Results 30,521-30,540 of 35,925 for speaker:Pearse Doherty

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

Pearse Doherty: 258. 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 teachers; the numbers who availed of the relief; and the rationale for this flat rate expense. [24200/13]

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

Pearse Doherty: 259. 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 veterinary surgeons in employment; the numbers who availed of the relief; and the rationale for this flat rate expense. [24201/13]

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

Pearse Doherty: 264. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 65 of 9 May, if he will confirm that a form of SARP, old SARP, was operational in 2011, the conditions of which included the persons having earnings in excess of €100,000, being non-Irish domiciled and paid from a foreign payroll, that once these conditions were met the person was entitled to tax relief of 50%...

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

Pearse Doherty: 265. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 51 of 9 May 2013, if the Central Bank of Ireland’s holding of National Asset Management Agency bonds is considered a financial asset holding with limits; if consideration has been given by him in discussions with the Governor of the Central Bank of Ireland for the Central Bank of Ireland to acquire the...

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

Pearse Doherty: 266. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 187 of 30 April 2013, in which he stated that the exemption of interest on savings certificates, national instalment savings and index linked savings bonds cost the Exchequer €138.2 million in the last full tax year for which there is data, if he will confirm that the money lost to the Exchequer from this...

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

Pearse Doherty: 267. To ask the Minister for Finance if international investors have to pay capital gains tax on the disposal of property here; and if not, the amount lost to the Exchequer as a result of this exemption. [24255/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Government Bonds (21 May 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 268. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will detail as part of his Department of Finance’s budgetary calculations if the figure of €800 million for 2013, €875 million for 2014 and €950 Million for 2015 in interest costs cited in the Department of Finance Pro Forma Transaction Impact Analysis – State Finances (Based on No Policy Change) document for those...

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

Pearse Doherty: 269. To ask the Minister for Finance if discussions at an ECB level regarding acquisitions of asset backed securities could potentially include acquisitions of National Assets Management Agency bonds; if he will confirm further to his statements to the Joint Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform on the 8 of May 2013 if discussions at an ECB level regarding acquisitions of asset...

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

Pearse Doherty: 270. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will detail the total combined impairment charges provided against the National Assets Management Agency senior and subordinated bonds in Allied Irish Banks, Bank of Ireland and Permanent TSB; if he will detail the total amount in euro of regulatory capital which is currently held by Allied Irish Banks, Bank of Ireland and Permanent TSB as a...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Government Bonds (21 May 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 271. To ask the Minister for Finance the total amount in euro of regulatory capital which is currently held by Allied Irish Banks, Bank of Ireland and Permanent TSB as a requirement arising from its holdings of Irish government bonds; if he will detail what regulatory changes at a domestic, European or global level that may lead to an increase in capital being necessary to hold for banks...

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

Pearse Doherty: 272. To ask the Minister for Finance in view of the insider knowledge that Blackstone has on the Irish Bank Resolution Corporation arising from the work it has done on the IBRC loan book after it was retained in December 2011 to advise on the bank’s portfolio if it shall be precluded by the special liquidator KPMG from the bidding process for IBRC’s assets; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Central Bank of Ireland Issues (21 May 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 273. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will detail further to his statement to the Joint Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform on Wednesday, 8 May 2013 that 10 days prior to the Committee hearing, the Central Bank of Ireland notified his Department that it had excess profits of about another €120 million or €125 million; if he will confirm if this is in...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Central Bank of Ireland Issues (21 May 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 274. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will detail in tabular form the total profits from the Central Bank of Ireland paid to the Exchequer on an annual basis between 2000 and to date; if he will confirm on what calendar date in the year are the profits of the Central Bank of Ireland after earnings paid to the Exchequer; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24262/13]

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

Pearse Doherty: 275. To ask the Minister for Finance if he is targeting a sale of Bank of Ireland preference shares before the deadline of the par payment by Bank of Ireland in March of 2014 of the €1.8 billion in preference shares; if he is concerned about risks of dilution of the value of the States shareholding in Bank of Ireland if the Bank is required to raise capital to replace the par payments...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Budget 2014 Issues (21 May 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 276. To ask the Minister for Finance further to a meeting of the Joint Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform on Thursday, 9 May 2013 (details supplied) stating that the persons responsible for assessing budget 2014 and the SPU as part of the EU 6 and 2 pack system shall be the European Commission officials at the Ireland desk if he will detail the names of these officials and...

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

Pearse Doherty: 279. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 187 of 30 April 2013, where he stated that tax relief for investment in films cost the Exchequer €42 million in the last full tax year for which there is data, if he will set out the criteria involved in availing of film tax relief; the number of persons that availed of the relief that year; if his attention has...

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

Pearse Doherty: 280. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 187 of 30 April 2013, where he stated that exemption of profits or gains from woodlands claimed from the Exchequer was €48.2 million in the last full year of data, which the maximum tax cost of €14.4 million, if he will set out the criteria for this tax exemption; the way it operates; his views on whether...

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

Pearse Doherty: 286. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question 63 of 9 of May 2013, if he will confirm whether legal proceedings have already been issued in relation to whether the insolvency of IBRC is a relevant insolvency within the meaning of the British Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) Regulations 2006 in a British court; if he will detail the total number of...

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

Pearse Doherty: 287. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 63 of 9 May 2013, if the insolvency of Irish Bank Resolution Corporation is not considered a relevant insolvency within the meaning of the British Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) Regulations 2006 that this legal reality could negatively impact on IBRC asset values and thus potential IBRC asset sales...

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

Pearse Doherty: 288. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 187 of 30 April 2013, where he stated a figure of €52.6 million claimed and €19.5 million in assumed maximum tax costs in 2009 for other exemptions claimed by 635 people, if he will state what other exemptions consist of and the number of persons claimed per category. [24326/13]