Written answers
Wednesday, 3 February 2010
- Financial Institutions Support Scheme
Question 95: To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to any recent interest from foreign investors in taking strategic or controlling stakes in any of the credit... - National Asset Management Agency
Question 96: To ask the Minister for Finance if he has instructed, or will instruct, the National Asset Management Agency board of directors to prepare a new, realistic and updated business plan... - Departmental Staff
Question 98: To ask the Minister for Finance if applicants from outside the public sector are considered for the filling of top posts in his Department. [5257/10] - Judicial Remuneration
Question 99: To ask the Minister for Finance the salaries which would be payable to members of the Judiciary if the legislation enacted to provide for the public sector pension deductions and... - Banking Sector Recapitalisation
Question 100: To ask the Minister for Finance if he has met with the board of Anglo Irish Bank regarding options for the development of the bank. [5195/10] - National Asset Management Agency
Question 101: To ask the Minister for Finance if he has been approached by interested parties with respect to taking shareholdings in the National Asset Management Agency special purpose... - Financial Institutions Support Scheme
Question 102: To ask the Minister for Finance the progress made to date with the putative merger of building societies (details supplied); the amount of financial support he expects the... - Banking Sector Regulation
Question 103: To ask the Minister for Finance the position regarding the establishment and operations of the credit review system on business lending, announced in budget 2010; and if he will... - Banking Sector Recapitalisation
Question 104: To ask the Minister for Finance if and when he will convert the State's preference shareholdings, through the National Pension Reserve Fund, in banks (details supplied) into... - Public Service Remuneration
Question 105: To ask the Minister for Finance if he is satisfied that bonus pay linked to performances of public service managers should be regarded as part of core pay. [5251/10] - Capital Expenditure
Question 106: To ask the Minister for Finance his views on new sources of funding for infrastructural development; and his further views on disposing of certain State assets to provide seed... - Commissions of Inquiry
Question 107: To ask the Minister for Finance if the proposed banking inquiry will have any constraints on its investigations and the publication of findings; and if he will make a statement on... - Banking Sector Recapitalisation
Question 108: To ask the Minister for Finance his views on whether Anglo Irish Bank is an appropriate vehicle for expanding small medium enterprise lending; and if he will make a statement on... - Financial Services Sector
Question 109: To ask the Minister for Finance the principles that will underlie his legislative proposals to deal with distressed financial institutions; and if he will make a statement on the... - Tax Yield
Question 110: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will make a statement on the December 2009 Exchequer returns. [5309/10] - Capital Expenditure
Question 111: To ask the Minister for Finance the details of the national solidarity bond, announced in budget 2010; if the intention is to ring-fence all money borrowed through this mechanism... - Banking Sector Regulation
Question 112: To ask the Minister for Finance his views on whether changes in bank legislation are warranted. [5261/10] - Mortgage Debt
Question 113: To ask the Minister for Finance the number of meetings which have taken place to date on the issue of developing policy on mortgage arrears and home repossessions; and if he will... - Banking Sector Regulation
Question 114: To ask the Minister for Finance if he has had discussions with the European Commission regarding the future structure of the banking sector here in view of State aid decisions and... - Price Inflation
Question 115: To ask the Minister for Finance his views on the fact that price inflation continued during 2009 in the sub-indices of education and miscellaneous goods and services at a time when... - Fiscal Policy
Question 116: To ask the Minister for Finance his forecast for net migration patterns here for 2010 and 2011; the way he expects these patterns to impact on tax revenues, welfare payments,... - National Asset Management Agency
Question 117: To ask the Minister for Finance if he envisages any changes in the operation of the National Asset Management Agency in the context of EU approval; and if he will make a statement... - Financial Institutions Support Scheme
Question 118: To ask the Minister for Finance the progress that is being made with respect to the viability and business plans for the credit institutions covered by the bank guarantee submitted... - Banking Sector Recapitalisation
Question 119: To ask the Minister for Finance the way he plans to fund a recapitalisation programme for the banks during 2010. [5217/10] - Services for People with Disabilities
Question 120: To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 115 of 13 May 2009, the amount allocated and expended each year over the period 2006 to 2009 under the... - National Asset Management Agency
Question 121: To ask the Minister for Finance if he has had cause to revise any of the assumptions made in the draft National Asset Management Agency business plan, particularly with respect to... - Financial Services Regulation
Question 122: To ask the Minister for Finance his views on whether any of the events or actions of parties involved in the collapse of the banking and property sector, which occurred since... - Pension Provisions
Question 123: To ask the Minister for Finance his projections for the level of funding in the National Pension Reserve Fund over the next three years; if he will continue to divert funding from... - Financial Institutions Support Scheme
