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Written Answers — Department of Finance: State Banking Sector (12 Mar 2013)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide the latest valuation of the State’s interest in Bank of Ireland, particularly the value of its ordinary and preference shares. [13077/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: IBRC Liquidation (12 Mar 2013)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Finance further to the eventual publication on or after 4 March 2013, of the Directions given by him to the National Asset Management Agency in respect of the liquidation of Irish Bank Resolution Corporation, if he will now publish the documents referred to in the directions, namely the facility agreement, deeds, transfers and schedules. [13078/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: NAMA Debtors (12 Mar 2013)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Finance the safeguards the National Asset Management Agency has in place to ensure that its debtors provide accurate accounting for their businesses and that benefits are not inappropriately withdrawn from debtor businesses by their propriertors [13079/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: NAMA Staff (12 Mar 2013)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Finance the safeguards the National Asset Management Agency has in place to ensure its employees, particularly its asset managers do not become compromised, for example, through over familiarity, in the course of their management of specific debtors [13080/13]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Mortgage Arrears Rate (12 Mar 2013)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he has carried out an impact assessment on the potential effect on the numbers in mortgage distress if water charges are introduced. [10567/13]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Water and Sewerage Schemes Status (12 Mar 2013)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the position regarding a proposed sewage scheme (details supplied) in County Donegal. [12801/13]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Property Services Regulation (12 Mar 2013)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 489 of 26 February 2013, if he will provide an estimate of the total number of commercial leases here and the total number that will be captured on the new commercial leases database; and if he will outline the principal reasons for omissions of extant leases from the commercial leases database. [12635/13]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Investigations (12 Mar 2013)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality further to the publication of what is claimed to be a transcript of a conversation (details supplied), if a complaint has been made to An Garda Síochána and or if An Garda Síochána is investigating the matter to establish if an offence may have been committed under Tribunals of Enquiry Acts; and if he will make a statement on...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Beef Industry Irregularities (12 Mar 2013)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to the broadcast of a BBC Spotlight programme on 5 March 2013 on the horse meat scandal, if he will confirm that his Department responded to an approach two years ago which raised concerns about Irish horses and the food chain; and if the approach was responded to by his Department with a statement that the mess will clean...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Beef Industry Irregularities (12 Mar 2013)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to the broadcast of a BBC Spotlight programme on 5 March 2013 on the horse meat scandal, if he can confirm that he was requested to provide a comment to the programme makers but responded that he was too busy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13082/13]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Beef Industry Irregularities (12 Mar 2013)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to the broadcast of a BBC Spotlight programme on 5March 2013 on the horse meat scandal, if he will confirm that information was provided to his Department two years ago which raised concerns about Irish horses and the food chain; and if so, the way in which his Department responded to those concerns [13083/13]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Beef Industry Irregularities (12 Mar 2013)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to the broadcast of a BBC Spotlight programme on 5 March 2013 on the horse meat scandal, if he proposes to investigate the claims made in the programme regarding passports for low weight and less valuable horses to the meat trade being switched for higher weight and more valuable horses to the meat trade [13084/13]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Beef Industry Irregularities (12 Mar 2013)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to the broadcast of a BBC Spotlight programme on 5th March 2013 on the horse meat scandal, if he will confirm the number of horses slaughtered in the State in 2012; and if he will quantify the way the slaughtered animals were subsequently processed [13085/13]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Beef Industry Irregularities (12 Mar 2013)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to the broadcast of a BBC Spotlight programme on 5 March 2013 on the horse meat scandal, if he will confirm that he is satisfied with the operation (details supplied) in County Offaly; and if any of the concerns raised in the programme will be investigated by his Department [13086/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (12 Mar 2013)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Health further to a report in a Sunday newspaper which suggested that generic drugs and medicines here cost as much as 24 times more than the same medicines in Britain, the research undertaken by his Department or by the Competition Authority in this area and the steps he will take to ensure that drugs and medicines are sold at reasonable prices here. [12634/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (12 Mar 2013)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Health further to a report in a Sunday newspaper which suggested that generic drugs and medicines here cost as much as 24 times more than the same medicines in Britain, the research he had undertaken in this area and the steps he will take to ensure that drugs and medicines are acquired at reasonable prices here. [12633/13]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Maintenance (12 Mar 2013)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his attention has been drawn to the situation in the town of Glenties County Donegal, where in September 2010 during the annual fair, a member of An Garda Síochana diverted a lorry loaded with stone along a county road by-pass of the town which resulted in the collapse of the Mulantiboyle bridge, with this being the only...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Improvement Schemes (12 Mar 2013)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his attention has been drawn to the fact that funding allocated to the main street of Ardara Town, County Donegal, was not spent in this area; if he will agree to prioritise this town which is on the N56, national secondary route, to ensure that the obvious safety measures in the town can be resolved and ensure that this heritage town...

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Finance Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Mar 2013)

Pearse Doherty: In that case, anyone who has entered into a civil partnership and who has been discommoded as a result of that oversight-----

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Finance Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Mar 2013)

Pearse Doherty: Yes. Will there be a backdating of the position?