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Written Answers — National Debt: National Debt (1 May 2012)

Stephen Donnelly: Question 203: To ask the Minister for Finance if he accepts that compliance with the structural deficit rule, as stipulated in the Fiscal Compact, requires bringing the debt to GDP ratio to approximately 25%, as per the analysis provided found at a website (details supplied), and if not, the reason therefor; if not the debt to GDP ratio he believes that will meet the structural deficit rule;...

Written Answers — EU Treaties: EU Treaties (1 May 2012)

Stephen Donnelly: Question 212: To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No.100 of 18 April 2012, on the negotiations leading to the revised ESM Treaty, if he will elaborate on his statement that he had suggested that before creating any such link between the ESM and Stability Treaties that careful consideration be given to any possible market implications; if it is the case that he...

Written Answers — EU Treaties: EU Treaties (1 May 2012)

Stephen Donnelly: Question 213: To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No 100 of 18 April 2012, on the negotiations leading to the revised ESM Treaty if he will elaborate on his statement that the linkage between the ESM and Stability Treaty ratification was accepted in the interests of securing agreement on the ESM; if it is the case that he was agreeable to the linkage between the...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Code: Social Welfare Code (1 May 2012)

Stephen Donnelly: Question 353: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if the review of rent supplement limits in certain Wicklow towns has been concluded; the towns that were included in the review; the evidential findings of the review on the rent levels in each town; the outcome of the review for limits in each town; and if the limits have not been changed in any of the towns, the justification for...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Code: Social Welfare Code (1 May 2012)

Stephen Donnelly: Question 397: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the policy rationale behind the amendment to the Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2012 relating to entitlements to jobseekers' benefit for those on part-time employment; if, as is suggested in the Department of Social Protection Briefing note of 23 April (details supplied), this has been introduced on the basis of anecdotal evidence; if...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Code: Social Welfare Code (1 May 2012)

Stephen Donnelly: Question 398: To ask the Minister for Social Protection her estimate of the number of single parents who will no longer be entitled to one parent family allowance subsequent to the Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2012 that will take up employment as a result of the activation measures being introduced in the Bill; and if she will release any additional analysis conducted by her on the...

Written Answers — Banks Recapitalisation: Banks Recapitalisation (2 May 2012)

Stephen Donnelly: Question 35: To ask the Minister for Finance in respect of the Anglo promissory note announcement of 29 March 2012, the rationale for, and the detailed calculation of, the €30m adjustment which he referred to as a technical adjustment under the Government accounting rules in his responses to Parliamentary Questions on 18 April 2012. [22077/12]

Written Answers — EU Treaties: EU Treaties (2 May 2012)

Stephen Donnelly: Question 39: To ask the Minister for Finance with regard to the negotiations leading to the revised ESM treaty, if transcripts exist of the inter-Government meetings at which this was discussed; and if so, if he will release them, redacted as necessary to avoid breaching confidentiality obligations to other parties to the negotiations. [22244/12]

Written Answers — Motor Fuels: Motor Fuels (8 May 2012)

Stephen Donnelly: Question 137: To ask the Minister for Finance the justification for and operational details of the so called green diesel system; and if he will provide any analysis done by his Department on the viability of moving from this system to one offering rebates for agricultural fuel.; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22595/12]

Written Answers — Fiscal Policy: Fiscal Policy (10 May 2012)

Stephen Donnelly: Question 52: To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 198 and 199 of 1 May 2012, if he will confirm that he does not have estimates for the budgetary impact of meeting the structural deficit targets which are a key component of the Fiscal Compact Treaty; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23480/12]

Written Answers — Fiscal Policy: Fiscal Policy (10 May 2012)

Stephen Donnelly: Question 53: To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 202 of 2 May 2012, if he will provide the detail backing up the decision to apply a debt to GDP ratio of 60% for example, economic papers, quantitative analysis, empirical evidence; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23481/12]

Written Answers — Fiscal Policy: Fiscal Policy (10 May 2012)

Stephen Donnelly: Question 55: To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 168 of 1 May 2012, regarding whether or not Ireland has an effective veto over the European Stability Mechanism Treaty due to the fact that Ireland has to ratify the amendment to Article 136 of the treaty, if he will confirm whether or not Ireland has a veto on Article 136; if he will explain if Ireland does...

Written Answers — European Globalisation Adjustment Fund: European Globalisation Adjustment Fund (10 May 2012)

Stephen Donnelly: Question 71: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will explain the nature and scope of the system in place to track emerging redundancies in the banking sector since the European Globalisation Fund became operational in 2007; the number of such redundancies that emerged as a consequence in each year to date; and the job types and other characteristics of the redundant...

Written Answers — European Globalisation Adjustment Fund: European Globalisation Adjustment Fund (10 May 2012)

Stephen Donnelly: Question 72: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the way he satisfied himself that between 2009 and 2011 a threshold of 500 redundancies within a period of nine months was never reached across the totality of the Irish banking sector; if he will elaborate on the circumstances in which redundant bank workers have failed to benefit from the widening of conditions governing support...

Written Answers — European Globalisation Adjustment Fund: European Globalisation Adjustment Fund (10 May 2012)

Stephen Donnelly: Question 73: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to the fact that eligibility conditions that would otherwise apply to support from the €500 million annual budget of the European Globalisation Fund can be substituted to allow for the funding of programmes for redundant workers in small labour markets, in circumstances that are exceptional or where...

Written Answers — Palliative Care Services: Palliative Care Services (16 May 2012)

Stephen Donnelly: Question 42: To ask the Minister for Health the current state of reforms to palliative care services; if he will explain the discrepancy between the provision and funding of palliative care services in counties in which good practice is followed, such as Limerick, and counties such as Wicklow, in which palliative care services are inadequate; his plans and targets for equalising service...

Written Answers — National Debt: National Debt (22 May 2012)

Stephen Donnelly: Question 223: To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No 203 of 1 May 2012 regarding analysis showing that compliance with the structural deficit target as set out in the Fiscal Compact Treaty would require an equilibrium debt to GDP ratio of, say 20 to 25% for nominal growth rates of 5% and 4% respectively in this case, his views on the analysis rather than the...

Written Answers — Departmental Staff: Departmental Staff (22 May 2012)

Stephen Donnelly: Question 232: To ask the Minister for Finance the details of the academic qualifications and relevant training of the officials that were responsible for negotiating the Irish programme with the Troika; their rank in the Civil Service; if any external consultants or advisors were employed for these negotiations; and the qualifications of same. [25397/12]

Written Answers — Fiscal Compact Treaty: Fiscal Compact Treaty (22 May 2012)

Stephen Donnelly: Question 243: To ask the Minister for Finance the basis on which the interest rate on any lending from the European Stability Mechanism will be calculated pursuant to Article 20 of the ESM Treaty; the reason the Treaty no longer contains explicit figures for the cost of funds, when these had been specified in the July 2011 version of the Treaty; if he sought at any stage to have a specified...

Written Answers — Fiscal Compact Treaty: Fiscal Compact Treaty (22 May 2012)

Stephen Donnelly: Question 244: To ask the Minister for Finance with regard to the European Stability Mechanism and the interest rate it will charge on any lending, his views that the interest rate will be set in order to be an effective deterrent to members from borrowing from the ESM; if he will provide an outline of the expected financing costs of the ESM, as may have been supplied to him in the course of...