Parliamentary questions

Public Order Offences

Pearse Doherty

435. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Justice and Equality his plans to introduce an amendment to the Criminal Justice (Public Order) 2011 Act following the ruling in the cases (details supplied) which imposes a requirement on An Garda Síochána to establish that begging is taking place without legal authorisation before an arrest can be made, and in the case of foreign nationals, this requirement makes the legislation unworkable if a translator is required; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20023/13]

Insolvency Service of Ireland Issues

Pearse Doherty

436. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Justice and Equality the budget and head count for the Insolvency Service of Ireland for 2013, 2014 and 2015. [20024/13]

Personal Insolvency Act

Pearse Doherty

437. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Justice and Equality the safeguards that exist to ensure that personal insolvency practitioners act in an independent manner, particularly in view of the fact that PIPs will be constantly dealing with the same creditor banks where familiarity may undermine independence. [20026/13]

Courts Service Issues

Pearse Doherty

438. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will provide in tabular form the number of appeals waiting to be heard at the Supreme Court classified according to the year in which the appeal was allowed. [20027/13]

NAMA Debtors

Pearse Doherty

444. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of debtors of the National Asset Management Agency being investigated by An Garda Síochána following referral by NAMA arising from submissions by the debtors; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20291/13]

Hospital Services

Pearse Doherty

539. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Health the outcome of the internal review undertaken by the Health Service Executive in County Donegal regarding X-ray facilities in community hospitals including Dungloe Community Hospital; if he will give an assurance that X-ray facilities will continue to operate in Dungloe throughout the summer months; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19915/13]

Primary Care Centres Provision

Pearse Doherty

540. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Health the position regarding the proposed primary health care centre for Dungloe, County Donegal; if a location has been identified for the project; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19916/13]

Hospital Services

Pearse Doherty

541. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Health the services available within the campus at Dungloe Community Hospital, County Donegal, at present; and the services he expects to move from the present campus to the proposed new primary health care centre. [19917/13]

Departmental Reports

Pearse Doherty

554. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Health if he will outline the contents of the report that he has been asked to produce by the programme finance troika comparing the price of medicines here with other European countries; the scope of the report; the resources he has deployed to prepare the report; when the report will be finalised; and if it will be laid before the Oireachtas. [20022/13]

Arts Funding

Pearse Doherty

19. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if he will publish the report of the working group set up to explore fund-raising opportunities following on from the commitment given in the programme for Government; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19365/13]

Irish Language

Pearse Doherty

43. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if he will provide an update as to the progress that has been made as regards the commitment in the 20 year strategy to develop initiatives to encourage writing in Irish by young persons in a range of media, including journalism, blogging, creative writing, drama and film scripts; and the supports that have been provided to encourage such writers. [19284/13]

Vehicle Registration Tax

Pearse Doherty

57. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance the grounds on which a person (details supplied) in County Donegal was fined €1,500 for release of a seized car on 25 February 2011; if those grounds are still valid; and if they have the right to reclaim this money in view of the fact that they were not given due notice. [19558/13]

Agri-Environment Options Scheme Application Numbers

Pearse Doherty

194. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide a breakdown per county of the total number of farmers that are awaiting payments under the agri-environment options scheme; the reasons for the delay in administering payments; the expected date that the payments will issue; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19684/13]

Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Application Numbers

Pearse Doherty

195. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide a breakdown per county of the total number of farmers that are awaiting payments under the disadvantaged areas scheme; the reasons for the delay in administering payments; the expected date that the payments will issue; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19685/13]

Hospital Services

Pearse Doherty

236. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Health if he intends to upgrade the status of Letterkenny General Hospital, County Donegal, to a regional hospital; the impact this upgrade would have on the funding and services in the hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19690/13]

Government-Church Dialogue

Pearse Doherty

241. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide an itinerary of his official engagements in the Far East over the recent St. Patrick's Day holiday as part of the promote Ireland programme of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade. [19528/13]

Social Welfare Code

Pearse Doherty

45. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Social Protection if her attention has been drawn to the fact that the Court of Justice of the EU, in the case of Servet Kamberaj v Servet Kamberaj v Istituto per l’Edilizia Sociale della Provincia autonoma di Bolzano IPES, that EU member states are prohibited from implementing legislation which treats third-country nationals who are long-term residents different from EU citizens in relation to the allocation of certain types of social welfare payments; if she has examined the implications of this judgment for her Department; and if she will provide details of any discussions she has had on it. [18836/13]

