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Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Credit Guarantee Scheme Implementation (26 Feb 2013)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation further to the announcement of the loan guarantee scheme for small and medium enterprises in the Budget 2012 announcements in December 2011, the total amount of fees paid and payable to a company (details supplied) for administering the scheme to date. [9760/13]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Microenterprise Loan Fund Application Numbers (26 Feb 2013)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation further to the announcement of the €90m microfinance scheme on 27 September 2012, the total amount that has been to date extended to businesses under the scheme and the number of businesses to which that total relates. [9761/13]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Microenterprise Loan Fund Expenditure (26 Feb 2013)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation further to the announcement of the €90m microfinance scheme on 27 September 2012, the total cost of operating Microfinance Ireland in 2012 and provide the forecast cost of operating Microfinance Ireland in 2013 and the current effective full time headcount of that organisation. [9762/13]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Legislative Programme (26 Feb 2013)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will outline any obstacles preventing him from announcing a commencement order and establishment day in respect of the Personal Insolvency Act 2012; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9763/13]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Personal Insolvency Act (26 Feb 2013)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the discussions he has had with the programme finance troika of the International Monetary Fund, the European Central Bank and the European Commission since 26 December 2012 in respect of the implementation of the Personal Insolvency Act 2012. [9764/13]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Bankruptcy Legislation (26 Feb 2013)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the discussions he has had with the British authorities regarding so-called bankruptcy tourism and the practice of citizens of the State relocating to Britain in order to take advantage of more lenient bankruptcy legislation. [9766/13]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Bankruptcy Legislation (26 Feb 2013)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the discussions he has had with European authorities regarding the so-called bankruptcy tourism and the practice of citizens of the State relocating to other member states in order to take advantage of more lenient bankruptcy legislation. [9767/13]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Tribunals of Inquiry (26 Feb 2013)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 153 of 12 December 2012, the progress made on the recommendations of the Moriarty Tribunal;; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9768/13]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Commercial Leases Database (26 Feb 2013)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 823 of 6 November 2012, if he will confirm that the commercial leases database will be published by 31 March 2013; the information that will be available; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9769/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Food Safety Authority Investigations (26 Feb 2013)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Health if the Food Safety Authority of Ireland was responding to a tip-off when it tested for horse DNA in certain foods in November 2012; the number of times in 2012 the FSAI tested for horse DNA in foods prior to November 2012; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9770/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Food Safety Promotion Board (26 Feb 2013)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Health the overall budget in 2013 of Safefood, and the contribution to that budget by his Department. [9771/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (26 Feb 2013)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Health the reasons for the delay in receiving an appointment at Tallaght Hospital for urgent medical treatment in respect of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 22 [9829/13]

Order of Business (27 Feb 2013)

Pearse Doherty: My questions are on two tranches of pending legislation. The Taoiseach will be familiar with the landmark High Court judgment earlier today in the case against NAMA and Anglo Irish Bank taken by the Office of the Commissioner for Environmental Information. This was instigated by a request from Gavin Sheridan, who has been a leading light advocating for transparency in the State for many...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Procurement Tenders (27 Feb 2013)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if his attention has been drawn to the concerns raised by the school supply sector who believe their businesses cannot survive if excluded from the public procurement process; and the action he will take to tackle these concerns. [10432/13]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Pensions (27 Feb 2013)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the saving to the Exchequer if he imposed public service pension reduction bands (details supplied) to all public sector pensions, including local authorities and State agencies. [10430/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: IBRC Liquidation (27 Feb 2013)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Finance following the Irish Bank Resolution Corporation Act and the appointment of a special liquidator to resolve IBRC's balance sheets, the way the liquidator will deal with outstanding loans to the company; the way the liquidator will approach the outstanding issue of loans that are secured against mortgaged properties, where the property owner has arranged a debt...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: IBRC Liquidation (27 Feb 2013)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will explain the decision to provide €1 billion credit facility from the National Assets Management Agency for the use of the special liquidator of the Irish Bank Resolution Corporation; when the decision was made; what the credit facility is intended to be used for; the way the €1 billion, if used, will be repaid to NAMA; if he had to seek...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: IBRC Liquidation (27 Feb 2013)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Finance further to the announcement by the National Asset Management Agency on 21 February 2013 that it has made a €1bn credit line available to Irish Bank Resolution Corporation, if he will confirm the interest rate and arrangement fee that applies to the facility and any moneys advanced under it [10643/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: IBRC Liquidation (27 Feb 2013)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Finance further to the announcement by the National Asset Management Agency on 21 February 2013 that it has made a €1bn credit line available to Irish Bank Resolution Corporation, if the NAMA action was subject to a NAMA board decision; and if it was, the date of the board decision. [10644/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: IBRC Liquidation (27 Feb 2013)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide an assessment of the value of privileged inside information may have to potential buyers of Irish Bank Resolution Corporation during the term of liquidation. [10502/13]