Parliamentary questions

Harbour Fees

Pearse Doherty

786. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will outline in tabular form the total moneys collected by his Department for the years 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012 and to date in 2013 in rates and charges for each of Ireland's fishery harbour centres; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26665/13]

Harbours and Piers Expenditure

Pearse Doherty

797. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the plans he has to establish a small craft harbour in Killybegs, County Donegal; the total amount of funding allocated by his Department to the project; the estimated schedule for completion of the project; the size of the proposed harbour; the estimated number of crafts that will be facilitated in the harbour; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27023/13]

Aquaculture Development

Pearse Doherty

798. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his Department has considered the strategic guidelines as recently presented by the European Commission with respect to challenges facing the aquaculture sector; his views on these strategic guidelines; the impact of these guidelines in resolving the current delays by the Department in processing aquaculture licences; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27024/13]

Aquaculture Development

Pearse Doherty

799. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the current rate of growth of the Irish Aquaculture sector; the current value of Irish aquaculture production; the percentage of EU seafood consumption which comes from Irish aquaculture; the percentage of Irish seafood consumption which comes from Irish aquaculture; the supports in place by his Department to further develop the Irish aquaculture sector; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27025/13]

Fishing Industry Development

Pearse Doherty

800. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the total amount of funding invested by Bord Iascaigh Mhara in Killybegs, County Donegal, in each of the past five years for the purposes of job creation; the mechanisms in place to ensure compliance with any conditions upon which the funding was contingent; the total number of jobs created by the investments; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27026/13]

Ambulance Service Provision

Pearse Doherty

919. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the investigation undertaken by his Department into a matter raised on 19 December 2012 regarding the provision of ambulance service in County Donegal; the specific measures and actions taken by his Department as a result of this investigation; if he will give assurances that all appropriate action has been taken to prevent such an incident from reoccurring in future; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26654/13]

Health Services Provision

Pearse Doherty

968. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Health if it is the plan of the Health Service Executive in County Donegal to close the Ballaghderg special needs preschool in Letterkenny; the proposals in place to accommodate the 5% of children with special needs that cannot be facilitated in the mainstream preschool setting in County Donegal in the event of such a closure; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27019/13]

Health Services Expenditure

Pearse Doherty

969. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Health if he will outline in tabular form the total amount of funds allocated to the Health Service Executive in County Donegal over each of the past five years to allow for the provision of special needs assistant support in the pre-school sector; the number of applications made to the HSE by childcare providers in each of the past five years in County Donegal for grant assistance towards the employment of SNAs; the total amount of money requested per year in the applications; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27020/13]

Health Services Expenditure

Pearse Doherty

971. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Health the total amount of funds allocated to the Health Service Executive in County Donegal over each of the past five years to each of the special needs preschools in the county; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27021/13]

Mobility Allowance Decision

Pearse Doherty

972. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the work being carried out by the project group appointed by him on 27 February 2013 to review the motorised transport grant and mobility allowance schemes; when he expects the review to be completed and new schemes put in place; his views on whether the review process will be complete prior to the current schemes ending; if he will reassure those currently in receipt of payments under these schemes that they will continue to receive their payments until the new schemes are put in place; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27022/13]

Comhairle Aireachta Thuaidh Theas

Pearse Doherty

40. D'fhiafraigh Deputy Pearse Doherty den Aire Ealaíon, Oidhreachta agus Gaeltachta an bhfuil aon dul chun cinn déanta ó thaobh teacht ar shocrú maidir le maoiniú na mbuneagras Gaeilge. [26250/13]

Arramara Teo

Pearse Doherty

41. D'fhiafraigh Deputy Pearse Doherty den Aire Ealaíon, Oidhreachta agus Gaeltachta an ndéanfaidh sé soiléiriú ar thodhchaí Arramara Teo; agus cad atá á dhéanamh aige chun slí bheatha na mbainteoirí feamainne a chaomhnú. [26249/13]

Rent Supplement Scheme Administration

Pearse Doherty

54. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Social Protection the reason that rent supplement is not payable directly to the landlord; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25712/13]

