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Written Answers — Department of Finance: Betting Regulations (25 Jun 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 221. To ask the Minister for Finance the amount of revenue that would be raised in 2014 in each case if remote bookmakers were taxed at a rate of 1%,2%,3%,4% and 5% of turnover. [30617/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Betting Regulations (25 Jun 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 222. To ask the Minister for Finance the amount of revenue that would be raised in 2014 in each case if remote betting intermediaries were taxed at a rate of 1%,2%,3%,4% and 5% of turnover. [30618/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: NAMA Staff Issues (25 Jun 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 205. To ask the Minister for Finance if any staff have left the National Assets Management Agency since January 2013 to date; and the number of those staff that have moved into private sector employment. [30474/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: NAMA Property Sales (25 Jun 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 206. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will explain the decision by the National Assets Management Agency to release two Dublin hotels for sale in 2013 after a previous statement of intent to hold hotels until 2015; if he will state if NAMA was given advice regarding the sale of the two hotels; and if so, by which organisation. [30475/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: NAMA Court Cases (25 Jun 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 207. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of cases in which the National Assets Management Agency is involved in the commercial courts. [30476/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: NAMA Operations (25 Jun 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 208. To ask the Minister for Finance the reason the National Assets Management Agency has decided to recently issue a tender for a business procurement support services when the National Treasury Management Agency already provides IT, finance, HR and other support services to NAMA; if this tender was included in the NAMA business plan for 2013; the value of the tender; the length of time for...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: NAMA Debtors (25 Jun 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 209. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of the the National Assets Management Agency developers who have applied for bankruptcy in Britain since the beginning of 2013. [30478/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Bank Stress Tests (25 Jun 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 210. To ask the Minister for Finance the person that will conduct the stress testing of Irish banks to begin at the end of this year and conclude in the first half of 2014. [30479/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: IBRC Liquidation (25 Jun 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 211. To ask the Minister for Finance when he expects unsold loans at Irish Bank Resolution Corporation to be transferred to the National Assets Management Agency; and if the expected date of transferal of August 2013 has now moved to late in the year, or next year. [30480/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: IBRC Liquidation (25 Jun 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 212. To ask the Minister for Finance the average discount that is being offered on Irish Bank Resolution Corporation loans currently for sale. [30481/13]

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

Pearse Doherty: 213. To ask the Minister for Finance the cost to the Exchequer of increasing the entry point to the 41% marginal tax rate for married couples with one earner to each of the respective amounts: €45,000; €47,000; €50,000; €55,000; €60,000 and €65,600. [30542/13]

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]