Question 127: To ask the Minister for Finance the way he expects the losses and loss provisions on the mortgage loan books of the credit institutions covered by the bank guarantee to evolve over... - EU Funding
Question 129: To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 103 to 106 of 1 December 2009, the progress made in making the funding available in order that the INTERREG... - Public Service Contracts
Question 130: To ask the Minister for Finance if, in the interest of value for money for the taxpayer, he will alter the pre-qualification criteria in respect of tendering for public projects in... - Public Sector Pay
Question 131: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will impose pay cuts on employees of commercial semi-State bodies and agencies during 2010; and if he will make a statement on the matter.... - National Asset Management Agency
Question 132: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will confirm comments (details supplied) that the National Asset Management Agency will rent properties for the purpose of social housing with... - Insurance Industry
Question 134: To ask the Minister for Finance the extent to which he monitors developments in the insurance industry with particular reference to the level of premium increases in the past 12... - Flood Relief
Question 135: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide funding for a relocation grant to families severely affected by the recent flooding; and if he will make a statement on the... - Fiscal Policy
Question 136: To ask the Minister for Finance if he has adopted a set of measures drawn from the Special Group on Public Service Numbers and Expenditure Programmes Report; the level of savings... - Flood Relief
Question 137: To ask the Minister for Finance if he has sought funds under the European Union Solidarity Fund for victims of the recent flooding; if he has secured such funding; if he has sought... - Tax Code
Question 138: To ask the Minister for Finance if he has any plans to adjust the stamp duty regime to take account of the drop in house prices and the collapse in the property market. [5104/10] - National Asset Management Agency
Question 139: To ask the Minister for Finance if the average discount to be paid on assets transferred to the National Asset Management Agency is expected to be less than the 30% initially... - Tax Code
Question 140: To ask the Minister for Finance if he has any plans to reform the criteria relating to the artists' tax exemption; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5334/10] - Departmental Agencies
Question 141: To ask the Minister for Finance the position regarding the proposed merger of the Competition Authority, the National Consumer Agency and the consumer protection function of the... - National Asset Management Agency
Question 142: To ask the Minister for Finance the month on month percentage transfer of toxic properties to National Asset Management Agency envisioned over the next six months. [5101/10] - Banking Sector
Question 143: To ask the Minister for Finance the role he sees for Anglo Irish Bank in the future of Irish banking. [5098/10] - Tax Yield
Question 145: To ask the Minister for Finance the further details on measures announced in budget 2010 with respect to the treatment of non-residents for tax purposes; the revenue he expects... - Banking Sector
Question 148: To ask the Minister for Finance his views on the oft quoted assertion that the collapse of the economy was in some way attributable to low interest rates which were dictated by the... - Price Inflation
Question 149: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will make a statement on the 2009 outturn for both consumer pricing index and harmonised index of companies' prices measures of inflation; his... - Banking Sector Regulation
Question 150: To ask the Minister for Finance the cost of nationalising Anglo Irish bank to date in 2010; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5097/10] - Capital Expenditure
Question 151: To ask the Minister for Finance the details of the 2009 to 2014 capital expenditure programme envisaged in the latest stability programme update, published alongside budget 2010;... - Cross-Border Trade
Question 152: To ask the Minister for Finance if an estimate has been carried out by his Department into the amount of VAT and excise duty lost through cross-Border shopping; if he is satisfied... - Banking Sector Recapitalisation
Question 153: To ask the Minister for Finance the impact on the general Government balance of the refusal by the European Commission to approve the payment of interest dividend on the preference... - Banking Sector Regulation
Question 154: To ask the Minister for Finance his views on the viability of a banking division at a bank (details supplied) as an independent going concern in view of its unsustainable loans to... - Tax Code
Question 155: To ask the Minister for Finance the parameters of the revised arrangements for the artists' tax exemption as outlined in his recent budgetary statement; and if he will make a... - Credit Availability
Question 156: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will make a statement on the current small and medium enterprises lending environment; the proposals he has planned which would ameliorate... - National Asset Management Agency
Question 158: To ask the Minister for Finance if he envisions the National Asset Management Agency receiving some form of income from the State for the purposes of the provision of social... - Flood Relief
Question 159: To ask the Minister for Finance the steps he is taking to address the River Shannon catchment flooding; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5047/10] - Public Sector Remuneration
Question 161: To ask the Minister for Finance if the Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (No. 2) Act 2009 will impact on any employees, such as employees at Health Service... - Financial Services Regulation
Question 162: To ask the Minister for Finance his views on the creation of a European systemic risk board; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46848/09]
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