [25296/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Departmental Meetings (28 May 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 158. To ask the Minister for Finance if he or anyone in his Department during this administration or during the previous administration held meetings with representatives of Apple. [25297/13]