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

Pearse Doherty: This is the first Question Time in 2013. We can have all the smart aleck comments the Minister wishes for the next year, but I asked him three specific questions. I know he cannot go into detail, but is it the Government's intention that the debt-to-GDP ratio will be reduced as a result of the successful negotiation of a deal? Is it the intention that the taxpayer will be spared from...

Other Questions: Bank Debt Restructuring (17 Jan 2013)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide an update on the on-going negotiations on the issue of the legacy debt in the pillar banks detailing the number of meetings that took place on this issue between him, his officials and representatives of the ECB, the ESM and other EU bodies; the nature and content of these discussions; and the meetings that are scheduled to take place in the...

Other Questions: Bank Debt Restructuring (17 Jan 2013)

Pearse Doherty: There is no doubt that the statement on 29 June offered an opportunity for Ireland to secure the getting back of the money we invested in the pillar banks, which is to the tune of more than €25 billion. Unfortunately, I note from media reports, an editorial in the Financial Times the day before yesterday and an article in The Wall Street Journal yesterday, that it is claimed there is...

Other Questions: Banks Recapitalisation (17 Jan 2013)

Pearse Doherty: The sale of these CCNs, contingent capital notes, was kept very quiet and only announced several hours before it was completed. At €1 billion, this is the largest sale of a State asset this year and should be subject to proper scrutiny. The Minister gave many figures in his reply. It is clear from this and replies to other parliamentary questions that there has been a substantial...

Other Questions: Banks Recapitalisation (17 Jan 2013)

Pearse Doherty: I have made it clear the reason I have raised this-----

Other Questions: Banks Recapitalisation (17 Jan 2013)

Pearse Doherty: The Minister actually welcomed this transfer yesterday.

Other Questions: Banks Recapitalisation (17 Jan 2013)

Pearse Doherty: He mentioned it in the public. I am not casting any aspersions on the individual in question.

Other Questions: Banks Recapitalisation (17 Jan 2013)

Pearse Doherty: I am not casting any aspersions but a genuine question arises when someone who heads up the management-----

Other Questions: Banks Recapitalisation (17 Jan 2013)

Pearse Doherty: When the person who headed up the management unit which dealt with the sale of these CCNs becomes a chief executive of the very same bank's unit dealing with similar issues and given the Government's commitment to a programme-----

Other Questions: Banks Recapitalisation (17 Jan 2013)

Pearse Doherty: No.

Other Questions: Banks Recapitalisation (17 Jan 2013)

Pearse Doherty: There is a programme for Government commitment to allow for a cooling-off period for senior departmental officials transferring to the private sector. Will the Minister reassure the House there are no questions concerning this appointment? Will the Minister also explain why this is such a good deal when our Exchequer position is worse as a result of this transaction?

Other Questions: Tax Yield (17 Jan 2013)

Pearse Doherty: Does the Minister stand over the so-called "double Irish with a Dutch sandwich" system which reduces the effective rate of tax of corporations based in Ireland? Does he think it is appropriate or does he want to change it and shut it down? Does the Minister believe there should be a minimum effective tax rate for corporations just as there is for high-income earners?

Other Questions: Tax Yield (17 Jan 2013)

Pearse Doherty: We will take the Minister up on that.

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Fiscal Policy (17 Jan 2013)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Finance his views on the initial assessment of Budget 2013 published by the ESRI in December 2012 and in particular on the ESRI's assessment that, like Budget 2012, Budget 2013 will take more from lower income groups than from higher income groups. [1773/13]

Euro Area Loan Facility (Amendment) Bill 2013: Second Stage (22 Jan 2013)

Pearse Doherty: Cuirim fáilte roimh an díospóireacht seo. Is mór an trua, mar atá ráite ag an chainteoir dheireannach, má ghlacaimid leis an reachtaíocht seo gur seo an díospóireacht dheireannach a bhéas againn ar athraithe ar bith do phacáiste na Gréige, ó thaobh reachtaíocht ag teacht os comhair na dTithe seo de. Rud dona don...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Property Taxation (22 Jan 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 218. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will confirm that only the first acre of amenity land appurtenant to residential property, for example, private lakes, gardens, unproductive woodland and private tennis courts with an overall total area of in excess of one acre, will be subject to the new property tax to take effect from 1 July 2013 and that any excess over one acre will be...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: State Banking Sector (22 Jan 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 215. To ask the Minister for Finance if the Irish Bank Resolution Corporation, in which he is the sole shareholder of 100% of the shares, has a banking licence; the specific requirements of such a licence for IBRC; the person who issued IBRC with a banking license; and the date on which its banking licence was renewed [2733/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: State Banking Sector (22 Jan 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 216. To ask the Minister for Finance if the Irish Bank Resolution Corporation, in which he is the sole shareholder of 100% of the shares, has a bank account or bank accounts; with whom, and the number of bank accounts IBRC has, the terms and conditions of these accounts; and if IBRC has an overdraft facility, the interest rate and the surcharge interest rate on IBRC's bank account or bank...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Staff Numbers (22 Jan 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 298. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will set out, in tabular form, the net job losses anticipated in Budget 2013 across all Departments in 2013. [2776/13]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Capital Expenditure (22 Jan 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 299. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will confirm the capital expenditure reported across Departments for December 2012; and if he will confirm that expenditure is cash expenditure only and contains no accrual or prepayment or contingency retention by Departments. [2777/13]