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Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Joint Sub-Committee on Global Corporate Taxation: Base Erosion and Profit Shifting: Discussion with Department of Finance and Revenue (18 Sep 2013)

Pearse Doherty: I appeal to the Chair-----

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Joint Sub-Committee on Global Corporate Taxation: Base Erosion and Profit Shifting: Discussion with Department of Finance and Revenue (18 Sep 2013)

Pearse Doherty: -----to please shut the Deputy up. He has had his opportunity.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Joint Sub-Committee on Global Corporate Taxation: Base Erosion and Profit Shifting: Discussion with Department of Finance and Revenue (18 Sep 2013)

Pearse Doherty: It is the job of the Chair to protect my space in which to ask questions of the witnesses-----

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Joint Sub-Committee on Global Corporate Taxation: Base Erosion and Profit Shifting: Discussion with Department of Finance and Revenue (18 Sep 2013)

Pearse Doherty: If I was allowed to ask the question, it would be seen that I am not making any charge. I ask the Chair to please prevent the Deputy from interrupting me for the third time.

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: An Curaclam Scoile (18 Sep 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 46. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht an raibh aon phlé aige leis an Roinn Oideachas agus Scileanna maidir le hathbhreithniú ar an gcuraclam do scoileanna Gaeltachta; an mbeidh aon ionchur aige ar na téarmaí tagartha d’aon athbhreithniú den chinéal sin; agus an ndéanfaidh sé ráiteas ina thaobh. [38491/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: VAT Exemptions (18 Sep 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 147. To ask the Minister for Finance the supports available from his Department to the aviation leasing industry including exemptions from VAT and other forms of taxation and an estimation of the value of the exemptions to the Exchequer and the number employed in this sector. [36901/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Personal Debt (18 Sep 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 174. To ask the Minister for Finance if he has any concerns over the independence of StepChange Debt Charity as the selected third party service provider for the Central Bank's pilot scheme for multi-debt restructuring given that it is funded by financial institutions. [37308/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Personal Debt (18 Sep 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 175. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of financial institutions currently operating here funded directly or through their British associates, StepChange Debt Charity. [37309/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Credit Unions Issues (18 Sep 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 179. To ask the Minister for Finance the total paid to a special manager (details supplied) in County Kildare since their appointment. [37369/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Agreements (18 Sep 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 182. To ask the Minister for Finance the tax returned to the Vodafone group; if so, the reason and the cost to the State; and if he will provide any other companies which operate internationally to which the Government has returned tax in the past three years. [37403/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Reliefs Application (18 Sep 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 206. To ask the Minister for Finance if the introduction of last year's proposal to reduce the standard fund threshold for pensions, projected to raise in the region of €250 million, would impact on the savings that could be made by a proposal to standardise the pension tax relief rate and reduce the income linked pension ceiling to €70,000, projected to raise €555...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Reliefs Application (18 Sep 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 207. To ask the Minister for Finance the saving he expects to make in private pension tax reliefs from the introduction of last year's budget proposal to reduce the standard fund threshold for pensions, which will see people above the SFT losing their pension tax reliefs [37815/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Mortgage Schemes (18 Sep 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 212. To ask the Minister for Finance the connection Springboard Mortgages has to Permanent TSB; if he will confirm that Springboard offered sub-prime mortgages; and the number of these mortgages remaining in operation. [37946/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Bonds Redemption (18 Sep 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 221. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 217 of 16 July 2013, the reason four billion one hundred and forty four million fifty five thousand two hundred and fifty four new AIB shares were issued to the national pension reserve fund in lieu of the €280 million dividend due and not 35.44 billion shares which equals the €280 million preference cash...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: IDA Supports (18 Sep 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 486. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of performance reviews of employment grants conducted by the Industrial Development Agency that found that posts for which grant aid was committed were not created; the total number of unfilled posts and the total value of grants returned. [36897/13]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: IDA Job Numbers (18 Sep 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 487. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of jobs promoted by the Industrial Development Agency for which a third level qualification is required for each year since 2001. [36898/13]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: IDA Job Numbers (18 Sep 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 488. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of jobs promoted by the Industrial Development Agency for each salary band from €20,000 in bands of €10,000 up to €150,000 for each year since 2007. [36899/13]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: IDA Supports (18 Sep 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 489. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the supports available to the aviation leasing industry; the drawdown of these supports and the number employed in this sector. [36902/13]

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Joint Sub-Committee on Global Corporate Taxation: Base Erosion and Profit Sharing: Discussion with Trinity College (17 Sep 2013)

Pearse Doherty: Apple's profits do not end up in the Caribbean.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Joint Sub-Committee on Global Corporate Taxation: Base Erosion and Profit Sharing: Discussion with Trinity College (17 Sep 2013)

Pearse Doherty: Apple Operations International, AOI, is incorporated here and is not tax resident in Bermuda, the Cayman Islands or any other country. The company does not have tax residency here but is incorporated in Ireland and controlled in the United States. Either the United States decides the company is tax resident in the US because it is controlled there or Ireland decides the company is tax...