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Written Answers — Department of Finance: Departmental Legal Costs (11 Mar 2014)

Stephen Donnelly: 71. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will confirm the cost, to date, to the State of defending the promissory note challenge by Deputy Joan Collins in the High Court. [11614/14]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Departmental Legal Costs (11 Mar 2014)

Stephen Donnelly: 72. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will confirm the cost, to date, to the State of defending the promissory note challenge by Mr. David Hall in the High Court. [11615/14]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: NAMA Operations (11 Mar 2014)

Stephen Donnelly: 73. To ask the Minister for Finance following publication of the Geoghegan report in 2011 which recommended the National Asset Management Agency’s board be strengthened with commercial expertise when it recommended the Board needs to be comprised of different skills and it needs to balance its current control features with those of entrepreneurial skills, ideally within the property...

Leaders' Questions (12 Mar 2014)

Stephen Donnelly: I am going to try to move us on to some better news. This morning's Irish Independent reported that a Dublin family has had a debt of approximately €150,000 written down by AIB and a further amount parked at 0% interest. AIB should ultimately get the same amount of money back from the family. As a consequence of this deal, the members of this family will stay in their home rather...

Leaders' Questions (12 Mar 2014)

Stephen Donnelly: I spent the morning talking to stakeholders who are involved in various parts of the mortgage crisis. They said a variety of things. They talked about the lack of transparency. Many of the debt write-downs that have already happened have non-disclosure clauses attached to them. They talked about the inconsistency of approach between the banks. Bank of Ireland was mentioned by everyone to...

Leaders' Questions (12 Mar 2014)

Stephen Donnelly: I thank the Taoiseach for his reply. We should not be fooled by the targets that are coming in.

Leaders' Questions (12 Mar 2014)

Stephen Donnelly: We heard at the Joint Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform that the majority of targets that have come in so far are legal letters initiating repossession proceedings. The problem is that approximately 180,000 mortgages - one in five of that total - are in arrears. Ireland has several times more mortgages in arrears than the next closest country on earth. What has happened...

Leaders' Questions (12 Mar 2014)

Stephen Donnelly: Some bankers will say that the Central Bank is part of the problem, based on some of the things it is doing. The Central Bank will say the opposite. There are many different stakeholders, the system is complicated and nobody is joining the dots. The Central Bank is monitoring whether the banks are hitting the targets, but that is just one aspect of the matter. I have outlined five...

Leaders' Questions (12 Mar 2014)

Stephen Donnelly: -----with Bank of Ireland being a notable outlier. They have said that there is no co-operation between the banks. They have said that there is too much red tape in the insolvency process. They have said that there is too much red tape in other parts of the system, such as the second code of conduct on mortgage arrears. That is why a system-wide review is needed. We are not talking about...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Action Plan for Jobs (25 Mar 2014)

Stephen Donnelly: 215. To ask the Minister for Finance if the planned survey of demand for small and medium enterprise credit, as outlined in action 206 of the Action Plan for Jobs, will be brought forward as a result of the recent comments by Professor Morgan Kelly on the precarious situation facing these entities over the coming period; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13173/14]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Action Plan for Jobs (25 Mar 2014)

Stephen Donnelly: 216. To ask the Minister for Finance if the planned collaboration with KfW and the German Ministry of Finance to develop an initiative that will improve funding mechanisms for small and medium enterprises as per action 212 of the Action Plan for Jobs, will be brought forward as a result of the recent comments by Professor Morgan Kelly on the precarious situation facing these entities over the...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Action Plan for Jobs (25 Mar 2014)

Stephen Donnelly: 217. To ask the Minister for Finance the position regarding the implementation of the cross-governmental small and medium enterprise access to finance online tool, as per action 221 of the Action Plan for Jobs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13175/14]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Mortgage Data (25 Mar 2014)

Stephen Donnelly: 229. To ask the Minister for Finance following the recent publication of mortgage approval data by the Irish Banking Federation which showed that there were 1,587 approvals in January 2014, and following the publication on 3 March 2014 by the Bank of England in the UK of its monthly money and credit report which showed that there were 76,947 approvals in the UK in the same month, his views on...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Mortgage Data (25 Mar 2014)

Stephen Donnelly: 230. To ask the Minister for Finance the total number of new mortgages advanced by KBC, Ulster Bank and Investec in 2013; if he will provide an overall anonymised total of volume and value of new mortgages issued; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13414/14]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Government Deficit (25 Mar 2014)

Stephen Donnelly: 236. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide the latest available estimate of the 2014 deficit. [13523/14]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Budget Measures (25 Mar 2014)

Stephen Donnelly: 237. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide the latest available estimate figure of carry forward measures introduced in previous budgets that will affect budget 2015; and if he will list the budgetary measures that comprises this carry forward. [13524/14]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Budget 2015 (25 Mar 2014)

Stephen Donnelly: 238. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide the latest available estimate for the non-budgetary adjustment to the 2014 deficit to be considered in budget 2015. [13525/14]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Budget 2015 (25 Mar 2014)

Stephen Donnelly: 239. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide an estimate of the earliest date that the full no policy change budget for budget 2015 will be seen. [13526/14]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: European Stability Programmes (25 Mar 2014)

Stephen Donnelly: 240. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide an estimate of the earliest date at which his Department will publish the stability programme update; and if he will guarantee that members of the Houses of the Oireachtas will have at least two weeks to interrogate the document and suggest amendments for his Department’s consideration, before it is submitted to the European...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations Issues (25 Mar 2014)

Stephen Donnelly: 286. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide a refund in a case (details supplied) involving costs incurred due to errors in leaving certificate marking; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12907/14]