Departmental Reports

Pearse Doherty

50. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Social Protection if her Department has conducted any research on identifying a minimum essential standard of living; if she will provide the results of this research and the methodology used; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18837/13]

NAMA Portfolio

Pearse Doherty

68. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 260 of 16 April 2013, if he will clarify the apparent inconsistency in policy between the National Asset Management Agency providing detailed information in a press release on its development of the Millmount project in Dundonald, County Down, but declines to provide information on its plans with respect to the 1916 National Monument site at 14-17 Moore Street, Dublin. [19348/13]

Banking Sector

Pearse Doherty

69. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 280 of 16 April 2013, if he will identify the independent advisors to Allied Irish bank and the AIB pension fund in the transaction whereby €1.2 billion of EBS mortgages were transferred from AIB to the AIB pension fund in August 2012; if the same company acted as independent advisor on both sides of the transaction; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19349/13]

NAMA Legal Fees

Pearse Doherty

70. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 274 of 16 April 2013, if he will confirm the reason legal fees were paid to ICSA Software International, a provider of computer software. [19350/13]

Personal Insolvency Act

Pearse Doherty

194. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Justice and Equality the annual revenues that will be generated by the new personal insolvency sector being established to deal with the mechanisms in the Personal Insolvency Act 2012. [19351/13]

Recognition of Foreign Divorces

Pearse Doherty

202. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Justice and Equality his views on the fact that certain divorces obtained outside the EU are not recognised here. [19353/13]

Declarations of Insolvency

Pearse Doherty

203. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Justice and Equality the position of this State recognising bankruptcy declarations in other jurisdictions; and if there are bankruptcy declarations in jurisdictions which this State does not recognise. [19354/13]

Debt Resolution Processes

Pearse Doherty

204. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will provide an estimate of the number of applications for personal insolvency orders, bankruptcies and debt relief notices that will be made in the State in the first 12 months after the commencement of the Personal Insolvency Act 2012. [19355/13]

Medicinal Products Expenditure

Pearse Doherty

253. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Health if he approached the British National Health Service to explore if there are further economies of scale or efficiency savings that might be achieved on the cost of medicines by pooling buying and resources with the Health Service Executive. [19352/13]

Departmental Expenditure

Pearse Doherty

142. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Taoiseach if he will provide in a tabular form for each of the years 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2012 the actual expenditure, and for 2013 the budgeted expenditure of the Director of Public Prosecutions together with the whole time equivalent posts. [18411/13]

Ministerial Advisers Remuneration

Pearse Doherty

148. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Taoiseach if he will provide details of any and all pay increases awarded to special advisors in his Department over the past two years. [18357/13]

Government-Church Dialogue

Pearse Doherty

150. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Taoiseach his plans for an official visit to Burma Myanmar; and if so, if he will outline the circumstances in which such plans were devised. [18403/13]

Overseas Development Aid Provision

Pearse Doherty

153. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will provide a list of donations of €1m or more by Irish Aid to organizations in 2012, showing the organisation name and the amount donated. [18430/13]

Human Rights Issues

Pearse Doherty

154. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the restrictions, if any, that apply to Irish businesses and individuals doing business with Burmese Myanmarese military and Burmese individuals and Burmese companies involved in human rights abuses. [18431/13]

Overseas Development Aid Provision

Pearse Doherty

155. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will confirm his Department’s funding provided to the Republic of Uganda in 2012 and in 2013; and his views on that country’s treatment of homosexuals including through its laws, and specifically his views on legislation before the Ugandan parliament at present which reportedly includes provision for a punishment of life imprisonment for consensual sex between two persons of the same sex. [18432/13]

Certificate of Irish Heritage

Pearse Doherty

156. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will confirm the cost of the Irish heritage certificate scheme to date and specifically the amount paid to date to scheme operator, Fexco; and the projected amounts overall to be paid to Fexco to the end of its contract. [18433/13]

