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Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Fiscal Responsibility Bill 2012: Committee Stage (18 Oct 2012)

Pearse Doherty: I move amendment No. 11: In page 8, subsection (4), between lines 15 and 16, to insert the following:"(a) provide an assessment of whether the fiscal and budgetary policy of the Government is contributing to economic growth, job creation, the delivery of high quality public services, greater income equality, social inclusion and poverty reduction,".I will not go on about this as we have...

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Fiscal Responsibility Bill 2012: Committee Stage (18 Oct 2012)

Pearse Doherty: I agree with the amendment. It provides that the Minister would be obliged to respond whether the Government agreed or disagreed with the assessment made under subsection (3). My amendment, No. 16, goes further than that. This is a weakness in the Bill and, although the formula of words could be re-examined on Report Stage, it is important that an amendment such as this is included. Under...

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Fiscal Responsibility Bill 2012: Committee Stage (18 Oct 2012)

Pearse Doherty: We have come from a decade where advice went unheard, unnoticed or basically dismissed, in particular by the previous Government. That has been well-documented in independent reports on the collapse of the Irish economy. One of the reports on the Department of Finance showed that advice was given to the previous Government to establish a fiscal advisory council, and I welcome the fact we...

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Fiscal Responsibility Bill 2012: Committee Stage (18 Oct 2012)

Pearse Doherty: Is this the last question to be posed on the Bill?

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Fiscal Responsibility Bill 2012: Committee Stage (18 Oct 2012)

Pearse Doherty: It is not agreed.

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Departmental Expenditure (23 Oct 2012)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the funding priorities for his Department Budget 2013; and if he will continue to oversee cuts to funding in respect of local authority housing. [46200/12]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Departmental Expenditure (23 Oct 2012)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the total energy bill for his Department in the years 2010, 2011; and the expected cost for 2012. [46082/12]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Fiscal Policy (23 Oct 2012)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Finance the fiscal multipliers used by his Department in determining their growth projections and deficit reduction targets; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45715/12]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Banking Sector Regulation (23 Oct 2012)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will in tabular form the payments by year approved by the Central Bank of Ireland, reductions on such approved payments made by the High Court and the sums actually paid in respect of administration services at the Insurance Corporation of Ireland now Icarom, since that organisation was first placed in administration. [45965/12]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Legal Cases (23 Oct 2012)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will quantify the number of ongoing legal cases, if any, where the State or an agency of the State is the applicant and Pricewaterhouse Coopers is the respondent. [45966/12]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Legal Cases (23 Oct 2012)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will quantify the number of ongoing legal cases, if any, where the State or an agency of the State is the applicant or one of the applicants and Ernst and Young is the respondent or one of the respondents [45967/12]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Legal Cases (23 Oct 2012)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will quantify the number of ongoing legal cases, if any, where the State or an agency of the State is the applicant or one of the applicants and KPMG is the respondent or one of the respondents. [45968/12]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Legal Cases (23 Oct 2012)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will quantify the number of ongoing legal cases, if any, where the State or an agency of the State is the applicant or one of the applicants and Deloitte and Touche is the respondent or one of the respondents. [45969/12]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: National Asset Management Agency (23 Oct 2012)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No.147 of 9 October 2012, if he will reconsider his response in view of the various forecasts given by the National Asset Management Agency (details supplied) of its 2011 annual outturn before 31 December 2011. [45971/12]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Bank Debt Restructuring (23 Oct 2012)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Finance further to a report in a national newspaper that 99.5% state-owned Permanent TSB is considering entering into a loan management contract with a private-sector company (details supplied) for the management of €2bn of commercial property development loans, the reason PTSB is not a National Asset Management Agency participating Institution, the reason these...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Bank Debt Restructuring (23 Oct 2012)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Finance further to a report in a national newspaper that 99.5% State-owned Permanent TSB is considering entering into a loan management contract with a private-sector company (details supplied) for the management of €2bn of commercial property development loans if he will provide an estimate of the fees that will be paid by PTSB to the company over the proposed...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Bank Debt Restructuring (23 Oct 2012)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Finance if he wil provide an assessment of the effect of the National Asset Management Agency acquiring €2bn of commercial property development loans from Permanent TSB, the management of which loans PTSB is reportedly contracting out to a company (details supplied). [45976/12]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Banking Sector Regulation (23 Oct 2012)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide an explanation of what he means when he refers to pillar banks in the cases of Allied Irish Banks and Bank of Ireland; if he regards 99.5% Permanent TSB as a pillar bank and if not, the reason for such distinction. [45975/12]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Bank Debt Restructuring (23 Oct 2012)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Finance in respect of Bank of Ireland in which he controls 15% of the ordinary shares and in addition holds preference shares valued at €1,473 million in December 2011; if he will provide an estimate of the year when the Bank will return to profitability. [45977/12]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Bank Debt Restructuring (23 Oct 2012)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Finance in respect of Bank of Ireland in which he controls 15% of the ordinary shares and in addition holds preference shares valued at €1,473 million in December 2011; if he will provide an estimate of the year when the Bank will next pay dividends to its ordinary shareholders. [45978/12]