Services for People with Disabilities

Pearse Doherty

59. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide details of all transport services which are co-funded by her Department in respect of persons with disabilities for each of the past four years; and the amount of funding allocated to them and their locations. [25713/13]

Gross National Product Forecast

Pearse Doherty

70. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance if he will provide a projection on the expected GNP of Ireland in the next three years including redomiciled public limited companies and excluding redomiciled public limited companies. [25969/13]

Gross National Income Forecast

Pearse Doherty

71. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance what Ireland’s GNI for the past five years would have been excluding redomiciled public limited companies; and the amount by which Ireland’s contribution to the EU budget would have been reduced if these redomiciled public limited companies were excluded from the GNI figures for these years. [25970/13]

Non-Resident Companies

Pearse Doherty

75. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to a 1998 report produced by his Department on Irish registered non-resident companies which stated that IRNR companies have posed a threat to Ireland's international image and its reputation as a well-regulated jurisdiction for conducting business and that the companies are regularly advertised for sale in magazines alongside companies which are incorporated in tax havens; his views on whether the findings of this paper still stand; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26063/13]

Non-Resident Companies

Pearse Doherty

76. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance if the findings of a 1998 Department of Finance report on Irish Registered Non-Registered Companies were ever enacted on, including the recommendations for company law and taxation elements; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26064/13]

Non-Resident Companies

Pearse Doherty

77. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance his views following a 1998 report on Irish Registered Non-Resident Companies by his Department that changes need to be made to IRNR companies that change the tax residence rules where registration entails a test of tax residence as an alternative to the control and management test. [26066/13]

Tax Avoidance Issues

Pearse Doherty

78. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance if he has considered imposing limits on the transfer of losses within group companies; if such a precedent exists for this limiting in other states; and the conditions that currently apply to the transfer of losses in group companies. [26067/13]

Tax Data

Pearse Doherty

79. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance if tax data on multinational companies based here is collated separately; and if so, if he will state the minimum effective rate of tax paid by multinational corporations to the Exchequer. [26068/13]

Tax Yield

Pearse Doherty

80. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance the amount that could be raised for the Exchequer if corporation tax was applied to dividends received by one Irish resident company from another Irish resident company. [26069/13]

Tax Avoidance Issues

Pearse Doherty

81. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance the estimated loss to the Exchequer in corporation tax as a result of loss transfers among group companies; his views on whether this is aggressive tax planning and avoidance; the steps he has taken to alleviate the impact of this on the Exchequer; and the steps he has taken at European level to ensure this type of activity is limited. [26070/13]

Tax Yield

Pearse Doherty

82. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance the estimated loss to the Exchequer from the corporation tax exemption from capital gains tax on gains arising from the disposal of substantial shareholdings where the Irish parented group is engaged in trading activities and the subsidiary is resident in an EU member state or a tax treaty country. [26071/13]

Company Data

Pearse Doherty

120. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of redomiciled public limited companies operating here; and the number that have been established in each of the past ten years. [25968/13]

Company Law

Pearse Doherty

121. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation his views on whether, following a 1998 report on Irish registered non-resident companies, changes need to be made to IRNR companies, including an activity test for all companies applying for registration that would see a precondition of applying for registration being required to demonstrate that it intends to carry on a business or economic activity in the State. [26065/13]

Carer's Allowance Eligibility

Pearse Doherty

127. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Social Protection the reason a carer's allowance application took 15 months to process and was refused in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Dublin. [25977/13]

Special Educational Needs Service Provision

Pearse Doherty

96. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Education and Skills his views on the presentation made recently in the Oireachtas by Down's Syndrome Ireland and the fact that Down's syndrome is not included in one of the 11 low incidence disabilities that qualified for resource teaching hours; his views on whether Down's syndrome should be reclassified as a low incidence disability. [25402/13]

Institutes of Technology

Pearse Doherty

104. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide details of the investigation by the Higher Education Authority that is to examine the expense claims by institutes of technology including its terms of reference; and the projected timescale for when it is to be completed. [25401/13]

