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Order of Business (28 Jan 2014)

Pearse Doherty: I appreciate that. The second piece of legislation is the amendment of the Constitution Bill. This is in section C of the list of legislation and it is about a constitutional referendum promised by the Government on the unified patent court. The Minister of State, Deputy Sherlock, said that referendum would take place in 2014. We see the legislation is in section C. Is it intended that...

Order of Business (28 Jan 2014)

Pearse Doherty: That will mean that this cannot be fully ratified until 2015, which will have implications for other European member states, as well as implications for the business sector, but that is a different debate. The last piece is No.93, which introduces legislation to cater for the sale of loan books by regulated financial institutions to unregulated financial institutions. Is this a...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Appointments to State Boards (28 Jan 2014)

Pearse Doherty: 153. To ask the Taoiseach the number of appointments to State boards under the remit of his Department, that were made as a result of applications made through the publicjobs.ie website in the last three years; the number of board posts that were advertised on publicjobs.ie; the number of board posts that were not advertised on the website but instead were directly appointed; and the average...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Appointments to State Boards (28 Jan 2014)

Pearse Doherty: 169. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number of appointments to State boards under the remit of his Department, that were made as a result of applications made through the publicjobs.ie website in the last three years; the number of board posts that were advertised on publicjobs.ie; the number of board posts that were not advertised on the website but...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Mortgage Resolution Processes (28 Jan 2014)

Pearse Doherty: 192. To ask the Minister for Finance if a company (details supplied) who recently purchased the distressed mortgage portfolio of Bank of Scotland, are regulated by the Central Bank of Ireland in the same way as Bank of Scotland; and if the holders of these mortgages continue to have recourse to the mortgage arrears resolution process and code of conduct on mortgage arrears. [3726/14]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Mortgage Resolution Processes (28 Jan 2014)

Pearse Doherty: 193. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide a list of all debt factoring companies registered here who have acquired distressed mortgage portfolios or mortgage portfolios in 2012 and 2013 from banks registered here; the number of mortgages purchased by each debt factoring company and the banks from which they bought these mortgages; and the way in which these companies are...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Mortgage Resolution Processes (28 Jan 2014)

Pearse Doherty: 194. To ask the Minister for Finance the legal protections provided for under the Consumer Credit Act for mortgage holders whose distressed mortgages have been sold by their original lender to a debt factoring company or other financial service provider. [3728/14]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Banking Sector Regulation (28 Jan 2014)

Pearse Doherty: 178. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on whether the International Accounting Standards Board has given clear and precise instructions on the way banks should account for loan losses; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3567/14]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Banking Sector Regulation (28 Jan 2014)

Pearse Doherty: 179. To ask the Minister for Finance if banks must recognise expected losses immediately; or if they can delay their recognition in their accounts; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3568/14]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Banking Sector Regulation (28 Jan 2014)

Pearse Doherty: 180. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 164 of 15 January 2014, if he will clarify the powers the Central Bank of Ireland has, under the European Communities (Credit Institutions: Accounts) Regulations 1992, SI 294 of 1992, to ensure that banks implement the International Accounting Standards Board framework; and to ensure that banks do not overvalue assets...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Banking Sector Regulation (28 Jan 2014)

Pearse Doherty: 181. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 164 of 15 January 2014 if banks have systematically overvalued loans in their published accounts between 2005 and to date in 2014 in a way permissible under International Accounting Standards Board rules; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3570/14]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: NAMA Accounts (28 Jan 2014)

Pearse Doherty: 182. To ask the Minister for Finance if some banks may have mislead the National Asset Management Agency about the value of assets transferred to it through the exclusion of expected losses; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3571/14]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Banking Sector Remuneration (28 Jan 2014)

Pearse Doherty: 184. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of staff at all of the covered banking institutions, the National Treasury Management Agency and National Asset Management Agency in the year 2013 on a total remuneration package including pension payments, allowances and benefits of between €100,000 and €200,000, between €200,000 and €300,000 and between...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Departmental Expenditure (28 Jan 2014)

Pearse Doherty: 196. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide in tabular form a list of all professional fees, including but not limited to legal, consultancy, IT-related, advisory, capital, advertising and accountancy; the company name and the amount invoiced between 1 May 2011 and 31 December 2013. [3798/14]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Mortgage Arrears Proposals (28 Jan 2014)

Pearse Doherty: 205. To ask the Minister for Finance with regard to his comments in Dáil Éireann on 16 January 2014, that he has conveyed to the six main banks that letters threatening repossession should count as a sustainable solution under the MARTs, the way this information was conveyed; and if he will publish his correspondence with the banks on this issue. [4045/14]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: IBRC Liquidation (28 Jan 2014)

Pearse Doherty: 224. To ask the Minister for Finance if there are any persons still being paid as directors of the Irish Bank Resolution Corporation Limited. [4312/14]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: IBRC Liquidation (28 Jan 2014)

Pearse Doherty: 225. To ask the Minister for Finance if the former board of Irish Bank Resolution Corporation was dismissed as part of the special liquidation of that organisation in February 2013; and if so, the date on which the members of the board of IBRC were dismissed. [4313/14]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: IBRC Staff (28 Jan 2014)

Pearse Doherty: 226. To ask the Minister for Finance if a person (details supplied) is currently listed a director of Irish Bank Resolution Corporation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4314/14]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: IBRC Legal Cases (28 Jan 2014)

Pearse Doherty: 227. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide an outline of the legal case taken by several supposedly-former directors and executives (details supplied) of Irish Bank Resolution Corporation, against IBRC in October 2013; if he will detail the outcome of these proceedings. [4315/14]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Freedom of Information Requests (28 Jan 2014)

Pearse Doherty: 228. To ask the Minister for Finance with regard to the two missing documents from FOI 176/2013, if any comments were in the comments field or elsewhere on the tracking file system for these two documents; and if so what those comments were. [4318/14]