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Written Answers — Department of Finance: NAMA Investment Funds (15 Jul 2014)

Stephen Donnelly: 190. To ask the Minister for Finance in relation to the maiden qualifying investment fund at the National Asset Management Agency, registered on 2 July 2013, and dubbed the South Docks Fund, if he will confirm the value of assets so far contributed by NAMA to the QIF, and the return on investment to NAMA on the QIF after its first full year of operation; his view on that return on investment;...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: NAMA Court Cases (15 Jul 2014)

Stephen Donnelly: 191. To ask the Minister for Finance to explain the reason three cases initiated at the High Court on 20 December 2013 by the National Asset Management Agency against a person (details supplied) and others were not included in the list of litigation produced in the National Asset Management Agency management report and accounts for quarter four, 2013, which were published in June 2014; if he...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: NAMA Property Sales (15 Jul 2014)

Stephen Donnelly: 192. To ask the Minister for Finance further to the recent sale by Northwood Investors of 1 Warrington Place in Dublin for €43 million following its purchase from a National Asset Management Agency developer for €27 million in April 2012, if he has concerns that NAMA's timing of its decision to sell the property was the correct decision in view of the €16 million of...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: NAMA Expenditure (15 Jul 2014)

Stephen Donnelly: 193. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide an update on the €20 million investment being made by the National Asset Management Agency in an extension to the Scotch Hall shopping centre in Drogheda, County Louth; the number of jobs that will be created or maintained by the investment; whether that investment has been delayed or cancelled in view of the fact that no new...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: NAMA Property Sales (15 Jul 2014)

Stephen Donnelly: 194. To ask the Minister for Finance further to the recent sale by Northwood Investors of 1 Warrington Place in Dublin for €43 million following its purchase from a National Asset Management Agency developer for €27 million in April 2012, if Northwood Investors has now repaid its vendor finance to NAMA; and the amount vendor finance NAMA now has available to offer potential...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: NAMA Loans Sale (15 Jul 2014)

Stephen Donnelly: 195. To ask the Minister for Finance further to the recent appointment by Beltany Property Finance Limited of receivers to certain unspecified assets of the Irish Bank Resolution Corporation Assurance Company Limited and further to the acquisition by Beltany of loans from the special liquidators of Irish Bank Resolution Corporation in March 2014 if he will outline the circumstances in which...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Trade Missions Expenditure (15 Jul 2014)

Stephen Donnelly: 345. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the cost to the State of trade missions undertaken by his Department since he has taken office; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30797/14]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Expenditure (15 Jul 2014)

Stephen Donnelly: 470. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide in tabular form the cost of refitting local authority chambers in view of the recent elections; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30796/14]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Property Services Regulatory Authority Remit (15 Jul 2014)

Stephen Donnelly: 579. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of errors in price details recorded on the Residential Property Price Register that have been corrected in the past 12 months; the number of notifications of errors in price details received by the Property Services Regulatory Authority during that period; if she is concerned at the level of errors in price details recorded on the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Applications (15 Jul 2014)

Stephen Donnelly: 613. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding a medical card in respect of a person (details supplied), issued earlier this year; if the card is still valid; and if it has been revoked, if he will instruct the Health Service Executive to reinstate the card. [30717/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Records (15 Jul 2014)

Stephen Donnelly: 644. To ask the Minister for Health further to statements in Seanad Éireann on 2 July 2014, when his predecessor stated "I want to put on the record of the House the fact that the Health Service Executive has confirmed that the healthcare pricing office does not - and I repeat does not - make hospital patients' personal records available to pharmaceutical companies, insurers or any other...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Tobacco Control Measures (15 Jul 2014)

Stephen Donnelly: 653. To ask the Minister for Health on the back of the Public Health (Standardised Packaging of Tobacco) Bill 2014, if he has considered removing the maximum price on a packet of cigarettes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31096/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Tobacco Control Measures (15 Jul 2014)

Stephen Donnelly: 654. To ask the Minister for Health on the back of research that shows plain tobacco packaging has led to smokers in other jurisdictions choosing cheaper brands, if any research has been undertaken to discover if there are health implications for such substitution among the smoking population; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31097/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Tobacco Control Measures (15 Jul 2014)

Stephen Donnelly: 655. To ask the Minister for Health on the back of the (Standardised Packaging of Tobacco) Bill 2014, if he will consider introducing a minimum weight at which rolling tobacco may be sold; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31098/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Special Educational Needs Data (15 Jul 2014)

Stephen Donnelly: 663. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide in tabular form, on a county basis, the number of children who have requested a special needs assessment for 2012, 2013 and the to date in 2014; the number of children over those periods whose assessment commenced within three months of receipt of application; and the number of children whose assessments were completed within six months...

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Medical Services Scheme Payments (15 Jul 2014)

Stephen Donnelly: 710. To ask the Minister for Health if he will instruct the Health Service Executive to reassess the case of a person (details supplied) to investigate if the medical card should be reinstated; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31590/14]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion (15 Jul 2014)

Stephen Donnelly: I thank the witnesses for taking the time to meet us and to provide us with submissions, which are useful and contain interesting analyses. In regard to the representatives from TASC, Chambers Ireland and IBEC, I could not find in their submissions a table setting out the total adjustment. I am looking for the walk, that is, the estimates of the deficit next year if there are no budget...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion (15 Jul 2014)

Stephen Donnelly: I am surprised. I did not mean to ask a loaded question but any organisation that sets out the total package of reductions that it thinks will get us to the target should not make such a statement without having the other figures. It cannot mathematically be done without having an estimate for the carryover for revenue buoyancy. I did not mean to ask a trick question but it is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion (15 Jul 2014)

Stephen Donnelly: We are but across the board this is a low-tax economy. In terms of income tax, VAT and corporation tax, Ireland is a low-tax, low-spending and low service provision economy. We are closer to America than we are to the social democratic model. Is IBEC suggesting that further tax cuts would be more than offset by increased revenue from the economic activity thereby stimulated?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion (15 Jul 2014)

Stephen Donnelly: Is IBEC also advocating increases in consumption taxes such as water and property?