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Written Answers — Department of Finance: Bank Debt Restructuring (27 Nov 2012)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide a total of debt write-offs, that is, where a portion of an outstanding loan to a borrower including contractually charged or accrued interest is acknowledged by the bank as unrecoverable, at the Irish Bank Resolution Corporation in each of full-year 2011 and half year of 2012 ending 30 June 2012. [52456/12]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Bank Debt Restructuring (27 Nov 2012)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide in a tabular form a schedule of debt write-offs at the Irish Bank Resolution Corporation in each of full-year 2011 and half year of 2012 ending 30 June 2012 showing the name of the borrower, the book value of the loan outstanding including contractually charged or accrued interest, the amount written off and the date on which the write-off...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Yield (27 Nov 2012)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Finance the amount taken in excise duty on petrol and diesel in 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, and 2011. [52544/12]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Banking Operations (27 Nov 2012)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Finance if as part of Irish Bank Resolution Corporation internal review of historical interest rate settings,the bank is reviewing interest rates applied to loan accounts in the UK and if IBRC has set aside money for repaying customers with loan accounts in the UK. [52731/12]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Banking Operations (27 Nov 2012)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Finance if he or Irish Bank Resolution Corporation are assured by the internal review of historical interest rate settings that Anglo Irish Banks Treasury Department (UK) was not overstating the London Interbank Offered Rate rate in the years under review or in any years beyond those under review. [52732/12]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Banking Operations (27 Nov 2012)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Finance if as part of its internal review of historical interest rate settings, if the Irish Bank Resolution Corporation is reviewing interest rates applied to loan accounts in any jurisdiction after 2004. [52733/12]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Pension Provisions (27 Nov 2012)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 207 of 13 November 2012, and 224 of 20 November 2012, if he will indicate the part or parts of Section 33AK of the Central Bank Act 1942 as inserted into that Act by Section 26 of the Central Bank and Financial Services Authority of Ireland Act 2003, which prevent him from indicating what forecasts were produced for the...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Pension Provisions (27 Nov 2012)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Finance the reason the group pension deficit at Allied Irish Bank increased from €763 million at the end of December 2011 to €1,457 million at 30 June 2012. [52879/12]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Pension Provisions (27 Nov 2012)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Finance the reason the group pension liabilities at Allied Irish Bank increased from €4,562 million at the end of December 2011 to €5,466 million at 30 June 2012; if this increase is due solely to 2,500 redundancies sought; and if he will confirm that the liabilities have increased by an average of €361,600 for each of the 2,500 redundancies. [52880/12]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Pension Provisions (27 Nov 2012)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Finance in view of the statement in Allied Irish Bank's report and accounts for the six months ending 30 June 2012 that the group pension deficit at that date was €1,457 million; if he will confirm the deficit that now exists in the AIB group pension scheme after the transfer of loan assets by AIB to the scheme, announced in August 2012, which have a book value...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Pension Provisions (27 Nov 2012)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Finance further to reports that Allied Irish Bank has confirmed that the first tranche of €700 million book value of loan assets transferred to the group pension fund in August 2012 as part of the total transfer of €1.1 billion book value loan assets resulted in a loss on these loan assets of €300 million, if he will confirm the loss incurred on...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: National Asset Management Agency (27 Nov 2012)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 228 of 6 November 2012, in which he stated that one National Asset Management Agency employee earned more than €500,000 gross salary, employer pension contribution and where applicable, other benefits and further to Parliamentary Question No. 200 of 20 November 2012, in which he stated that NAMA's chief executive...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teacher Training (27 Nov 2012)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will consider the retention of home economics teacher education at a campus (details supplied) in County Sligo; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52467/12]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (27 Nov 2012)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the projected enrolling figures used by his Department for prioritisation on the capital schools building programme in relation to a school (details supplied) for the years 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016 and 2017; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52463/12]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Site Acquisitions (27 Nov 2012)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide details of the cost incurred by his Department in association with the purchase of land for the construction of a new school (details supplied) in County Donegal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52464/12]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Consultancy Contracts (27 Nov 2012)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform in respect of the appointment of Mercer in June 2012 to examine pay levels across banking institutions, if he has made any similar appointments to examine pay levels in quangos, Government agencies, Government Departments or other organs and bodies funded by the State. [52451/12]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals (27 Nov 2012)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide data in terms of the number of appeals being processed by the Appeals office in the past 6 months; if she can provide details in tabular format of the various benefits; the number of these that are approved and the number that are refused; if she is satisfied with the time taken to process appeals; and if she will make a statement...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Carer's Benefit Appeals (27 Nov 2012)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding a carer's allowance refusal in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Donegal; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [52834/12]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals (27 Nov 2012)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason a social welfare appeal submitted by a person (details supplied) in Dublin 22 on 12 July 2011 to which the person received a reply from the Appeals Office dated 15 July 2011 has not yet been completed; the reason the person has received no written correspondence from the Appeals Office or any other section of her Department on the matter...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Motor Taxation (27 Nov 2012)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he has considered introducing sub-categories to the current motor tax bands, which would see for example, band A sub divided into sections reflecting the car size, with larger cars paying more tax. [52527/12]