Consular Services Expenditure

Pearse Doherty

157. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will set out in tabular form for each year 2011 and 2012, the cost, by country, of operating embassies, consulates, chanceries and other diplomatic representation, showing under separate headings for each country, premises, costs, salaries and earnings, and other costs. [18434/13]

Certificate of Irish Heritage

Pearse Doherty

158. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will confirm the number of Irish heritage certificates issued to date. [18435/13]

IBRC Liquidation

Pearse Doherty

182. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance following the statement by the Central Bank of Ireland on 7 March 2013 on the use of the deposit guarantee scheme to pay depositors at Irish Bank Resolution Corporation, the maximum period which small company depositors at Irish Bank Resolution Corporation will have to wait before being compensated from the DGS; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18436/13]

Financial Services Ombudsman

Pearse Doherty

183. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance if he will outline the obstacles which prevent the Financial Services Ombudsman from releasing details confirming the identity of financial institutions against which complaints have been made. [18437/13]

Financial Services Ombudsman

Pearse Doherty

184. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance if he will provide an assessment of the improvement to competition and probity that would result if the Financial Services Ombudsman was permitted to release details confirming the identity of financial institutions against which complaints have been made. [18438/13]

Bank Stress Tests

Pearse Doherty

185. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance further to confirmation that the Central Bank of Ireland has engaged BlackRock International to provide the stress-testing of Irish banks in 2013, if he will outline the principal acquisitions of assets in Ireland by BlackRock since the last stress-testing in January-March 2011. [18439/13]

Bank Stress Tests

Pearse Doherty

186. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance if he will outline the tendering process engaged in by the Central Bank of Ireland before the appointment of BlackRock International to provide services in relation to the stress-testing of Irish banks in 2013. [18440/13]

Bank Stress Tests

Pearse Doherty

187. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance if he will confirm the estimated cost of the stress-testing of Irish banks in 2013; and if he will confirm the component of this cost that relates to non-State entities. [18441/13]

Tax Collection

Pearse Doherty

188. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance further to the recent initiation of legal action in the High Court against several airlines including Aer Lingus, Ryanair and Comhfhirbairt Gaillimh in respect of recovery of the travel tax on short-haul flights if he will indicate the approximate value of the underpayments; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18442/13]

Personal Insolvency Act

Pearse Doherty

189. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance if he will outline the tax liabilities that may arise for a debtor if, under the provisions of the Personal Insolvency Act 2012, some debts attaching to the debtor are written-down or written-off. [18443/13]

IBRC Liquidation

Pearse Doherty

190. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance if he will outline any representations that he or his Department has received from, or on behalf of, borrowers at the Irish Bank Resolution Corporation in special liquidation, after the announcement of the special liquidation of IBRC on 6 February 2013. [18444/13]

IBRC Liquidation

Pearse Doherty

191. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance if he will confirm when the window in which the Special Liquidator of Irish Bank Resolution Corporation is allowing existing borrowers to refinance their loans 100%, is to expire. [18445/13]

IBRC Liquidation

Pearse Doherty

192. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance if he will confirm when the Special Liquidator of Irish Bank Resolution Corporation will commence offering loans to the market for sale. [18446/13]

National Debt

Pearse Doherty

193. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance if he will provide a breakdown of other debt management expenses of €38.27m in the March 2013 Exchequer Statement showing description of cost and recipient. [18447/13]

IBRC Liquidation

Pearse Doherty

194. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance if he will provide a breakdown of the €933.775million eligible liabilities scheme payment in the March 2013 Exchequer Statement between senior unguaranteed unsecured bondholders, senior unguaranteed secured bondholders, senior guaranteed secured bondholders, junior bondholders, depositors and others. [18448/13]

NAMA Operations

Pearse Doherty

195. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance if he will confirm the approximate cost of capital at the National Asset Management Agency. [18449/13]

NAMA Portfolio

Pearse Doherty

196. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 91 on 21 March 2013, if he considers the 4,000 homes that the National Asset Management Agency controls which are vacant to be distorting rent levels in the urban areas where NAMA says the majority of its housing is located. [18450/13]

NAMA Transactions

Pearse Doherty

197. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 272 on 29 January 2013, the reason it has taken nearly two years for the Financial Regulator to validate the process of the transfer of tranches 3 and 4 to the National Assets Management Agency where the par value of the loans was €19.2 billion and the NAMA acquisition was completed in June 2011. [18451/13]