IFSC Clearing House Group

Pearse Doherty

124. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Taoiseach the number of officials who have been present at each IFSC Clearing House Group meeting since March 2011 including each working group. [25673/13]

Tax Yield

Pearse Doherty

156. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance the amount that could be raised for the Exchequer if the current withholding exemption on royalties were abolished and a 1% withholding tax were applied to outgoing royalties from Irish companies to foreign holding companies; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25295/13]

NAMA Loan Offers

Pearse Doherty

157. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance if he will set out by region-country the percentage amount and individual monetary amounts of finance forwarded by National Asset Management Agency to developers to complete projects in 2012 and to date in 2013. [25296/13]

Departmental Meetings

Pearse Doherty

158. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance if he or anyone in his Department during this Administration or during the previous Administration held meetings with representatives of Apple. [25297/13]

Corporation Tax

Pearse Doherty

159. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to any arrangement explicit or implicit that has been entered into with Apple in order to limit tax paid by the company here; if there is such an arrangement; if he will provide details of that arrangement including the length of time it has been operable; the amount it has cost the State; and the person that negotiated the arrangement and under what authority. [25298/13]

Corporation Tax

Pearse Doherty

160. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to any arrangements with any multinational corporations based here which allows special treatment for tax purposes; if any MNCs have made representations to him or his Department to avail of special tax reliefs; if any other organisation including business representatives or tax consultancy and advisory firms have made an approach to him or his Department to either advise on tax measures for business or to request the special tax treatment of any business or group. [25299/13]

Tax Code

Pearse Doherty

166. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance if he has considered a vacant land tax; if he will estimate the amount that could be raised for the Exchequer if a vacant land tax was applied in the same way as higher rates 50% are applied to vacant properties to incentivise landlords to use them by Dublin City Council [25375/13]

Non-Resident Companies

Pearse Doherty

174. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance the number of companies and the names of same, that are incorporated here but are considered non-resident for tax purposes. [25521/13]

Non-Resident Companies

Pearse Doherty

175. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance if Revenue has ever conducted a report on companies that are incorporated as Irish but are non-resident for tax purposes; if he has ever commissioned the Revenue to conduct a report or if he will do so in the future. [25522/13]

Non-Resident Companies

Pearse Doherty

176. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance the specific piece of legislation and the provision therein which allow companies to establish themselves as incorporated Irish but non-resident; the conditions attached to such incorporation; the date on which the legislation was introduced and put onto the Statute books; and if the decision to allow such a legal concept emanated from his Department or if it was proposed by advisors and or lobbyists. [25523/13]

Corporation Tax

Pearse Doherty

177. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to any tax incentive that was offered to Apple to enter Ireland in the 1980s; if so, if he will state what the incentive consisted of; and if he will confirm if other multinational corporations were offered incentives. [25524/13]

Tax Code

Pearse Doherty

178. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance further to sworn statements given by Apple representatives to the US Senate Committee investigating the company's tax matters, if he can explain the way Apple's taxable income in the State is calculated in such a was as to bring its corporation tax to single digits; and if these methods are applied to other multi national corporations [25525/13]

Tax Code

Pearse Doherty

179. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance the average statutory and effective tax rate for multinational corporations in the 1980s, 1990s and the 2000s. [25526/13]

NAMA Operations

Pearse Doherty

180. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 213 of 21 May 2013, if he will confirm the decision process entailed in forwarding £20,000 to the University of Ulster as a contribution towards a study being undertaken there; if the university approached the National Asset Management Agency or NAMA approached the university; if NAMA has a fund established for such educational and research undertakings; if other universities or education and research institutions have approached NAMA for similar funding; and if NANA is considering further funding of educational and research studies in the future. [25527/13]

