Parliamentary questions

Commercial Leases Database

Pearse Doherty

118 Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance further to calls by the National Asset Management Agency chairman (details supplied) for the introduction of a public register of commercial property sales prices, if he will set out the consideration he has given to such a register and confirm if there are any plans for such a register; and if he will further set out the detail of any such plans.
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National Asset Management Agency

Pearse Doherty

137 Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance, further to Parliamentary Question No. 207 of 3 July 2012, the reason the National Asset Management Agency has redeemed senior debt from Permanent TSB since this organisation is not a NAMA participating institution.
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State Debt

Pearse Doherty

138 Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance the contribution made by the State to the first bailout in Greece in 2010; the way this contribution was accounted for in the deficit and national debt figures; the amount of interest received by Ireland from this contribution; when the sum is due for repayment by Greece to Ireland; if he will provide an assessment of the prospects for the repayment of the contribution; and if any provision will be made for any non-repayment in our national accounts.
[33729/12]

School Transport

Pearse Doherty

159 Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Education and Skills the arrangements being put in place to provide school transport for students to attend their new amalgamated school who had previously attended a primary school in Donegal that has been amalgamated with another school in County Donegal (details supplied).
[33100/12]

Patient Statistics

Pearse Doherty

491 Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 674 of 19 June 2012, the steps he will take to deal with the dramatic increase in incidents of Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis among children; the resources he will invest in combatting the dramatic rise in Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis among children; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
[33265/12]

Bank Debt Restructuring

Pearse Doherty

2 Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance if in view of the fact that the European Council has agreed in principle to the separation of banking debt from sovereign debt, and agreed in principle to the possibility of ESM funds being used to directly recapitalise the banks, and agreed to consider the retrospective application of such funding in the case of Ireland, he will confirm that it is his intention to explore the possibility of European Stability Mechanism funds being used to directly refinance the Anglo Irish Bank promissory note; if he will remove the promissory note debt from the States debt to GDP ratio; and if he will remove the liability from the taxpayer for the repayment of this toxic banking debt. [32924/12]

Financial Services Regulation

Pearse Doherty

8 Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance his plans for improving the regulation of licensed money lenders and in particular the high interest rates these lenders may charge; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32744/12]

Promissory Notes

Pearse Doherty

34 Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance when the idea of a technical paper on the promissory note was first mooted with the troika; the person who proposed same; the present status of the technical paper; if it has been completed; the reason the February 2012 deadline was not met; the steps that are envisaged for the technical paper once completed; the format of the technical paper; if it will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
[32743/12]

Budget Timetable

Pearse Doherty

16 Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the ways in which the budgetary and Estimates timetable here is influenced to an increasing extent by requirements at a European level.
[32382/12]

National Pensions Reserve Fund

Pearse Doherty

49 Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance the remaining amount of discretionary funding in the National Pensions Reserve Fund.
[32550/12]

Election Management System

Pearse Doherty

174 Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the criteria in use for the awarding of presiding officer and personation agent positions; if he will consider applying a points based system which would afford unemployed and low income earners to avail of these positions; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
[32628/12]

Departmental Investigations

Pearse Doherty

217 Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he has given any consideration to the findings and recommendations of the Office of the Ombudsman with regard to the operation of his Department in relation to a person (details supplied) in County Donegal; and if he will work with this person to find a resolution.
[32656/12]

Medical Cards

Pearse Doherty

244 Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 705 of 24 April 2012 and 583 of 12 June 2012, the reason a person (details supplied) in Dublin 22 has not yet been notified in writing of the decision regarding their medical application; when this notification will be issued; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
[32590/12]

Water Fluoridation

Pearse Doherty

247 Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Health his views on whether the practice of fluoridation of our water supplies needs to be altered taking into account that quantities of fluoride can be monitored at process stage, but the quantities of water drank by our population cannot be monitored; his further view on whether the fluoridation process can have detrimental effects with prolonged consumption; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
[32629/12]

Sport and Recreational Development

Pearse Doherty

126 Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the plans in place to ensure the development of fencing here; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
[32086/12]