NAMA Debtors

Pearse Doherty

198. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance if he will confirm the total number of individuals who are debtors of the National Asset Management Agency who have filed for bankruptcy outside the jurisdiction of the State. [18452/13]

NAMA Debtors

Pearse Doherty

199. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance if he wil provide an estimate of the total amount of original par value debt written off by the National Asset Management Agency as a result of debtors filing for bankruptcy outside the jurisdiction of the State. [18453/13]

NAMA Bonds

Pearse Doherty

200. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance if he will confirm the total value of bonds issued by the National Asset Management Agency as part of the special liquidation of the Irish Bank Resolution Corporation. [18454/13]

IBRC Liquidation

Pearse Doherty

201. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance if he will outline the process by which remaining unsold assets at the Irish Bank Resolution Corporation will be acquired by the National Asset Management Agency, including a description of the way NAMA will value the assets; and if the valuation will be subject to international scrutiny and the anticipated timing of the acquisitions. [18455/13]

IBRC Liquidation

Pearse Doherty

202. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance if he will confirm when he expects to know the valuation of the assets at Irish Bank Resolution Corporation by the special liquidator; and the way any shortfall in the value of IBRC’s assets compared with the NAMA bonds issued for IBRC assets be dealt with in the Exchequer Statement in 2013. [18456/13]

IBRC Liquidation

Pearse Doherty

203. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance if he will confirm the way assets not sold by the special liquidator of Irish Bank Resolution Corporation and not acquired by the National Asset Management Agency, that is employee loans, will be resolved; and what party will monitor the performance of such assets. [18457/13]

Budget 2014

Pearse Doherty

204. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance if he will confirm the date on which Budget 2014 will be presented to Dáil Éireann; and if he will outline the key budget processes and documents to be published, antecedent to the delivery of Budget 2014. [18458/13]

Budget Consultation Process

Pearse Doherty

205. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance if he will outline the consultations that will take place in relation to Budget 2014, with both national and international parties, together with the nature and timing of those consultations. [18459/13]

Budget Consultation Process

Pearse Doherty

206. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance if he will outline any special measures that will be adopted in 2013 in order to facilitate consultation prior to deciding on the final measures to be contained in Budget 2014. [18460/13]

IBRC Liquidation

Pearse Doherty

207. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance if he will confirm the value of loans at Irish Bank Resolution Corporation that have been refinanced out of IBRC between 6 February 2013 to date; and if he will confirm that in all cases, the refinancing was for 100% of the outstanding amount on the loan inclusive of all amounts due. [18461/13]

Financial Services Regulation

Pearse Doherty

208. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance if he will outline the rationale for providing for a €100,000 termination bonus for the Financial Regulator who was appointed in January 2010 and who has recently tendered his resignation to the Central Bank of Ireland. [18462/13]

Financial Services Regulation

Pearse Doherty

209. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance if he will outline the process for the appointment of a new Financial Regulator; and if the post is likely to be filled before the outgoing Financial Regulator leaves the Central Bank of Ireland in six months. [18463/13]

Financial Services Regulation

Pearse Doherty

210. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance if he will outline the duties to be performed by the Financial Regulator during his remaining six months employment at the Central Bank of Ireland; and if he will provide the expected salary and allowances to be paid to the Financial Regulator during this period. [18464/13]

Banking Sector Remuneration

Pearse Doherty

211. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance if he will confirm the number of employment contracts at the Central Bank of Ireland that provide for termination bonuses, such as that recently reported in the case of the Financial Regulator. [18465/13]

National Treasury Management Agency Remuneration

Pearse Doherty

212. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance if he will confirm the number of employment contracts at the National Treasury Management Agency that provide for termination bonuses, such as that recently reported in the case of the Financial Regulator. [18466/13]

Departmental Bodies Board Remuneration

Pearse Doherty

213. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance if he will confirm the status of salary waivers in 2013 at the National Treasury Management Agency and National Asset Management Agency, and specifically if 15% waivers by staff earning more than €200,000 are continuing; and if he will confirm if the Croke Park 2 agreement will mean additional cuts to salaries on top of the waivers. [18467/13]

