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Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Cabinet Committee Meetings (24 Sep 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 104. To ask the Taoiseach if he will list the entire membership of the enhanced Cabinet Committee on Mortgage Arrears and Credit Availability. [39337/13]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Exports Data (24 Sep 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 107. To ask the Taoiseach the value of exports in the service sector and the total number employed in this sector for each year since 2002. [36900/13]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Financial Services Sector (24 Sep 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 140. To ask the Taoiseach the number of workers employed in the financial services sector; the number directly employed in retail banking and aircraft leasing for each year since 2005, [35951/13]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Ministerial Responsibilities (24 Sep 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 145. To ask the Taoiseach if any Minister has brought a conflict of interest to his attention regarding his personal finances and his engagement with the financial sector; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39335/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Steering Committee on Mortgage Arrears (24 Sep 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 177. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of times the cross-Government Mortgage Arrears Steering Group has met since March 2011. [39336/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Steering Committee on Mortgage Arrears (24 Sep 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 178. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will list the entire membership of the cross-Government mortgage arrears Steering Group; and if he will provide the attendance list of each of the meetings of that Steering Group since March 2011. [39337/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Mortgage Arrears Proposals (24 Sep 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 179. To ask the Minister for Finance when the Central Bank will set demanding quarterly targets for the conclusion of sustainable solutions and for the subsequent performance of these solutions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39338/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Mortgage Arrears Proposals (24 Sep 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 180. To ask the Minister for Finance if a letter threatening repossession or legal action constitutes a proposal for a sustainable solution under the mortgage arrears resolution targets. [39339/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Budget 2014 Issues (24 Sep 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 181. To ask the Minister for Finance the latest estimate from his Department of the budgetary adjustment that will be necessary to reach the troika’s target deficit of 5.1% in Budget 2014. [39341/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Banking Sector Remuneration (24 Sep 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 182. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will confirm that none of AIB’s, PTSB’s or Bank of Ireland’s submissions under the Mercer report process included cuts to the basic salary of any employee earning over €100,000; if he will publish the proposals from the banks; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39342/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Betting Regulations (24 Sep 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 206. To ask the Minister for Finance the revenue that would be raised by applying a 2%, 3%, 4%, 5% tax to online bets and 20% gross profit tax for remote betting intermediaries. [39638/13]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: OECD Reports (24 Sep 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 273. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his plans to implement the recommendation in the OECD economic report to institute practices that are compulsory or routine in many other OECD countries, including online official information requests, automatic publication of administrative datasets and audit documents, and the declaration of liabilities in addition to assets by...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Parliamentary Inquiries (24 Sep 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 283. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the necessary steps to establish an Inquiry into the Banking Crisis of 2008; the timeframe for each step; when it is envisaged an inquiry into the banking crisis of 2008 will take place; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39343/13]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Personal Insolvency Practitioners (24 Sep 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 426. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will take action to prevent personal insolvency practitioners from imposing large up-front fees. [39340/13]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Vetting Applications (24 Sep 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 432. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality when a Garda vetting application will be processed in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Donegal; the current processing times for Garda vetting applications; his plans to improve this service; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39439/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointment Status (24 Sep 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 531. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding a hospital appointment in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Donegal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39395/13]

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Taxation Agreements with Ukraine and Dominica: Motion (19 Sep 2013)

Pearse Doherty: Yes, we all acknowledge that automatic exchange is the best way forward and TIEAs have huge deficiencies. In the case of the latter, one must ask the right question and specify the correct information. If we are moving in the direction of automatic information exchange, as the Minister of State indicated, why then is a TIEA with Dominica being brought forward? Is it the case that we tried...

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Taxation Agreements with Ukraine and Dominica: Motion (19 Sep 2013)

Pearse Doherty: It makes sense that the State would generally seek the most extensive agreement possible. Is it the case then that an automatic exchange agreement with Dominica was sought but was not forthcoming and we have therefore entered into a TIEA, which is weaker but far better than what was there heretofore?

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Taxation Agreements with Ukraine and Dominica: Motion (19 Sep 2013)

Pearse Doherty: I am a little confused. We have established that the TIEA is the weakest rung on the ladder of the three forms of taxation information exchange, the spontaneous arrangement being in the middle and automatic exchange of information being generally the preferred option, including for this State. The question then naturally arises as to whether the Government sought in its negotiations with...

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Taxation Agreements with Ukraine and Dominica: Motion (19 Sep 2013)

Pearse Doherty: That is fine. I recognise that this is a two-way process and a very positive step forward in regard to the exchange of information, limited as the TIEA is in its effect. I agree that in all such negotiations we should be looking for automatic exchange of information. I have two further questions. The Minister of State indicated that 69 double taxation agreements have been concluded, five...