Banking Sector Remuneration

Pearse Doherty

183. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Questions Nos.117, 188, 189, 190, 191 and 192, of 21 May 2013, in which he stated it would not be appropriate or realistic to specify a timeframe for the savings to be delivered in bankers' pay, if he will provide a timeframe in which he expects the required savings to be delivered from banks, for example, within three months, within six months, by the end of the year or by the middle of next year; if he will indicate whether he intends the 6% to 10% savings to be once-off savings or if there will be further savings next year; and his views on whether there is a dual approach being applied to savings in the public sector, which have clear timeframes and deadlines set upon them for delivery, and savings in the State-supported banking sector, in which he appears willing to allow the banks to set their own deadlines and timeframes. [25550/13]

Departmental Meetings

Pearse Doherty

184. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance if any officials from his Department or from the Revenue Commissioners ever met with the tax advisers to Apple; and if any such meetings were facilitated by his Department. [25551/13]

Tax Compliance

Pearse Doherty

185. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance if he has sent any communication, or if he intends to send any communication or officials from his Department or the Revenue Commissioners to the U.S. Senate Committee that undertook a case study on Apple's tax activities, specifically in Ireland, which refute the allegations that Ireland is a tax haven for multinational corporations and that Apple was offered a special deal by the Irish State on corporation tax. [25552/13]

Tax Compliance

Pearse Doherty

186. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance if he had any communication with the European Commission in relation to the allegations made concerning Ireland's tax treatment of Apple; and if his attention has been drawn to the Commission's examination of the matter, following these allegations. [25553/13]

Central Bank of Ireland

Pearse Doherty

187. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 105 of 21 May 2013, the reason he cannot state that the Central Bank of Ireland is outsourcing the running of its security functions to a private company when any new arrangement regarding the outsourcing, specifically the financial contract with the company, will in all likelihood be included in the CBoI's annual accounts next year; and if he will explain the way in which stating that the CBoI has a new company in charge of its security operations could possibly remain confidential information and the way the disclosure of that news could in anyway impinge upon security at the bank; if he will state his views given the highly sensitive approach being taken to security at the CBoI and the way in which decision to outsource a potentially security threat to the bank's IT is not a cause of concern for him. [25554/13]

Tax Yield

Pearse Doherty

189. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance the revenue that would be raised for the Exchequer if withholding tax were applied to dividends paid to treaty countries. [25592/13]

Non-Resident Companies

Pearse Doherty

190. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance the number of jobs created here by Irish incorporated, non-resident tax companies, directly and indirectly. [25596/13]

Banking Sector Remuneration

Pearse Doherty

194. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance with regard to each of the responses received from banks to the Mercer report, if he will outline the way their proposals would cut total remuneration in each pay grade, and the proportion of proposed cuts in each bank to those earning each of less than €100,000, between €100,000 and €200,000, between €200,000 and €300,000, between €300,000 and €400,000 and more than €400,000. [25657/13]

Currency Circulation

Pearse Doherty

195. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance the number of coins of each denomination that have been minted in each year here since the introduction of the euro. [25659/13]

Bank Guarantee Scheme Termination

Pearse Doherty

196. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance the effect the ending of the bank guarantee has on the caps on bonuses applying to bankers. [25660/13]

IFSC Clearing House Group

Pearse Doherty

201. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance the number of officials who have been present at each IFSC Clearing House Group meeting since March 2011, including each working group. [25671/13]

IFSC Clearing House Group

Pearse Doherty

327. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of officials who have been present at each IFSC Clearing House Group meeting since March 2011 including each working group. [25672/13]

Pension Provisions

Pearse Doherty

388. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Social Protection the grounds on which workers, on an individual basis, can be moved from a defined benefit pension system to another system without their agreement. [25561/13]

Water and Sewerage Schemes Status

Pearse Doherty

483. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the progress made to date on a sewerage scheme (details supplied) in County Donegal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25651/13]

Garda Investigations

Pearse Doherty

516. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Justice and Equality the progress made on the various reports requested by his office in relation to a case (details supplied); when they will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25158/13]

