Written answers

Wednesday, 5 October 2011

  • Licensed Moneylenders
    Question 12: To ask the Minister for Finance if he is concerned with the reports that legal moneylenders are now going door to door seeking custom; and his plans to regulate this behaviour and...
  • Budget Submissions
    Question 13: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will publish a gender audit of budget 2012 when he presents the budget proposals to Dáil Éireann in December 2011; and if he will make a...
  • Fiscal Policy
    Question 14: To ask the Minister for Finance his position on the introduction of euro bonds and greater fiscal integration among the eurozone member states following recent comments by European...
  • Credit Availability
    Question 15: To ask the Minister for Finance the position regarding his review of access to finance for small and medium-sized enterprises; and if the findings of the review will be made public....
  • Departmental Reports
    Question 16: To ask the Minister for Finance the reason he has not published the reports by McCann Fitzgerald and Ernst & Young into legacy issues at Irish Nationwide Building Society and his...
  • Tax Code
    Question 17: To ask the Minister for Finance his views on whether the programme for Government commitment to maintain current rates of income tax together with bands and credits will be adhered...
  • Credit Union Regulation
    Question 18: To ask the Minister for Finance if he views credit unions in the same way as he sees banks; and if they require a similar or different form of regulation. [27656/11]
  • Tax Code
    Question 21: To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to reduce the current €250 threshold for qualifying for tax relief on charitable donations; and if he will make a statement on the...
  • Tax Reliefs
    Question 22: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will consider publishing an annual list of all tax expenditure; and their cost to the State in advance of Budget 2012. [27676/11]
  • Fiscal Policy
    Question 23: To ask the Minister for Finance the extent to which the Central Bank of Ireland here, through the European Central Bank, influenced this country's and EU lending and borrowing...
  • Banking Sector Remuneration
    Question 24: To ask the Minister for Finance the number of the persons employed in the 50 most senior positions in Anglo Irish Bank pre-nationalisation that are currently still employed by Anglo...
  • Banks Recapitalisation
    Question 25: To ask the Minister for Finance his view or the view of the capacity of the covered institutions to absorb losses from domestic mortgages without requiring further capitalisation....
  • Banking Sector Remuneration
    Question 26: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will give a clear commitment that there will be no consideration of lifting the cap of €500,000 on bankers' pay; and if he will make a...
  • European Investment Bank
    Question 29: To ask the Minister for Finance if he or any other Government Department has applied for funding to the European Investment Bank to part fund major capital intensive infrastructure...
  • Universal Social Charge
    Question 30: To ask the Minister for Finance if he has completed the review of the universal social charge as committed to in the programme for Government; the outcome of this review; if he will...
  • Mortgage Arrears
    Question 31: To ask the Minister for Finance the steps which he is taking to deal with mortgage arrears; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27387/11]
  • EU-IMF Programme
    Question 32: To ask the Minister for Finance his views on whether the targets contained in the EU-IMF support programme for Ireland need to be adjusted downwards in view of the downward...
  • Tax Yield
    Question 34: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide an accurate figure of the total number of non-life insurance policyholders to which the new insurance compensation fund levy of 2%...
  • Credit Availability
    Question 35: To ask the Minister for Finance the extent to which he or his Department, directly or through the Central Bank of Ireland, has monitored the borrowing requirements of the business...
  • Personal Debt
    Question 36: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide figures on household debt as a percentage of household income for the years 2010 and 2011 broken down by quarter. [27662/11]
  • Public Service Pay
    Question 37: To ask the Minister for Finance if he has considered imposing a large additional universal social charge on the bonuses being paid to some senior public servants such as top civil...
  • Fiscal Policy
    Question 38: To ask the Minister for Finance if he is preparing any contingency plans to deal with the possibility of the State being unable to re-enter the financial markets at the end of 2013...
  • EU Funding
    Question 39: To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated cost to the State arising from any commitments contained in the European Stability Mechanism. [27665/11]
  • Global Economic Forecasts
    Question 43: To ask the Minister for Finance his response to the IMF's World Economic Outlook report and the UNCTAD report in terms of austerity; if he has read these reports; the impact their...
  • Mortgage Arrears
    Question 45: To ask the Minister for Finance the position regarding his programme for Government commitments on tackling mortgage distress including increasing mortgage interest relief to 30%...
  • Rent Reviews
    Question 46: To ask the Minister for Finance if he has made a submission to the Department of Justice and Equality on the issue of upward only rent reviews and the impact this would have on the...
  • Pension Provisions
    Question 48: To ask the Minister for Finance if the EU-IMF programme requirement to reduce private pension tax reliefs will be adhered to in budget 2012 and, if so, if he will provide details of...
  • Tax Code
    Question 49: To ask the Minister for Finance when he will issue a commencement order to give effect to the legislative basis included in Finance Act 2001 for restricting the use of legacy...
  • Banking Sector Regulation
    Question 50: To ask the Minister for Finance the steps he has taken in directing mortgage providers in receipt of State support to cut their costs, over and above existing plans, in a fair...
  • Financial Services Regulation
    Question 51: To ask the Minister for Finance his plans for the regulation of home budgeting services including the form such regulation will take and the estimated date when the necessary...

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