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Written Answers — Department of Finance: National Treasury Management Agency (30 Jan 2013)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Finance if staff at the National Treasury Management Agency received bonuses in 2012; if so, the total of the bonuses paid; and if he will provide in tabular form the individual bonuses paid per type of employee. [4652/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Departmental Staff (30 Jan 2013)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Finance the number of staff in the Shareholder Management Unit in the Department of Finance; and the cost of the SMU in full year 2012 and the budgeted cost in full year 2013. [4653/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Departmental Staff (30 Jan 2013)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Finance the number of staff in the Shareholder Management Unit who are seconded to the SMU from the National Treasury Management Agency and if he will set out in bands of three months the number of secondees and their duration of secondment from the National Treasury Management Agency to the SMU. [4654/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Departmental Staff (30 Jan 2013)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Finance the number of persons working in the Shareholder Management Unit in the Department of Finance who are not employees of the Department of Finance or secondments from the National Treasury Management Agency. [4656/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Departmental Staff Numbers (30 Jan 2013)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide in tabular form the number of individual secondments from the National Treasury Management Agency in 2009, 2010, 2011 and 2012. [4655/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: National Treasury Management Agency (30 Jan 2013)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Finance the measures in place at the NewERA organisation within the National Treasury Management Agency to prevent conflicts of interest if employees or staff in NewERA are appointed to companies being created under the auspices of NewERA or in which the State is disposing of stakes. [4657/13]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Procurement (30 Jan 2013)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the action he will take to address the anomaly in central public sector procurement whereby local suppliers may supply goods and services at a cost less than that charged by a supplier awarded centrally through the National Procurement Service. [4719/13]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Labour Market Issues (30 Jan 2013)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason those on one parent family payments have been excluded from accessing the Momentum initiative announced by her Department last month; if she has plans to extend the scope of this scheme to those in receipt of one parent family payments who are not working and would like to enter the workforce in the near future; and if she will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Labour Market Issues (30 Jan 2013)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if those in receipt of one parent family payment are included in the live register figures if they are not working; her views on whether those in receipt of one parent family payments should be excluded from accessing the momentum training initiative if they are not employed and hope to enter the workforce; and if she will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Proposed Legislation (30 Jan 2013)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality his plans to progress the Immigration, Residence and Protection Bill; if this will substantially simplify and streamline the existing arrangements; if the reorganisation of the protection application processing framework will remove the current multi-layered processes and provide applicants with a final decision on their application in a more...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Asylum Applications (30 Jan 2013)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality his views on whether the time taken to process an application in respect of a person (details supplied) is acceptable; if his attention has been drawn to the academic achievements of this applicant and the support to them to undertake a Phd programme should their application be approved; if he will reconsider the application; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Broadband Services (31 Jan 2013)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the target broadband speed for semi-urban areas not covered by the National Broadband Strategy; the way these speeds compare to other countries of a similar population; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4681/13]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Alternative Energy Projects (31 Jan 2013)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if there are regulations regarding the height of wind turbines here; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4676/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: EU-IMF Agreement (31 Jan 2013)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Finance when he received a paper from the Troika on options for Ireland's exit from the Troika programme. [4823/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: EU-IMF Agreement (31 Jan 2013)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will make public any paper he received from the Troika on options for Ireland's exit from the programme. [4824/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: EU-IMF Agreement (31 Jan 2013)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Finance the number of options that have been presented to him by the Troika regarding Ireland's exit from the programme; and if he will state the options that were presented. [4825/13]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (31 Jan 2013)

Pearse Doherty: I welcome our guests and have a number of questions. On the overall MFF spending, we know there is opposition from countries like Britain and the Netherlands to the overall budget being increased. There has been a lot of talk about the EU budget being used as a vehicle for investment, growth and jobs but how can happen, given the fact that there will not be a substantial increase in the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (31 Jan 2013)

Pearse Doherty: We will take them one at a time.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (31 Jan 2013)

Pearse Doherty: Obviously that will come at the expense of other measures and I am sure that the EU Commission would have argued in the past that the budget in its entirety was promoting growth, regardless of specific measures. I will leave that aside but I am of the opinion that there is a lot of spin involved in this. It is unfortunate that we will not see a substantial increase in the budget because I...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (31 Jan 2013)

Pearse Doherty: How likely does Mr. Deane think it is that those talks will be successful? Is it possible to reconfigure or redesign the region, that is, to redefine the boundaries of the region at this point in time? At the time of the drawing up of the BMW region, a lot of political influence was exerted by the previous Government and various counties were included. At that time, even with the expansion...