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Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Personal Injury Claims (23 Jan 2018)

Michael McGrath: 499. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the amount paid out and the number of claims the payouts related to by each agency under the aegis of his Department in respect of personal injury claims in each of the years 2010 to 2017; the number of claims that were settled outside of court in each of these years; the number of payments that were as a result of a...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Motor Tax Collection (23 Jan 2018)

Michael McGrath: 508. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the amount of motor tax collected for private car CO2 broken down by each tax band between 2013 and 2017, inclusive; the number of private cars on which motor tax was collected by each tax band between 2013 and 2017, inclusive; the extra amount of motor tax collected for private car CO2 as a result of motor tax having been paid...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Motor Tax (23 Jan 2018)

Michael McGrath: 509. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the estimated cost of implementing a disc free motor tax regime as in certain other countries; the potential law enforcement issues that may result in such a regime; the overall and individual cost of providing motor tax discs; the rationale for charging motorists more for paying biannually and quarterly; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Personal Injury Claims (23 Jan 2018)

Michael McGrath: 538. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the amount paid out and the number of claims the payouts related to by each agency under the aegis of his Department in respect of personal injury claims in each of the years 2010 to 2017; the number of claims that were settled outside of court in each of these years; the number of payments that were as a result of a court judgment in...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Early Childhood Care and Education (23 Jan 2018)

Michael McGrath: 551. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs when a person (details supplied) attending a preschool under the ECCE scheme will have a special needs assistant appointed for them through the better start access and inclusion model; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3043/18]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Personal Injury Claims (23 Jan 2018)

Michael McGrath: 565. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the amount paid out and the number of claims the payouts related to by each agency under the aegis of her Department in respect of personal injury claims in each of the years 2010 to 2017; the number of claims that were settled outside of court in each of these years; the number of payments that were as a result of a court judgment in...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Personal Injury Claims (23 Jan 2018)

Michael McGrath: 575. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the amount paid out and the number of claims the payouts related to by each agency under the aegis of his Department in respect of personal injury claims in each of the years 2010 to 2017; the number of claims that were settled outside of court in each of these years; the number of payments that were as a result of a court judgment...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Pension Provisions (23 Jan 2018)

Michael McGrath: 614. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 1,660 of 16 January 2018, her plans to amend the law to exempt ARF income from PRSI similar to the way in which annuity income is exempt in view of the fact that in the current low interest rate environment many persons retiring early from a defined contribution scheme are investing in...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Personal Injury Claims (23 Jan 2018)

Michael McGrath: 616. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the amount paid out and the number of claims the payouts related to by each agency under the aegis of her Department in respect of personal injury claims in each of the years 2010 to 2017; the number of claims that were settled outside of court in each of these years; the number of payments that were as a result of a court...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Funding (23 Jan 2018)

Michael McGrath: 666. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the amount provided to local authorities in each year since 2010 by way of the annual block grant from the local government fund; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3368/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Personal Injury Claims (23 Jan 2018)

Michael McGrath: 667. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the amount paid out by each local authority in respect of personal injury claims for each of the years 2010 to 2017; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3384/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Personal Injury Claims (23 Jan 2018)

Michael McGrath: 670. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the amount paid out and the number of claims the pay-outs related to by each agency under the aegis of his Department in respect of personal injury claims in each of the years 2010 to 2017; the number of claims that were settled outside of court in each of these years; the number of payments that were as a result of a court...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Personal Injury Claims (23 Jan 2018)

Michael McGrath: 692. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the amount paid out and the number of claims the payouts related to by each agency under the aegis of her Department in respect of personal injury claims in each of the years 2010 to 2017; the number of claims that were settled outside of court in each of these years; the number of payments that were as a result of a court...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Tracker Mortgages: Allied Irish Banks (23 Jan 2018)

Michael McGrath: I welcome Mr. Byrne and his colleagues and I thank him for his opening statement. I would like to recap the overall picture and link that to the first part of the statement as to how this happened in the first place. A total of 96% of the first large cohort of approximately 3,500 customers identified by the bank have been redressed and compensated. They were once on a tracker, came off it,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Tracker Mortgages: Allied Irish Banks (23 Jan 2018)

Michael McGrath: They were on one at some point.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Tracker Mortgages: Allied Irish Banks (23 Jan 2018)

Michael McGrath: A margin issue affected the cohort of 939.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Tracker Mortgages: Allied Irish Banks (23 Jan 2018)

Michael McGrath: In some cases, they were only affected for a few days.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Tracker Mortgages: Allied Irish Banks (23 Jan 2018)

Michael McGrath: Let us call the remaining 4,000 customers the prevailing rate cohort and I will come to that shortly. Adding all these cohorts together gives a total of 9,348, but is that customers or accounts?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Tracker Mortgages: Allied Irish Banks (23 Jan 2018)

Michael McGrath: Of those, the prevailing rate cohort has not been paid while the margin issue cohort of 939 will be paid by June of this year meaning the vast bulk of the first two categories have been paid. Perhaps 140 of the 3,500 cohort have not been paid and 178 of the 939 cohort. Overall, approximately 5,200 have not yet been redressed or compensated. Is that fair to say?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Tracker Mortgages: Allied Irish Banks (23 Jan 2018)

Michael McGrath: I refer to Mr. Byrne's explanation for how the problem arose. He said that in late 2008 the bank withdrew the tracker product and "the unforeseen and unintended consequence of this decision was that certain customers, who held a tracker product at some point previously but had already moved off the tracker product prior to this decision, were not able to revert to the tracker product"....