Results 32,701-32,720 of 36,066 for speaker:Pearse Doherty
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Operations and Functioning of IBRC: Discussion (31 Oct 2012)
Pearse Doherty: What is the highest salary in the bank?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Operations and Functioning of IBRC: Discussion (31 Oct 2012)
Pearse Doherty: Is that the base salary?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Operations and Functioning of IBRC: Discussion (31 Oct 2012)
Pearse Doherty: As I know this is personal, it may be difficult, but does Mr. Aynsley think it is appropriate that the State should pay out that type of money when the country is bust? A report from the Society of St Vincent de Paul states 1.8 million people have less than €100 left over at the end of each month. Does Mr. Aynsley think it is appropriate that the State should continue to pay that...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Operations and Functioning of IBRC: Discussion (31 Oct 2012)
Pearse Doherty: I thank the witnesses for the presentation. I appreciate the job they have at hand. Along with other members of this committee, I ask many parliamentary questions, which are sometimes unrelenting as the witnesses mentioned in the earlier address. It is important that we, as legislators, do that. When we consider where NAMA has found itself in recent weeks, sometimes when we think the ship...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Operations and Functioning of IBRC: Discussion (31 Oct 2012)
Pearse Doherty: At the end of March each year, the State provides €3.1 billion, some of which is in interest given how the pro-note is structured and some of it is in capital. IBRC takes the €3.1 billion and transfers that to the Central Bank to pay down the liabilities it has to the euro system in the Central Bank of Ireland. The bank does not retain any of the interest paid.
- Leaders' Questions (25 Oct 2012)
Pearse Doherty: The Labour Party Minister of State resigned over this.
- Leaders' Questions (25 Oct 2012)
Pearse Doherty: Did the Tánaiste know about the meeting?
- Leaders' Questions (25 Oct 2012)
Pearse Doherty: Does the Tánaiste know that it is illegal to lobby NAMA?
- Written Answers — Department of Finance: Banking Sector Regulation (25 Oct 2012)
Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Finance the number of applications in each of the last eight quarters for banking licenses and if he will provide in detail what he intends to do to attract new banking entrants; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47087/12]
- Written Answers — Department of Finance: Pension Provisions (25 Oct 2012)
Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Finance the savings to the Exchequer from reducing the earnings cap for pension tax reliefs from €115,000 per annum to €75,000. [46948/12]
- Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Reliefs (25 Oct 2012)
Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Finance the savings to the Exchequer from standardising all discretionary tax relief. [46949/12]
- Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Reliefs (25 Oct 2012)
Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Finance the savings to the Exchequer from standardising pension tax reliefs. [46950/12]
- Written Answers — Department of Finance: Pension Provisions (25 Oct 2012)
Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Finance if he has information and if he will provide a breakdown of the number of persons who claimed tax free lump sums in 2011 in the following categories, under €50,000, €50,000-€75,000, €75,000-€100,000, €100,000-€150,000, €150,000 - €200,000, €200,000 plus. [46951/12]
- Written Answers — Department of Finance: Fiscal Policy (25 Oct 2012)
Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Finance the macro economic stability and debt sustainability analyses if any that have been undertaken in which an assumption is that the promissory note is not repaid; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47085/12]
- Written Answers — Department of Finance: Fiscal Policy (25 Oct 2012)
Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Finance the analyses being done in the view of the International Monetary Fund World Economic Outlook note on multipliers to establish the short term multiplier for Government spending here; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47086/12]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (25 Oct 2012)
Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide the data in relation to the number of applicantions that have been submitted to his Department for secondary school students with special needs who may have special arrangements made for them while sitting State examinations in 2013; if he will provide data regarding the number of applications for special accommodations submitted...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Role and Functions of NAMA: Discussion (24 Oct 2012)
Pearse Doherty: That is NAMA's position but it means NAMA is not pursuing certain developers, who owed the loans, for the full value of the loan. This means NAMA has cut its cloth and has decided it was not going to get back the full value and so it will sell off the loans. In my example of a loan of €100 million taken out from Anglo Irish Bank or wherever, purchased by NAMA for €40 million...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Role and Functions of NAMA: Discussion (24 Oct 2012)
Pearse Doherty: I will try to finish up on this point. When NAMA was set up by the previous Government, there was a lot of outrage. I do not blame the officials of NAMA, who are charged with securing a return to the State. There was outrage that developers were going to walk away with a reduction in the debt they owed to banks such as AIB, Anglo Irish Bank and Bank of Ireland. It was categorically said...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Role and Functions of NAMA: Discussion (24 Oct 2012)
Pearse Doherty: I shall pick up on Mr. Daly's earlier contribution. Is this the second investigation into a member of NAMA? How many current members of NAMA are suspended or have been suspended in the past?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Role and Functions of NAMA: Discussion (24 Oct 2012)
Pearse Doherty: That is okay. Has there only been one other investigation in NAMA?