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- Written Answers — Department of Finance: IBRC Liquidation (13 Feb 2013)
Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will outline the arrangements that will apply for the publication of audited accounts for Irish Bank Resolution Corporation for the year ended 31 December 2012. [7729/13]
- Written Answers — Department of Finance: IBRC Liquidation (13 Feb 2013)
Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will confirm the treatment of equity in Irish Bank Resolution Corporation and if it will be returned to the State; if so when;; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7730/13]
- Written Answers — Department of Finance: IBRC Liquidation (13 Feb 2013)
Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Finance if it is a term of the arrangement to replace the promissory notes in Irish Bank Resolution Corporation, that IBRC must remain a corporate entity for the duration of the replacement sovereign bonds, that is, until 2053. [7731/13]
- Written Answers — Department of Finance: Government Bonds (13 Feb 2013)
Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Finance the amount of interest that will be paid in each of 2013, 2014 and 2015 on the sovereign bonds that replace the promissory notes;; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7733/13]
- Written Answers — Department of Finance: Government Bonds (13 Feb 2013)
Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Finance the net present value of the bonds that will replace the promissory notes and the net present value gain in this arrangement;; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7734/13]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Grant Scheme Application Numbers (13 Feb 2013)
Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will clarify the number of third level grants that remain to be processed; if he will provide detail in tabular form of the grants still to be processed by county; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7531/13]
- Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals (13 Feb 2013)
Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Social Protection her views on whether any progress has been made in reducing the processing times for social welfare appeals; the current processing time for appeals; her views on whether it is appropriate that applicants are currently waiting up to eight months for a decision with the appeals office in view of the fact that they are also waiting a considerable time...
- Promissory Notes: Motion (12 Feb 2013)
Pearse Doherty: It first decided to say, in regard to the part relating to IBRC, "We will not look at it in the context of banking debt and we are only going to look at the issue of the pillar debts-----"
- Promissory Notes: Motion (12 Feb 2013)
Pearse Doherty: If the Minister, Deputy Noonan, is willing to use Government time for three or four days to debate the concept of a united Ireland and what we should all be doing in this House to achieve that, I and my party would be only too willing. However, we are dealing with these issues-----
- Promissory Notes: Motion (12 Feb 2013)
Pearse Doherty: The Ministers might not like hearing it but it is democracy, I have a mandate and I am entitled to speak. They are two of most senior Ministers in Cabinet, after all. What Eamon Gilmore told us after 29 June was-----
- Promissory Notes: Motion (12 Feb 2013)
Pearse Doherty: He said: “This lifts that burden from the Irish taxpayer and means that the European taxpayer, at a general level, through the ESM is basically taking on responsibility for it." I will repeat it because this goes to the core of this debate. It is what the Tánaiste, Deputy Eamon Gilmore, said about the achievement of 29 June and the toxic banking debt that the Labour Party...
- Promissory Notes: Motion (12 Feb 2013)
Pearse Doherty: The Tánaiste told us there would be light at the end of the tunnel but for many people there is not. For many people, the light at the end of the tunnel was his words that it "lifts that burden from the Irish taxpayer and means that the European taxpayer, at a general level, through the ESM is basically taking on responsibility for it", as well as the quotes from other Ministers....
- Promissory Notes: Motion (12 Feb 2013)
Pearse Doherty: The marble itself cost €6 million. When the Minister says this is just like a mortgage but paid over a longer period of time, the problem is that the people who are paying this mortgage over a longer period of time have no benefit from the house because it is this type of trophy house, and this type of mad investment that Mr. Fingleton and others agreed to and went bust because of,...
- Promissory Notes: Motion (12 Feb 2013)
Pearse Doherty: -----and there is a minimum timeframe for it to do that. However, the ECB retains the right at any stage to demand that it disposes of all of its bonds or does so at a quicker rate. The Minister made much of the fact the rate, given the margin of 2.63% plus Euribor, is just less than 3%. Professor Brian Lucey pointed out in his blog that the average Euribor rate over the last 20 years was...
- Promissory Notes: Motion (12 Feb 2013)
Pearse Doherty: I will conclude on this point. The reality is it depends where the starting point is. If the starting point is where Fine Gael and Labour started off in saying we are going to pay back every single penny of this debt and that we just want better conditions, then I understand completely why they would welcome this. If one's starting point is that of Fianna Fáil - the party that heaped...
- Promissory Notes: Motion (12 Feb 2013)
Pearse Doherty: My colleagues will table an amendment to the motion tomorrow. I welcome the opportunity to discuss the promissory note arrangements in this House. I reiterate that when the first promissory note was paid in 2011, Sinn Féin was the only voice to raise it as an issue. The first time the promissory note was debated-----
- Promissory Notes: Motion (12 Feb 2013)
Pearse Doherty: With respect, Minister, you are around here for long enough-----
- Promissory Notes: Motion (12 Feb 2013)
Pearse Doherty: This kind of boyish craic of shouting across-----
- Promissory Notes: Motion (12 Feb 2013)
Pearse Doherty: Exactly. Talk to your own guy over here.
- Promissory Notes: Motion (12 Feb 2013)
Pearse Doherty: Honest to God, you are like two little schoolboys. I am making my contribution. I have just 20 minutes.