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Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Special Protection Areas (20 Mar 2013)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht in relation to the Meenlaragh to Falcarragh Special Protection Area in County Donegal, if he will suspend the process of designation until such time as agreement can be reached with the local communities on the boundaries of the SPA; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13681/13]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Immigration Status (20 Mar 2013)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will respond to correspondence sent to him regarding an application to remain here under the 2004 student probationary extension in respect of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 2; if this application will be approved in view of the fact that the applicant commenced studies in December 2004; and if he will make a statement on the...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Bank Staff Remuneration (21 Mar 2013)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to reduce the salaries of senior executives at bailed-out banks, as opposed to reducing the payroll more generally, in view of the fact that more than 6,400 staff in these banks earn more than €100,000, 165 top executives in Bank of Ireland and AIB are receiving salaries in excess of €200,000 per year, 55 of these are earning more than...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Bank Staff Remuneration (21 Mar 2013)

Pearse Doherty: I thank the Minister for his response, albeit a disappointing one. Does the Minister remember voting to legislate for a €250,000 cap on bankers' pay in the covered institutions? Can he recall pressing the button on this side of the House and believing that it was the right thing to do? We have finally had sight of the Mercer report on high-level bankers' pay that was promised for...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Bank Staff Remuneration (21 Mar 2013)

Pearse Doherty: The Minister holds the shares of this State in the Bank of Ireland. They are in trust to him as the Minister for Finance who is a 15% shareholder. However, the Minister has not once uttered a word about the fact that Mr. Richie Boucher was paid €910,000 last year, the same as he was paid the year before. His base salary is above the cap, his car expenses are €34,000 and his...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Bank Staff Remuneration (21 Mar 2013)

Pearse Doherty: No, the issue is paying €3,000 per day.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Mortgage Arrears Proposals (21 Mar 2013)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Finance the reason in view of the crisis in mortgage arrears he did not take the power away from the banks and appoint an independent body with the power to compel banks to come to binding agreements with mortgage holders in last week’s mortgage arrears plan; if he considered this option; and if so, the reason he did not include it. [14402/13]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Mortgage Arrears Proposals (21 Mar 2013)

Pearse Doherty: The mortgage crisis and the approach that has been taken to it for the last number of years were not created by the Minister. The crisis has been there for the last four or five years. However, the problem now is that the Minister has again left it with the banks and, as Deputy Michael McGrath said, the same concerns exist. I genuinely hope the targets and the approach being taken by the...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Mortgage Arrears Proposals (21 Mar 2013)

Pearse Doherty: That is not a solution for the vast majority of people, and the Minister knows that. If one is bankrupt, one loses one's house. That is not a solution for the approximately 186,000 people who are in mortgage distress. The problem is that while it is good that the Central Bank is looking at the banks and will study what they do, the banks have basically refused to listen to the Minister,...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Mortgage Arrears Proposals (21 Mar 2013)

Pearse Doherty: What about the comments made by the Financial Regulator, Mr. Matthew Elderfield?

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Property Taxation Application (21 Mar 2013)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will carry out an impact assessment of the property tax on social housing service providers. [14060/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Budget 2012 (21 Mar 2013)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Finance the plans, if any, he has to conduct and publish an analysis of the net employment effects of the measures taken in Budget 2012; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14452/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Budget 2012 (21 Mar 2013)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Finance his plans, if any, to conduct and publish an analysis of the net effect on GDP and GNP of the measures taken in Budget 2012; his plans to conduct and publish any analysis of the output effects; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14458/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Budget 2012 (21 Mar 2013)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Finance the plans, if any, he has to conduct and publish an analysis of the distributional effects of the measures taken in Budget 2012; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14453/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Budget 2012 (21 Mar 2013)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Finance the plans, if any,he has to conduct and publish an analysis of the distributional effects of the measures taken in Budget 2013; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14454/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Budget 2012 (21 Mar 2013)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Finance the plans, if any, he has to conduct and publish an analysis of the distributional effects of the measures being considered for Budget 2014; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14455/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Reliefs Application (21 Mar 2013)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Finance the plans, if any, he has to publish the economic rationale for all existing tax reliefs and for all proposed tax reliefs being considered; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14456/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Reliefs Cost (21 Mar 2013)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Finance the plans, if any, he has to publish the direct cost to the Exchequer of all existing tax reliefs, including a distributional analysis of which households by income decile group are expected to benefit from each existing tax relief; the firms that are expected to benefit; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14457/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Yield (21 Mar 2013)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Finance the amount of money that would be raised in a full year by reducing the level at which persons and companies may claim interest repayments against tax for residential rental properties to 40%; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14459/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: NAMA Portfolio Issues (21 Mar 2013)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Finance further to the recent statement by the National Asset Management Agency that it had sold €22m of Irish residential property with its 80:20 deferred payment initiative, if he will confirm the overall value of the 80:20 mortgages that have been extended to buyers of such property and the overall value of sales which have not involved the 80:20 mortgage....