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Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Mortgage Arrears Proposals (20 Nov 2013)

Pearse Doherty: We are about to enter the sixth calendar year of a mortgage crisis which has got out of control and doubled during the course of Minister's tenure. Despite efforts and various proposals, it seems it is not waning substantially. There has been much discussion on threats of repossession, the letters issued by the banks, the mortgage arrears resolution targets, MART, and the issue of tracker...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: European Stability Mechanism (20 Nov 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 2. To ask the Minister for Finance if he is as confident as he was in June 2012 that the ESM will be used to retrospectively recapitalise Ireland’s banking debt; and if this issue was discussed at recent ECOFIN and Eurogroup meetings. [49576/13]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: European Stability Mechanism (20 Nov 2013)

Pearse Doherty: There was a huge fanfare 17 months ago when European leaders agreed to consider using the ESM to recapitalise banks, and at that time the Minister told the Irish people it would be applied retrospectively. However, there is serious concern now that the hope given to the people at that time that the many of billions of euro pumped into our pillar banks would be recouped to Irish taxpayers is...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: European Stability Mechanism (20 Nov 2013)

Pearse Doherty: Everybody in this House and the majority outside the House want to see the commitment given in June 2012 upheld and delivered. At the time I believed and said publicly that the Minister had oversold that commitment, because retrospectivity was not a part of the agreement. That said, it has been negotiated into some text recently. However, we must listen to the head of the Eurogroup, the...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: European Stability Mechanism (20 Nov 2013)

Pearse Doherty: Again, I go back to the point that the Government seems to have taken its foot off the pedal in regard to this measure. There was a window of opportunity when Spain was in crisis, which was when this was agreed. I believe many of the European leaders would not have wanted it, but that was when we should have stuck the ball in the net. Now, 17 months further on, it will be a harder job for...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: European Stability Mechanism (20 Nov 2013)

Pearse Doherty: It was on the agenda, according to the Minister's statement.

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Property Taxation Administration (20 Nov 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 17. To ask the Minister for Finance if he regrets rushing through the Local Property Tax Act in view of the problems that have become evident in the legislation. [49197/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: EU-IMF Programme of Support Issues (20 Nov 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 22. To ask the Minister for Finance the options that are available when Ireland leaves the formal troika programme; and if he will provide an evaluation of each option. [49198/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Economic Policy (20 Nov 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 34. To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to the recent comments by Nobel Prize winning economist Joseph Stiglitz that Ireland is facing a lost decade and that austerity never works and his assertion that the cost of bailing out European banks has been paid by Irish citizens; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49199/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Credit Unions (20 Nov 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 35. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will establish an independent investigation into the handling by the Central Bank and the special manager of the situation at Newbridge Credit Union. [49196/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Credit Unions (20 Nov 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 52. To ask the Minister for Finance the plans for the Newbridge Credit Union building; and the way in which its contents will be valued. [49661/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: European Stability Programmes (20 Nov 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 58. To ask the Minister for Finance the planned date on which Ireland will no longer be subject to post-programme surveillance having repaid at least 75% of the financial assistance it has received from other member states, the EFSF and other sources. [49704/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Banking Sector Regulation (20 Nov 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 63. To ask the Minister for Finance the arrangements or proposed arrangements that are in place with the German bank KfW to aid Irish small and medium enterprises or other economic sectors. [49749/13]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes Payments (20 Nov 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 165. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when payments will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Donegal who was subject to a Department of agriculture inspection in August and is still not in receipt of any payments; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49700/13]

Order of Business (19 Nov 2013)

Pearse Doherty: There are two questions, one on the ordering of business and the other on pending legislation. The Taoiseach is aware that local authorities across the State are preparing budgets and organising workshops and there is much anger evident among local authority members because they are doing this work in a vacuum as the local government fund has not been announced. There is a feeling the water...

Order of Business (19 Nov 2013)

Pearse Doherty: Will it be published before the debate takes place tomorrow? It is welcome that it will be published.

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Financial Instruments (19 Nov 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 209. To ask the Minister for Finance in relation to MiFID, if Ireland supports the setting of position limits at EU level or by the trading venue [49482/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Financial Instruments (19 Nov 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 210. To ask the Minister for Finance in relation to MiFID, if Ireland supports the application of position limits to all trading venues and to all over the counter trades. [49483/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Financial Instruments (19 Nov 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 211. To ask the Minister for Finance in relation to MiFID, if Ireland supports the application of position limits to each single month and all months combined [49484/13]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Grant Scheme Delays (19 Nov 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 249. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason for the delay in processing a student grant application in respect of a person (details supplied). [49325/13]