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Tue, 16 Jul 2013
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Banking Licence Applications
Pearse Doherty
219. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance if AIB is in full compliance with its banking licence requirements with the Central Bank and European Central Bank. [34268/13]
Tue, 16 Jul 2013
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Banking Sector Issues
Pearse Doherty
220. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance if he will list the consultant fees accumulated by AIB in 2011 and 2012; if the bulk of these fees were paid to a company (details supplied); and if he is satisfied with the tendering process which was run by the bank. [34298/13]
Tue, 16 Jul 2013
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IBRC Investigations
Pearse Doherty
221. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance further to the statement made by former public interest director at Anglo Irish Bank, Mr. Alan Dukes, that decisions about evidence to be given to investigations into the banks were made at board meetings and that minutes from those meetings were made available to his Department and the Central Bank, if he will state, categorically, that those minutes did not contain references to recorded telephone conversations of bank employees; if he will also confirm whether members of his Department read the minutes of the bank's meetings; and if he is satisfied to stand by his statement that his Department was unaware of the tapes made at Anglo Irish Bank. [34299/13]
Tue, 16 Jul 2013
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IBRC Investigations
Pearse Doherty
222. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance if he is satisfied with the admission from the former public interest director at Anglo Irish Bank, Mr. Alan Dukes, that he was aware of the existence of the Anglo tapes, that he had been briefed on the content of the tapes and that he did not see fit to inform the ongoing investigations into Anglo, the Central Bank or the Government of the tapes. [34300/13]
Tue, 16 Jul 2013
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Banking Sector Issues
Pearse Doherty
223. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance if he is now aware of which telephone lines were recorded in Anglo Irish Bank; and if he knows, if he will list who the other persons recorded on the tapes are, outside of the three we have heard to date. [34301/13]
Tue, 16 Jul 2013
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IBRC Investigations
Pearse Doherty
224. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance if he is satisfied that after admitting he was aware of the content of the Anglo tapes, the former public interest director at Anglo Irish Bank, Mr. Alan Dukes, did not see fit to suspend and investigate the employees recorded on the tapes following his appointment as chair of Irish Bank Resolution Corporation in 2010. [34302/13]
Tue, 16 Jul 2013
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IBRC Investigations
Pearse Doherty
225. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance if the minutes of all board meetings held at Anglo Irish Bank following its nationalisation, and subsequently the minutes of Irish Bank Resolution Corporation board meetings are a matter of public record; if these minutes will be laid before the Houses of the Oireachtas; or if these minutes have been seized as part of the ongoing criminal investigation into events at Anglo Irish Bank. [34303/13]
Tue, 16 Jul 2013
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IBRC Investigations
Pearse Doherty
226. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance his views that, in his role as public interest director at Anglo Irish Bank, Mr. Alan Dukes should have informed the Nyberg banking commission of the existence of recorded telephone conversations in Anglo Irish Bank and made those tapes available to it. [34327/13]
Tue, 16 Jul 2013
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Public Interest Directors Responsibilities
Pearse Doherty
227. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance if he will set out the responsibilities he believes the role of public interest director in a State owned or partially State owned bank entails. [34328/13]
Tue, 16 Jul 2013
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Public Interest Directors Issues
Pearse Doherty
228. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance if he will put before Dáil Éireann any job description, advice, guidance given to Mr. Alan Dukes on his appointment as a public interest director in Anglo Irish Bank in December 2009. [34329/13]
Tue, 16 Jul 2013
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Public Interest Directors Issues
Pearse Doherty
229. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance if job descriptions were provided for public interest directors as they were appointed to the banks; if they underwent interview procedures or were appointed; the person who made the decisions about their appointments; and if they are reviewed in their roles and how frequently. [34330/13]
Tue, 16 Jul 2013
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Banking Sector Issues
Pearse Doherty
245. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance if he will provide details of the persons who were the partners and senior executives responsible for conducting the PwC project Atlas - Anglo Irish Bank Corporation plc - over the duration of the three parts of the report, phase 1, phase 2, phase 3; if any of the partners or senior executives who were part of the team or were involved in the aforementioned PwC report is part of the team currently valuing the liquidated Irish Bank Resolution Corporation loan book; the names of the partners and senior executives who have worked on both mandates; the total number of staff who have worked on both mandates; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34644/13]
Tue, 16 Jul 2013
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IBRC Mortgage Loan Book
Pearse Doherty
246. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance the total number of firms which tendered to the special liquidator for the mandate to value the Irish Bank Resolution Corporation loan book; if PwC offered the lowest fees for the job or if there were other criteria which led it to win the valuation mandate; if he will detail such criteria; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34645/13]
Tue, 16 Jul 2013
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IBRC Legal Cases
Pearse Doherty
247. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance the person who is responsible for assessing whether there is merit in the continuing legal corporate entity of Irish Bank Resolution Corporation suing the former auditors of Irish Nationwide Building Society and current special liquidators of IBRC, KPMG; if he will confirm that IBRC is suing Ernst and Young for its role in auditing Anglo Irish Bank; if he will further confirm that he is considering instructing the special liquidator to sue his own company as special liquidator for the role his company played in auditing Irish Nationwide Building society; if KPMG is not going to be sued by IBRC for the role it played as auditor of Irish Nationwide Building Society, the reason this is the case; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34646/13]
Tue, 16 Jul 2013
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IBRC Liquidation
Pearse Doherty
248. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance if he will provide details of the names of the partners and senior management responsible in KPMG for the auditing of Irish Nationwide Building Society and Irish Life and Permanent; if he will confirm if any of these partners, senior managers, or staff members who audited Irish Nationwide Building Society and Irish Life and Permanent are responsible for any of the work currently being undertaken by KPMG in the liquidation of Irish Bank Resolution Corporation; if he will name these partners or senior managers, as well as detailing the total number of staff who have worked on both mandates; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34647/13]
Tue, 16 Jul 2013
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Banking Sector Issues
Pearse Doherty
249. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to news reports in Spain that Deloitte may lose its Spanish licence to operate in the country as an auditor as a result of the very serious violations found by the Economy Ministry's ICAC Accounting and Audit Institute in its investigation of the firm's role as Bankia's auditor; if he will confirm whether these types of measure are being considered; if any adverse findings are made against auditors for the way they audited the Irish banks that subsequently required taxpayers' money; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34648/13]
Tue, 16 Jul 2013
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Mortgage Arrears Proposals
Pearse Doherty
259. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance if he has received all the information due from the banks on 30 June regarding mortgage targets; if he will set out the number of banks that met the 20% requirement for sustainable solutions for mortgage holders. [34760/13]
Tue, 16 Jul 2013
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NAMA Legal Issues
Pearse Doherty
260. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to a letter sent on 17 June from the National Asset Management Agency to a number of litigants in a case in New York, where the issue of Anglo Irish Bank overcharging interest on loans is being heard, the contents of which include an implicit threat to the litigants to cease their action or face potential loan foreclosure and receivership; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34762/13]
Tue, 16 Jul 2013
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NAMA Legal Issues
Pearse Doherty
261. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to evidence given in a trial currently taking place involving the National Asset Management Agency and a person (details supplied) where it has been alleged that David Drumm in his role in Anglo Irish Bank at the time, agreed to the transfer of interest in a loan that was held in this person's name to other members of their family; if his attention has been drawn to a verbal transfer of loan interest being a practice in Anglo Irish Bank; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34763/13]
Tue, 16 Jul 2013
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NAMA Loan Book
Pearse Doherty
262. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance the number of asset management companies that have been commissioned by the National Asset Management Agency to date; their names; the total value of the assets being managed by these third party companies; the individual and total fees being paid to these third party companies; and his views on NAMA, an asset management company, choosing this policy of commissioning third parties to manage its assets. [34764/13]