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Written Answers — Financial Services Regulation: Financial Services Regulation (18 Apr 2012)

Joan Collins: Question 212: To ask the Minister for Finance with regard to the general question of bank regulation, the person responsible for ensuring compliance with statutory and code-of-practice regulation of banks and other financial institutions generally in the State; if the Governor of the Central Bank and Financial Regulator have written contracts of employment with clear performance related...

Written Answers — Monetary Policy: Monetary Policy (18 Apr 2012)

Joan Collins: Question 213: To ask the Minister for Finance with regard to the Irish Euro, is this money created electronically, without relationship to underlying assets; if not, the assets that underpin the creation of Irish bank notes; if there is any legal or other requirement that loans advanced by the banks should be underpinned by assets or deposits of any kind held by those banks; the person who...

Written Answers — Banking Sector Regulation: Banking Sector Regulation (18 Apr 2012)

Joan Collins: Question 214: To ask the Minister for Finance with regard to the general question of bank licences necessary to operate in Ireland, the location at which copies of the licences and licence conditions under which each of our banks function are readily available; are the licence conditions governing foreign banks operating in Ireland different in any way to those of the so-called Irish banks;...

Written Answers — Banking Sector Regulation: Banking Sector Regulation (18 Apr 2012)

Joan Collins: Question 215: To ask the Minister for Finance with regard to the concept of fractional reserve banking, or fractional reserve lending, the criteria in relation to fractional reserve banking, if any, that apply to the banks in the context of their lending policies; are banks obliged to retain at least certain minima of retained deposits relative to their lending volumes, and if so, what are...

Written Answers — Banking Sector Regulation: Banking Sector Regulation (18 Apr 2012)

Joan Collins: Question 216: To ask the Minister for Finance with regard to mortgages and other loans advanced by banks, the mechanism by which banks extend loans and facilities to clients; the process by which banks raise the moneys they loan out and where that money comes from; if it is true to say that, typically, a bank seeks firstly to secure the written undertaking of a would-be borrower to repay a...

Written Answers — Banking Sector Regulation: Banking Sector Regulation (18 Apr 2012)

Joan Collins: Question 217: To ask the Minister for Finance in the context of disagreements between a borrower and a lending bank, and with regard to reasonable requests by borrowers to see the original documentation governing the alleged agreement between the borrower and the bank in such circumstances, is it reasonable that a borrower should be entitled as of right to see the original signed contract...

Written Answers — Banking Sector Regulation: Banking Sector Regulation (18 Apr 2012)

Joan Collins: Question 218: To ask the Minister for Finance in relation to the taking out of default insurance by banks, is it normal practice for a bank to take out default insurance on loans; is there a legal regulation or any other rule of enforcement stating that a bank must insure its loans against default; if yes, with whom is this insurance policy placed; is there any legal regulation for financial...

Written Answers — Banking Sector Regulation: Banking Sector Regulation (18 Apr 2012)

Joan Collins: Question 219: To ask the Minister for Finance in the context of borrower bank transactions, his view in relation to assertions by the borrower that, they should be entitled to a percentage of any profits arising from the bank making profitable dealings on the back of the sale of agreements to which they are a party; as taxpayers now own large percentages of various banks by virtue of very...

Written Answers — Bank Guarantee Scheme: Bank Guarantee Scheme (18 Apr 2012)

Joan Collins: Question 220: To ask the Minister for Finance the safeguards in place to prevent a possible conflict of interest in relation to the European Central Bank's insistence that the State pays off the Anglo-Irish bond-holders, in the context in which the names of the benefitting bond-holders are being denied to him and he cannot therefore guarantee that there is no relationship between the members...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (18 Apr 2012)

Joan Collins: Question 782: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide the timeline for the increase in mortgage interest supplement from last December's budget for loans between 2004 and 2008, to be passed on to holders of mortgages through Dublin City Council and other councils country wide. [17632/12]

Written Answers — Local Authority Complaints Procedure: Local Authority Complaints Procedure (18 Apr 2012)

Joan Collins: Question 819: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the number of written submissions, if any, he received from the County and City Managers Association in the period from the 1 of January 2011 to date in 2012; the date on which these submissions were received; the main matters covered in the submissions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18059/12]

Written Answers — Local Authority Funding: Local Authority Funding (18 Apr 2012)

Joan Collins: Question 864: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if it has been brought to his attention that Sligo County Council has had the highest overall deficit balance of all county and city councils in recent years (details supplied); if his attention has further been drawn to the fact that the members of Sligo County Council were informed at their monthly...

Written Answers — Local Government Agencies: Local Government Agencies (18 Apr 2012)

Joan Collins: Question 912: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if it has been brought to his attention that as part of the rationalisation of State agencies a decision was made in 2009 to merge the Local Government Management Services Board and the Local Government Computer Service Board into a single body, the Local Government Management Agency; if it has further been...

Written Answers — Local Government Agencies: Local Government Agencies (18 Apr 2012)

Joan Collins: Question 913: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if the Association of County and City Councils and the City and County Managers Association submit their respective annual audited accounts to his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19149/12]

Private Members' Business: Medical Treatment (Termination of Pregnancy in Case of Risk to Life of Pregnant Woman) Bill 2012: Second Stage (18 Apr 2012)

Joan Collins: I am very proud to be part of the introduction of this Bill put forward by the United Left Alliance and Deputy Mick Wallace, the Medical Treatment (Termination of Pregnancy in Case of Risk to Life of Pregnant Woman) Bill 2012. The Bill is very specific. It is based on the Supreme Court judgment in the X case. The girl was only 14 years of age at the time and is now a woman, somewhere in...

Mahon Tribunal Report: Statements (Resumed) (29 Mar 2012)

Joan Collins: The Mahon tribunal report is vast, running to more than 3,000 pages. The most telling quote is from the introduction. It refers to how throughout the late 1980s and 1990s corruption in Irish political life was both endemic and systematic. It affected every level of government from some of the holders of top ministerial office to local councillors and its existence was widely known and...

Written Answers — Local Authority Funding: Local Authority Funding (29 Mar 2012)

Joan Collins: Question 186: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if it has been brought to his attention that Sligo County Council has had the highest overall deficit balance of all county and city councils as outlined in their respective annual financial statements (details supplied); if it has been brought to his attention that the members of Sligo County Council were...

Leaders' Questions (29 Mar 2012)

Joan Collins: Take the medicine.

Leaders' Questions (29 Mar 2012)

Joan Collins: It is a poll tax.

Written Answers — Social Welfare Fraud: Social Welfare Fraud (27 Mar 2012)

Joan Collins: Question 326: To ask the Minister for Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 309 of 13 March 2012, the reason she finds it so hard to get the real figures for fraud into the public domain instead of control savings that this Deputy has pointed out are a minimum expected of any public system that pays out money; if she accepts that control savings and proven fraud are not the...