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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Role and Contribution of Public Interest Directors in Financial Institutions: Discussion with Permanent TSB (19 Dec 2012)

Pearse Doherty: One public interest director has told this committee there will be no debt forgiveness, but Ms Hayes is now saying that there will be debt forgiveness.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Role and Contribution of Public Interest Directors in Financial Institutions: Discussion with Permanent TSB (19 Dec 2012)

Pearse Doherty: My question was about write-down. I am going to move on because my time is limited. There has been much discussion in this committee about the role of public interest directors, the appointment of which Sinn Féin believes was a token gesture and a farce. The idea was that there would be people on the boards of directors of the banks who would not be allowed to act in the public...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Role and Contribution of Public Interest Directors in Financial Institutions: Discussion with Permanent TSB (19 Dec 2012)

Pearse Doherty: Was he a non-executive member of Bank of Ireland from 1993 to 2005?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Role and Contribution of Public Interest Directors in Financial Institutions: Discussion with Permanent TSB (19 Dec 2012)

Pearse Doherty: Did Mr. MacSharry participate in board meetings of that bank during that 12-year period?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Role and Contribution of Public Interest Directors in Financial Institutions: Discussion with Permanent TSB (19 Dec 2012)

Pearse Doherty: Mr. MacSharry served with Mr. Brian Goggin and other bank officials at that level. He was part of the culture which he has told this committee he is trying to wipe out. Mr. MacSharry was a non-executive member of the board of Bank of Ireland for 12 years. While the crash happened in 2007, the damage was done at the time Mr. MacSharry was a non-executive member. Does Mr. MacSharry believe...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Role and Contribution of Public Interest Directors in Financial Institutions: Discussion with Permanent TSB (19 Dec 2012)

Pearse Doherty: Mr. MacSharry approved a CEO's salary of €400,000 earlier this year.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Sports Capital Programme (20 Dec 2012)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide details of the clubs and organisations who do not own their own land and or do not have a long term lease who received funding in the first round of the sports capital programme 2012; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57258/12]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Tolls (20 Dec 2012)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the amount of money collected from road tolls to date in 2012; the amount of this money taken in by the State; if he will provide a breakdown based on the road the tolls were collected from and the companies operating them. [57245/12]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Property Taxation (20 Dec 2012)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide the underlying calculations in support of the estimated yield from the proposed property tax of €250 million in 2013, such workings to set out the assumed range of property values and associated volume of properties, non-compliance rates, deferral volume and value. [57387/12]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Property Taxation (20 Dec 2012)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide an estimate of the cost of administering and collecting the proposed new property tax and household charge arrears in 2013; if he will provide an estimate of administering and collecting the household charge in 2012; and if he will indicate in the Budget 2013 documentation where account has been taken of any increased cost. [57388/12]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Household Charge (20 Dec 2012)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will indicate in the Budget 2013 documentation where account has been taken of the discontinuance of the household charge revenue in 2013 which was estimated at €160 million in 2012 and the discontinuance of the non principal private residence revenue, estimated at €70 million in 2012. [57389/12]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Banking Sector Regulation (20 Dec 2012)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Finance the controls that exist in the Irish Bank Resolution Corporation to prevent employees, their spouses, family and associates from benefitting from confidential information obtained from the bank, in the purchase of property from persons and companies which have or have had loans with IBRC. [57395/12]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Banking Sector Regulation (20 Dec 2012)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Finance the number of Irish Bank Resolution Corporation employees that have, either by themselves or with others, purchased property in each of 2011 and 2012 from persons or companies, which have or have had loans with IBRC. [57396/12]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Disposal of Assets (20 Dec 2012)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Finance the protocols and practices taken by the Irish Bank Resolution Corporation to ensure that assets disposed of by IBRC itself, or its borrowers under the auspices of IBRC, are disposed of in a manner which maximises the return to the taxpayer from the disposal. [57397/12]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Health Service Reform (20 Dec 2012)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide the underlying workings in support of the €70 million reduced professional fees in the Department of Health 2013 budget; and if he will set out the way such savings estimates were validated by his Department. [57393/12]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Capital Expenditure (20 Dec 2012)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the consideration that will be paid to employment when the capital budget for 2013 is profiled by month; if he will consider measures to accelerate capital spending when appropriate in order to promote and prioritise employment. [57394/12]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Disability Allowance Appeals (20 Dec 2012)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason a file in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Donegal was requested by the appeals office in August 2012 regarding an appeal for disability allowance has still not been sent from her Department; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [57417/12]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Mortgage to Rent Scheme (20 Dec 2012)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the position regarding mortgage to rent scheme in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Donegal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57376/12]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Budget Targets (20 Dec 2012)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an analysis of the €308 million of pay related savings in his Department's budget in 2013; and if he will set out the way such savings estimates were validated by his Department. [57390/12]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Budget Targets (20 Dec 2012)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide the underlying workings in support of the €60 million savings on Department vote in his Department's 2013 budget; and if he will set out the way such savings estimates were validated by his Department. [57391/12]