Medical Card Reviews

Pearse Doherty

638. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Health if he will reconsider the decision to refuse the reimbursement of medical expenses incurred by a person (details supplied) in County Donegal with learning difficulties as well as a physical disability, whose card was cancelled as a result of a medical card review letter being sent to their previous address and resulted in them having to pay for a private prescription from their general practitioner and their medication; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25258/13]

Budget Measures

Pearse Doherty

29. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform in the context of the current changes to the annual budgetary process if he will consider the inclusion of equality budgeting within the new framework. [24633/13]

Public Procurement Contracts

Pearse Doherty

36. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the collaborative procurement training he intends to provide for business tendering for public procurement contracts. [24632/13]

Services for People with Disabilities

Pearse Doherty

146. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Justice and Equality his plans, if any, to bring forward legislative proposals to allow access to digital audio recording of court proceedings for individuals with specific disabilities in order to enable them to prepare a legal defence; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24800/13]

Departmental Agencies Staff Data

Pearse Doherty

186. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of persons employed by Coillte at Donadea Forest, County Kildare; and the number currently on sick leave. [24842/13]

Credit Availability

Pearse Doherty

30. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will detail for each various credit initiative developed by his Department, if each scheme offers a rate of credit above, below or equal to the commercial rate. [24445/13]

Credit Availability

Pearse Doherty

40. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the impact of the high cost of credit on enterprises and job creation; and his views on the take up rates of Government created credit schemes as a percentage of the overall credit available under each scheme. [24444/13]

State Properties

Pearse Doherty

57. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will set out by country, the latest valuation of property assets owned by the State as part of foreign diplomatic missions, including embassies, consulates, chanceries and other diplomatic representation as well as residential property used by the State for its diplomatic activity, indicating the euro valuation and the year of valuation. [24699/13]

Sale of State Assets

Pearse Doherty

58. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will set out by country for each of 2011, 2012 and to date in 2013, the proceeds from the disposal of property assets owned by the State as part of foreign diplomatic missions, including embassies, consulates, chanceries and other diplomatic representation as well as residential property used by the State for its diplomatic activity; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24700/13]

IBRC Liquidation

Pearse Doherty

72. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance if he will estimate the total debt write down that will be given to developers who bid for their own loans from the Irish Bank Resolution Corporation at substantially reduced values; and if the residual debt against those developers will be pursued by the State. [24689/13]

IBRC Liquidation

Pearse Doherty

73. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 193 of 14 may 2013, if he will confirm the restrictions that will be placed on Irish Bank Resolution Corporation borrowers who bid on their own loans after the window for 100% refinancing expires; if such borrowers will be prevented from acting in concert with third party bidders during the bid process as is the case with National Asset Management Agency borrowers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24690/13]

Financial Services Regulation

Pearse Doherty

74. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 207 and 210 of 23 April 2013, and 195 of 14 April 2013, if he will confirm by year, separately, the salary and benefits and total remuneration of the Financial Regulator for 2011 and 2012. [24691/13]

IBRC Mortgage Loan Book

Pearse Doherty

75. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance the number of borrowers who had loans of more than €10 million par value with the Irish Bank Resolution Corportation at 7 February 2013 ; the total par value of such outstanding loans; and the book value of such loans. [24692/13]

Bank Debt Restructuring

Pearse Doherty

76. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance the amount of debt written off by Allied Irish Bank, Bank of Ireland and Permanent TSB in 2010, 2011 and 2012 as a result of bankruptcies in Northern Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24693/13]

NAMA Property Rental

Pearse Doherty

77. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance if he will provide an analysis of the €100-120 million per month recurring non-disposal income being reported by the National Asset Management Agency, showing commercial rental income, residential rental income and an outline of the other receipts and in respect of the commercial rental income to indicate the proportion arising from property in the State and from other jurisdictions. [24694/13]

NAMA Property Sales

Pearse Doherty

78. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance following the announcement by the National Asset Management Agency of the disposal of the so called Project Aspen portfolio of €810 million of loans relating to a developer (details supplied), if he will provide his assessment on the deal which involves NAMA providing staple finance and retaining a stake in the loans; if he will confirm the security NAMA now holds in the loans and if NAMA's security in the loans has been diluted as a result of the sale; and if he will confirm the overall number of NAMA disposals which have involved NAMA retaining an interest in the assets sold. [24695/13]

