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Written Answers — Department of Finance: Banking Licence Breaches (5 Feb 2013)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 275 of 29 January 2013, if he will confirm when the Central Bank of Ireland first became aware of breaches at Irish Bank Resolution Corporation; and if he will detail the actions the Central Bank of Ireland has taken in response to the breach or breaches. [5615/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Property Taxation Exemptions (5 Feb 2013)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Finance the reason for allowing property owners to be exempt from the proposed property tax for land over one acre; and if he will estimate the revenue he is willing to forego by limiting the property tax to the valuation of property on one acre. [5782/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Budget 2014 Issues (5 Feb 2013)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Finance if, following the move across Europe to bring budgets into a semester process, the date of Budget 2014; and the way the Budget is announced will change. [5854/13]

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Údarás na Gaeltachta Properties (5 Feb 2013)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the location of all Údarás na Gaeltachta premises in County Donegal; the size of these premises; when they were last occupied; the name of the occupying company; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5950/13]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Warmer Homes Scheme Application Numbers (5 Feb 2013)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will provide details on the number of applicants who have applied for the warmer homes scheme; if he will provide details in tabular form of the number of applications received, approved and declined for the years 2011 and 2012. [5166/13]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Civil Service Code of Conduct (5 Feb 2013)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will outline the safeguards that exist within the Office of the Data Protection Commissioner to prevent conflicts of interest when employees of the Office move to related positions in the private sector. [5065/13]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Citizenship Ceremonies (5 Feb 2013)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality when a person (details supplied) approved for citizenship who has submitted all the required documents and certification fee may expect to be called to attend the citizenship ceremony at which they will make a declaration of fidelity to the Irish Nation and loyalty to the State; if the person will be allocated a place at the next...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Care Infrastructure (5 Feb 2013)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Health further to the publication by RTÉ of a letter (details supplied) which includes a statement that he requested that two projects be accelerated in the Health Service Executive's capital programme, the reasons he accelerated the two projects. [5066/13]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (31 Jan 2013)

Pearse Doherty: Under Article 8 the link remains in respect of macro-economic conditionality. This means local groups could be affected and left high and dry with regard to resources that could have been allocated to them as a result of the macro-economics of the member state. It is a dangerous idea and one we oppose. Is the Government trying to remove the link with the multi-annual financial framework?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (31 Jan 2013)

Pearse Doherty: I wish to ask one final question, although, unfortunately, I have to be somewhere at 1 p.m. There is a complete article devoted to the possible reunification of Cyprus. There is nothing new in treaties and articles being devoted to the reunification of countries. In the past we have seen that the reunification of Germany was specifically allowed for in an EU treaty and it allowed the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (31 Jan 2013)

Pearse Doherty: Why would Cyprus have done so? Can the delegation explain the article devoted to Cyprus?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (31 Jan 2013)

Pearse Doherty: I welcome our guests and have a number of questions. On the overall MFF spending, we know there is opposition from countries like Britain and the Netherlands to the overall budget being increased. There has been a lot of talk about the EU budget being used as a vehicle for investment, growth and jobs but how can happen, given the fact that there will not be a substantial increase in the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (31 Jan 2013)

Pearse Doherty: We will take them one at a time.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (31 Jan 2013)

Pearse Doherty: Obviously that will come at the expense of other measures and I am sure that the EU Commission would have argued in the past that the budget in its entirety was promoting growth, regardless of specific measures. I will leave that aside but I am of the opinion that there is a lot of spin involved in this. It is unfortunate that we will not see a substantial increase in the budget because I...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (31 Jan 2013)

Pearse Doherty: How likely does Mr. Deane think it is that those talks will be successful? Is it possible to reconfigure or redesign the region, that is, to redefine the boundaries of the region at this point in time? At the time of the drawing up of the BMW region, a lot of political influence was exerted by the previous Government and various counties were included. At that time, even with the expansion...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (31 Jan 2013)

Pearse Doherty: In terms of my second question, would that be possible? I have met members of the Commission before and discussed redefining a region which would include the six counties of Donegal, Sligo, Leitrim, Derry, Fermanagh and Tyrone, which is the most deprived area on the island of Ireland. The Commission was open to that idea about three or four years ago but said it would be a lengthy process....

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Broadband Services (31 Jan 2013)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the target broadband speed for semi-urban areas not covered by the National Broadband Strategy; the way these speeds compare to other countries of a similar population; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4681/13]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Alternative Energy Projects (31 Jan 2013)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if there are regulations regarding the height of wind turbines here; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4676/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: EU-IMF Agreement (31 Jan 2013)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Finance when he received a paper from the Troika on options for Ireland's exit from the Troika programme. [4823/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: EU-IMF Agreement (31 Jan 2013)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will make public any paper he received from the Troika on options for Ireland's exit from the programme. [4824/13]