Results 33,621-33,640 of 35,959 for speaker:Pearse Doherty
- Written Answers — Bank Guarantee Scheme: Bank Guarantee Scheme (22 Feb 2012)
Pearse Doherty: Question 38: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will list those current members of the Bank of Ireland executive team and committee who were in place prior to the banking guarantee; if he will provide a rationale for the reason these persons are still in position in view of his statement in April 2011 indicating that all executive team and committee members from the pre-banking guarantee...
- Written Answers — National Asset Management Agency: National Asset Management Agency (22 Feb 2012)
Pearse Doherty: Question 71: To ask the Minister for Finance if it is possible for a loan to go into the National Asset Management Agency at half the value, the developer then to sell the asset at a higher figure, pay NAMA the discounted amount and pocket the balance; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10061/12]
- Written Answers — European Globalisation Fund: European Globalisation Fund (22 Feb 2012)
Pearse Doherty: Question 108: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the dates on which his Department will provide the European Commission with its final reports on the European Globalisation Fund programmes for workers in Waterford Crystal and SR Technics; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10161/12]
- Written Answers — European Globalisation Fund: European Globalisation Fund (22 Feb 2012)
Pearse Doherty: Question 109: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the date on which he will return unspent European Globalisation Fund moneys secured for redundant Dell workers to the European Commission; and the total amount he expects to be returned on that date. [10162/12]
- Written Answers — European Globalisation Fund: European Globalisation Fund (22 Feb 2012)
Pearse Doherty: Question 110: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his understanding of the European Globalisation Fund regulation requirement for EGF funds to compliment actions of member states at national, regional and local level; if it is appropriate to use EGF funds to fund interventions already in existence and accessible to all unemployed workers under the mainstream provision of supports...
- Written Answers — Community Employment Schemes: Community Employment Schemes (22 Feb 2012)
Pearse Doherty: Question 140: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the total number of community employment drug rehabilitation places in the country broken down by project and geographical location; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10072/12]
- Written Answers — Public Sector Staff: Public Sector Staff (22 Feb 2012)
Pearse Doherty: Question 142: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding a transfer application by a person (details supplied). [10113/12]
- National Asset Management Agency (22 Feb 2012)
Pearse Doherty: Question 5: To ask the Minister for Finance if he accepts that the use of the effective interest rate methodology by the National Assets Management Agency in the Q3 of 2010 accounts rather than reporting interest actually received on performing loans, leads to an overstatement of their profits for that quarter and as a result provides a misleading picture to the general public of their...
- National Asset Management Agency (22 Feb 2012)
Pearse Doherty: I find this bizarre. I have listened to the Minister of State's response in explaining how the EIR accounting practice works. In the first three quarters of 2011 NAMA reported an operational profit of â¬526 million. This is before impairment charges which are likely to wipe out that profit and result in NAMA having an operational loss are taken into account. We can all accept this. Let...
- National Asset Management Agency (22 Feb 2012)
Pearse Doherty: The public wants to see what is going on within the ship of NAMA, a body which is costing â¬1 million a day to run. It wants to know the income it received in interest on loans. The report shows that â¬276 was received in the first quarter, but I have discovered that NAMA actually received only â¬178 million. In the second quarter it reported that it had received â¬255 million in...
- National Asset Management Agency (22 Feb 2012)
Pearse Doherty: That is not the question.
- Banks Recapitalisation (22 Feb 2012)
Pearse Doherty: I tabled this question following from the presentations made to the Joint Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, to ascertain the schedule of repayment of the promissory note which takes us right up to 2031. Because of the way the Government has booked the interest on that promissory note, which was at the market value at that time, Irish Bank Resolution Corporation does not...
- Banks Recapitalisation (22 Feb 2012)
Pearse Doherty: Given that Irish Bank Resolution Corporation is owned by the State and the Department of Finance is the Department which, on 31 March this year, will sign a cheque for â¬3.1 billion to that bank, I presume that there are talks between both of them on how much this will cost and the cut-off point for this promissory note. Given that the Minister for Finance, Deputy Noonan, had the talks with...
- Job Creation (22 Feb 2012)
Pearse Doherty: As the Minister of State will be aware, for quite a while my party has been arguing that we use a portion of the National Pensions Reserve Fund to fund a stimulus programme for investment to get people back to work. Given that there are 439,000 on the live register and 6,000 people leaving the State every month in search of work, we definitely need to use that discretionary portfolio. The...
- Job Creation (22 Feb 2012)
Pearse Doherty: This is a very simple question, so I will repeat it. Proposal No. 12 is one of the key proposals in the Government's jobs action plan. It proposes to channel commercial investment from the National Pensions Reserve Fund to productive investment. The question is how much money has the Government agreed with the National Pensions Reserve Fund, how much has it calculated will be available for...
- State Banking Sector (22 Feb 2012)
Pearse Doherty: Will the Minister of State accept that the reason bond spreads in Greece have increased is because its debt to GDP ratio is above 160%? Will he also accept that non-payment of the promissory note by this State would result in our debt to GDP ratio falling from the projected high of 120% to !00% or below that, which would entice investment? Will he further accept-----
- State Banking Sector (22 Feb 2012)
Pearse Doherty: Yes. If the promissory note did not exist our debt to GDP ratio would decrease, which would entice investment back to our country because it would then clearly be sustainable. Will the Minister of State accept that the promissory note is being paid by this State to Anglo Irish Bank, which is an organ of the State, which then pays the money to another subsidiary of the State, namely, the...
- State Banking Sector (22 Feb 2012)
Pearse Doherty: The Minister for Finance, as a member of ECOFIN, is imposing it on them. The Irish Government is a signatory-----
- Banks Recapitalisation (22 Feb 2012)
Pearse Doherty: Question 2: To ask the Minister for Finance the position regarding the work of the Troika technical group dealing with the Anglo Irish Bank promissory note; if he will provide an update on his discussions with the ECB and EU partners on this matter; and his views on what would be a successful outcome on the matter of the promissory note. [10284/12]
- Banks Recapitalisation (22 Feb 2012)
Pearse Doherty: I thank the Minister of State for his response. I am sure he is well aware that last week three expert economists - Professor Karl Whelan, Professor Brian Lucey, and Dr. Stephen Kinsella - appeared before the Joint Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform and made presentations on the promissory note issue. It would be fair to say that all three of them stated that what really...