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Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Eligibility (29 May 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 127. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason a carer's allowance application 15 months to process and was refused in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Dublin. [25977/13]

Order of Business (28 May 2013)

Pearse Doherty: On election topics, the Taoiseach spoke about transparency and not hiding any truths from the people, regardless of how difficult were those truths. In that context, when will the Government lay before the Houses the report from Ernst & Young that was commissioned in 2009 into the actions of Irish Nationwide and how that financial institution was being run? Four years have elapsed...

Leaders' Questions (28 May 2013)

Pearse Doherty: One used Dáil privilege and the other did not.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Services Provision (28 May 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 96. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on the presentation made recently in the Oireachtas by Down Syndrome Ireland and the fact that Down syndrome is not included in one of the 11 low incidence disabilities that qualified for resource teaching hours; his views on whether Down syndrome should be reclassified as a low incidence disability. [25402/13]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Institutes of Technology Issues (28 May 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 104. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide details of the investigation by the Higher Education Authority that is to examine the expense claims by institutes of technology including its terms of reference; and the projected timescale for when it is to be completed. [25401/13]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: IFSC Clearing House Group (28 May 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 124. To ask the Taoiseach the number of officials who have been present at each IFSC Clearing House Group meeting since March 2011 including each working group. [25673/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Corporation Tax (28 May 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 159. To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to any arrangement explicit or implicit that has been entered into with Apple in order to limit tax paid by the company here; if there is such an arrangement; if he will provide details of that arrangement including the length of time it has been operable; the amount it has cost the State; and the person that negotiated the...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Corporation Tax (28 May 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 160. To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to any arrangements with any multi national corporations based here which allows special treatment for tax purposes; if any MNCs have made representations to him or his Department to avail of special tax reliefs; if any other organisation including business representatives or tax consultancy and advisory firms have made an...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Corporation Tax (28 May 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 177. To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to any tax incentive that was offered to Apple to enter Ireland in the 1980s; if so, if he will state what the incentive consisted of; and if he will confirm if other multi national corporations were offered incentives. [25524/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Yield (28 May 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 156. To ask the Minister for Finance the amount that could be raised for the Exchequer if the current withholding exemption on royalties was abolished and a 1% withholding tax was applied to outgoing royalties from Irish companies to foreign holding companies; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25295/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Yield (28 May 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 189. To ask the Minister for Finance the revenue that would be raised for the Exchequer if withholding tax was applied to dividends paid to treaty countries. [25592/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: NAMA Loan Offers (28 May 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 157. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will set out by region/country the percentage amount and individual monetary amounts of finance forwarded by National Assets Management Agency to developers to complete projects in 2012 and to date in 2013. [25296/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Departmental Meetings (28 May 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 158. To ask the Minister for Finance if he or anyone in his Department during this administration or during the previous administration held meetings with representatives of Apple. [25297/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Departmental Meetings (28 May 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 184. To ask the Minister for Finance if any officials from his Department or from the Revenue Commissioners ever met with the tax advisors to Apple; and if any such meetings were facilitated by his Department . [25551/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (28 May 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 166. To ask the Minister for Finance if he has considered a vacant land tax; if he will estimate the amount that could be raised for the Exchequer if a vacant land tax was applied in the same way as higher rates 50% are applied to vacant properties to incentivise landlords to use them by Dublin City Council [25375/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Banking Sector Remuneration (28 May 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 183. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Questions Nos.117, 188, 189, 190, 191 and 192, of 21 May 2013, in which he stated that it would not be appropriate or realistic to specify a timeframe for the savings to be delivered in bankers' pay, if he will provide a timeframe in which he expects the required savings to be delivered from banks, for example, within three months,...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Banking Sector Remuneration (28 May 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 194. To ask the Minister for Finance with regard to each of the responses received from banks to the Mercer Report, if he will outline the way their proposals would cut total remuneration in each pay grade, and the proportion of proposed cuts in each bank to those earning each of less than €100,000, between €100,000 and €200,000, between €200,000 and...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Non-Resident Companies (28 May 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 174. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of companies and the names of same, that are incorporated here but are considered non-resident for tax purposes. [25521/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Non-Resident Companies (28 May 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 175. To ask the Minister for Finance if Revenue has ever conducted a report on companies that are incorporated as Irish but are non-resident for tax purposes; if he has ever commissioned the Revenue to conduct a report or if he will do so in the future. [25522/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Non-Resident Companies (28 May 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 176. To ask the Minister for Finance the specific piece of legislation and the provision therein which allow companies to establish themselves as incorporated Irish but non-resident; the conditions attached to such incorporation; the date on which the legislation was introduced and put onto the Statute books; if the decision to allow such a legal concept emanated from his Department or if it...