Results 32,941-32,960 of 36,066 for speaker:Pearse Doherty

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Election of Chairman (10 Oct 2012)

Pearse Doherty: We will work together.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Business of Joint Committee (10 Oct 2012)

Pearse Doherty: I do not have the minutes to hand, but it was agreed in private session at the previous meeting that we would circulate the cost since the election of travel to conferences. Has this note been agreed?

Written Answers — Department of Finance: NAMA Transactions (10 Oct 2012)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Finance in respect of a site at 66, 68 and 70 Dublin street, Balbriggan, North County Dublin if the National Asset Management Agency has been contacted by the Minister for Health or his Department or his representatives or the Health Service Executive, and if there has been such contact on the subject of this site, the date of the contract or contacts; the identity of...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: NAMA Code of Conduct (10 Oct 2012)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Finance if, pursuant to the anti-lobbying rules set out in Section 221 of the National Asset Management Agency Act 2009, NAMA would be duty-bound to report to An Garda Síochána contact from a Minister or his Department or his representatives, which sought to promote a property subject to a loan from NAMA or contact which sought to influence a decision by...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: NAMA Debtor Agreements (10 Oct 2012)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will confirm that details of loans managed by the National Asset Management Agency and its debtors are confidential, and that in relation to any specific NAMA debtor, details of the sums outstanding on loans and the value of collateral and specifically if the sums outstanding on loans are greater than the value of collateral, are not details that are...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Cross-Border Co-operation (10 Oct 2012)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he has given due regard to commitments in the Good Friday Agreement to make efficiencies in the delivery of public services through cross-border co operation and harmonisation services; and if any cost analysis has been undertaken as to the way in which this cooperation could provide savings for the State's budgetary calculations. [43752/12]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Capital Expenditure Programme Issues (10 Oct 2012)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform further to Parliamentary Question No. 210 of 2 October 2012, if he will estimate the number of new jobs that would have been created if the 2012 infrastructure and capital spend budget, which to the end of August 2012 was underspent by €120m compared with profile, and to the end of September 2012 was underspent by €268m...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Capital Expenditure Programme Issues (10 Oct 2012)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the consideration given to the creation of employment when the 2012 infrastructure and capital spend budget was profiled at the start of 2012 in order that 45% of the total annual budget, amounting to €1.65bn out of an annual budget of €3.6bn, was to be spent in the last 25% of the year. [43756/12]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Capital Programme Expenditure (10 Oct 2012)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform further to Parliamentary Question No. 210 on 2 October 2012, if he has produced plans with the objective of cutting the actual amount spent under the 2012 infrastructure and capital spend budget. [43754/12]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Capital Programme Expenditure (10 Oct 2012)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will quantify the amount from the €2.25bn stimulus package announced on 17 July 2012, that has been spent and accounted for in the Exchequer statement at the end of September 2012. [43755/12]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments Waiting Times (10 Oct 2012)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the current turnaround times for processing claims for all social welfare payment types in her Department; if she will provide in tabular form the average processing times for the various claims since May 2012; if she will provide information on the percentage of the various applications submitted to her Department that take longer than the average...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Radio Spectrum Management (10 Oct 2012)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if the State plans to auction the analog band after the State makes the digital switchover; and if he will estimate what this auction could achieve. [43757/12]

Fiscal Responsibility Bill 2012: Second Stage (9 Oct 2012)

Pearse Doherty: The impression was given in an earlier contribution that we should be grateful this Bill has been published and that the austerity referendum was successful because we lost the run of ourselves and the budgetary and debt rules in this legislation will save us. I agree with the point that we should base our arguments on facts. We should look at the facts to support that earlier comment....

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: European Globalisation Fund (9 Oct 2012)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide an update on the final reports to the European Commission relating to the Waterford Crystal, SR Technics and the three construction programmes; and if he will provide an estimate of the total moneys due to be returned to the European Commission from all of the now closed European Globalisation Fund programmes. [43117/12]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: European Globalisation Fund (9 Oct 2012)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the total number of unique individuals who have accessed additional supports between December 2011 and June 2012 from the three European Globalisation Fund construction programmes; the total cost of these supports; and the estimated total moneys to be returned to the European Commission unspent under these programmes. [43116/12]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Public Sector Increment Payments (9 Oct 2012)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will quantify as of 31 December 2011 and as at 30 September 2012 the number of employees at the Central Bank of Ireland whose annual salary including non-discretionary payments in cash, is in excess of €200,000 per annum. [42677/12]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Public Sector Increment Payments (9 Oct 2012)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Finance if a request has been made by him to the Central Bank of Ireland that any staff member earning in excess of €200,000 per annum inclusive of non-discretionary cash payments waive 15% of their salary or a sum to reduce their salary inclusive of non-discretionary cash payments to €200,000 whichever reduction is lesser; if such a request was made, the...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: NAMA Staff Recruitment (9 Oct 2012)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will quantify the fees paid by the National Asset Management Agency for the recruitment of staff in 2011 and for the nine months ending 30 September 2012. [42679/12]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: NAMA Accounts (9 Oct 2012)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Finance further to the commitment made by National Asset Management Agency to calculate a provision for impairment twice a year, to quantify the provision for impairments made by NAMA for the six months ending 30 June 2012 as contained in the second quarter 2012 accounts which were due to be submitted to him by 30 September 2012. [42680/12]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: NAMA Accounts (9 Oct 2012)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide an estimate for the financial outturn at the National Asset Management Agency for the 12 months ending 31 December 2012 to include the estimated provision for impairment and the profit before tax. [42681/12]