Written answers
Tuesday, 13 November 2012
- New Economy and Recovery Authority
To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to introduce legislation to place New ERA on a statutory footing. [49418/12] - Banking Sector Remuneration
To ask the Minister for Finance if public servant pension abatement rules are being applied to Public Interest Directors appointed by the Government to Irish Bank Resolution Corporation,... - Credit Availability
To ask the Minister for Finance the support available for Irish small businesses from the banks; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49578/12] - Banking Sector Remuneration
To ask the Minister for Finance the action that can be taken to curtail pensions paid to some of the former top managers in the covered banks; the way these pensions are funded; if he will assure... - Pension Provisions
To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 207 of 16 October 2012, if legislation or new procedures are in place to ensure adequate monitoring and early action by the... - Financial Services Regulation
To ask the Minister for Finance if following media coverage (details supplied) of the activities of debt management companies, legislation to control same or bring such companies under Central... - Pension Provisions
To ask the Minister for Finance the number of persons in receipt of pensions from the Irish Bank Resolution Corporation which are in excess of €100,000; the names of those who are in... - Mortgage Interest Relief
To ask the Minister for Finance the extra cost to the Exchequer in income forgone of granting 30% and 35% mortgage interest relief TRS to all householders who purchased house between 1 January... - Negative Equity Mortgages
To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to promote the incentive involving negative equity mortgages offered by Bank of Ireland and other banks whereby, a home owner could sell their house and... - Mortgage Resolution Processes
To ask the Minister for Finance the reason Permanent TSB are not offering the mortgage arrears solutions set out in the Government's Personal Insolvency initiative, that is, mortgage to rent... - Banking Sector Remuneration
To ask the Minister for Finance in respect of Allied Irish Bank, if he will provide a listing of the public interest directors appointed to that bank since 2008; the total remuneration paid to... - Public Interest Directors
To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide in detail the responsibilities of public interest directors in the formerly six covered financial institutions and to contrast those... - Banking Sector Remuneration
To ask the Minister for Finance in respect of Irish Life and Permanent if he will provide a listing of the public interest directors appointed to that bank since 2008; the total remuneration paid... - European Stability Mechanism
To ask the Minister for Finance in respect of the €509,504,000 contribution paid by the State to the European Stability Mechanism in October 2012, the interest rate and expected date of... - Economic Statistics
To ask the Minister for Finance his latest estimate of nominal Gross Domestic Product in 2012. [49485/12] - Pension Provisions
To ask the Minister for Finance in respect of the €1.1billion top-up made by Allied Irish Banks to that Bank’s group pension scheme in August 2012, set out the contact or contacts... - Financial Services Sector Remuneration
To ask the Minister for Finance in respect of the following financial institutions, Allied Irish Banks, Anglo Irish Bank, Irish Nationwide Building Society, Irish Bank Resolution Corporation,... - Succession Act 1965
To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide a list detailing the property vested in the State since 8 March 2011 pursuant to section 73 of the Succession Act 1965, showing the name of the... - Financial Services Sector Remuneration
To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide in tabular form, with respect to the Permanent TSB, the number of the staff whose annual salary at 31 December 2011 fell in the following bands... - Banking Sector Remuneration
To ask the Minister for Finance if he has contacted Irish Life, a company wholly owned by him, requesting staff whose annual salary is in excess of €200,000 to waive 15% of their salary or... - Mortgage Interest Relief
To ask the Minister for Finance if he will consider extending for a year the mortgage relief measures announced in Budget 2012 in view of the fact that we are only just starting to see the... - Tax Code
To ask the Minister for Finance if he will consider in the upcoming budget the case of buy to let landlords in circumstances where the formula used to subtract losses from 25% of interest paid to... - Bank Debt Restructuring
To ask the Minister for Finance if he will publish a schedule identifying all those financial institutions that have ultimate recourse to the German sovereign exchequer in the event of default... - Banking Operations
To ask the Minister for Finance the measures he and the Irish Bank Resolution Corporation are taking to recover overseas property that was formerly in the name of the Quinn Group; and if he will... - Budget 2013
To ask the Minister for Finance if Budget 2013 will require more cuts and taxes as growth rates have been reduced by his Department for next year; and if he will make a statement on the matter.... - Tax Collection
To ask the Minister for Finance the number of tax cases in the following bands (details supplied) that are composed of individual earners as opposed to couples. [49623/12] - National Asset Management Agency
To ask the Minister for Finance the fees that are paid to companies who provide property valuations for the National Asset Management Agency; the fees for this service that were paid in each of... - Irish Bank Resolution Corporation
To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide a breakdown of the legal fees incurred by the Irish Bank Resolution Corporation in each year since its establishment. [49631/12] - Departmental Agencies
To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide in tabular form the amount currently being spent on, or budgeted for by State agencies under his remit for spending, on the areas of... - Fuel Trader's Licence
To ask the Minister for Finance the consultation that has taken place between Revenue and fuel retailers relevant to the fees charged and the new regulations in respect of a fuel traders licence;... - Liquor Licences
To ask the Minister for Finance the number of licensed premises in the State; the number of pubs and the turnover breakdown of these pubs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49741/12] - Tax Code
To ask the Minister for Finance if he has given any consideration to the introduction of a levy on alcohol products which are sold unopened; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49783/12] - Financial Services Regulation
To ask the Minister for Finance if the rule of 78 method of calculating interest regulated is banned here for hire purchase or leasing agreements, loans or mortgages; if he will specify where it... - Irish Bank Resolution Corporation
To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 135 on 23 October 2012, if he will confirm if the awarding of the loan sale advisory contract to UBS by Irish Bank Resolution... - Banks Recapitalisation
To ask the Minister for Finance if he will confirm the total nominal amount in euro of Anglo Irish Bank subordinated bonds that were governed by English Law that were subsequently subjected to a... - Sovereign Debt
To ask the Minister for Finance if he will detail the total nominal amount in euro of Irish Government bonds which are governed by English Law; and if he will make a statement on the matter.... - Banks Recapitalisation
To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 132 of 6 March 2012, if he will detail the total amount of interest paid on the subordinated bonds held by Fir Tree Capital... - Tax Reliefs
To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 268 of 6 November 2012, if he will outline the ongoing costs on the Exchequer in terms of tax foregone as a result of legacy... - State Banking Sector
To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 51 of 24 October 2012, if he will provide a breakdown in tabular form of fees paid to each of the public interest directors... - Motor Taxation
To ask the Minister for Finance with reference to the Treaty of Rome, Chapter 1 The Customs Union Article 25 (ex Article 12), his views on the Vehicle Registration Tax (Permanent Reliefs)... - Illicit Trade in Tobacco
To ask the Minister for Finance the work being carried out by the Revenue Commissioners to combat the sale of illicit cigarettes here; if he will compare the quantities of seizures of cigarettes... - Universal Social Charge
To ask the Minister for Finance in the Budget 2013, if he plans any changes to the Universal Social Charge for Deeds of Covenant as it relates to permanently incapacitated minors, in order to... - Social Insurance Refunds
To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 58 of 6 June 2012 and No. 234 of 18 September 2012 when a PRSI refund will be paid to a person (details supplied) in Dublin... - Mortgage Arrears
To ask the Minister for Finance the number of mortgage holders that are repaying mortgages across all of the banks operating here at more than 35% of their net income; and the total value of... - Public Sector Staff
To ask the Minister for Finance if he will outline the opportunities that persons in lower grades of the Public Service have been afforded ion contributing to the reforms of the public service as... - Pension Provisions
To ask the Minister for Finance how well funded all semi-State company pension schemes are; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50655/12]
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