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Written Answers — Department of Finance: IBRC Liquidation (13 Feb 2013)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will outline the arrangements that will apply for the publication of audited accounts for Irish Bank Resolution Corporation for the year ended 31 December 2012. [7729/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: IBRC Liquidation (13 Feb 2013)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will confirm the treatment of equity in Irish Bank Resolution Corporation and if it will be returned to the State; if so when;; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7730/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: IBRC Liquidation (13 Feb 2013)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Finance if it is a term of the arrangement to replace the promissory notes in Irish Bank Resolution Corporation, that IBRC must remain a corporate entity for the duration of the replacement sovereign bonds, that is, until 2053. [7731/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Government Bonds (13 Feb 2013)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Finance the amount of interest that will be paid in each of 2013, 2014 and 2015 on the sovereign bonds that replace the promissory notes;; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7733/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Government Bonds (13 Feb 2013)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Finance the net present value of the bonds that will replace the promissory notes and the net present value gain in this arrangement;; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7734/13]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Grant Scheme Application Numbers (13 Feb 2013)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will clarify the number of third level grants that remain to be processed; if he will provide detail in tabular form of the grants still to be processed by county; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7531/13]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals (13 Feb 2013)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Social Protection her views on whether any progress has been made in reducing the processing times for social welfare appeals; the current processing time for appeals; her views on whether it is appropriate that applicants are currently waiting up to eight months for a decision with the appeals office in view of the fact that they are also waiting a considerable time...

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Medical Services Scheme (14 Feb 2013)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Health the products that will be delisted from the GMS scheme as outlined in the Health Service Executive National Service Plan 2013; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7460/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (14 Feb 2013)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Health if he will advise the annual State spend on high tech drugs in each of the years 2009, 2010, 2011 and 2012; if he will list the medications involved; if he will advise the savings he has negotiated and secured across each of the relevant expenditures; the way he will deliver the €10m savings in the high tech drugs bill as outlined in the Health Service...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: IBRC Staff (14 Feb 2013)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Finance the number of ex-staff of the Irish Bank Resolution Corporation that have been re-hired by the special liquidator or the National Assets Management Agency [7992/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: IBRC Staff (14 Feb 2013)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Finance the way the percentages of ex-staff in the Irish Bank Resolution Corporation have been re-hired by the special liquidator or the National Assets Management Agency in the following categories, those who were earning less than €100,000; those who were earning between €100,000 and €200,000; those who were earning between €200,000 and...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: IBRC Staff (14 Feb 2013)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Finance the numbers in each grade, clerical, risk officer, executive and so on, of the staff in Irish Bank Resolution Corporation when it was liquidated.; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7993/13]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education and Training (14 Feb 2013)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide a list of all local training initiatives here in tabular form broken down by local authority area; the location of the initiatives; the number of staff; and the number of training places. [7810/13]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Departmental Contracts (14 Feb 2013)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she has granted any contracts or is considering granting any projects to private companies for the implementation of the pathways to work programmes; and if she will list the private companies involved. [7811/13]

Order of Business (19 Feb 2013)

Pearse Doherty: I understand the Minister has a draft of the Mercer report on the remuneration of high ranking bankers and banking officials. When will the report be published and when will legislation on it be introduced? The Taoiseach's statement that there will not be compulsory redundancies at Irish Life does not lay to rest the fears of 2,800 workers in Irish Life and Canada Life, many of whom are low...

Mortgage Restructuring: Motion [Private Members] (19 Feb 2013)

Pearse Doherty: There is no more obvious sign that working families are bearing the brunt of austerity than the crisis that many are facing every single month in trying to pay their mortgages. Since 2011, my party has warned that the Government did not appreciate the urgency of the situation. At that time we called for a new, time-limited, distressed mortgage resolution body. Such a body would be an...

Finance Bill 2013: Second Stage (19 Feb 2013)

Pearse Doherty: I thank the Minister for his Second Stage speech and I welcome the opportunity to respond to it. As he began his contribution, the Minister took the opportunity to reflect on recent developments. Given the state of Ireland's economy, the fact that we did not incur a loss in the sale of Irish Life and that the dividend to be paid should nearly equate to the interest we would have had to...

Finance Bill 2013: Second Stage (19 Feb 2013)

Pearse Doherty: I use it as an example of the access to corridors. I understand that it comes from others but it is part and parcel of the budgetary proposal. The Bill does tick some boxes. In the past, the Minister has presented me and my party as negative when we were attempting to constructively criticise legislation. We all will be aware that is a political ploy and it is par for the course. He...

Finance Bill 2013: Second Stage (19 Feb 2013)

Pearse Doherty: However, if their tax liability is high enough that is basically it. While there is a minimum threshold there is no maximum. I do not live in Limerick and have not spent much time there but I have been around the city and seen the accommodation in Moyross. Many people there would love the Minister to be announcing that if they carried out upgrades to their houses, the Government would...

Finance Bill 2013: Second Stage (19 Feb 2013)

Pearse Doherty: The Minister hopes to bring in a large portion of tax this year from the family home tax. The programme for Government specifically stated that any property tax would take into account the significant numbers of people in mortgage distress. Our Private Members' motion tonight is about mortgage distress and removing the bank's veto. Some 115 households fall into mortgage distress every day...