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Written Answers — Department of Finance: Banking Licence Breaches (5 Feb 2013)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 275 of 29 January 2013, if he will detail the actions taken by Irish Bank Resolution Corporation in response to the breach or breaches. [5617/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Banking Licence Breaches (5 Feb 2013)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 275 of 29 January 2013, if he will confirm if the European Central Bank has been made aware of the breach or breaches at Irish Bank Resolution Corporation; and if so, if he will provide the response of the ECB to the breach or breaches. [5618/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Banking Licence Breaches (5 Feb 2013)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 275 of 29 January 2013, if he will confirm the number of banks in the State operating under licences granted by the Central Bank of Ireland, that have been in breach of the terms of their banking licence since 1 January 2012. [5614/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Banking Licence Breaches (5 Feb 2013)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 275 of 29 January 2013, if he will confirm when the Central Bank of Ireland first became aware of breaches at Irish Bank Resolution Corporation; and if he will detail the actions the Central Bank of Ireland has taken in response to the breach or breaches. [5615/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Property Taxation Exemptions (5 Feb 2013)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Finance the reason for allowing property owners to be exempt from the proposed property tax for land over one acre; and if he will estimate the revenue he is willing to forego by limiting the property tax to the valuation of property on one acre. [5782/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Budget 2014 Issues (5 Feb 2013)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Finance if, following the move across Europe to bring budgets into a semester process, the date of Budget 2014; and the way the Budget is announced will change. [5854/13]

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Údarás na Gaeltachta Properties (5 Feb 2013)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the location of all Údarás na Gaeltachta premises in County Donegal; the size of these premises; when they were last occupied; the name of the occupying company; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5950/13]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Warmer Homes Scheme Application Numbers (5 Feb 2013)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will provide details on the number of applicants who have applied for the warmer homes scheme; if he will provide details in tabular form of the number of applications received, approved and declined for the years 2011 and 2012. [5166/13]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Civil Service Code of Conduct (5 Feb 2013)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will outline the safeguards that exist within the Office of the Data Protection Commissioner to prevent conflicts of interest when employees of the Office move to related positions in the private sector. [5065/13]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Citizenship Ceremonies (5 Feb 2013)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality when a person (details supplied) approved for citizenship who has submitted all the required documents and certification fee may expect to be called to attend the citizenship ceremony at which they will make a declaration of fidelity to the Irish Nation and loyalty to the State; if the person will be allocated a place at the next...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Care Infrastructure (5 Feb 2013)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Health further to the publication by RTÉ of a letter (details supplied) which includes a statement that he requested that two projects be accelerated in the Health Service Executive's capital programme, the reasons he accelerated the two projects. [5066/13]

Irish Bank Resolution Corporation Bill 2013: Second Stage (6 Feb 2013)

Pearse Doherty: At about this time last year, we were all asked to come to the Chamber for an important announcement. We were told that the State had cobbled together an agreement that meant that we would not pay the promissory note last year. We were asked to applaud the Government and to take it at face value that a great deal had been achieved on behalf of the Irish taxpayer. However, as the mist...

Irish Bank Resolution Corporation Bill 2013: Second Stage (6 Feb 2013)

Pearse Doherty: -----because we are working against the interests of the State. Five years on, another Government of different colours, the blue and the red, come together and they asked us to do exactly the same thing, to take us at face value.

Irish Bank Resolution Corporation Bill 2013: Second Stage (6 Feb 2013)

Pearse Doherty: The Deputy may say that but I can guarantee him that the majority-----

Irish Bank Resolution Corporation Bill 2013: Second Stage (6 Feb 2013)

Pearse Doherty: The majority of their TDs have not read this legislation and, of those who have read it, very few understand its consequences.

Irish Bank Resolution Corporation Bill 2013: Second Stage (6 Feb 2013)

Pearse Doherty: The Cabinet concluded at 10.10 p.m. and it agreed to bring this legislation to the floor of the House. Is this real political reform? Is this the type of direction we were promised before the last election? None of us knows the full implications of this Bill-----

Irish Bank Resolution Corporation Bill 2013: Second Stage (6 Feb 2013)

Pearse Doherty: -----but what we do know is that the powers contained in it are wide-ranging. We know that this is one of a number of steps the Minister and the Government want to introduce, not to ensure we have a write-down in regard to the promissory note, but to ensure my generation, my children's generation and my children's children generation will pay the debts of bankers and criminals in Anglo Irish...

Irish Bank Resolution Corporation Bill 2013: Second Stage (6 Feb 2013)

Pearse Doherty: -----and that is the truth. Section 17 allows the Minister, whenever and so often as he or she thinks fit, to create and issue securities. We are asked today to give the Minister, Deputy Noonan, or any future Minister the power to issue long-term bonds in the name of the Irish people. There is nobody in our party who would object to Anglo Irish Bank going into liquidation but it should...

Irish Bank Resolution Corporation Bill 2013: Second Stage (6 Feb 2013)

Pearse Doherty: Our party, Sinn Féin, has been consistent on the issue of the promissory note-----

Irish Bank Resolution Corporation Bill 2013: Second Stage (6 Feb 2013)

Pearse Doherty: -----and let the record show that in 2011-----