Outright Monetary Transaction Scheme Participation

Pearse Doherty

79. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 219 of 23 April 2013, and further to his statement on 13 May 2013 that it seems to me that if we had one more sale of Irish paper, we would be eligible for outright monetary transactions scheme, if he will outline his basis for believing this to be the case and the reason he does not believe we would be eligible for access to OMT presently. [24696/13]

Outright Monetary Transaction Scheme Participation

Pearse Doherty

80. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 219 of 23 April 2013, and further to his statement on 13 May 2013 that we have not decided in Government yet whether we will apply or not for the Outright Monetary Transactions scheme but it is something that seems to be a mechanism that is working very well and it might be something that we would want to avail of coming out of the bailout, if he will outline the way the OMT mechanism is working and the volume and value of OMT transactions undertaken by the European Central Bank. [24697/13]

Outright Monetary Transaction Scheme Participation

Pearse Doherty

81. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 219 of 23 April 2013, and further to the publication on 14 May 2013 by the National Treasury Management Agency of its May 2013 presentation to investors which includes the statement clarity on Ireland's eligibility for ECB’s new Outright Monetary Transactions, OMT, would be helpful to underpin sustainable market re-entry; his views on whether there is a lack of clarity on Ireland’s eligibility for the ECB’s OMT scheme. [24698/13]

Unfinished Housing Developments

Pearse Doherty

184. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government further to his statement that up to 200 housing estates in the State may be bulldozed, if he will outline the prior consideration that will be given to offering the estates for sale subject to conditionality including that the estates be made habitable within a specified period of time. [24702/13]

Beef Industry

Pearse Doherty

231. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to the publication on 14 March 2013 of the report Equine DNA and Mislabelling of Processed Beef Investigation and Parliamentary Question No. 996 of 16 April 2013 and comments of 15 May 2013 by the British Member of Parliament, Anne McIntosh, if his Department has concluded its consideration of the possibility of instituting legal proceedings; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24703/13]

Food Safety Authority of Ireland Investigations

Pearse Doherty

259. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Health further to comments of 15 May 2013 by the British Member of Parliament, Anne McIntosh which criticized the Food Safety Authority of Ireland for failing to provide information to assist the probe into the horsemeat scandal in Britain, if he will outline the requests made to the FSAI by the British parliamentary probe and outline the responses provided. [24704/13]

Bank Charges

Pearse Doherty

53. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance his views on the need for banks to pass on European Central Bank interest rate changes; and the action he will take to compel them to do so. [24350/13]

Central Bank of Ireland

Pearse Doherty

105. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance his views on the outsourcing, unique in the Eurosystem, of essential services at the Central Bank of Ireland including IT and security services. [23942/13]

Mortgage Arrears Proposals

Pearse Doherty

121. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance his views on the use of split mortgages as a tool in dealing with mortgage arrears; and if certain banks here are implementing them in a fair and sustainable way. [23941/13]

State Bodies Accounts

Pearse Doherty

129. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Taoiseach if he will set out in tabular form the names of all State owned or substantially State funded organisations under his Department whose latest accounts laid before the Houses of the Oireachtas are more than one year old - that is, relating to a period ending before May 2012; and those of all such organisations whose latest accounts are more than two years old - that is, relating to a period ending before May 2011. [25025/13]

Emigrant Support Services

Pearse Doherty

130. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade further to the recent publication by the National Youth Council of Ireland of the report Time to Go a qualitative research study exploring the experience and impact of emigration on Ireland’s youth his views on the findings of the report; and the steps that will be taken by him to address recommendations issuing from the report. [24125/13]

Debt Resolution Pilot Scheme

Pearse Doherty

142. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance the consultation that took place with his Department by the Central Bank of Ireland before the launch of the pilot scheme for consumer multi-debt restructuring on 8 May 2013. [24130/13]

