Results 30,241-30,260 of 35,925 for speaker:Pearse Doherty

Written Answers — Department of Finance: National Debt (25 Jun 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 214. To ask the Minister for Finance the potential savings that would be made in debt servicing if €10 billion of the current cash holdings in the National Treasury Management Agency was used to write down existing debt or to buy back Government debt and reduce the interest payments on it in 2014. [30543/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Mortgage Interest Relief Statistics (25 Jun 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 218. To ask the Minister for Finance if statistics are collected on the breakdown of mortgage interest relief in accordance with the recipient's mortgage type; and if so, if he will provide the breakdown by category of tracker mortgage, fixed term, SVR and so forth. [30599/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Reliefs Application (25 Jun 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 223. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide a break down of the €250 million in carry-over for 2014 due to changes to the tax treatment of pensions; the way these changes would impact on the figure provided for the savings to the Exchequer if pension tax reliefs were standardised; and if he can also explain the changes to the Standard Fund Threshold. [30646/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Exemptions (25 Jun 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 224. To ask the Minister for Finance the logic behind exempting savings bonds from DIRT and the revenue that could be raised for the Exchequer if DIRT was applied to the bonds, both at the current rate and at a new increased rate of an additional 2%. [30647/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Yield (25 Jun 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 225. To ask the Minister for Finance the revenue that could be raised for the Exchequer if DIRT was raised by the following; 2%, 3%, 4%, 5%. [30648/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (25 Jun 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 226. To ask the Minister for Finance if he has considered the proposal to introduce a fizzy drink tax and if so, the amount of revenue such a tax has the potential to raise. [30649/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Revenue Commissioners Investigations (25 Jun 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 227. To ask the Minister for Finance following a submission by the Revenue Commissioners to the Comprehensive Expenditure Review, which set out that increased audit activity could raise in the region of €100 million for the State, if any steps have been taken to increase the number of Revenue Officers deployed to this task or to fulfil any other of the Revenue Commissioners' proposals....

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Unemployment Statistics (25 Jun 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 233. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the amount as a percentage and as a figure, of Ireland's total both EU and Government part-funding ESF spending in the past seven years that was spent specifically on youth unemployment initiatives or youth only programmes. [30377/13]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Youth Services Funding (25 Jun 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 234. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the amount as a percentage and as a figure, of Ireland's total both EU and Government part-funding ESF spending in the past seven years that was spent on programmes from which young persons are excluded for example community employment. [30378/13]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Foirne Scoile (25 Jun 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 259. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills an bhfuil freagra aige ar na hábhair imní a ardaíodh i gcomhfhreagras a seoladh chuige ó scoil i nDún na nGall (sonraí tugtha); agus an ndéanfaidh sé ráiteas ina thaobh. [30267/13]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Disability Allowance Appeals (25 Jun 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 369. To ask the Minister for Social Protection her views on whether it is appropriate that a person (details supplied) in County Donegal whose long term disability payment was stopped by her Department in September 2012 and subsequently appealed is still awaiting a decision on their case; when this person is likely to receive a decision; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30379/13]

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Údarás na Gaeltachta Expenditure (25 Jun 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 382. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 384 and 385 of 14 May 2013, if he will provide a breakdown as requested by person and year. [30233/13]

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Pension Provisions (25 Jun 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 386. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if he will outline the details of pension payments in respect of persons (details supplied) in counties Donegal and Galway. [30544/13]

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Departmental Funding (25 Jun 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 387. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht total amount of money provided in funding either individually to the person and company (details supplied) since its establishment, from Údaras, Foras na Gaeilge, and any other public funding body, Irish-language or otherwise. [30545/13]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Charges Yield (25 Jun 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 407. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the revenue that could be raised for the State if the second home tax was retained and increased to €300 per house. [30651/13]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Commercial Leases Database (25 Jun 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 465. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality when he expects to launch the new commercial leases database, which was due to be launched in early June. [30473/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Staff Provision (25 Jun 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 575. To ask the Minister for Health if he will consider the possibility of setting up a national transfer policy for nurses currently in the employment of the Health Service Executive who are seeking transfers to other HSE regions; the implications of adopting such a policy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30261/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Staff Recruitment (25 Jun 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 576. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide in tabular form per Health Service Executive region, the number of nurses that are on a national panel for current or future vacancies; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30262/13]

Leaders' Questions (20 Jun 2013)

Pearse Doherty: What about the child?

Leaders' Questions (20 Jun 2013)

Pearse Doherty: The Tánaiste is embarrassing himself, he should sit down. It is disgraceful, this is complete waffle.