Parliamentary questions

IBRC Liquidation

Pearse Doherty

236. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance if it remains the case that the National Asset Management Agency will acquire the unsold remaining loans at Irish Bank Resolution Corporation in August 2013, or if that date has slipped; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18758/13]

IBRC Liquidation

Pearse Doherty

237. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance the fees payable to date to KPMG in its role as special liquidator of Irish Bank Resolution Corporation [18759/13]

Pension Provisions

Pearse Doherty

238. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance if he will explain the approach of Allied Irish Banks, in which he controls 99.8% of the shares and which transferred €1.1bn to its pension fund to address a deficit in August 2012, and Permanent TSB, in which he controls 99.5% of the shares, which has written to members of its pension scheme threatening to halt contributions to the pension scheme unless scheme members accept large reductions in benefits [18760/13]

European Financial Stability Facility

Pearse Doherty

239. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance following the Econfin statement on 12 April 2013, if he will set out, in tabular form, the old maturity of debt owing to the European contributors to the programme finance bailout together with the applicable interest rates, and the new maturities and new interest rates if different [18761/13]

Education and Training Provision

Pearse Doherty

295. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Education and Skills further to parliamentary Question No. 169 of 14 February 2013, if he will provide the data from FÁS detailed in the answer. [19119/13]

Croke Park Agreement Issues

Pearse Doherty

297. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the percentage cut to the salary of An Taoiseach and allowances under the terms of Croke Park 2; and if he will confirm if any public sector staff earning less than €65,000 in salary and allowances will face a greater percentage cut to salary and allowances under Croke Park 2. [18404/13]

Croke Park Agreement Savings

Pearse Doherty

302. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform further to Parliamentary Question No. 248 of 12 March 2013, the date on which new pay and allowance arrangements under Croke Park 2 need to be implemented in 2013 in order to generate planned savings in the public sector; and if he will confirm the net savings, that is the difference existing gross pay and allowances less tax and other contributions to the State and the new gross pay and allowances less tax and other contributions to the State, planned for 2013. [18732/13]

Enterprise Ireland Funding

Pearse Doherty

314. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will confirm for each of the years 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011 and 2012 the State funding provided to Wicklow Enterprise Park Limited; if he will confirm that it is a term of that company's memorandum and articles of association that directors will not receive any remuneration or other benefit in money or moneys worth from the company; and if that term has been violated in 2012. [18572/13]

Social Welfare Payments to Prisoners

Pearse Doherty

365. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Social Protection if he will set out in tabular form for 2011 and 2012 and analysed by social protection headings, the amounts paid by her Department to citizens whilst they were incarcerated in Irish and foreign prisons. [18576/13]

Invalidity Pension Appeals

Pearse Doherty

400. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Social Protection when a decision will be made on an application for invalidity pension in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Donegal; if she will provide details on the number of applications for invalidity pension that are currently awaiting medical assessment; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19116/13]

National Monuments

Pearse Doherty

403. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if he wil lay before the Dáíl Éireann the recent special report by Dublin City Council on the need to protect the National Monument site at 14-17 Moore Street, Dublin 1. [18405/13]

Departmental Bodies Reports

Pearse Doherty

404. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if he will lay before the Dáil Éireann the latest report and accounts for the Irish Film Board / Bord Scannán na hÉireann. [18406/13]

Departmental Bodies Reports

Pearse Doherty

405. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if he will confirm for each of 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011 and 2012 the State funding and headcount of the Irish Film Board/ Bord Scannán na hÉireann. [18407/13]

Raidió Teilifís Éireann

Pearse Doherty

411. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will outline the financial liability of the State to Radio Telefís Éireann should the finances of that organisation become unsustainable. [18425/13]

Water Charges Introduction

Pearse Doherty

441. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if he will outline the key milestones in his plans to introduce water charges for residential property; and the dates on which such milestone are planned to be completed. [18722/13]

Local Authority Housing Waiting Lists

Pearse Doherty

442. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if he will confirm when the biannual housing needs assessment report produced by the Housing Agency will be published in 2013; and if the report will detail both the number of households and number of individuals who are on the housing waiting list. [18723/13]

Local Authority Housing

Pearse Doherty

443. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the accuracy of the Property Price Register which records that 212 apartments at Herberton Rialto on Reuben Street in Dublin 8 were sold in December 2012 for €5,963 each; if he will confirm that the buyer was Dublin City Council; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18724/13]

Local Authority Finances

Pearse Doherty

444. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 137 of 13 March 2013, if he will explain what is meant by debt due in the current year and specifically if he means that the liability has arisen since 1 January 2013. [18725/13]

Local Authority Finances

Pearse Doherty

445. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 137 of 13 March 2013, if he will explain what he means by all debts from previous years; and if he will explain the reason there is no further breakdown of these €312,483,594.87 debts by year. [18726/13]

Local Authority Finances

Pearse Doherty

446. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 137 of 13 March 2013, if he will set out the accounting and other controls that exist within local authorities to ensure outstanding debts are efficiently and promptly recovered. [18727/13]