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Written Answers — Department of Finance: Banking Sector Remuneration (21 May 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 189. To ask the Minister for Finance further to the publication of the Mercer report on banking pay and his calling for 6% to 10% reductions in remuneration, if such reductions are to be effected through cutting headcount or individual remuneration. [24094/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Banking Sector Remuneration (21 May 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 190. To ask the Minister for Finance further to the publication of the Mercer report on banking pay and his calling for 6% to 10% reductions to indicate the way he will ensure such reductions are delivered and if there will be ongoing monitoring of remuneration on a periodic basis. [24095/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Banking Sector Remuneration (21 May 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 191. To ask the Minister for Finance in respect of the Mercer report which he commissioned in June 2012, which was published on 12 March 2013, and his call to the banks to deliver proposals to him by the end of April 2013 detailing their plans to deliver 6% to 10% savings in remuneration, if he will confirm if he has now received proposals from all relevant banks, and if not, if he will...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Banking Sector Remuneration (21 May 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 192. To ask the Minister for Finance further to his call to banks to deliver proposals by the end of April 2013 to save 6% to 10% on remuneration if he has now considered those proposals, if he satisfied that the proposals are sufficient to deliver 6% to 10% savings; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24097/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: NAMA Investment Funds (21 May 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 208. To ask the Minister for Finance further to the announcement by the National Asset Management Agency in May 2012 of €2bn of investment to confirm the way this investment is differentiated by NAMA with other advances made prior to the announcement, and in respect of the investment not covered by the €2bn announcement, the investment approved to date and the total investment...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Mortgage Arrears Proposals (21 May 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 121. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on the use of split mortgages as a tool in dealing with mortgage arrears; and if certain banks here are implementing them in a fair and sustainable way. [23941/13]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: State Bodies Accounts (21 May 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 129. To ask the Taoiseach if he will set out in tabular form the names of all State owned or substantially State funded organisations under his Department whose latest accounts laid before the Houses of the Oireachtas are more than one year old, that is, relate to a period ending before May 2012 and more than two years old, that is, relate to a period ending before May 2011. [25025/13]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Emigrant Support Services (21 May 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 130. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade further to the recent publication by the National Youth Council of Ireland of the report Time to Go a qualitative research study exploring the experience and impact of emigration on Ireland’s youth his views on the findings of the report; and the steps that will be taken by him to address recommendations issuing...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Bank Guarantee Scheme Administation (21 May 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 172. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide the current list of covered institutions as defined by section 6 (1) of the Credit Institutions (Financial Support) Act 2008 and by schedule 5 of SI No. 411 of 2008. [24014/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Reliefs Application (21 May 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 186. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of persons in receipt of private pension tax relief; the breakdown of the number of persons that receive the relief at the standard rate; the number at the marginal rate; the checks that are in place to ensure that people availing of the pension tax are still paying pensions; and if he has received any indication that there has been a drop off...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Debt Resolution Pilot Scheme (21 May 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 206. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will outline the way so-called service providers will be accredited or appointed by the Central Bank of Ireland under the pilot scheme for consumer multi-debt restructuring; his views on newspaper reporting that a single British service provider might be engaged by the CBI; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24111/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: NAMA Qualifying Investor Fund (21 May 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 207. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 51 of 17 January 2013, if he will provide an update on the National Asset Management Agency plans for Qualified Investor Funds, tenders for the administration of which were issued more than a year ago, with NAMA predicting it would launch at least two QIFs in 2012. [24112/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: NAMA Operations (21 May 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 209. To ask the Minister for Finance further to the announcement by the National Asset Management Agency in May 2012 of €2bn of so-called vendor financing or staple financing, if he will confirm the total of such financing provided by NAMA to date; the number of transactions to which such financing has applied; and the total amount repaid to NAMA from such arrangements. [24114/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: NAMA Portfolio Issues (21 May 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 210. To ask the Minister for Finance in respect of the €6,758,000 of so-called trading properties held in the balance sheet of the National Asset Management Agency at 31 December 2012, if he will provide an analysis of this property by property type including totals for each residential real estate, commercial real estate, jewellery and art, and if he will outline the way NAMA disposes...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: IBRC Liquidation (21 May 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 211. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide a schedule of reports that he will lay before the Houses of the Oireachtas on the special liquidation of the Irish Bank Resolution Corporation, an outline of the content of the reports and the dates on which they will be published. [24116/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: NAMA Portfolio Value (21 May 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 212. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will confirm the number of acres of agricultural land in the State under the control of the National Asset Management Agency. [24117/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: NAMA Operations (21 May 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 213. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will confirm the amounts paid by the National Asset Management Agency to educational institutions for research in each of 2010, 2011,2012 and to date in 2013. [24118/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Reliefs Cost (21 May 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 215. To ask the Minister for Finance the cost to the Exchequer in the latest tax year for which full data is available of flat rate expenses for agricultural advisors employed by Teagasc; the numbers who availed of the relief; and if he will set out the rationale for this flat rate expense. [24157/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Reliefs Cost (21 May 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 216. To ask the Minister for Finance the cost to the Exchequer in the latest tax year for which full data is available of flat rate expenses for archaeologists; the numbers who availed of the relief; and the rationale for this flat rate expense. [24158/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Reliefs Cost (21 May 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 217. To ask the Minister for Finance the cost to the Exchequer in the latest tax year for which full data is available of flat rate expenses for airline cabin crews; the numbers who availed of the relief; and the rationale for this flat rate expense. [24159/13]