Results 33,201-33,220 of 35,959 for speaker:Pearse Doherty
- Financial Services Regulation (5 Jul 2012)
Pearse Doherty: Question 8: To ask the Minister for Finance his plans for improving the regulation of licensed money lenders and in particular the high interest rates these lenders may charge; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32744/12]
- Financial Services Regulation (5 Jul 2012)
Pearse Doherty: I apologise for having to leave the Chamber. Credit unions have restrictions placed on them and this causes more people to go to moneylenders. I listened to a story on Joe Duffy's "Liveline" where a woman had to go to a moneylender. He sat outside the post office every week, gave her the post office card, she went into the post office to get payments and she handed the payments to the...
- Financial Services Regulation (5 Jul 2012)
Pearse Doherty: We did; there is none.
- Written Answers — Promissory Notes: Promissory Notes (5 Jul 2012)
Pearse Doherty: Question 34: To ask the Minister for Finance when the idea of a technical paper on the promissory note was first mooted with the Troika; the person who proposed same; the present status of the technical paper; if it has been completed; the reason the February 2012 deadline was not met; the steps that are envisaged for the technical paper once completed; the format of the technical paper; if...
- Written Answers — Budget Timetable: Budget Timetable (4 Jul 2012)
Pearse Doherty: Question 16: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the ways in which the budgetary and estimates timetable here is influenced to an increasing extent by requirements at a European level. [32382/12]
- Written Answers — National Pensions Reserve Fund: National Pensions Reserve Fund (4 Jul 2012)
Pearse Doherty: Question 49: To ask the Minister for Finance the remaining amount of discretionary funding in the National Pension Reserve Fund. [32550/12]
- Written Answers — Election Management System: Election Management System (4 Jul 2012)
Pearse Doherty: Question 174: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the criteria in use for the awarding of Presiding Officer and Personation Agent positions; if he will consider applying a points based system which would afford unemployed and low income earners to avail of these positions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32628/12]
- Written Answers — Departmental Investigations: Departmental Investigations (4 Jul 2012)
Pearse Doherty: Question 217: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he has given any consideration to the findings and recommendations of the Office of the Ombudsman with regard to the operation of his Department in relation to a person (details supplied) in County Donegal; and if he will work with this person to find a resolution. [32656/12]
- Written Answers — Medical Cards: Medical Cards (4 Jul 2012)
Pearse Doherty: Question 244: To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 705 of 24 April 2012 and 583 of 12 June 2012, the reason a person (details supplied) in Dublin 22 has not yet been notified in writing of the decision regarding their medical application; when this notification will be issued; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32590/12]
- Written Answers — Water Fluoridation: Water Fluoridation (4 Jul 2012)
Pearse Doherty: Question 247: To ask the Minister for Health his views on whether the practice of fluoridation of our water supplies needs to be altered taking into account that quantities of fluoride can be monitored at process stage, but the quantities of water drank by our population cannot be monitored; his further view on whether the fluoridation process can have detrimental effects with prolonged...
- Education (Amendment) (Protection of Schools) Bill 2012: Second Stage (Resumed) [Private Members] (4 Jul 2012)
Pearse Doherty: This is not the first occasion in the past 12 months that I have been obliged to make a plea to the Government to reverse its decision in respect of attacking small rural schools. I use the word "attacking" in a very conscious fashion. In December's budget, the Government actually increased the pupil-teacher ratio for schools with fewer than four teachers. Prior to that, the State had...
- Written Answers — Sport and Recreational Development: Sport and Recreational Development (3 Jul 2012)
Pearse Doherty: Question 126: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the plans in place to ensure the development of fencing here; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32086/12]
- Written Answers — Departmental Staff: Departmental Staff (3 Jul 2012)
Pearse Doherty: Question 151: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to scale down wages in his Department and in agencies under his Department among the top earners. [32093/12]
- Written Answers — National Asset Management Agency: National Asset Management Agency (3 Jul 2012)
Pearse Doherty: Question 184: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide the figure for the total amount of staple finance provided by the National Asset Management Agency, split by country; the average interest rate charged by NAMA; the average yield on the property sold; the maximum percentage of the sale price financed by NAMA and the maximum length of time over which the staple finance is to be...
- Written Answers — National Asset Management Agency: National Asset Management Agency (3 Jul 2012)
Pearse Doherty: Question 185: To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question Number 60 of 13 June 2012, if he will advise in relation to residential property, and apart from the National Assets Management Agency 80:20 Deferred Payment Initiative, the total value of deferred payments sanctioned by NAMA; the maximum length of time for which payment is deferred and the average interest rate...
- Written Answers — National Asset Management Agency: National Asset Management Agency (3 Jul 2012)
Pearse Doherty: Question 186: To ask the Minister for Finance the consideration he gave to the concession added in the most recent Memorandum of Understanding On Specific Economic Policy Conditionality whereby the National Asset Management Agency is now required as a term of the bailout, to redeem â¬7.5bn of senior bonds by the end of 2013. [31661/12]
- Written Answers — National Asset Management Agency: National Asset Management Agency (3 Jul 2012)
Pearse Doherty: Question 193: To ask the Minister for Finance following the announcement by the National Asset Management Agency of its intention to demolish a block containing 12 apartments in Longford, if he will provide details of the type of apartments involved and the condition of the property, as well as the condition of the property; when NAMA acquired the underlying loans on the property; the steps...
- Written Answers — National Asset Management Agency: National Asset Management Agency (3 Jul 2012)
Pearse Doherty: Question 198: To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 165 of 26 June 2012, the average percentage interest rate paid by the National Asset Management Agency on its senior bonds in the calendar year of 2011; if he will provide a breakdown of the interest paid including the interest calculated by reference to the six month Euribar interest rate specified in the...
- Written Answers — National Asset Management Agency: National Asset Management Agency (3 Jul 2012)
Pearse Doherty: Question 207: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide a breakdown by National Asset Management Agency participating institutions of the â¬2bn of NAMA senior debt redeemed by the agency, which was announced on 27 June, 2012. [32451/12]
- Written Answers — National Asset Management Agency: National Asset Management Agency (3 Jul 2012)
Pearse Doherty: Question 208: To ask the Minister for Finance the consideration the National Asset Management Agency gave to its over-riding objective of addressing the serious threat to the economy caused by the banking and property crisis, before taking the decision to redeem â¬2bn of its senior debt, announced on 27 June, 2012. [32452/12]