Results 28,001-28,020 of 35,908 for speaker:Pearse Doherty

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Reliefs Cost (27 May 2014)

Pearse Doherty: 82. To ask the Minister for Finance the cost to the Exchequer of increasing the standard tax rate band from €32,800 for a single person, €41,800 for a married couple one earner, €65,600 married couple two earners, €36,800 one parent family, by €260, €520, €1,040, €1,560, €2,080 and €2,600 respectively per annum or...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Disabled Drivers and Passengers Scheme (27 May 2014)

Pearse Doherty: 85. To ask the Minister for Finance the reason disabled drivers and disabled passengers tax concession scheme those who would otherwise qualify are disqualified because they do not buy their car from an authorised person. [22221/14]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Disabled Drivers and Passengers Scheme (27 May 2014)

Pearse Doherty: 86. To ask the Minister for Finance if an applicant under the disabled drivers and disabled passengers tax concession scheme can qualify for the scheme on presentation of documentation even if they have not bought from an authorised person; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22222/14]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Credit Unions (27 May 2014)

Pearse Doherty: 90. To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to the problems being caused to credit unions, as shown by the Irish League of Credit Unions, by the restrictive lending regulations and interpretations of these regulations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22301/14]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Credit Unions (27 May 2014)

Pearse Doherty: 91. To ask the Minister for Finance when he will review the lending regulations placed upon credit unions by legislation to examine whether they are fit for purpose; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22302/14]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Credit Unions (27 May 2014)

Pearse Doherty: 92. To ask the Minister for Finance if the Central Bank of Ireland is proposing further lending limits for credit unions; and if so, if these new limits will replace the current system of ad hoc limits placed on some credit unions. [22304/14]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Credit Unions (27 May 2014)

Pearse Doherty: 94. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on revising the Section 35 lending restrictions on credit unions in view of the argument from the credit union movement that these restrictions are preventing members from taking advantage of improvements in their own economic fortunes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22306/14]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Credit Unions (27 May 2014)

Pearse Doherty: 95. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will ask the Central Bank of Ireland to revisit its prudent lending circular to credit unions of February 2013 in order to clarify whether or not the Central Bank of Ireland will allow any discretion to credit unions in their lending to ensure their social ethos can be protected; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22307/14]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Credit Unions Regulation (27 May 2014)

Pearse Doherty: 93. To ask the Minister for Finance if he favours the three tiered regulatory approach to credit unions as proposed by the Commission on Credit Unions or the two tiered approach currently being proposed by the Central Bank of Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22305/14]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Credit Unions Restructuring (27 May 2014)

Pearse Doherty: 96. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to extend the period of operation of the Credit Union Restructuring Board; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22308/14]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Credit Unions Restructuring (27 May 2014)

Pearse Doherty: 97. To ask the Minister for Finance the amount that has been drawn down to date by the Credit Union Restructuring Board; and the amount that has been used to aid in the restructuring of credit unions to date. [22309/14]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Credits (27 May 2014)

Pearse Doherty: 100. To ask the Minister for Finance if a parent who is not the primary carer can avail of the single parent tax credit if the primary carer is unemployed but does not agree to allowing the other parents avail of the credit. [22322/14]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Banks Recapitalisation (27 May 2014)

Pearse Doherty: 102. To ask the Minister for Finance when Ireland will apply for retrospective recapitalisation, through the European Stability Mechanism, of the moneys used to save Bank of Ireland and Allied Irish Banks; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22402/14]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: IBRC Liquidation (27 May 2014)

Pearse Doherty: 111. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on the announcement by a Delaware court on 13 May that the liquidators of the Irish Bank Resolution Corporation have to set aside millions of euro to cover a racketeering claim. [22532/14]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Freedom of Information Requests (27 May 2014)

Pearse Doherty: 120. To ask the Minister for Finance if the ECB has expressed to him any fear that it would be open to legal action if the letter of November 2010 from Jean Claude Trichet is published. [22728/14]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Freedom of Information Requests (27 May 2014)

Pearse Doherty: 121. To ask the Minister for Finance if the ECB has indicated to him that it would be happy to release the letter of November 2010 from Jean Claude Trichet after the period where the statute of limitations has expired for any citizen or body to take legal action based on its content. [22730/14]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Departmental Meetings (27 May 2014)

Pearse Doherty: 124. To ask the Minister for Finance if the practice of publishing the Secretary General's diary on a monthly basis has ceased and, if so, the reason for same. [22750/14]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Financial Services Ombudsman Issues (27 May 2014)

Pearse Doherty: 147. To ask the Minister for Finance when the merger of the Financial Services Ombudsman and the Pensions Ombudsman will take place; the purpose of this merger; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23052/14]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Ministerial Pensions (27 May 2014)

Pearse Doherty: 320. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of former Ministers that are in receipt of a Ministerial pension; the total cost of these pensions to the State; and the average annual pension payment to these former Ministers. [22169/14]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Overpayments (27 May 2014)

Pearse Doherty: 472. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason persons (details supplied) in County Donegal have been contacted by her Department in relation to an over payment that occurred from 1992 until 1996; the reason her Department failed to act within a reasonable period of time on information it received about the over payment; if she will consider having this over payment cancelled; and...