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Leaders' Questions (29 Sep 2015)

Mick Wallace: Is the Taoiseach going to stop Project Arrow?

Leaders' Questions (29 Sep 2015)

Mick Wallace: The Taoiseach cannot be serious.

Leaders' Questions (29 Sep 2015)

Mick Wallace: I gave the Taoiseach the questions.

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Community Employment Schemes Operation (29 Sep 2015)

Mick Wallace: 180. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection her plans to extend the time limits on the length of community employment schemes for those persons over 55 years of age so that they may continue working until retirement age; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32947/15]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Tax and Social Welfare Codes (29 Sep 2015)

Mick Wallace: 182. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection her plans to raise the levels of employers' Pay Related Social Insurance; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33008/15]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Departmental Expenditure (29 Sep 2015)

Mick Wallace: 246. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to use the €2 billion of bailout funds that the Government expects to receive back from Allied Irish Banks and Permanent TSB, details of which he mentioned in the 2015 spring statement, for investment in public services rather than for debt reduction; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33108/15]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (29 Sep 2015)

Mick Wallace: 273. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will re-consider the envisaged tax cuts pledged for budget 2016, given that, according to data from the International Monetary Fund's Fiscal Monitor, Government expenditure is already one of the lowest in the European Union; if he has concerns about the implications of this proposed tax reduction; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33285/15]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (29 Sep 2015)

Mick Wallace: 274. To ask the Minister for Finance if he is satisfied that his recent pledge of a cut of at least 1% to the universal social charge is a prudent decision for the upcoming budget; if he will reconsider this measure with a view to investing the tax collected in the public services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33286/15]

Leaders' Questions (24 Sep 2015)

Mick Wallace: It just does not stack up.

Leaders' Questions (24 Sep 2015)

Mick Wallace: The proceeds of the sale of Project Eagle are the proceeds of crime and the Criminal Assets Bureau should now get involved. CAB could get an interim freezing order in the High Court within a few days and stop the profits being taken offshore. We know, for example, that Cerberus staff were forcing borrowers to pay them back loans urgently and were telling frightened borrowers to talk to...

Leaders' Questions (24 Sep 2015)

Mick Wallace: They are rotten. NAMA has behaved in a rotten manner.

Leaders' Questions (24 Sep 2015)

Mick Wallace: I know, and I would not make it lightly.

Leaders' Questions (24 Sep 2015)

Mick Wallace: The whole NAMA process requires serious independent scrutiny. I am sure the Tánaiste does not have the answer to my final question, but she might look for it for me. What role did NAMA's Ronnie Hanna, head of asset recovery, play in the sale and purchase of Project Eagle?

Leaders' Questions (24 Sep 2015)

Mick Wallace: I am only asking for some information. We are not going to find it in this House or the committees. The Government will not get answers from NAMA; it will have to investigate it.

Leaders' Questions (24 Sep 2015)

Mick Wallace: I have been to the Garda and the National Crime Agency. We need an independent inquiry here.

Leaders' Questions (24 Sep 2015)

Mick Wallace: We need the truth.

Leaders' Questions (24 Sep 2015)

Mick Wallace: This is a seriously Southern problem. Cerberus went to some of the major developer players. Before it bought the portfolio, a group of individuals went around to the big developers and asked them whether they would buy their loans back for 50p in the pound. What happened? They jumped at it. However, they had to pay a fixer's fee. The £7 million in the Isle of Man that we have been...

Leaders' Questions (24 Sep 2015)

Mick Wallace: Given that Cerberus is under criminal investigation in two countries for Project Eagle, why has that company not been disqualified from Project Arrow? How, in God's name, can the Government tolerate that? This is a portfolio with a par value of €7.2 billion which NAMA is threatening to sell for something in the region of €1 billion. Some 50% of the portfolio is residential in...

Leaders' Questions (24 Sep 2015)

Mick Wallace: The Tánaiste comes from an accountancy background and she is the leader of the Labour Party. I cannot believe that she is happy for all this stuff to be simply tossed around here between ourselves in committees. This requires a proper independent investigation, preferably by people from outside the country. In the contribution sent in by Cerberus, whose representatives refused to go...

Leaders' Questions (24 Sep 2015)

Mick Wallace: I am a little taken aback by the position which the Tánaiste is taking on NAMA. I raised this issue with her before the summer recess, when I marked her card that all was not well with NAMA. I told her that it would do her no favour to do nothing about this. Since then, a lot more questions than answers have been thrown up. At a meeting of the Committee of Public Accounts on 9 July,...