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Written Answers — Department of Finance: Financial Services Regulation (13 Feb 2014)

Michael McGrath: 93. To ask the Minister for Finance if any further action is being taken by his Department or the National Treasury Management Agency following the overcharging of the National Pensions Reserve Fund by State Street Global Advisors when acting as portfolio manager on behalf of the National Pensions Reserve Fund; if the amount of the overcharging has been recovered; if any additional...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Credits (13 Feb 2014)

Michael McGrath: 94. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of recipients of the one-parent family tax credit in each year from 2010 to 2013; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7453/14]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Credits (13 Feb 2014)

Michael McGrath: 95. To ask the Minister for Finance the expected number of recipient of the single person child carer tax credit in 2014; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7454/14]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Credits (13 Feb 2014)

Michael McGrath: 96. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of claims for a tax repayment in respect of the one-parent family tax credit for the years 2010 to 2013 which have been received since the announcement of the abolition of the credit in budget 2014; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7455/14]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Banking Sector Remuneration (13 Feb 2014)

Michael McGrath: 97. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of meetings his Department officials have had with AIB which included discussion of a reinstatement of bonuses at the bank; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7456/14]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Crime Data (13 Feb 2014)

Michael McGrath: 184. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will set out in tabular form the notional value of counterfeit bank notes seized in the State in each year since 2010; the action being taken to counteract counterfeiting; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7328/14]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Forthcoming Economic and Financial Affairs Council: Minister for Finance (13 Feb 2014)

Michael McGrath: I thank the Minister and his officials for attending. Based on his opening remarks and the agenda for the ECOFIN Council, the February meeting, like the meeting in January, will be dominated by aspects of banking union and the EU semester process. I am most interested in how all of this affects Ireland and the issues that are of importance here. The SSM is due to become operational in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Forthcoming Economic and Financial Affairs Council: Minister for Finance (13 Feb 2014)

Michael McGrath: It might need fewer.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Forthcoming Economic and Financial Affairs Council: Minister for Finance (13 Feb 2014)

Michael McGrath: I thank the Minister. All those notes are great but unfortunately I am on a stopwatch and they are eating into my time.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Forthcoming Economic and Financial Affairs Council: Minister for Finance (13 Feb 2014)

Michael McGrath: I thank the Cathaoirleach. The Minister referred to the asset quality review and the stress tests later this year. Will the ECB have to carry out the asset quality review of the Irish banks again on foot of the work done in recent months by agents on behalf of the Central Bank of Ireland?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Forthcoming Economic and Financial Affairs Council: Minister for Finance (13 Feb 2014)

Michael McGrath: Alternatively, will it accept the work that was done as the starting point? Does it have to do all that again?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Forthcoming Economic and Financial Affairs Council: Minister for Finance (13 Feb 2014)

Michael McGrath: I have just one more question.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Forthcoming Economic and Financial Affairs Council: Minister for Finance (13 Feb 2014)

Michael McGrath: I am sure my colleagues will go into breaking the link between the sovereign and bank debt to which the Minister referred in his notes. Under the growth and jobs compact, and lending to the economy, what is the status of the initiative with KfW, the German development bank? Has an agreement been reached? Is there any indication of the quantum of lending likely to be available to Irish SMEs...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Forthcoming Economic and Financial Affairs Council: Minister for Finance (13 Feb 2014)

Michael McGrath: As my time is up, the Minister may read away.

Order of Business (18 Feb 2014)

Michael McGrath: It is two and a half years since the Government announced that the strategic investment fund would be established on a statutory basis to channel money from the National Pensions Reserve Fund into commercial projects. For whatever reason, we are still awaiting the legislation, which will facilitate job creation. The Betting (Amendment) Bill is going through the House, awaiting Committee...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Departmental Staff Remuneration (18 Feb 2014)

Michael McGrath: 148. To ask the Taoiseach if he will clarify if all branches of the civil service within his Department are applying Department policy that staff progress or incremental salary scales on the basis of a single point per annum; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8688/14]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Departmental Staff Remuneration (18 Feb 2014)

Michael McGrath: 165. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will clarify if all branches of the civil service within his Department are applying Department policy that staff progress or incremental salary scales on the basis of a single point per annum; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8683/14]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Mortgage Arrears Proposals (18 Feb 2014)

Michael McGrath: 235. To ask the Minister for Finance if the Central Bank has contacted his Department expressing concern that some mortgage holders may lose the protections of certain statutory codes including the code of conduct on mortgage arrears if their mortgage is sold to an entity not regulated by the Central Bank of Ireland; his views on this issue; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Financial Institutions Levy (18 Feb 2014)

Michael McGrath: 184. To ask the Minister for Finance his views that the bank levy is anti-competitive; his views on the way the levy will impact on the ability to attract new entrants to the Irish banking market; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7782/14]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Mortgage Arrears Proposals (18 Feb 2014)

Michael McGrath: 196. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide information on the Central Bank guidance or rules governing the split mortgage sustainable solution to a mortgage arrears problem; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8037/14]