Departmental Staff

Pearse Doherty

151 Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to scale down wages in his Department and in agencies under his Department among the top earners.
[32093/12]

National Asset Management Agency

Pearse Doherty

184 Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance if he will provide the figure for the total amount of staple finance provided by the National Asset Management Agency, split by country; the average interest rate charged by NAMA; the average yield on the property sold; the maximum percentage of the sale price financed by NAMA and the maximum length of time over which the staple finance is to be repaid.
[31659/12]

National Asset Management Agency

Pearse Doherty

185 Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance further to ParliamentaryQuestion No. 60 of 13 June 2012, if he will advise in relation to residential property, andapart from the National Assets Management Agency 80-20 deferred payment initiative, the total value of deferred payments sanctioned by NAMA; the maximum length of time forwhich payment is deferred and the average interest rate charged on deferred payments.
[31660/12]

National Asset Management Agency

Pearse Doherty

186 Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance the consideration he gave to the concession added in the most recent memorandum of understanding on specific economic policy conditionality whereby the National Asset Management Agency is now required as a term of the bailout, to redeem €7.5 billion of senior bonds by the end of 2013.
[31661/12]

National Asset Management Agency

Pearse Doherty

193 Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance , following the announcement by the National Asset Management Agency of its intention to demolish a block containing 12 apartments in Longford, if he will provide details of the type of apartments involved and the condition of the property, as well as the condition of the property; when NAMA acquired the underlying loans on the property; the steps taken by NAMA to protect and maintain the property, including the amount of money spent on the property; the sales and marketing activity undertaken by NAMA to dispose of the property; if NAMA considered a sales contract which would oblige the buyer to put the property in a sellable rentable condition; if he will explain the reason the property was not made available for auction; the costs NAMA expects to spend on the property in future, including an accounting for the demolition costs; if he will provide details of NAMA’s efforts to make use of the property for social housing in the context of the waiting list of 335 families in Longford.
[31909/12]

National Asset Management Agency

Pearse Doherty

198 Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 165 of 26 June 2012, the average percentage interest rate paid by the National Asset Management Agency on its senior bonds in the calendar year of 2011; if he will provide a breakdown of the interest paid including the interest calculated by reference to the six-month Euribar interest rate specified in the bonds’ terms sheets plus any hedging, derivatives or other costs associated with the senior bonds incurred by NAMA; and if he will provide the interest rate applicable to NAMA’s subordinated bonds for the same period.
[32172/12]

National Asset Management Agency

Pearse Doherty

207 Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance if he will provide a breakdown by National Asset Management Agency participating institutions of the €2 billion of NAMA senior debt redeemed by the agency, which was announced on 27 June, 2012.
[32451/12]

National Asset Management Agency

Pearse Doherty

208 Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance the consideration the National Asset Management Agency gave to its overriding objective of addressing the serious threat to the economy caused by the banking and property crisis, before taking the decision to redeem €2 billion of its senior debt, announced on 27 June, 2012.
[32452/12]

Departmental Staff

Pearse Doherty

292 Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of civil servants dismissed in the period 1 January 2000 to 30 June 2006.
[32000/12]

Departmental Staff

Pearse Doherty

293 Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of civil servants dismissed in the period 1 July 2006 to 31 December 2011 by the Government and by a Minister for the Government; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
[32001/12]

Housing Grants

Pearse Doherty

458 Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the number of CAS applications received in the 2012 round; the number of these received for homeless accommodation; when decisions will issue; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
[32007/12]

Agri-Environment Options Scheme

Pearse Doherty

541 Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when files submitted to his Department on a single farm payment will be reviewed in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Donegal to enable an application for the agri environment option scheme to be processed; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
[31667/12]

Treatment Abroad Scheme

Pearse Doherty

631 Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Health if he will clarify the procedures for a person (details supplied) in County Donegal who has been on the treatment abroad scheme since 1997 in view of the fact that the person may need treatment abroad up to three times per year and each time before travel approaches there are numerous forms that need to be completed by the consultant; and if there is another procedure in place for persons who are on the scheme long term that will remove this paperwork process.
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