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Written Answers — Department of Finance: Exchequer Deficit (13 May 2015)

Pearse Doherty: 67. To ask the Minister for Finance the change in millions of euros in the Exchequer deficit in the period January 2015 and April 2015, compared to the same period in 2011; and the contribution to that change, arising from the change in current receipts, and the change in current expenditure. [18770/15]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Exchequer Deficit (13 May 2015)

Pearse Doherty: 68. To ask the Minister for Finance the contribution in millions of euros to the change in the Exchequer deficit, in the period January 2015 to April 2015, compared to the same period in 2011, arising from the change in capital receipts and expenditure over that time. [18771/15]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Exchequer Deficit (13 May 2015)

Pearse Doherty: 69. To ask the Minister for Finance the contribution in millions of euros to the change in the Exchequer deficit in the period January 2015 to April 2015, compared to the same period in 2011, arising from the change solely in tax revenues; and the principal contributors, in millions of euros from the various tax heads to that change in tax revenues. [18772/15]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Central Bank of Ireland Expenditure (13 May 2015)

Pearse Doherty: 70. To ask the Minister for Finance the cost of printing each note of each denomination of euro notes, that is, the cost of printing the €5, €10 note and so on. [18773/15]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Financial Services Regulation (13 May 2015)

Pearse Doherty: 76. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of payment institutions regulated in the State; the names of same; the date each one was licensed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18803/15]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Financial Services Regulation (13 May 2015)

Pearse Doherty: 79. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of applications for licences to operate as payment institutions that have been received by the Central Bank of Ireland in the past two years; his views on the opinion expressed to the Irish Ambassador in Britain that companies were having difficulties in obtaining licences; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18856/15]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Vehicle Registration (13 May 2015)

Pearse Doherty: 78. To ask the Minister for Finance the reason the vehicle registration tax export repayment scheme charges eligible citizens €500 administration, deducted from repayable vehicle registration tax, when exporting a car; the amount of revenue this charge raised in 2014; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18832/15]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Property Services Regulatory Authority Administration (13 May 2015)

Pearse Doherty: 132. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will direct the Property Services Regulatory Authority to reply to a complaint (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18815/15]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Leader Programmes Administration (13 May 2015)

Pearse Doherty: 191. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he is aware of the concerns of island communities surrounding the delivery of the new Leader programme; his plans to designate the islands as a regional area under the new Leader programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18774/15]

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (13 May 2015)

Pearse Doherty: Go raibh maith agat, a Chathaoirligh, agus fáilte chun an beirt agaibh chuig an coiste. Can I ask you did the CIF undertake or commission research into the structure or outlook of the construction and property sector in 2007, especially on the way that it was being funded?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (13 May 2015)

Pearse Doherty: Did you have any concern in relation to how the property sector was being funded and if not-----

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (13 May 2015)

Pearse Doherty: So can you give the committee an example, because obviously we know that NAMA took on board the loans of commercial property into NAMA and you have made very strong submissions and strong critique of NAMA in the past. Yet, they weren't houses that people owned mortgages from in rural Ireland or indeed in the capital city, they were commercial property in the most, in the main. So when you...

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (13 May 2015)

Pearse Doherty: Well, can I ask you-----

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (13 May 2015)

Pearse Doherty: You're on the record that CIF has lobbied Government for tax relief ... sorry, reductions. So would that not be in relation to property speculation and the benefits of transactions and not the construction in itself?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (13 May 2015)

Pearse Doherty: And would it be the larger developers, which were also members of the CIF, that would have been the major beneficiaries of such moves?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (13 May 2015)

Pearse Doherty: The NIRSA report, and it's been mentioned earlier on ... there's parts of it in page 5 to 9 of Vol. 2, there's a subsequent reference in the later part of the report and I quoted it. It talks about the issue of oversupply is not limited to housing but also hotels, shopping centre, retail parks and industrial units. Can you explain in your opinion why this happened? Why there was such an...

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (13 May 2015)

Pearse Doherty: Okay. Can I ask just to clarify for the record in the evidence here, you mentioned to Mr. MacSharry that you lobbied all parties and just to clarify in relation to that there, how does that ... how far did that go? There's some parties that existed a number of years ago that have no representation in this House. There's other parties that would've been of smaller. So did you ... did the...

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (13 May 2015)

Pearse Doherty: Well that's for him to answer.

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (13 May 2015)

Pearse Doherty: You know. So if you can explain just the circumstances that surrounded you, if you have visited the Galway tent how did that happen?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (13 May 2015)

Pearse Doherty: Right.