Bank Guarantee Scheme Administration

Pearse Doherty

172. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance if he will provide the current list of covered institutions as defined by section 6 (1) of the Credit Institutions (Financial Support) Act 2008 and by schedule 5 of SI No. 411 of 2008. [24014/13]

Tax Reliefs Application

Pearse Doherty

186. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance the number of persons in receipt of private pension tax relief; the breakdown of the number of persons that receive the relief at the standard rate; the number at the marginal rate; the checks that are in place to ensure that people availing of the pension tax are still paying pensions; and if he has received any indication that there has been a drop off in the numbers paying pensions, without the numbers of claims for pension tax relief reducing. [24076/13]

Banking Sector Remuneration

Pearse Doherty

188. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance further to the publication of the Mercer report on banking pay and his calling for 6% to 10% reductions in remuneration, when such savings will be delivered. [24093/13]

Banking Sector Remuneration

Pearse Doherty

189. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance further to the publication of the Mercer report on banking pay and his calling for 6% to 10% reductions in remuneration, if such reductions are to be effected through cutting headcount or individual remuneration. [24094/13]

Banking Sector Remuneration

Pearse Doherty

190. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance further to the publication of the Mercer report on banking pay and his calling for 6% to 10% reductions to indicate the way he will ensure such reductions are delivered and if there will be ongoing monitoring of remuneration on a periodic basis. [24095/13]

Banking Sector Remuneration

Pearse Doherty

191. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance in respect of the Mercer report which he commissioned in June 2012, which was published on 12 March 2013, and his call to the banks to deliver proposals to him by the end of April 2013 detailing their plans to deliver 6% to 10% savings in remuneration, if he will confirm if he has now received proposals from all relevant banks, and if not, if he will confirm which banks have not delivered proposals. [24096/13]

Banking Sector Remuneration

Pearse Doherty

192. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance further to his call to banks to deliver proposals by the end of April 2013 to save 6% to 10% on remuneration if he has now considered those proposals, if he satisfied that the proposals are sufficient to deliver 6% to 10% savings; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24097/13]

NAMA Staff Unauthorised Disclosures

Pearse Doherty

193. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 62 of 8 May 2013, if he will confirm that the National Asset Management Agency has provided loan information to its borrowers showing the par value of loans and the NAMA acquisition price in this specific incidence. [24098/13]

NAMA Staff Unauthorised Disclosures

Pearse Doherty

194. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 62 of 8 May 2013, the reason the National Asset Management Agency has apparently provided loan information to its borrowers showing the par value of loans and the NAMA acquisition price in this specific incidence. [24099/13]

NAMA Staff Unauthorised Disclosures

Pearse Doherty

195. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 62 of 8 May 2013, if he will outline the commercial disadvantages to which the National Asset Management Agency is exposed by providing loan information to its borrowers showing the par value of loans and the NAMA acquisition price. [24100/13]

NAMA Staff Unauthorised Disclosures

Pearse Doherty

196. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 62 of 8 May 2013, if he will confirm in each of 2010, 2011,2012 and to date in 2013, the number of possible breaches of data protection laws that have been reported by the National Asset Management Agency to the Office of the Data Protection Commissioner. [24101/13]

NAMA Staff Unauthorised Disclosures

Pearse Doherty

197. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 62 of 8 May 2013, if he will confirm that the National Asset Management Agency has contacted the Office of the Data Protection Commissioner about the release of loan information, the date on which NAMA contacted the ODPC; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24102/13]

NAMA Staff Unauthorised Disclosures

Pearse Doherty

198. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 62 of 8 May 2013, if he will outline the safeguards that exist in the National Asset Management Agency to prevent the release of loan information to its borrowers showing the par value of loans and the NAMA acquisition price. [24103/13]

NAMA Staff Unauthorised Disclosures

Pearse Doherty

199. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 62 of 8 May 2013, if he will confirm the number of debtors to whom the National Asset Management Agency has provided loan information showing the par value of loans and the NAMA acquisition price. [24104/13]