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Written Answers — Department of Finance: Household Charge Collection (5 Feb 2015)

Michael McGrath: 132. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of persons who have been subject to each of the following sanctions in respect of the household charge for 2012; mandatory deduction at source from salary or occupational pension; surcharge on income tax, corporation tax or capital gains tax returns; referral to the sheriff for collection; referral to the Revenue Commissioners' solicitors for...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Yield (5 Feb 2015)

Michael McGrath: 133. To ask the Minister for Finance the yield from stamp duty on credit cards, debit cards and cheques in each year from 2012 to 2014; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5378/15]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Yield (5 Feb 2015)

Michael McGrath: 134. To ask the Minister for Finance the yield from the high earners restriction in each year since it was introduced; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5379/15]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Exemptions (5 Feb 2015)

Michael McGrath: 135. To ask the Minister for Finance the tax expenditure, the number of participants and jobs supported under the employment and investment incentive and seed capital scheme in 2013 and 2014; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5380/15]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Exemptions (5 Feb 2015)

Michael McGrath: 136. To ask the Minister for Finance the tax expenditure, the number of participants and the number of jobs supported by the special assignee relief programme in 2013 and 2014; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5381/15]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Exemptions (5 Feb 2015)

Michael McGrath: 137. To ask the Minister for Finance the tax expenditure, the number of participants and the number of jobs supported under the foreign earnings deduction scheme in 2013 and 2014; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5382/15]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Carbon Tax Yield (5 Feb 2015)

Michael McGrath: 138. To ask the Minister for Finance the yield form carbon tax on solid fuel in 2013 and 2014; the additional revenue that will be raised from increasing the tax on solid fuel from 1 May 2014; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5383/15]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Fuel Rebate Scheme (5 Feb 2015)

Michael McGrath: 139. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of hauliers currently availing of the rebate scheme for auto diesel; the total amount of the rebate in 2013 and 2014; his plans to streamline the process; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5386/15]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Property Tax Administration (5 Feb 2015)

Michael McGrath: 141. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of refunds that have been completed for second-hand home buyers who were incorrectly charged the local property tax in 2013; if the process is completed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5390/15]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Insolvency Service of Ireland Data (5 Feb 2015)

Michael McGrath: 185. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of personal insolvency proposals vetoed by banks in the course of the work of the Personal Insolvency Service of Ireland; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5330/15]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Residency Permits (5 Feb 2015)

Michael McGrath: 186. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of applications received for residency here, based on the extension of criteria for investors in budget 2014; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5385/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Prescription Charges (5 Feb 2015)

Michael McGrath: 235. To ask the Minister for Health the total amount raised from prescription charges in 2014; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5384/15]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Mortgages (5 Feb 2015)

Michael McGrath: 282. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the number of local authority mortgages currently in existence; the total value of local authority mortgages outstanding; the number that are in arrears for more than 90 days; the total amount of arrears on local authority mortgages; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5388/15]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Mortgages (5 Feb 2015)

Michael McGrath: 283. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the actions that are being taken to assist persons who are in arrears to a local authority and the actions to be put in place to achieve a sustainable solution to their arrears; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5389/15]

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (5 Feb 2015)

Michael McGrath: I welcome Professor Black. I want to ask about the inclusion of subordinated debt in the guarantee. He is highly critical of it and makes the point that the Irish response was the worst in history because of the inclusion of subordinated debt. What possible justification could there have been for including subordinated debt? I want to put the figures in context. The guarantee was...

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (5 Feb 2015)

Michael McGrath: What is Professor Black's view on what happened two years later when the guarantee ended? Approximately €20 billion in senior bonds, which were unsecured, came out of guarantee and there were efforts to impose losses on them but those efforts did not work. We will explore that issue and the role of the ECB will come into question. Should losses have been imposed at that stage when...

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (5 Feb 2015)

Michael McGrath: I asked about senior debt.

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (5 Feb 2015)

Michael McGrath: In terms of an alternative strategy in the teeth of the crisis in 2008, would it possibly have been to let banks fail or to take them into receivership, as Professor Black put it, separating good assets from bad assets, protecting depositors and burning bondholders? What is his alternative model?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (5 Feb 2015)

Michael McGrath: You are saying that in Ireland deposit insurance was up to €100,000 and when the crash hit in September 2008 anyone with deposits in excess of that, such as corporate deposits, institutional investors or those with personal savings in excess of €100,000, should have been burned.

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (5 Feb 2015)

Michael McGrath: What is curious is that you say with absolute certainty that the worst possible decision was made, but can you say with certainty that it was better than letting the banks fail and letting €170 billion of deposits included in the guarantee fail? How can you say with certainty that that would not have been worse or better? I do not know.