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- Written Answers — Department of Finance: Property Taxation Yield (1 Oct 2013)
Eoghan Murphy: 187. To ask the Minister for Finance the amount of property tax that has been raised this year and the anticipated amount to be raised in a full year, broken down by electoral constituency and by local authority. [40464/13]
- Written Answers — Department of Finance: Banking Sector Issues (1 Oct 2013)
Eoghan Murphy: 188. To ask the Minister for Finance if he has any concerns regarding the operation of certain foreign banks here (details supplied). [40465/13]
- Written Answers — Department of Finance: Universal Social Charge Application (1 Oct 2013)
Eoghan Murphy: 206. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on a matter regarding universal social charge rates for those over 70 years of age (details supplied). [40850/13]
- Written Answers — Department of Finance: VAT Rate Reductions (1 Oct 2013)
Eoghan Murphy: 214. To ask the Minister for Finance if calculations of the cost of the 9% VAT reduction to the Exchequer at circa €350 million each year takes into account increased activity in the relevant sectors and the financial benefit to the economy in that same year, including not just money spent in these areas but revenue generated and also jobs created and the Exchequer benefit of this....
- Public Accounts Committee: Annual Report and Financial Statements 2012: Discussion with National Asset Management Agency (26 Sep 2013)
Eoghan Murphy: Is this an example of the State getting involved in a market that it controls because it controls the product it is selling?
- Public Accounts Committee: Annual Report and Financial Statements 2012: Discussion with National Asset Management Agency (26 Sep 2013)
Eoghan Murphy: We have had this previously with another agency which had a mandate to perform a role in a particular part of Dublin. It decided to get involved in providing financing and acquiring loans and it worked out poorly for us. NAMA is dealing with the legacy of that.
- Public Accounts Committee: Annual Report and Financial Statements 2012: Discussion with National Asset Management Agency (26 Sep 2013)
Eoghan Murphy: NAMA is a commercial operation but the risk falls on the State. The agency provides vendor financing to bring other people to the table but it has only brought itself to the table. Mr. Daly referred to a rigorous process but we cannot see that.
- Public Accounts Committee: Annual Report and Financial Statements 2012: Discussion with National Asset Management Agency (26 Sep 2013)
Eoghan Murphy: I am sure. Mr. McDonagh when referring to salaries and retention of expertise in his opening statement was giving a warning in a sense in the context of the commentary in the past about a soft landing and the questions about why we were not warned. When we look back at another area in which a State agency made a big mistake, we see all the meetings were held, different discussions and papers...
- Public Accounts Committee: Annual Report and Financial Statements 2012: Discussion with National Asset Management Agency (26 Sep 2013)
Eoghan Murphy: Can I take it that it had an involvement before 2013 not only in setting the schedule but how that schedule was met?
- Public Accounts Committee: Annual Report and Financial Statements 2012: Discussion with National Asset Management Agency (26 Sep 2013)
Eoghan Murphy: Was it dictating the sale, say, of overseas assets ahead of Irish assets?
- Public Accounts Committee: Annual Report and Financial Statements 2012: Discussion with National Asset Management Agency (26 Sep 2013)
Eoghan Murphy: Was it directing the board in any way?
- Public Accounts Committee: Annual Report and Financial Statements 2012: Discussion with National Asset Management Agency (26 Sep 2013)
Eoghan Murphy: Not at all?
- Public Accounts Committee: Annual Report and Financial Statements 2012: Discussion with National Asset Management Agency (26 Sep 2013)
Eoghan Murphy: So it reserves the right to try to direct the board but has not done so.
- Public Accounts Committee: Annual Report and Financial Statements 2012: Discussion with National Asset Management Agency (26 Sep 2013)
Eoghan Murphy: On the 25% we will see repaid at the end of this year, did directions come from the Minister to the board?
- Public Accounts Committee: Annual Report and Financial Statements 2012: Discussion with National Asset Management Agency (26 Sep 2013)
Eoghan Murphy: Has the Minister had to redirect the board as to how that gets-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Annual Report and Financial Statements 2012: Discussion with National Asset Management Agency (26 Sep 2013)
Eoghan Murphy: Mr. McDonagh meets the troika every quarter.
- Public Accounts Committee: Annual Report and Financial Statements 2012: Discussion with National Asset Management Agency (26 Sep 2013)
Eoghan Murphy: Is that to update it?
- Public Accounts Committee: Annual Report and Financial Statements 2012: Discussion with National Asset Management Agency (26 Sep 2013)
Eoghan Murphy: Does the troika try to impose its will in any way?
- Public Accounts Committee: Annual Report and Financial Statements 2012: Discussion with National Asset Management Agency (26 Sep 2013)
Eoghan Murphy: I would like to ask some questions on the process in terms of NAMA's operations. How does NAMA market its properties or loan books to potential investors, who may be overseas?
- Public Accounts Committee: Annual Report and Financial Statements 2012: Discussion with National Asset Management Agency (26 Sep 2013)
Eoghan Murphy: Would foreign banks or funds approach NAMA directly without an agent being involved?