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Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Labour Market Issues (30 Jan 2013)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason those on one parent family payments have been excluded from accessing the Momentum initiative announced by her Department last month; if she has plans to extend the scope of this scheme to those in receipt of one parent family payments who are not working and would like to enter the workforce in the near future; and if she will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Labour Market Issues (30 Jan 2013)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if those in receipt of one parent family payment are included in the live register figures if they are not working; her views on whether those in receipt of one parent family payments should be excluded from accessing the momentum training initiative if they are not employed and hope to enter the workforce; and if she will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Proposed Legislation (30 Jan 2013)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality his plans to progress the Immigration, Residence and Protection Bill; if this will substantially simplify and streamline the existing arrangements; if the reorganisation of the protection application processing framework will remove the current multi-layered processes and provide applicants with a final decision on their application in a more...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Asylum Applications (30 Jan 2013)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality his views on whether the time taken to process an application in respect of a person (details supplied) is acceptable; if his attention has been drawn to the academic achievements of this applicant and the support to them to undertake a Phd programme should their application be approved; if he will reconsider the application; and if he will make a...

Order of Business (29 Jan 2013)

Pearse Doherty: There has been a good deal of debate and questions in the past year and a half on bankers' remuneration. The Taoiseach is perfectly aware that some bankers are working for banks owned completely by the State and are being paid hundreds of thousands of euro and pensions that are greater again. Will the Taoiseach indicate to the House when the Mercer review, commissioned more than a year ago,...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Jobseeker's Allowance Eligibility (29 Jan 2013)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the progress that has been made in the ongoing issue around part time fire fighters being refused jobseeker's payments on the stated grounds that the conditions applying to their work as a part time fire fighter impose unreasonable restrictions on the locations at which they can accept work; if, in the interests of public safety, she will amend the...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: National Treasury Management Agency (29 Jan 2013)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Finance if members of staff at the National Treasury Management Agency are exempt from the standard practice of a cooling off period for senior civil servants moving from public sector into private sector employment; if this is true, the reason such an exemption applies; the number of staff that have transferred from the NTMA to the private sector in the past four...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Bank Debt Restructuring (29 Jan 2013)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Finance in view of the fact that he is the owner of 15% of the ordinary shares in Bank of Ireland, and owner of preference shares most recently valued at €1.473 billion, if he will confirm if the recent disposal by him of €1 billion contingent capital notes was in the interests of Bank of Ireland; and if so, if he will provide the basis for this position....

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Bank Debt Restructuring (29 Jan 2013)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide the overall costs incurred by Bank of Ireland in the recent disposal by him of €1 billion contingent capital notes. [3713/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Bank Debt Restructuring (29 Jan 2013)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will confirm the date on which the €1 billion contingent capital notes were first offered to the market. [3714/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Bank Debt Restructuring (29 Jan 2013)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Finance following the recent disposal of €1bn contingent capital notes, if he received advice as to the optimum period over which the CCNs should have been marketed before any sale was closed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3715/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Bank Debt Restructuring (29 Jan 2013)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Finance following the recent disposal of €1bn contingent capital notes in Bank of Ireland, if he will outline the involvement in the disposal, of the former head of the Shareholder Management Unit in the Department of Finance (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3716/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Banking Sector Staff (29 Jan 2013)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Finance further to the appointment that he announced and welcomed, of the former head of the Shareholder Management Unit (details supplied) to a position at Bank of Ireland, if he will set out the assessment that has taken place in his Department of their knowledge of the workings of Allied Irish Banks and Permanent TSB acquired in their former position; and if this...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Banking Sector Staff (29 Jan 2013)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Finance further to the appointment of the former head of the Shareholder Management Unit, to a position at Bank of Ireland (details supplied), his views, as the holder of 99.8% of the shares in Allied Irish Banks, on any damage to the prospects of AIB occasioned by the appointment. [3718/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Bank Debt Restructuring (29 Jan 2013)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide in tabular form, the par value of loans sold by Anglo Irish Bank in 2008, 2009, 2010 and 2011; the amount realised by territory for the South of Ireland, the North of Ireland, Britain, USA and other international regions; and the number of loan books, portfolios and individual loans to which the sales related. [3719/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Bank Debt Restructuring (29 Jan 2013)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide in tabular form, the par value of loans sold by Irish Nationwide Building Society in 2008, 2009, 2010 and 2011; the amount realised by territory for the South of Ireland, the North of Ireland, Britain, USA and other international regions; and the number of loan books, portfolios and individual loans to which the sales related. [3720/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Bank Debt Restructuring (29 Jan 2013)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide in tabular form, the par value of loans sold by Irish Bank Resolution Corporation in 2011 and 2012; the amount realised by territory for the South of Ireland, the North of Ireland, Britain, USA and other international regions; and the number of loan books, portfolios and individual loans to which the sales related. [3721/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Bank Debt Restructuring (29 Jan 2013)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Finance in tabular form, the par value of loans sold by Bank of Ireland in 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011 and 2012, the amount realised by territory for the South of Ireland, the North of Ireland, Britain, USA and other international regions and the number of loan books; portfolios and individual loans to which the sales related. [3722/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Bank Debt Restructuring (29 Jan 2013)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide in tabular form, the par value of loans sold by Allied Irish Banks in 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011 and 2012; the amount realised by territory for the South of Ireland, the North of Ireland, Britain, USA and other international regions; and the number of loan books, portfolios and individual loans to which the sales related. [3723/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Bank Debt Restructuring (29 Jan 2013)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Finance in tabular form, the par value of loans sold by the Educational Building Society in 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011 and 2012; the amount realised by territory for the South of Ireland, the North of Ireland, Britain, USA and other international regions; and the number of loan books, portfolios and individual loans to which the sales related. [3724/13]