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Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Equality Proofing of Budgets (9 Jul 2014)

Stephen Donnelly: This question fits in very well with the conversation we have just had. Last October, I joined members of the equality budgeting campaign in making a submission to the Minister, Deputy Noonan, on whether equality budgeting could be incorporated into this country's budgetary process. He suggested that the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform is responsible for this area. At its...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Equality Proofing of Budgets (9 Jul 2014)

Stephen Donnelly: I have to say, with respect to whoever drafted the Minister's response, that it does not address the question I asked in any way. I asked whether a distributional analysis clarifying who is being asked to bear the highest burden will be provided by the Ministers, Deputies Howlin and Noonan, and their Cabinet colleagues when they come in here on budget day to propose a draft budget to the...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Staff Sick Leave (9 Jul 2014)

Stephen Donnelly: 22. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform further to his decision to deem all employees, including part-time employees not eligible for the pension scheme, of education and training boards to be public servants for the purpose of applying the sick pay scheme in the sector; if he will provide the funding necessary for the ETBs to cover the cost of the scheme; and if he will...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Budgets (9 Jul 2014)

Stephen Donnelly: 28. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide details of the 60% decline in central Exchequer funding for the Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation between 2008 and 2014, from €1.93 billion to €0.78 billion according to voted expenditure figures; his views on whether this reduction in funding is impacting on that Department's ability to...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: NAMA Operations (9 Jul 2014)

Stephen Donnelly: 49. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 127 of 1 July 2014, his views on whether a decision was reversed to raise the threshold for the acquisition of eligible loans by the National Asset Management Agency from Bank of Ireland and Allied Irish Banks on 28 November 2010, the estimate being that NAMA would acquire an additional €16.6 billion of loans...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Promissory Note Negotiations (9 Jul 2014)

Stephen Donnelly: 50. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 109 and 125 of 1 July 2014, when he stated that we have successfully negotiated the promissory notes transaction, the role our partners in Europe had in those negotiations; if it extended beyond the European Central Bank noting that the swap between promissory notes and sovereign bonds had taken place; and if he will...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Television Licence Fee Payments (9 Jul 2014)

Stephen Donnelly: 298. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources further to the publication of the RTE Annual Report 2013, where it is revealed that his Department collected €219m in licence fees from An Post and the Department of Social Protection in 2013, and that €182m of this was passed to RTE, the rationale for any increase or decrease in the payment; if he will...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Television Licence Fee Payments (9 Jul 2014)

Stephen Donnelly: 299. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources further to the publication of the RTE Annual Report 2013, where it is revealed that his Department collected €219m in licence fees from An Post and the Department of Social Protection in 2013, and that €182m of this was passed to RTE, the factors that determine the amount of licence fee collected that is...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Road Safety (9 Jul 2014)

Stephen Donnelly: 399. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if GoSafe speed detection vans may operate in a location that is not listed as a safety zone; to identify the person who decides whether a vehicle is so situated; if there is a protocol for the person to gain clearance before deployment; if An Garda Síochána may use GoSafe vehicles instead of their vehicles to carry out speed...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (9 Jul 2014)

Stephen Donnelly: 445. To ask the Minister for Health if he will instruct the Health Service Executive to prioritise the case of a person (details supplied) in County Wicklow currently awaiting a procedure in Cappagh Orthopaedic Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30385/14]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: NAMA Property Sales (8 Jul 2014)

Stephen Donnelly: 181. To ask the Minister for Finance further to the report in a Sunday newspaper, that the National Asset Management Agency sold a warehouse in Dublin, which is generating €750,000 in rent per annum from the Revenue Commissioners, for a price of between €2 million and €4 million, after NAMA obtained an assessed market value, if NAMA will confirm the terms on which it...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: NAMA Property Sales (8 Jul 2014)

Stephen Donnelly: 182. To ask the Minister for Finance further to the report in a Sunday newspaper, that the National Asset Management Agency sold a warehouse in Dublin, which is generating €750,000 in rent per annum from the Revenue Commissioners, for a price of between €2 million and €4 million, if he has any concerns that the asset was sold for less than its open market value. [29468/14]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Banking Sector (8 Jul 2014)

Stephen Donnelly: 183. To ask the Minister for Finance further to the recent engagement by Permanent TSB of Morgan Stanley to assist with the disposal of over €2 billion of par value loan portfolios, if he is aware of Morgan Stanley acting on behalf of any organisation considering a merger with PTSB; and if so, if he is concerned at any conflicts of interest; and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Banking Sector (8 Jul 2014)

Stephen Donnelly: 184. To ask the Minister for Finance further to the recent engagement by Permanent TSB of Morgan Stanley to assist with the disposal of over €2 billion of par value loan portfolios, if he has any concerns about the performance of Morgan Stanley with the recent disposal of loan portfolios of National Australia Bank group and the British Co-op group. [29470/14]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Banking Sector (8 Jul 2014)

Stephen Donnelly: 186. To ask the Minister for Finance further to the recent engagement by Permanent TSB of Morgan Stanley to assist with the disposal of over €2 billion of par value loan portfolios, his views on the suitability of that company in view of its involvement in various transactions involving shares and contracts for difference controlled by a person (details supplied) at the former Anglo...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Banking Sector (8 Jul 2014)

Stephen Donnelly: 185. To ask the Minister for Finance in view of the €2 billion of par value loans currently being sold by the special liquidators of the Irish Bank Resolution Corporation, the €2.6 billion of par value mortgages and commercial real estate loans being sold by Permanent TSB and the sale by the National Asset Management Agency of various loans, his views that these disposals would...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Bank Restructuring (8 Jul 2014)

Stephen Donnelly: 187. To ask the Minister for Finance the way his Department monitors Bank of Ireland and Allied Irish Banks in their adherence to the terms of the restructuring decisions for those two banks by the European Commission; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29473/14]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Bank Restructuring (8 Jul 2014)

Stephen Donnelly: 188. To ask the Minister for Finance the way in which Allied Irish Banks, a bank in which he controls practically all the shares, and Bank of Ireland, in which he controls 14% of the shares, monitor adherence to the terms of the restructuring decisions for those two banks; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29474/14]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Bank Restructuring (8 Jul 2014)

Stephen Donnelly: 189. To ask the Minister for Finance further to the announcement by Bank of Ireland, a bank in which he controls 14% of the shares, that it has disposed of €250 million of par value mortgages presently controlled by the ICS Building Society, if there has been a waiver by the European Commission to the requirement set out in its restructuring decision for that bank; and if he will make...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Banking Sector (8 Jul 2014)

Stephen Donnelly: 190. To ask the Minister for Finance if his Department has undertaken any study into the competitiveness of the retail banking sector here; the way competitiveness has decreased in the past six years; if he has concerns for the present level of competitiveness in the sector; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29476/14]