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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, the safeguards that he has in place to ensure that shareholders in the bank do not benefit from the distribution of dividends, or from other shareholding rewards until firstly, the bank has...

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; the reason the bank is seeking via an application to the High Court to reduce its share premium account by €3.92bn to €1.97bn. [45979/12]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Universal Social Charge (23 Oct 2012)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Finance the point at which a person starts paying the universal social charge in annual income terms; and the cost to the State of taking all those earning the minimum wage out of the USC band. [45998/12]

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

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will set out the fees that are typically obtained in a new issuance of €500 million of three month treasury bills by the National Treasury Management Agency, including legal and dealer fees. [46128/12]

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

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will set out the fees that are typically obtained in the redemption of €500 million of three month treasury bills by the National Treasury Management Agency, including legal and dealer fees. [46129/12]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: EU-IMF Agreement (23 Oct 2012)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will confirm the remaining programme funding to be provided to the State by the International Monetary Fund pursuant to its €22.5 billion funding commitment; if he will provide an estimate of the annual interest rate that will apply to the remaining programme funding yet to be provided by the IMF. [46130/12]

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

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide an assessment of the savings that the State could make if it were to substitute the remaining programme funding yet to be provided by the International Monetary Fund with open market funding from the issuance of debt by the National Treasury Management Agency at current market rates. [46131/12]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Higher Education Grants (23 Oct 2012)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will detail in tabular form, the number of grant applications that have been received, processed and decided by the Student Universal Support Ireland; if he will provide a breakdown of each of these three categories by county and by educational institution; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45716/12]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staffing (23 Oct 2012)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to the hardships caused to post-primary schools where selection and approval of assistant principal appointments made in April 2012 may now not be eligible for payment of allowances for these appointments, in view of his response in February 2012 whereby he stated that appointments could still be made with his...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Pay (23 Oct 2012)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the quantum of total salary payments to judges in each court in 2011; the annual savings achieved in each court following the 29th Amendment to the Constitution and the forecast total salary payments to judges in each court 2012. [45985/12]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Offshore Exploration (23 Oct 2012)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform further to a Parliamentary Question No. 493 of 18 September 2012 and Parliamentary Question No. 79 on 26 September 2012, the reason the royalty payments received from a company (details supplied) by the Exchequer in respect of the so-called fair market value of the wellhead of oil, gas or other petroleum substances produced are less than...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Code (23 Oct 2012)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will list what she considers to be core social welfare payments; if she will detail in tabular form the current rates for these core payments; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45714/12]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Application Numbers (23 Oct 2012)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of carer's allowance applications processed by her Department per month over the past six months; the number of applications received, granted and refused; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46040/12]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Application Numbers (23 Oct 2012)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Social Protection her views on the fact that her Department are currently processing carer's allowance applications submitted in November 2011; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46041/12]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Application Numbers (23 Oct 2012)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of carer's allowance applications received in her Department for the six months preceding November 2011; and the number of applications received, granted and refused. [46042/12]

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

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will publish the report of the expert group on property tax in advance of the publication of the Finance (Property tax) Bill 2012. [42258/12]

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

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the advice he has received from the expert group on the property tax he intends to introduce in Budget 2013; if he will make the advice of this group public in advance of the Budget; if this group has raised any concerns regarding the property tax as was the case with the tax strategy groups concerns with the household charge...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Residential Property Sales (23 Oct 2012)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Questions No.183 and 184 of 9 October 2012, if there has been a sale of a property known as Walford at 24 Shrewsbury Road, Ballsbridge, Dublin 4 during the period covered by the recent release of data by the Property Services Regulatory Authority in its property price register, and if there has been a sale of said property,...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: EU-IMF Agreement (23 Oct 2012)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will confirm the requirements to reform competition and practice in the legal sector set out in the Memorandum of Understanding with the programme Troika, and the dates on which such requirements are to be complied with. [45981/12]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Legal Services Regulation (23 Oct 2012)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the metrics by which he proposes to judge if reforms to practice and competition in the legal sector are successful. [45983/12]