Banking Sector

Pearse Doherty

214. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance if he has any concerns for the future of KBC Ireland which recently reported an additional bailout by its parent of €380m for 2012 after another year’s losses and which now has €2.7 billion of Irish deposits and €14 billion of Irish loans, having grown its deposit book by 60% in 2012 with relatively high deposit interest rates. [18469/13]

Banking Sector

Pearse Doherty

215. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance if he will provide an assessment of the risk to the financial health and profitability of Permanent TSB as well as to the public interest, from the announced resignation of persons (details supplie) from the board of PTSB in May 2013; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18470/13]

NAMA Loans Sale

Pearse Doherty

216. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance following news that the National Asset Management Agency is selling large portfolios of loans which bundle together loans to a single borrower, if he is concerned that the borrower may derive a benefit from providing pre-sale advice to certain bidders. [18471/13]

IBRC Liquidation

Pearse Doherty

217. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance if he will outline the safeguards which exist to prevent the special liquidator at Irish Bank Resolution Corporation from being subjected to improper influence from any quarter including borrowers or Government Departments, in his duties to maximize the value of IBRC assets. [18472/13]

IBRC Liquidation

Pearse Doherty

218. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance if it is appropriate to extend the anti-lobbying rules, which apply to the National Asset Management Agency, to the liquidation of Irish Bank Resolution Corporation. [18473/13]

Outright Monetary Transaction Scheme Eligibility

Pearse Doherty

219. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance further to the European Central Bank press conference on 4 April 2013 in which the President of the ECB, Mr Mario Draghi, referred to OMTs and their precise rules, his views that the rules surrounding the criteria for access to the Outright Monetary Transaction scheme are precise; and if so, if he will confirm if the State meets the criteria for accessing funding under the OMT scheme at this time. [18474/13]

Banking Sector Regulation

Pearse Doherty

220. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance if he is concerned at the criticism of the former management of Halifax Bank of Scotland by the British Parliamentary Commission on banking standards in its fourth report on 5 April 2013; and if he will confirm that he has confidence in a person (details supplie) of Bank of Ireland who previously occupied a senior position in HBOS. [18475/13]

Banking Sector Regulation

Pearse Doherty

221. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance if he will outline any relevant lessons and recommendations for the Irish banking sector, following the recent fourth report by the British Parliamentary Commission on banking standards on 5 April 2013. [18476/13]

NAMA Advisory Board

Pearse Doherty

222. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance if he will outline the activity over the past year of the National Asset Management Agency Advisory Board comprising persons (details supplied); and if he will outline any recommendations made by that board to him and the subsequent treatment of any such recommendations. [18477/13]

NAMA Advisory Board

Pearse Doherty

223. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance if he will provide an assessment of the utility over the past year of the National Asset Management Agency Advisory Board comprising persons (details supplied) [18478/13]

NAMA Board Appointments

Pearse Doherty

224. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance the reason he did not advertise the vacancy on the National Asset Management Agency board before deciding to appoint a person (details supplied) to the position of board member as announced by him on 5 April 2013; and if he considers the notification of vacancies on the NAMA board by his Department in February 2012 with a closing date for expressions of interest of 6 March 2012, sufficient to optimize the current pool of potential candidates from which to make an appointment to the board. [18479/13]

NAMA Loans Sale

Pearse Doherty

225. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance if the National Asset Management Agency has compared its internal rate of return with internal rates of return targeted by investors bidding for, and buying, NAMA properties and loans; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18480/13]

National Treasury Management Agency Bond Issues

Pearse Doherty

233. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance the amount of cash being held on balance by the National Treasury Managemnt Agency; the reason for this volume of this cash holding; if this cash is receiving any return for the State; the impact it would have on the interest spent on debt servicing, were the cash balance or a portion thereof be used to pay off the debt. [18719/13]

Tax Yield

Pearse Doherty

235. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance further to recent reporting that the Revenue Commissioners has recovered €45.5m from 328 individuals relating to trusts in Channel Islands, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, Isle of Man, Cayman Islands and the Seychelles, if he will outline the way the Revenue Commissioners will document these recoveries in its quarterly reporting of tax defaulters. [18757/13]

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]