Results 5,001-5,020 of 36,133 for speaker:Pearse Doherty

Written Answers — Department of Finance: IBRC Liquidation (23 Apr 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 218. To ask the Minister for Finance if it is appropriate to extend the anti-lobbying rules, which apply to the National Asset Management Agency, to the liquidation of Irish Bank Resolution Corporation. [18473/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Outright Monetary Transaction Scheme Eligibility (23 Apr 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 219. To ask the Minister for Finance further to the European Central Bank press conference on 4 April 2013 in which the President of the ECB, Mr Mario Draghi, referred to OMTs and their precise rules, his views that the rules surrounding the criteria for access to the Outright Monetary Transaction scheme are precise; and if so, if he will confirm if the State meets the criteria for accessing...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Banking Sector Regulation (23 Apr 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 220. To ask the Minister for Finance if he is concerned at the criticism of the former management of Halifax Bank of Scotland by the British Parliamentary Commission on banking standards in its fourth report on 5 April 2013; and if he will confirm that he has confidence in a person (details supplie) of Bank of Ireland who previously occupied a senior position in HBOS. [18475/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Banking Sector Regulation (23 Apr 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 221. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will outline any relevant lessons and recommendations for the Irish banking sector, following the recent fourth report by the British Parliamentary Commission on banking standards on 5 April 2013. [18476/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: NAMA Advisory Board (23 Apr 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 222. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will outline the activity over the past year of the National Asset Management Agency Advisory Board comprising persons (details supplied); and if he will outline any recommendations made by that board to him and the subsequent treatment of any such recommendations. [18477/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: NAMA Advisory Board (23 Apr 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 223. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide an assessment of the utility over the past year of the National Asset Management Agency Advisory Board comprising persons (details supplied) [18478/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: NAMA Board Appointments (23 Apr 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 224. To ask the Minister for Finance the reason he did not advertise the vacancy on the National Asset Management Agency board before deciding to appoint a person (details supplied) to the position of board member as announced by him on 5 April 2013; and if he considers the notification of vacancies on the NAMA board by his Department in February 2012 with a closing date for expressions of...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: NAMA Loans Sale (23 Apr 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 225. To ask the Minister for Finance if the National Asset Management Agency has compared its internal rate of return with internal rates of return targeted by investors bidding for, and buying, NAMA properties and loans; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18480/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: National Treasury Management Agency Bond Issues (23 Apr 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 233. To ask the Minister for Finance the amount of cash being held on balance by the National Treasury Managemnt Agency; the reason for this volume of this cash holding; if this cash is receiving any return for the State; the impact it would have on the interest spent on debt servicing, were the cash balance or a portion thereof be used to pay off the debt. [18719/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Yield (23 Apr 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 235. To ask the Minister for Finance further to recent reporting that the Revenue Commissioners has recovered €45.5m from 328 individuals relating to trusts in Channel Islands, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, Isle of Man, Cayman Islands and the Seychelles, if he will outline the way the Revenue Commissioners will document these recoveries in its quarterly reporting of tax defaulters. [18757/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: IBRC Liquidation (23 Apr 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 236. To ask the Minister for Finance if it remains the case that the National Asset Management Agency will acquire the unsold remaining loans at Irish Bank Resolution Corporation in August 2013, or if that date has slipped; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18758/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: IBRC Liquidation (23 Apr 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 237. To ask the Minister for Finance the fees payable to date to KPMG in its role as special liquidator of Irish Bank Resolution Corporation [18759/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Pension Provisions (23 Apr 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 238. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will explain the approach of Allied Irish Banks, in which he controls 99.8% of the shares and which transferred €1.1bn to its pension fund to address a deficit in August 2012, and Permanent TSB, in which he controls 99.5% of the shares, which has written to members of its pension scheme threatening to halt contributions to the pension scheme...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: European Financial Stability Facility (23 Apr 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 239. To ask the Minister for Finance following the Econfin statement on 12 April 2013, if he will set out, in tabular form, the old maturity of debt owing to the European contributors to the programme finance bailout together with the applicable interest rates, and the new maturities and new interest rates if different [18761/13]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education and Training Provision (23 Apr 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 295. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to parliamentary Question No. 269 of 14 February 2013, if he will provide the data from FÁS detailed in the answer. [19119/13]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Croke Park Agreement Issues (23 Apr 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 297. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the percentage cut to the salary of An Taoiseach and allowances under the terms of Croke Park 2; and if he will confirm if any public sector staff earning less than €65,000 in salary and allowances will face a greater percentage cut to salary and allowances under Croke Park 2. [18404/13]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Croke Park Agreement Savings (23 Apr 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 302. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform further to Parliamentary Question No. 248 of 12 March 2013, the date on which new pay and allowance arrangements under Croke Park 2 need to be implemented in 2013 in order to generate planned savings in the public sector; and if he will confirm the net savings, that is the difference existing gross pay and allowances less tax and...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Enterprise Ireland Funding (23 Apr 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 314. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will confirm for each of the years 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011 and 2012 the State funding provided to Wicklow Enterprise Park Limited; if he will confirm that it is a term of that company's memorandum and articles of association that directors will not receive any remuneration or other benefit in money or moneys worth from the...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments to Prisoners (23 Apr 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 365. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if he will set out in tabular form for 2011 and 2012 and analysed by social protection headings, the amounts paid by her Department to citizens whilst they were incarcerated in Irish and foreign prisons. [18576/13]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Invalidity Pension Appeals (23 Apr 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 400. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a decision will be made on an application for invalidity pension in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Donegal; if she will provide details on the number of applications for invalidity pension that are currently awaiting medical assessment; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19116/13]