Parliamentary questions

Banks Recapitalisation

Pearse Doherty

253. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance if he shares the view of the European Commission, from a statement by its spokesperson on 26 March 2013, that the European Stability Mechanism, to which he has already contributed €509m, will not be used to recapitalise banks. [16364/13]

NAMA Property Sales

Pearse Doherty

254. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance the procedure adopted by the National Asset Management Agency when a substantial multi million euro offer is made to the Agency for a property on its foreclosure list which is not presently listed for sale. [16365/13]

State Banking Sector

Pearse Doherty

255. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance if he will provide his assessment of the performance of Permanent TSB, in which he owns 99.5% of the shares, and which has just published its report and accounts for 2012. [16366/13]

State Banking Sector

Pearse Doherty

256. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance if he is concerned that the Chief Executive Officer of Permanent TSB, in which he owns 99.5% of the shares, is now estimating a return to profitability at PTSB in five years compared to previous recent estimates which have ranged from 2014 to 2016. [16367/13]

State Banking Sector

Pearse Doherty

257. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance the reason deposits at Permanent TSB, in which he owns 99.5% of the shares, falling from €17.267bn at 30 June 2012 to €16.639bn at 31 December 2012. [16368/13]

Banking Sector

Pearse Doherty

258. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance further to recent reports on the amount of exposure by German and British interests to the Irish banking system in 2008, his views on whether this exposure will be analogous to the amount of exposure by Russian interests to the Cypriot banking system, the bailout plan for which he has recently overseen, in 2013. [16369/13]

Banking Sector

Pearse Doherty

271. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance if he will confirm the sum owed by the Thomas Crosbie group to Allied Irish Banks, in which he owns 99.8% of the shares, immediately prior to the receivership and examinership of companies within the group in March 2013; and if any write-down of debt has been provided to the group as part of the group’s receivership and examinership. [16531/13]

State Banking Sector

Pearse Doherty

272. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance his assessment of the performance of Allied Irish Banks, in which he owns 99.8% of the shares, which reported its results for 2012 on 27 March 2013. [16532/13]

State Banking Sector

Pearse Doherty

273. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance his assessment as to the reason Allied Irish Banks, in which he owns 99.8% of the shares, predicts that it will return to profitability in 2014 but that Permanent TSB, in which he owns 99.5% of the shares, predicts that it will take five years to return to profitability. [16533/13]

NAMA Expenditure

Pearse Doherty

274. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 230 of 13 November 2012, if he will provide a breakdown of the legal fees paid by the National Asset Management Agency for 2012, and to date in 2013, including the amount each recipient received from NAMA. [16534/13]

Banking Sector

Pearse Doherty

280. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance further to the publication of the 2012 annual report and accounts for Allied Irish Banks, if he will provide the details of the €1.2bn deleveraging of EBS buy-to-let mortgages in 2012 referred to on page 95 of the annual report; if the deleveraging was a sale, the name of the purchaser; the purchase price; the par value of the loans and the value of the loans after provisions; if AIB recorded a loss on the sale; and the sales process AIB engaged in to maximize the price achieved. [16592/13]

Eurozone Crisis

Pearse Doherty

281. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance further to the confirmation by Moody’s Investors Services of Ireland’s sovereign debt junk status with a negative outlook, which Moody’s sought to justify by stating the euro areas continued vulnerability to shocks emanating from the regional debt crisis, most recently the agreement by the European Union to the bail-in of bank deposits to raise part of the funds needed for Cyprus' financial rescue, if he continues to maintain that the design, to which he contributed, and implementation of the Cypriot bailout is good for Cyprus, the Eurozone and Ireland. [16593/13]

Credit Unions

Pearse Doherty

326. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance the reason he endorsed the imposition of a special manager on a credit union (details supplied) in County Kildare at a cost expected to exceed €2 million, on a financially struggling credit union. [17210/13]

Credit Unions

Pearse Doherty

327. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance the reason the directors, staff or stakeholders of a credit union (details supplied) in County Kildare have not been advised as to the special manager's role within the credit union. [17211/13]

Credit Unions

Pearse Doherty

328. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance the reason as per the Credit Union Act 1997 the special manager and Ernst and Young has refused to hold an AGM for a credit union (details supplied) in County Kildare despite public and directors' requests and their statutory obligation to do so. [17212/13]

Credit Unions

Pearse Doherty

329. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance the work carried out by a person (details supplied) on behalf of Ernst and Young to justify bills of more than €9,500 per week, in total over €2 million, paid for by ordinary members of a credit union. [17213/13]

Mortgage Arrears Proposals

Pearse Doherty

343. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance the number of submissions, and names of individual groups who made submissions to the Central Bank during its consultation on the Code of Conduct on Mortgage Arrears, the deadline of which was 10 April 2013. [17466/13]

School Transport Eligibility

Pearse Doherty

373. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Education and Skills if a child is eligible for school transport under the primary school transport scheme to a school other than their nearest school on an equal footing as other eligible children in cases where the nearest school to the child cannot accommodate the child due to lack of places; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15983/13]

Schools Building Projects Applications

Pearse Doherty

374. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide an update of the progress of the application for an extension in respect of a school (details supplied) in County Donegal; when his Department first received an application for this extension; when works are expected to commence; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15984/13]

Special Educational Needs Service Provision

Pearse Doherty

415. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Education and Skills if he has further considered the submission from Down Syndrome Ireland that they submitted regarding his Department's review of the general allocation model of teaching supports; if he is of the view to consider classifying Down's syndrome as a low incidence disability for the purpose of teaching supports; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16577/13]