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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Forthcoming ECOFIN Council: Discussion with Minister for Finance (8 May 2013)

Pearse Doherty: I am interested in the political direction that the Minister is giving. Is it the position of this State that the ESM should recapitalise before depositors are asked to contribute to recapitalisation of the banks?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Forthcoming ECOFIN Council: Discussion with Minister for Finance (8 May 2013)

Pearse Doherty: I appreciate that. The Minister has set out the Government's overarching policy position. The bail-in is one of the outstanding issues that will have to be agreed at the ECOFIN meeting on banking recovery and resolution. The Minister outlined how the working group will take that process forward. As a member of this committee, I would like to know what the Irish position on this is. It is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Forthcoming ECOFIN Council: Discussion with Minister for Finance (8 May 2013)

Pearse Doherty: Is that a "Yes" or a "No"? If the Minister can answer in those terms, it will be quite clear.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Forthcoming ECOFIN Council: Discussion with Minister for Finance (8 May 2013)

Pearse Doherty: This is a hypothetical example.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Forthcoming ECOFIN Council: Discussion with Minister for Finance (8 May 2013)

Pearse Doherty: That is fair enough. I would like to focus on another aspect of this issue before I ask some other questions. We have seen the situation in Cyprus. I know we are dealing with the here and now in terms of the banking situation. At a later stage, the stress tests may or may not show that additional capital is required. When the ratios increase as a result of future directives, the banks...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Overseas Development Aid Provision (8 May 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 55. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade further to Parliamentary Question No.153 of 23 April 2013, if he will confirm the amount donated by Irish Aid to the Clinton Foundation in 2011 and 2012. [21599/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: NAMA Court Cases (8 May 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 62. To ask the Minister for Finance further to an affidavit filed in the High Court in Dublin in which the National Asset Management Agency was seeking a judgment against a person (details supplied), if he will confirm that NAMA has provided confidential details, both the par value of the loan and the NAMA acquisition value, to persons not directly connected to the borrowers; and if he will...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: NAMA Property Leases (8 May 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 63. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will outline the arrangement between the National Asset Management Agency and the National Association of Building Co-Operatives; the number of properties to which the arrangement relates; the length of the lease terms; if NAMA is charging market rents; the location of the properties; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21636/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: NAMA Property Sales (8 May 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 64. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will confirm for each of 2010, 2011, 2012 and to date in 2013, the number of housing units sold by the National Assets Management Agency in the State for social housing; the number leased and the number presently being offered for sale or rent for social housing. [21637/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: NAMA Accounts (8 May 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 65. To ask the Minister for Finance further to the publication of the 2012 unaudited accounts for the National Asset Management Agency, the reason interest income increased in 2012 compared with 2011, despite loans decreasing by €3bn and the European Central Bank reducing its main interest rate from 1.0% to 0.75% in July 2012. [21638/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: NAMA Accounts (8 May 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 66. To ask the Minister for Finance further to the publication of the 2012 unaudited accounts for the National Asset Management Agency, if he will provide an explanation for the line item portfolio management fees which in 2012 amounted to a cost of €4,670,000 compared to €15,902,000 in 2011. [21639/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: NAMA Accounts (8 May 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 67. To ask the Minister for Finance further to the publication of the 2012 unaudited accounts for the National Asset Management Agency, the reason due diligence costs of €4,086,000 were recorded in 2012 in view of the fact that the last tranche of NAMA loans were acquired in March 2012; and if the due diligence costs are properly rechargeable to the banks from which the loans were...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: NAMA Accounts (8 May 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 68. To ask the Minister for Finance further to the publication of the 2012 unaudited accounts for the National Asset Management Agency, the staff costs excluding employer pension contributions and pay related social insurance in 2012; the average number of full time equivalent employees at the Agency during the year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21641/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: NAMA Accounts (8 May 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 69. To ask the Minister for Finance further to the publication of the 2012 unaudited accounts for the National Asset Management Agency, if he will confirm the split of the €2.8bn of asset disposals between loan sales and real estate property sales. [21642/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: NAMA Accounts (8 May 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 70. To ask the Minister for Finance further to the publication of the 2012 unaudited accounts for the National Asset Management Agency, if he will confirm the percentage of non-performing loans by reference to nominal values and the original loan terms. [21643/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Exchequer Returns (8 May 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 71. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide a calendar of the future dates in 2013 when his Department’s monthly Exchequer statements will be published [21644/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: NAMA Accounts (8 May 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 72. To ask the Minister for Finance further to the publication of the 2012 unaudited accounts for the National Asset Management Agency, if he will provide his assessment of the performance of NAMA in 2012; and if he has concluded this assessment following consultation with the NAMA advisory board. [21645/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: NAMA Transactions (8 May 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 73. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide a copy of the collateral posting agreement between the National Treasury Management Agency and the National Asset Management Agency which required NAMA to place €1.15bn as collateral with the NTMA at December 2012 in respect of derivative exposure. [21646/13]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Services Provision (8 May 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 83. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he intends to review the situation whereby children with Down's syndrome are unable to access the maximum allocation of resource hours; if he will review Spec Ed 02/05 to ensure that children with Down's syndrome are recognised in their own right; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21607/13]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Environmental Protection Agency Governance (8 May 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 143. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will lay before the Houses of the Oireachtas the latest report and accounts for the Environmental Protection Agency. [21647/13]