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Leaders' Questions (5 Feb 2014)

Stephen Donnelly: At 9 p.m. this evening the Government will vote down a Bill that could save thousands of companies and tens of thousands of jobs. The Bill would do so without the need to spend a single penny in public money. Every year hundreds of companies in Ireland are shut down that do not need to be because we do not have a functioning examinership process. This is how badly it is broken. In the...

Leaders' Questions (5 Feb 2014)

Stephen Donnelly: Have they sacked the council workers in Wicklow yet?

Leaders' Questions (5 Feb 2014)

Stephen Donnelly: I have had it reviewed by senior counsel and I would love to see the legal advice that claims it is legally unsound. The Bill is not unsound. If there are aspects of it that need to change - undoubtedly there are because we do not have access to the Office of the Attorney General - that is what the legislative process is for. It must be incredibly frustrating for the owners of businesses...

Leaders' Questions (5 Feb 2014)

Stephen Donnelly: I have already done so.

Companies (Amendment) Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) [Private Members] (5 Feb 2014)

Stephen Donnelly: I thank all Members on all sides of the House who contributed to the debate this evening and yesterday. I have listened carefully to them. It seems to me there is plenty of common ground where it matters most, namely that this Bill presents an opportunity to save thousands of companies and jobs at zero cost to the State. There is also common agreement on all sides that the current system...

Companies (Amendment) Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) [Private Members] (5 Feb 2014)

Stephen Donnelly: I will finish on this point. This is a good Bill. It would save thousands upon thousands of jobs. It provides more protection to the SMEs which are the creditors. I admit two groups of people would lose, namely, lawyers and foreign banks that are trying to shut down viable companies to get their assets out of the country. Everyone else would win. I commend this Bill to the House.

Leaders' Questions (11 Feb 2014)

Stephen Donnelly: I would like to change topic to another important and pressing issue. In just a matter of weeks, the special liquidator of IBRC is planning to sell more than 13,000 mortgages on the open market. I have met some of the families involved, people like Ms Denise McCormack and Mr. Mike Hurrell, who were featured on "Prime Time" last night. The families have two concerns. First, they will not...

Leaders' Questions (11 Feb 2014)

Stephen Donnelly: I thank the Taoiseach for his reply, but if I were one of these families I would be despairing at that answer. We do know what is going to happen. We know that none of the domestic banks will buy the loans. If NAMA buys them, if Apollo buys them or if some vulture fund in New York buys them, none of the potential buyers is covered by the Central Bank regulations. We know that to be the...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Property Taxation Data (11 Feb 2014)

Stephen Donnelly: 133. To ask the Minister for Finance notwithstanding the decision not to make allocations from the local government fund at a municipal district level, if for the purposes of transparency and to further strengthen democracy at a local level, he will provide a breakdown of local property tax revenues on a municipal council level for 2014; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6367/14]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Irish Water Funding (11 Feb 2014)

Stephen Donnelly: 373. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the projected costs for the establishment of Irish Water; if he will use the borrowing provisions of the Water Services Act 2013 to repay the full establishment costs of Irish Water into the local government fund; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6364/14]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Irish Water Funding (11 Feb 2014)

Stephen Donnelly: 374. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if the annual costs of water provision, in addition to the establishment costs of Irish Water, are to be paid out of the local government fund in 2014; if this represents a double payment for water services by local authorities and local communities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6365/14]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Funding (11 Feb 2014)

Stephen Donnelly: 375. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 108 of 6 November 2013, if it is his intention to reduce the proposed retention of local property tax receipts to below 80% to support those local authorities with weaker funding bases; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6366/14]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Pensions Levy Issues (18 Feb 2014)

Stephen Donnelly: 183. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide exact details of the amount, in monetary terms, of the €1.452 billion pension levy collected to date that has been used for job initiatives; if he will detail each of these initiatives and indicate exactly the number of full-time, paid jobs which were created as a direct result of these initiatives. [7779/14]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: IBRC Mortgage Loan Book (18 Feb 2014)

Stephen Donnelly: 206. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 137 of 22 October 2013, if he will publish the independent advice from PwC in relation to the way the residential mortgage portfolio and other loans in Irish Bank Resolution Corporation are to be dealt with, sought by the IBRC special liquidators. [8165/14]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: IBRC Mortgage Loan Book (18 Feb 2014)

Stephen Donnelly: 207. To ask the Minister for Finance if a scenario was modelled in which individual mortgagors, whose loans have ended up with Irish Bank Resolution Corporation would be able to bid on their own loans; and if such a scenario was modelled, he will publish same. [8166/14]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: IBRC Mortgage Loan Book (18 Feb 2014)

Stephen Donnelly: 208. To ask the Minister for Finance if analysis has been carried out that indicates the potential loss in return to the State if individual mortgagors were permitted to bid on their own loans, as opposed to splitting the Irish Bank Resolution Corporation loan book into four segments, as currently planned; and if so, if he will publish the difference in sale value. [8167/14]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: IBRC Mortgage Loan Book (18 Feb 2014)

Stephen Donnelly: 209. To ask the Minister for Finance if a date has been set by the special liquidator for the sale of the Irish Bank Resolution Corporation residential mortgage book, or any parts thereof; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8168/14]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: IBRC Mortgage Loan Book (18 Feb 2014)

Stephen Donnelly: 210. To ask the Minister for Finance if discussions are under way with potential buyers of the Irish Bank Resolution Corporation residential mortgage book; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8169/14]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Departmental Reports (18 Feb 2014)

Stephen Donnelly: 413. To ask the Minister for Social Protection further to an article in The Irish Times on 3 February 2014, which stated that detailed studies were carried out on core benefits prior to budget 2014, if she will publish these studies in full; and her views on whether the budgetary process and debate on proposed budgetary measures would be improved by publishing such detailed studies...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Roadworthiness Testing (18 Feb 2014)

Stephen Donnelly: 856. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to make vintage trucks and trailers exempt from testing under the Road Safety Authority (Commercial Vehicle Roadworthiness) Act 2012, in order that pre-1980 vintage trucks are treated equally with other vintage veteran vehicles, for example cars and caravans, which are exempt from roadworthiness testing; and if he will make a...