Results 30,481-30,500 of 36,036 for speaker:Pearse Doherty

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Gross National Income Forecast (29 May 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 71. To ask the Minister for Finance what Ireland’s GNI for the past five years would have been excluding redomiciled public limited companies; the amount by which Ireland’s contribution to the EU budget would have been reduced if these redomiciled public limited companies were excluded from the GNI figures for these years. [25970/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Non-Resident Companies (29 May 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 75. To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to a 1998 report produced by his Department on Irish registered non resident companies which stated that IRNR companies have posed a threat to Ireland's international image and its reputation as a well-regulated jurisdiction for conducting business and that the companies are regularly advertised for sale in magazines...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Non-Resident Companies (29 May 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 76. To ask the Minister for Finance if the findings of a 1998 Department of Finance report on Irish Registered Non-Registered Companies were ever enacted on, including the recommendations for company law and taxation elements; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26064/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Non-Resident Companies (29 May 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 77. To ask the Minister for Finance his views following a 1998 report on Irish Registered Non-Resident Companies by his Department that changes need to be made to IRNR companies that change the tax residence rules where registration entails a test of tax residence as an alternative to the control and management test. [26066/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Avoidance Issues (29 May 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 78. To ask the Minister for Finance if he has considered imposing limits on the transfer of losses within group companies; if such a precedent exists for this limiting in other States; the conditions that currently apply to the transfer of losses in group companies. [26067/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Avoidance Issues (29 May 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 81. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated loss to the Exchequer in corporation tax as a result of loss transfers among group companies; his views on whether this is aggressive tax planning and avoidance; the steps he has taken to alleviate the impact of this on the Exchequer; and the steps he has taken at European level to ensure this type of activity is limited. [26070/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Data (29 May 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 79. To ask the Minister for Finance if tax data on multinational companies based here is collated separately; and if so, if he will state the minimum effective rate of tax paid by multinational corporations to the Exchequer. [26068/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Yield (29 May 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 80. To ask the Minister for Finance the amount that could be raised for the Exchequer if corporation tax was applied to dividends received by one Irish resident company from another Irish resident company. [26069/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Yield (29 May 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 82. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated loss to the Exchequer from the corporation tax exemption from capital gains on gains arising on the disposal of substantial shareholdings where the Irish parented group is engaged in trading activities and the subsidiary is resident in an EU Member State or a tax treaty country. [26071/13]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Companies Statistics (29 May 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 120. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of redomiciled public limited companies operating here; and the number that have been established in each of the past ten years. [25968/13]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Companies Law Issues (29 May 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 121. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation his views on whether, following a 1998 report on Irish Registered Non-Resident Companies, changes need to be made to IRNR companies including an activity test for all companies applying for registration that would see a precondition of applying for registration being required to demonstrate that it intends to carry on a business or...

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]