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Written Answers — Department of Finance: Banks Recapitalisation (18 Dec 2012)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 311 of 18 September 2012, when he said that the National Asset Management Agency does not compete with the Irish Bank Resolution Corporation for resources and customers, and following the statement by the chief executive officer of IBRC (details supplied) at the Oireachtas Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform Committee on...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Property Taxation (18 Dec 2012)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will confirm if the Revenue Commissioner has preferential creditor status relating to debts accruing for non-payment of the property tax, that is if there is non-payment on a property and the property has a mortgage on it, when the property is sold, does the Revenue have access to claim the debt owed to it over the mortgage provider's claim to the amount...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Property Taxation (18 Dec 2012)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Finance the consideration given when forecasting the revenue to be generated by the new property tax, to deferrals and charges for unpaid tax, reducing the loans recovered by banks who may have mortgages outstanding on specific properties, as a result of the Revenue Commissioners having priority in recovering unpaid property tax ahead of other charges on the property....

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Property Taxation (18 Dec 2012)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide a projection of receipts for the new property tax in 2013; if the same degree of non-compliance as pertains in 2012 for the household charge applies in 2013 for the property tax. [56902/12]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service (18 Dec 2012)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide clarification on the five vacancies that exist for paramedics in the North Western Region; the length of time that these vacancies have existed; when they will be filled; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56196/12]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service (18 Dec 2012)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Health the reason paramedics from the North Western Region who are located outside of this region are unable to avail of the national transfer policy to return to the north west; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56197/12]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service (18 Dec 2012)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Health the number of paramedics seeking a transfer to the North Western Region; the lengths of time waiting; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56198/12]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mobility Allowance Expenditure (18 Dec 2012)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide in tabular form the annual cost and number of recipients of the mobility allowance scheme in each of 2009, 2010, 2011 and to date in 2012. [56462/12]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Motorised Transport Grant (18 Dec 2012)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide in tabular form the annual cost and number of recipients of the motorised transport grant in each of 2009, 2010, 2011 and to date in 2012. [56463/12]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mobility Allowance Expenditure (18 Dec 2012)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide in tabular form the estimated annual cost and number of recipients of the mobility allowance scheme in each of 2009, 2010, 2011 and to date in 2012 if the upper age limit of 66 years for eligibility for the allowance were to be in practice abolished. [56464/12]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mobility Allowance Expenditure (18 Dec 2012)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide by year for 2009, 2010, 2011 and to date in 2012, the volume and value of settlements under the mobility allowance scheme pursuant to discrimination actions on the grounds the allowance was in practice subject to an upper age limit of 66 years. [56465/12]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mobility Allowance (18 Dec 2012)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide by year for 2009, 2010, 2011 and to date in 2012, the cost of the motorised transport grant if the recommendations of the Ombudsman's report of 22 November 2012 were to have been adopted. [56466/12]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Legal Cases (18 Dec 2012)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide in tabular form for 2009, 2010, 2011 and to date in 2012 the total compensation, and the associated volume of cases, paid by his Department in respect of legal actions taken on foot of the 1970 Health Act and the failure of his Department to provide places in public nursing homes. [56467/12]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Legal Cases (18 Dec 2012)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide in tabular form for 2009, 2010, 2011 and to date in 2012 the total compensation, and the associated volume of cases, paid by his Department in respect of legal actions taken on foot of the 1970 Health Act and the failure of his Department to provide places in public nursing homes. [56636/12]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Sale of State Assets (18 Dec 2012)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to a report in a Sunday newspaper that Coras Iompair Eireann has sold the freehold interest in several properties in Spencer Dock in Dublin city centre for a reported €20m, if he will confirm that a sale has taken place; if he will confirm the detail of what has been sold and the sale price; the marketing and pre-sales...

Finance (Local Property Tax) Bill 2012: Second Stage (14 Dec 2012)

Pearse Doherty: Are responses to parliamentary questions false?

Finance (Local Property Tax) Bill 2012: Second Stage (14 Dec 2012)

Pearse Doherty: Has the Minister for Finance misled the Dáil through responses to parliamentary questions?

Finance (Local Property Tax) Bill 2012: Second Stage (14 Dec 2012)

Pearse Doherty: No, we have not.

Finance (Local Property Tax) Bill 2012: Second Stage (14 Dec 2012)

Pearse Doherty: The figure is accurate.

Finance (Local Property Tax) Bill 2012: Second Stage (14 Dec 2012)

Pearse Doherty: That is not even a parliamentary question. The point I was going to make, if the Minister of State had listened, was that there were other proposals that could have been considered. Reference was made to increasing taxes on higher income earners. What about a gambling levy? When I was young, I used to walk to the bookmaker's for my father to place a bet. If one bet €10, one had to...