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Written Answers — Department of Finance: Legal Cases (23 Oct 2012)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will quantify the number of ongoing legal cases, if any, where the State or an agency of the State is the applicant or one of the applicants and Deloitte and Touche is the respondent or one of the respondents. [45969/12]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: National Asset Management Agency (23 Oct 2012)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No.147 of 9 October 2012, if he will reconsider his response in view of the various forecasts given by the National Asset Management Agency (details supplied) of its 2011 annual outturn before 31 December 2011. [45971/12]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Bank Debt Restructuring (23 Oct 2012)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Finance further to a report in a national newspaper that 99.5% state-owned Permanent TSB is considering entering into a loan management contract with a private-sector company (details supplied) for the management of €2bn of commercial property development loans, the reason PTSB is not a National Asset Management Agency participating Institution, the reason these...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Bank Debt Restructuring (23 Oct 2012)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Finance further to a report in a national newspaper that 99.5% State-owned Permanent TSB is considering entering into a loan management contract with a private-sector company (details supplied) for the management of €2bn of commercial property development loans if he will provide an estimate of the fees that will be paid by PTSB to the company over the proposed...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Bank Debt Restructuring (23 Oct 2012)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Finance if he wil provide an assessment of the effect of the National Asset Management Agency acquiring €2bn of commercial property development loans from Permanent TSB, the management of which loans PTSB is reportedly contracting out to a company (details supplied). [45976/12]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Banking Sector Regulation (23 Oct 2012)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide an explanation of what he means when he refers to pillar banks in the cases of Allied Irish Banks and Bank of Ireland; if he regards 99.5% Permanent TSB as a pillar bank and if not, the reason for such distinction. [45975/12]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Bank Debt Restructuring (23 Oct 2012)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Finance in respect of Bank of Ireland in which he controls 15% of the ordinary shares and in addition holds preference shares valued at €1,473 million in December 2011; if he will provide an estimate of the year when the Bank will return to profitability. [45977/12]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Bank Debt Restructuring (23 Oct 2012)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Finance in respect of Bank of Ireland in which he controls 15% of the ordinary shares and in addition holds preference shares valued at €1,473 million in December 2011; if he will provide an estimate of the year when the Bank will next pay dividends to its ordinary shareholders. [45978/12]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Bank Debt Restructuring (23 Oct 2012)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Finance in respect of Bank of Ireland in which he controls 15% of the ordinary shares and in addition holds preference shares valued at €1,473 million in December 2011, the safeguards that he has in place to ensure that shareholders in the bank do not benefit from the distribution of dividends, or from other shareholding rewards until firstly, the bank has...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Bank Debt Restructuring (23 Oct 2012)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Finance in respect of Bank of Ireland in which he controls 15% of the ordinary shares and in addition holds preference shares valued at €1,473 million in December 2011; the reason the bank is seeking via an application to the High Court to reduce its share premium account by €3.92bn to €1.97bn. [45979/12]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Universal Social Charge (23 Oct 2012)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Finance the point at which a person starts paying the universal social charge in annual income terms; and the cost to the State of taking all those earning the minimum wage out of the USC band. [45998/12]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Sovereign Debt (23 Oct 2012)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will set out the fees that are typically obtained in a new issuance of €500 million of three month treasury bills by the National Treasury Management Agency, including legal and dealer fees. [46128/12]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Sovereign Debt (23 Oct 2012)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will set out the fees that are typically obtained in the redemption of €500 million of three month treasury bills by the National Treasury Management Agency, including legal and dealer fees. [46129/12]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: EU-IMF Agreement (23 Oct 2012)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will confirm the remaining programme funding to be provided to the State by the International Monetary Fund pursuant to its €22.5 billion funding commitment; if he will provide an estimate of the annual interest rate that will apply to the remaining programme funding yet to be provided by the IMF. [46130/12]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: State Debt (23 Oct 2012)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide an assessment of the savings that the State could make if it were to substitute the remaining programme funding yet to be provided by the International Monetary Fund with open market funding from the issuance of debt by the National Treasury Management Agency at current market rates. [46131/12]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Higher Education Grants (23 Oct 2012)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will detail in tabular form, the number of grant applications that have been received, processed and decided by the Student Universal Support Ireland; if he will provide a breakdown of each of these three categories by county and by educational institution; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45716/12]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staffing (23 Oct 2012)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to the hardships caused to post-primary schools where selection and approval of assistant principal appointments made in April 2012 may now not be eligible for payment of allowances for these appointments, in view of his response in February 2012 whereby he stated that appointments could still be made with his...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Pay (23 Oct 2012)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the quantum of total salary payments to judges in each court in 2011; the annual savings achieved in each court following the 29th Amendment to the Constitution and the forecast total salary payments to judges in each court 2012. [45985/12]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Offshore Exploration (23 Oct 2012)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform further to a Parliamentary Question No. 493 of 18 September 2012 and Parliamentary Question No. 79 on 26 September 2012, the reason the royalty payments received from a company (details supplied) by the Exchequer in respect of the so-called fair market value of the wellhead of oil, gas or other petroleum substances produced are less than...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Code (23 Oct 2012)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will list what she considers to be core social welfare payments; if she will detail in tabular form the current rates for these core payments; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45714/12]