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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Enrolments (17 Apr 2013)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide a timeframe for when he intends to publish legislation to amend the Education Welfare Act to ensure fairer school enrolment policies; and if he will provide details on the way in which he plans to guarantee a more equitable admission policy top schools. [17574/13]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Guidance Counsellors (17 Apr 2013)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on whether the more marginalised children are suffering the worst effects of cuts to guidance counselling in schools; and his plans to have guidance and counselling staffed in an ex-quota manner. [17573/13]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Youth Services (16 Apr 2013)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will list the funding allocations for each of the past five years for each funded youth project in the city of Dublin and throughout the State; her plans to secure additional funding for these projects; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17281/13]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child Care Costs (16 Apr 2013)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the proposals she has to improve the level of childcare and early education cost supports, particularly for parents on low to middle incomes; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17269/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Employment Rights Issues (16 Apr 2013)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will re-examine the case of a person (details supplied) in County Wexford with respect to the failure of their previous employer to provide a P45. [17612/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Banks Recapitalisation (16 Apr 2013)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide an assessment of the overall cost to the State of the bailout of Permanent TSB; if senior bondholders had been wiped out in March 2011. [16124/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Banks Recapitalisation (16 Apr 2013)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide an assessment of the overall cost to the State of the bailout of Anglo Irish Bank and Irish Nationwide Building Society, if senior bondholders had been wiped out in March 2011. [16122/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Banks Recapitalisation (16 Apr 2013)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide an assessment of the overall cost to the State of the bailout of Allied Irish Banks and the Educational Building Society, if senior bondholders had been wiped out in March 2011. [16123/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Banks Recapitalisation (16 Apr 2013)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 179, 180, 188 and 227 of 26 March 2013, to which he, in part, responded that the Eurogroup advised against this proposal, but it recognised that fiscal measures such as taxes and levies are matters for individual member states, whether in a programme of assistance of not, if he will provide an assessment of the benefit...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Economic Growth Rate (16 Apr 2013)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will confirm that the economy is back in recession; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16281/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: IMF Loan Issues (16 Apr 2013)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question 96 of 21 March 2013, if he will confirm that the State is paying a higher rate of interest on its borrowings from the International Monetary Fund than the rate of interest nationally applying to similarly-dated sovereign bonds; and the consideration that has been given by his Department and the National Treasury Management...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: State Banking Sector (16 Apr 2013)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will confirm the stake held in Bank of Ireland by the American group of investors (details supplied); the consideration paid for that stake; the stake held by the State in Bank of Ireland; and the consideration paid for that stake. [16283/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Banks Recapitalisation (16 Apr 2013)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will estimate the additional provision that will need to be made in the accounts of Bank of Ireland; if that bank has to write down the value of non performing loans to the value of the underlying security; and if he will confirm that such a write-down will result in demands to the State to provide additional capital. [16284/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Banking Sector Issues (16 Apr 2013)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Finance if he is concerned that following the recent sale by KBC and Banco Santander of their 21.4% share in the polish bank, Bank Zachodni WBK, for €1.2bn, that Allied Irish Banks in which he holds 99.8% of the shares, sold its 70% share in the same bank for €2.94bn in 2010. [16285/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Banking Sector Issues (16 Apr 2013)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will confirm the current deficit in the pension scheme of Bank of Ireland, in which he owns 15% of the shares and in which he owns a substantial preference shareholding; and if addressing the deficit may result in demands to the State to provide additional capital. [16286/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Banking Sector Remuneration (16 Apr 2013)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Finance further to the recent publication of the report and accounts for Bank of Ireland for 2012, in which the Chief Executive Officer confirmed that he had waived €67,000 of his remuneration, if he has sought waivers of salary at Bank of Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16287/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Banks Recapitalisation (16 Apr 2013)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Finance his position regarding the provision of additional capital to Bank of Ireland, should that bank decide to pursue a new rights issue. [16288/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Banking Sector Issues (16 Apr 2013)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 193 of 26 March 2013, the way advertised threat of forcing banks to write down the value of problem loans to the value of the underlying security is any different to pre-existing requirements under International Financial Reporting Standards and particularly International Accounting Standard 39. [16362/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Mortgage Resolution Processes (16 Apr 2013)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question 194 of 26 March 2013, in which he stated that banks have been given targets of proposing sustainable mortgage solutions to 20% of mortgage loans that are 90 days in arrears by 30 June 2013, and that this would equate to 20% of 94,488 PDH and 28,421 BTL loans by reference to arrears at 31 December 2012, his views on whether it...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Banks Recapitalisation (16 Apr 2013)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Finance if he shares the view of the European Commission, from a statement by its spokesperson on 26 March 2013, that the European Stability Mechanism, to which he has already contributed €509m, will not be used to recapitalize banks. [16364/13]