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Written Answers — Department of Finance: Public Interest Director Responsibilities (16 Jul 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 227. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will set out the responsibilities he believes the role of public interest director in a State owned or partially State owned bank entails. [34328/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Public Interest Directors Issues (16 Jul 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 228. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will put before Dáil Éireann any job description, advice, guidance given to Alan Dukes upon his appointment as a public interest director in Anglo Irish Bank in December 2009. [34329/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Public Interest Directors Issues (16 Jul 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 229. To ask the Minister for Finance if job descriptions were provided to public interest directors as they were appointed to the banks; if they underwent interview procedures or were appointed; the person who made the decisions about their appointments; and if they are reviewed in their roles and how frequently. [34330/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Mortgage Arrears Proposals (16 Jul 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 259. To ask the Minister for Finance if he has received all the information due from the banks on 30 June regarding mortgage targets; if he will set out the number of banks that met the 20% requirement for sustainable solutions for mortgage holders. [34760/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Banking Sector Issues (16 Jul 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 245. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide details of the persons who were the partners and senior executives responsible for conducting the PWC Project Atlas - Anglo Irish Bank Corporation plc over the duration of the three parts of the report, phase 1, phase 2, phase 3; if any of the partners or senior executives who were part of the team or were involved in the aforementioned...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: IBRC Mortgage Loan Book (16 Jul 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 246. To ask the Minister for Finance the total number of firms who tendered to the Special Liquidator for the mandate to value the Irish Bank Resolution Corporation loan book; if PWC offered the lowest fees for the job or if there were other criteria which led it to win the valuation mandate; if he will detail any such criteria; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34645/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: IBRC Legal Cases (16 Jul 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 247. To ask the Minister for Finance the person who is responsible for assessing whether there is merit in the continuing legal corporate entity of Irish Bank Resolution Corporation suing the former auditors of Irish Nationwide and current special liquidators of IBRC, KPMG; if he will confirm that IBRC are suing Ernst and Young for its role in auditing Anglo Irish Bank; if he will further...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: IBRC Liquidation (16 Jul 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 248. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide details of the names of the partners and senior management responsible in KPMG for the auditing of Irish Nationwide and Irish Life and Permanent; if he will confirm if any of these partners, senior managers, or staff members who audited Irish Nationwide and Irish Life and Permanent are responsible for any of the work currently being...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Banking Sector Issues (16 Jul 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 249. To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to news reports in Spain that Deloitte may lose its Spanish licence to operate in the country as an auditor as a result of the very serious violations found by the Economy Ministry's ICAC Accounting and Audit Institute in their investigation of the firm's role as Bankia's auditor, if he will confirm whether these types of...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: NAMA Legal Issues (16 Jul 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 260. To ask the Minister for Finance ff his attention has been drawn to a letter sent on 17 June from the National Assets Management Agency to a number of litigants in a case in New York, where the issue of Anglo overcharging interest on loans is being heard the contents of which include an implicit threat to the litigants to cease their action or face potential loan foreclosure and...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: NAMA Legal Issues (16 Jul 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 261. To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to evidence given in a trial currently taking place involving the National Assets Management Agency and a person (details supplied) where it has been alleged that David Drumm in his role in Anglo Irish Bank at the time, agreed to the transfer of interest in a loan that was held in this person's name to other members of their...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: NAMA Loan Book (16 Jul 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 262. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of asset management companies that have been commissioned by the National Asset Management Agency to date; their names; the total value of the assets being managed by these third party companies; the individual and total fees being paid to these third party companies; and his views that NAMA, an asset management company, has chosen this policy...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Garda Investigations (16 Jul 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 263. To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to the allegations made in a national newspaper on Tuesday 9 July by former Irish Life and Permanent Chairman (details supplied), where they state they made a statement to the Office of the Director of Corporate Enforcement and the Garda Bureau of Fraud Investigation on the window dressing of Anglo Irish’s end of year...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Garda Investigations (16 Jul 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 264. To ask the Minister for Finance if it was a policy of the Central Bank of Ireland in the years leading up to 2008 and following, to allow banks to make deposit transfers between themselves to address deficiencies in end of year accounts; if this was an overt policy of the Central Bank of Ireland or did the Bank simply tolerate the policy, as has been alleged. [34766/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Garda Investigations (16 Jul 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 265. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on the statement made by former Irish Life and Permanent chairman (details supplied) that support provided by IL&P to Anglo Irish bank arose solely as a result of a request by the Central Bank of Ireland and Financial Regulator, and that the two had requested IL&P to protect the stability of the Irish financial system. [34767/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Banking Sector Issues (16 Jul 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 266. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will confirm that Anglo Irish Bank sought as a solution to its difficulties on 29 and 30 September 2008, the provision of short term liquidity support; and if he will explain the reason an alternative to a blanket guarantee, if proposed, was ruled out. [34780/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Yield (16 Jul 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 267. To ask the Minister for Finance the revenue that could be raised for the Exchequer with the Standard Fund Threshold for pensions reduced to the amount proposed by budget 2013; the income ceiling link for pension tax reliefs reduced to €70,000 per annum, and the tax relief for pension contributions standardised. [34782/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Departmental Expenditure (16 Jul 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 268. To ask the Minister for Finance the amount of fees paid to a person (details supplied) by his Department since vacating the position as Attorney General on the 9 March 2011. [34910/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Collection (16 Jul 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 271. To ask the Minister for Finance if capital gains tax is collated in such a way as to be able to determine the revenue that would be raised if capital gains tax was higher on vacant land that has benefitted in value from rezoning-planning developments; and what the revenue would be if capital gains tax on those occasions was charged at 50%, 60%, 70% and 80% respectively. [34931/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Banking Sector Regulation (16 Jul 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 273. To ask the Minister for Finance if an observer on behalf of the Central Bank or the Department of Finance was ever present at an Anglo Irish Bank board meeting subsequent to the 2008 bank guarantee; if there was a capacity for the presence of such an observer; if so, on what dates the observers were present and on whose behalf; and if the observers ever heard a reference to the existence...