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Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Yield (15 Jul 2015)

Pearse Doherty: 102. To ask the Minister for Finance the revenue that would be generated through reducing the exempt portion of the capital acquisitions tax agricultural relief to 80%, 70%. [29519/15]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (15 Jul 2015)

Pearse Doherty: 103. To ask the Minister for Finance the revenue that would be generated through increasing the tax on cigarettes by €0.50. [29520/15]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Urban Renewal Schemes (15 Jul 2015)

Pearse Doherty: 292. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the estimated revenue, calculated by his Department, from a 3% vacant site levy, in accordance with the Urban Regeneration and Housing Bill 2015. [29514/15]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Television Licence Fee Yield (15 Jul 2015)

Pearse Doherty: 316. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the net amount of subsidies provided by the State for funding to Raidió Teilifís Éireann. [29503/15]

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (15 Jul 2015)

Pearse Doherty: Go raibh maith agat agus fáilte romhat chuig an coiste. I want to go back to just the issue in terms of your lobbying of the general secretary of the Department of the Taoiseach in relation to Depfa Bank being included in the guarantee and if we'll ... we'll pull up Vol. 1, page 83, of the core booklets. Mr. Farrell, did I understand that you're informing the committee that the IBF...

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (15 Jul 2015)

Pearse Doherty: Is my understanding of the evidence that you've provided to this committee that the IBF, the Irish Banking Federation, were unaware of who was the regulator of Depfa Bank?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (15 Jul 2015)

Pearse Doherty: Who did you ... who did you believe was the regulator?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (15 Jul 2015)

Pearse Doherty: So, for four years prior to that, were you unaware who the regulator was?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (15 Jul 2015)

Pearse Doherty: So, when was that transition?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (15 Jul 2015)

Pearse Doherty: Real Estate.

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (15 Jul 2015)

Pearse Doherty: In 2007?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (15 Jul 2015)

Pearse Doherty: Okay.

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (15 Jul 2015)

Pearse Doherty: So, after 2007, you would have been aware that it would be the German regulator that was regulating Hypo Real Estate and, through its unit in Dublin, Depfa Bank; would that be correct or incorrect?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (15 Jul 2015)

Pearse Doherty: When you ... when you were lobbying the Irish Government or the Department of the Taoiseach for Depfa to be included in the bank guarantee, were you aware that it was the German regulator who regulated that bank at the time?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (15 Jul 2015)

Pearse Doherty: Yes.

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (15 Jul 2015)

Pearse Doherty: And would your role in the ... IBF mean that you would carry out the instructions of the bankers despite that it would have potentially devastating consequences on the Irish State?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (15 Jul 2015)

Pearse Doherty: But the question is, would you represent their concerns despite the fact that the ... if they agreed to do what you asked them to do, that it could have a potentially devastating consequences to the State?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (15 Jul 2015)

Pearse Doherty: Yes.

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (15 Jul 2015)

Pearse Doherty: Mr. Farrell-----

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (15 Jul 2015)

Pearse Doherty: -----how is this a hypothetical situation? The IBF lobbied the Department of Finance for Depfa to be included in the guarantee - not hypothetical, looked for them to be included as a section in the guarantee. And you went then to the Department of the Taoiseach asking "We need your support in this." How was this hypothetical? Was this not a very concentrated effort on behalf of the IBF...