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Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Expenditure Reviews (16 Jan 2013)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will detail expenditure on health care as a percentage of total tax revenue and per capita from 1992 to 2012 [1890/13]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Expenditure Reviews (16 Jan 2013)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will detail State expenditure on education care as a percentage of total tax revenue and per capita from 1992 to 2012. [1891/13]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Expenditure Reviews (16 Jan 2013)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will detail Government expenditure on social protection care as a percentage of total tax revenue and per capita from 1992 to 2012. [1892/13]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Expenditure Reviews (16 Jan 2013)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he wil detail total Government expenditure as a percentage of total tax revenue and per capita from 1992 to 2012. [1893/13]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Job Creation (16 Jan 2013)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation further to the launch of the Succeed in Ireland programme as part of the Jobs Action Plan 2012, the total number of jobs created by the reward scheme; the number of referrals submitted by applicants for the reward; the number of jobs subject to the referrals; the total amount paid to date to referrers and the number of referrers to which...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals (16 Jan 2013)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No 414 of 27 November 2012, if he will confirm that the social welfare appeal (details supplied) is the same as the appeal referred to in the question; the reason for the delay in processing this appeal and if he will consider fast tracking this appeal in view of the fact that it was originally submitted to the...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Tax and Social Welfare Codes (16 Jan 2013)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will outline the resources, including Information technology consultancy and departmental expenditure, devoted to examining the possibility of taxing benefits paid to higher earners. [1554/13]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Ministerial Appointments (16 Jan 2013)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources further to his announcement of the appointment of a person (details supplied) to the position of Digital Champion for Ireland, if he will provide a description of the scope and objectives of the role; the term of the appointment; the cost of the appointment including the remuneration paid to a person; if there will be...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Prisoner Transfers (16 Jan 2013)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he has received an application from a person (details supplied) for the purposes of transferring to a prison here. [57868/12]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Matters Relating to the Economy: Discussion with Governor of Central Bank (16 Jan 2013)

Pearse Doherty: Go raibh maith agat agus curaim fáilte roimh Professor Honohan. I welcome Professor Honohan to this meeting. I always enjoy his engagement with this committee and listening to his opinions outside of the committee. I have a number of questions but may not have time to get through them all. Regarding the recapitalisation of the banks - which the Government has decided will only apply...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Matters Relating to the Economy: Discussion with Governor of Central Bank (16 Jan 2013)

Pearse Doherty: I appreciate that and acknowledge the fact that Professor Honohan is not at the heart of these discussions. However, it seems clear that they are trying to row back. If member states in the future have to guarantee the losses of the ESM for the ESM to invest in banks, it makes it more difficult for our Government to recoup the money that was transferred from the Irish taxpayer to the banks...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Matters Relating to the Economy: Discussion with Governor of Central Bank (16 Jan 2013)

Pearse Doherty: Can I ask another question? Having read Professor Honohan's statement to the committee, it is clear that an agreement on the promissory note issue is done and dusted and there is just a bit of tidying up to be done. What we have designed is largely in the interests of the eurozone system as a whole. The design is there and I appreciate that Professor Honohan is not going to tell us about...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Matters Relating to the Economy: Discussion with Governor of Central Bank (16 Jan 2013)

Pearse Doherty: I will move on to mortgages as we are running out of time. We have had engagements with public interest directors and we have heard from bank CEOs, some of whom have been on the media speaking about the Personal Insolvency Bill, most notably Mr. Richie Boucher who stated categorically that there would be no write-down of debt. Public interest directors have made the same argument. I expect...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Matters Relating to the Economy: Discussion with Governor of Central Bank (16 Jan 2013)

Pearse Doherty: The stress tests will be performed on our financial institutions later this year, having been postponed since last year. Professor Honohan has indicated that he does not like predicting the future but are there signals of a concern as we enter into the process? Those concerns may relate to the requirement for additional capital, however large or small that would be. The next question is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Matters Relating to the Economy: Discussion with Governor of Central Bank (16 Jan 2013)

Pearse Doherty: There is no movement away from risk-weighted to overall assets?

Leaders' Questions (17 Jan 2013)

Pearse Doherty: It is the biggest debt people have.

Topical Issue Debate: Burglaries in County Donegal (17 Jan 2013)

Pearse Doherty: I too have to say, on behalf of the elderly people of Donegal, it is an absolute disgrace that the Minister for Justice and Equality is not here to answer this very important question from three Donegal Deputies. I sat in my office in Leinster House to watch "Prime Time" when Miriam O'Callaghan interviewed Phyllis McGee, a very brave woman, who was robbed not once but twice in her home in...

Topical Issue Debate: Burglaries in County Donegal (17 Jan 2013)

Pearse Doherty: Unfortunately, there is little in what the Minister of State has said that will give comfort to elderly people in Donegal. I know this comes in waves and depends which gangs are operating but Phyllis Magee was robbed twice and individuals in Buncrana, Inishowen, Raphoe have also been robbed. I spoke recently to a relative of somebody who had passed away who told me that the deceased had...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Promissory Notes (17 Jan 2013)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide an update on the on-going negotiations with the ECB on the promissory note; if an agreed technical paper has been concluded between the Troika and his Department and if not if he will indicate if such a paper is still being worked on; and if he will detail the terms of a deal on this debt that he considers to be acceptable. [2113/13]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Promissory Notes (17 Jan 2013)

Pearse Doherty: There has been a great deal of talk about the deal and the Minister's comments today are welcome. The Minister of State, Deputy Lucinda Creighton, and the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources, Deputy Pat Rabbitte, probably said more than the Minister, Deputy Noonan, would have wished. The comments from the Taoiseach and those made yesterday by the Governor of the...