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Banks Recapitalisation (5 Oct 2011)

Pearse Doherty: Question 2: To ask the Minister for Finance the cost to the State of the Promissory Notes to Anglo Irish Bank and Irish Nationwide Building Society including the capital repayments, the interest payments to Anglo and Irish Nationwide and the cost of servicing the State's debt in borrowing these sums; if he will provide an annual breakdown of the cost to the State of servicing these...

Banks Recapitalisation (5 Oct 2011)

Pearse Doherty: When the first note was issued by the Department of Finance on the promissory note, it included the cost of capital payments and interest on these capital payments. It also included the cost of borrowing. In the response given by the Minister he has not included such a column. I do not dispute the €47.9 billion figure which takes in the capital and interest payments, but there is an...

Banks Recapitalisation (5 Oct 2011)

Pearse Doherty: I seek clarity on the issue and ask the Minister to refer to the original note produced in November 2010 which included the cost of borrowing on the markets, assuming an interest rate of 4.7% at the time. It also included the capital repayments and the interest rate charged to Anglo Irish Bank. As with a mortgage, it is not just a case of repaying €30.6 billion; as the period spans 20...

Written Answers — Middle East Peace Process: Middle East Peace Process (4 Oct 2011)

Pearse Doherty: Question 64: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his views on Israeli foreign minister Avigdor Lieberman's proposals to punish Turkey, which include possible support for Kurdish rebels and co-operation with the Armenian lobby in the US, both made in direct response to Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan's announcement that Turkish warships will escort future...

Written Answers — Foreign Conflicts: Foreign Conflicts (4 Oct 2011)

Pearse Doherty: Question 76: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the steps he is taking to break the deadlock in Western Sahara, in which Prime Minister, Abdelkader Taleb Oumar, appealed to the international community to put pressure on Morocco to comply with international law, and where he recently described the situation as leading to the irreparable with all the predictable...

Written Answers — Banking Sector Remuneration: Banking Sector Remuneration (4 Oct 2011)

Pearse Doherty: Question 136: To ask the Minister for Finance the number of times the funding cap for banking officials remuneration has been breached since it was introduced; for whom it was breached; the amount by which it was breached; if this was sanctioned by him or any other member of the Government; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26970/11]

Written Answers — Tax Code: Tax Code (4 Oct 2011)

Pearse Doherty: Question 177: To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to phase out tax credits on higher incomes, for example halving the tax credits after €100,000 and eliminating them beyond €150,000 per annum; and the estimated savings for the Exchequer. [27427/11]

Written Answers — Trust Funds: Trust Funds (4 Oct 2011)

Pearse Doherty: Question 178: To ask the Minister for Finance if there is an estimate of the funds held in trust funds in this State. [27429/11]

Written Answers — Tax Code: Tax Code (4 Oct 2011)

Pearse Doherty: Question 179: To ask the Minister for Finance if he has examined the potential to tax online gambling; the estimated return to the Exchequer if a 5% tax was placed on each bet made here regardless of the company handling the transaction online. [27430/11]

Written Answers — Tax Code: Tax Code (4 Oct 2011)

Pearse Doherty: Question 180: To ask the Minister for Finance his views that the current system of carrying forward investment losses for the purposes of avoiding capital gains tax can be continued; if he will consider a time limit for the carrying forward of these losses; and the estimated savings to the Exchequer if this facility was limited at five years. [27431/11]

Written Answers — Tax Code: Tax Code (4 Oct 2011)

Pearse Doherty: Question 181: To ask the Minister for Finance the potential savings to the Exchequer in limiting the time period over which businesses can carry forward profits for investment purposes capital allowances to five years. [27444/11]

Written Answers — Social Insurance: Social Insurance (4 Oct 2011)

Pearse Doherty: Question 319: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the estimated return to the Exchequer from increasing PRSI by 1%. [27428/11]

Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (4 Oct 2011)

Pearse Doherty: Question 320: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if her attention has been drawn to the fact that some community welfare officers are refusing to grant exceptional needs payments to persons in receipt of social housing support via the leasing initiative for the purposes of purchasing essential household items such as white goods, beds, floor covering and so on despite the fact that...

Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (4 Oct 2011)

Pearse Doherty: Question 403: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the reason persons (details supplied) in County Donegal are being refused cavity wall insulation due to the fact that they had attic insulation works done, under the warmer homes scheme in 2009. [27435/11]

Sale of State Assets (29 Sep 2011)

Pearse Doherty: Question 11: To ask the Minister for Transport; Tourism and Sport his plans for the State stake in Aer Lingus and the rationale for these plans. [26569/11]

Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (29 Sep 2011)

Pearse Doherty: Question 104: To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a decision will issue on an application for carer's allowance in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Donegal. [26704/11]

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (29 Sep 2011)

Pearse Doherty: Question 201: To ask the Minister for Health if he will consider creating a programme in which referrals from the Health Service Executive to acupuncture professionals could be facilitated; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26865/11]

Tourism Industry (29 Sep 2011)

Pearse Doherty: Question 14: To ask the Minister for Transport; Tourism and Sport the extent to which the recent jobs initiative impacted on visitor numbers to Ireland in the July to September period; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26497/11]

Order of Business (29 Sep 2011)

Pearse Doherty: Does the Government propose to introduce legislation to extend the bank guarantee that will elapse at the end of this year?

Order of Business (29 Sep 2011)

Pearse Doherty: I do not normally disagree with Deputy Peter Mathews but today is not the anniversary of when the bank guarantee came into effect. It came into effect two weeks later when the terms and conditions were presented to the House-----