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Written Answers — Tax Collection: Tax Collection (16 Sep 2009)

Brian Lenihan Jnr: I am informed by the Revenue Commissioners that statistics are not maintained in a manner which can identify Revenue compliance interventions or activities specific to one-off house building sites or extensions. Revenue maintains statistics on its activities in the construction industry as a whole, and has completed 1,794 audits in the industry to end August 2009, recovering €62m in taxes,...

Written Answers — Financial Services Regulation: Financial Services Regulation (16 Sep 2009)

Brian Lenihan Jnr: My role as Minister for Finance with respect to financial regulation is to bring forward legislative proposals to the Oireachtas for the regulation and supervision of the financial services sector. That statutory legislative framework places responsibility for the day-to-day supervision of financial institutions with the Financial Regulator. The Regulator is statutorily independent in the...

Written Answers — Tax Code: Tax Code (16 Sep 2009)

Brian Lenihan Jnr: The position in relation to Child Benefit is as set out in my Supplementary Budget on 7 April 2009. My Department, together with the Department of Social and Family Affairs and the Revenue Commissioners are considering the matter.

Written Answers — Customs Service: Customs Service (16 Sep 2009)

Brian Lenihan Jnr: I have been informed by the Revenue Commissioners that sea trials are due to commence next week at the shipyard in Finland, where the second Revenue Cutter was built. Following those trials and any necessary changes to the vessel, shipyard personnel are due to deliver the cutter to Ireland for handover to Revenue Customs in the last week of September. The actual delivery date is dependent on...

Written Answers — Customs Service: Customs Service (16 Sep 2009)

Brian Lenihan Jnr: I am informed by the Revenue Commissioners that the container scanner project remains on target for the new scanner to be deployed by the end of this year. The procurement process is at an advanced stage, Revenue having signed the contract and agreed the manufacturing and factory-acceptance testing schedule with the supplier.

Written Answers — Customs Service: Customs Service (16 Sep 2009)

Brian Lenihan Jnr: I am advised by the Revenue Commissioners that the table below sets out the number of customs checks at the airports/aerodromes that have flights into and out of the State, on either a scheduled or an on-going basis. The type of customs checks implemented vary significantly, depending on the type and origin of traffic and the level of risk in each case. Some other aerodromes do have...

Written Answers — Customs Service: Customs Service (16 Sep 2009)

Brian Lenihan Jnr: I am advised by the Revenue Commissioners that there are currently 12 detector dog teams in Revenue's Customs Service. The teams are deployed in the Revenue Regions as follows: Dublin Region – 5 detector dog teams South West Region – 3 detector dog teams East & South East Region – 3 detector dog teams Border Midlands West Region – 1 detector dog team A further team is in training and...

Written Answers — Financial Institutions Support Scheme: Financial Institutions Support Scheme (16 Sep 2009)

Brian Lenihan Jnr: Section 22 of the Anglo Irish Bank Corporation Act 2009 provides that I shall appoint an Assessor at an appropriate time having regard to the public interest, to determine the fair and reasonable aggregate value of the transferred shares and extinguished rights and the consequent amount of compensation, if any, that may be payable to persons in respect of Anglo shares transferred and rights...

Written Answers — Departmental Expenditure: Departmental Expenditure (16 Sep 2009)

Brian Lenihan Jnr: The following table sets out the amounts spent by my Department and the offices under its aegis on advertising and promotions for each of the years 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008 and to date in 2009. 2004â'¬ 2005â'¬ 2006â'¬ 2007â'¬ 2008â'¬ Year to date 2009â'¬ Office of the Appeals Commissioner 0 0 0 0 0 0 Office of the Commission for Public Service Appointments 29,692 70,436...

Written Answers — Departmental Programmes: Departmental Programmes (16 Sep 2009)

Brian Lenihan Jnr: There is no discernible cost to this Department's vote in administering the cycle to work scheme. The bicycles and equipment are paid for by way of salary sacrifice by those acquiring the bicycles. There would be minor costs in processing forms and in carrying the up-front costs until such time as those are offset by the gradual deductions from salary. Neither of these is quantifiable. The...

National Asset Management Agency Bill 2009: Second Stage (16 Sep 2009)

Brian Lenihan Jnr: There were no bankers present at that stage.

National Asset Management Agency Bill 2009: Second Stage (16 Sep 2009)

Brian Lenihan Jnr: Not necessarily.

National Asset Management Agency Bill 2009: Second Stage (16 Sep 2009)

Brian Lenihan Jnr: Is the Deputy referring to the main bonds or subordinated bonds?

National Asset Management Agency Bill 2009: Second Stage (16 Sep 2009)

Brian Lenihan Jnr: Both.

Leaders' Questions (16 Sep 2009)

Brian Lenihan Jnr: The Deputy did not have the courtesy to reply.

National Asset Management Agency Bill 2009: Second Stage (16 Sep 2009)

Brian Lenihan Jnr: I move: "That the Bill be now read a Second Time."

National Asset Management Agency Bill 2009: Second Stage (16 Sep 2009)

Brian Lenihan Jnr: My speech is being circulated, along with an information pack of supplementary documentation that I have made available to the Deputies. In the history of this State, few subjects have been debated more intensively and more passionately than the Government's proposal to establish a National Asset Management Agency. Since I published the draft legislation on 30 July last, there has been a...

National Asset Management Agency Bill 2009: Second Stage (16 Sep 2009)

Brian Lenihan Jnr: They are also angry with the Government. Many of them have asked why we are putting money into the banks while they endure the brunt of the difficult budgetary decisions we needed to take. It is unfortunate that there has been a breakdown of trust in the entire banking system, but the public knows we need the banks. People understand that we cannot have economic recovery unless we fix our...

National Asset Management Agency Bill 2009: Second Stage (16 Sep 2009)

Brian Lenihan Jnr: In return, the Government expects the banks to play more than their part in the economic recovery of the State by providing appropriate risk adjusted credit to businesses, so they can protect and create jobs. Our citizens deserve nothing less. The Bill before the House today has been drawn up on the basis of the expert advice and counsel available to the Government from the National...

National Asset Management Agency Bill 2009: Second Stage (16 Sep 2009)

Brian Lenihan Jnr: Everything we do must and will be done in accordance with EU state aid rules. This Bill is the centrepiece of the Government's plan to resolve the problems that have beset our financial and credit system. Before I deal with the details of how NAMA will work, I will set out the context in which the decision to establish the agency was taken. Just under a year ago, the banks in this country...