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

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Finance the amount of money that would be raised in a full year by reducing the level at which persons and companies may claim interest repayments against tax for residential rental properties to 40%; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14459/13]

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

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Finance further to the recent statement by the National Asset Management Agency that it had sold €22m of Irish residential property with its 80:20 deferred payment initiative, if he will confirm the overall value of the 80:20 mortgages that have been extended to buyers of such property and the overall value of sales which have not involved the 80:20 mortgage....

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

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 207 of 22 May 2012, if he will provide a breakdown of the stock of Irish residential housing in the National Asset Management Agency portfolio, showing the number of units rented and vacant, and showing the number of units being offered for sale and for rent. [14571/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Bond Markets (21 Mar 2013)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Finance the fees payable to the joint lead managers, Barclays, Danske Bank, Davy, Goldman Sachs International, HSBC and Nomura, which have been mandated by the National Treasury Management Agency in respect of a recently announced issue of a March 2023 bond. [14572/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: National Treasury Management Agency Bond Issues (21 Mar 2013)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will account for the premium yield paid by the National Treasury Management Agency on its recent €5bn issuance of 10-year bonds when compared with the yield on the existing 2020 bond. [14573/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Outright Monetary Transaction Scheme Eligibility (21 Mar 2013)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Finance if he has confirmed with the European Central Bank, that in view of the recent issuance of €5bn of 10-year bonds to a wide range of investors, that Ireland now qualifies for access to the ECB’s outright monetary transaction scheme. [14574/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Outright Monetary Transaction Scheme Eligibility (21 Mar 2013)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Finance his assessment on whether this State now meets the criteria for access to the ECB’s outright monetary transaction scheme, following the recent issuance of €5bn of 10-year bonds to a wide range of investors. [14575/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: EU-IMF Programme of Support Drawdowns (21 Mar 2013)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Finance the amounts currently borrowed from the International Monetary Fund under the programme finance agreement; the annual rate of interest payable on these borrowings; and the dates by which the principals must be repaid [14576/13]

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

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Finance further to his announcement on 13 March 2013 on dealing with the mortgage arrears crisis, if he will explain what he means by sustainable mortgage solution; if he will specifically outline any metrics that will be used to judge sustainability; and if he will identify the persons that will determine if a mortgage solution is sustainable or not. [14577/13]

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

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Finance further to his announcement on 13 March 2013 on dealing with the mortgage arrears crisis, the independent advice that will be made available to borrowers who are being forced to sacrifice their tracker mortgage benefits in return for agreeing to a restructuring. [14578/13]

Order of Business (20 Mar 2013)

Pearse Doherty: I wish to ask about legislation that may emanate from the publication last week of the Mercer report. We have the revelation that Mr. Richie Boucher is on a salary of €843,000 and I wish to point out to the Minister that four years ago, his party had a right go at the former Minister for Finance, the late Deputy Brian Lenihan. Indeed, Deputy Richard Bruton-----

Order of Business (20 Mar 2013)

Pearse Doherty: Deputy Bruton accused the then Minister for Finance of "bottling it" when he said that a cap of €500,000 on bankers' pay was adequate. Fine Gael, Sinn Féin and others all voted to reduce bankers' pay. The only people who did not vote to reduce it were members of the Fianna Fáil Party. The Government has no problem with threatening public sector workers with legislation to...

Order of Business (20 Mar 2013)

Pearse Doherty: When will we see legislation to reduce bankers' pay or is the Government bottling it, just as it accused the previous Government?

Order of Business (20 Mar 2013)

Pearse Doherty: This Government is bottling it, just like the previous Government.

Topical Issue Debate: Common Agricultural Policy Negotiations (20 Mar 2013)

Pearse Doherty: Raid the savings.

Topical Issue Debate: Common Agricultural Policy Negotiations (20 Mar 2013)

Pearse Doherty: Last night, every voting Member of the Cypriot Parliament rejected the demands of the troika and the Eurogroup. To them I say, "Well done". Despite being a small, partitioned island with a population of just over 1 million people, approximately Munster's population, it sent out a clear signal to the effect that it would not be pushed around. I refer the Minister to the President of...

Topical Issue Debate: Common Agricultural Policy Negotiations (20 Mar 2013)

Pearse Doherty: The bullies got carried away with themselves. We are now in a farcical situation, in that a eurozone country cannot even re-open its banks. Depositors in many European states are afraid because the line has been crossed by the Eurogroup, in that levies can be imposed on depositors. The Irish Government should not have signed up to this blackmail. For a country such as ours, the...

Topical Issue Debate: Common Agricultural Policy Negotiations (20 Mar 2013)

Pearse Doherty: How can the Government argue for the retroactive recapitalisation of our banks - we want the €30 billion that we pumped into the pillar banks back - with any legitimacy if we have just agreed that there will not be a separation of sovereign and banking debt in Cyprus and that the Cypriot people will bear the brunt? Does it not make a mockery of the Government's position? How can we...

Topical Issue Debate: Common Agricultural Policy Negotiations (20 Mar 2013)

Pearse Doherty: Cyprus deals in the euro. Last June, there was a seismic shift, as this Government called it, in terms of separating sovereign debt and banking debt. Cypriot banks need billions of euro. This is why the bailout is necessary. It has been agreed that the ESM will be the vehicle to bail out eurozone banks. We are hopeful about getting some of our money back because the ESM did not exist...

Topical Issue Debate: Common Agricultural Policy Negotiations (20 Mar 2013)

Pearse Doherty: -----additional austerity for the Cypriot people and the raiding of bank savings. Does this not make a fool out of the Government's position? If a small nation is asked to take the same measures that we were forced to take a number of years ago, how can we legitimately argue for the retroactive recapitalisation of our banks?