Parliamentary questions

Local Authority Finances

Pearse Doherty

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

Local Authority Finances

Pearse Doherty

447. 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 confirm the component of the €312,483,594.87 debts from previous years are more than six years old; and if local authorities are now time barred from recovering these debts. [18728/13]

Local Authority Finances

Pearse Doherty

448. 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 confirm the total written off by local authorities in 2012 in respect of development levies due but which were no longer collectable because of statute of limitations issues. [18729/13]

Local Authority Finances

Pearse Doherty

449. 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 provide a breakdown of the €312,483,594.87 of development levies due for previous years by year in which the amount became payable. [18730/13]

Local Authority Finances

Pearse Doherty

450. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 137 of 13 March and following the filing for bankruptcy in the United States state of Connecticut by a person (details supplied) on 29 March 2013 and his listing of his creditors, if he will indicate the liability he has to Kildare County Council, Wicklow County Council and Dublin City Council; and when those liabilities arose. [18731/13]

Naturalisation Applications

Pearse Doherty

468. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will provide an explanation for the delay in processing the naturalisation application of a person (details supplied) in County Dublin. [18366/13]

Personal Insolvency Act

Pearse Doherty

472. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of individuals adjudged bankrupt in the State in each of the years 2010, 2011 and 2012. [18408/13]

Personal Insolvency Act

Pearse Doherty

473. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Justice and Equality the overall number of individuals in the State whose bankruptcy has not yet been discharged. [18409/13]

Tribunals of Inquiry Recommendations

Pearse Doherty

474. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Justice and Equality the steps that he has taken to implement the recommendations of the Moriarty Tribunal. [18413/13]

Tribunals of Inquiry Recommendations

Pearse Doherty

475. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Questions os. 502 on 1 May 2012,153 on 12 December 2012 and 470 on 12 March 2013, if he is concerned at the time taken by An Garda Síochána to examine the report of the Moriarty Tribunal published on 22 March 2011; and his views that there is a risk of damage to public trust in the institutions of the State with the elapse of over two years since the report was published. [18417/13]

Tribunals of Inquiry Recommendations

Pearse Doherty

476. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Justice and Equality if he has received requests from An Garda Síochána or from the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions for additional resources to assist in the investigation of matters arising from the publication of the report of the Moriarty Tribunal on 22 March 2011. [18418/13]

Judicial Appointments

Pearse Doherty

477. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will confirm the total number of appointments of judges to the judiciary between 9 March 2011 to date in 2013. [18419/13]

Personal Insolvency Act

Pearse Doherty

478. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Justice and Equality if he has had discussions with the Troika about the commencement of all the provisions contained in the Personal Insolvency Act 2012; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18421/13]

Personal Insolvency Act

Pearse Doherty

479. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will onfirm when the new personal insolvency arrangements were required to be introduced under the original Memorandum of Understanding with the programme finance troika; and if will provide an explanation for any delays with meeting the original condition in the Memorandum of Understanding. [18422/13]

Personal Insolvency Act

Pearse Doherty

480. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Justice and Equality the reason there have been delays in the commencement of all the provisions contained in the Personal Insolvency Act 2012 which was signed into law on 26 December 2012; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18423/13]

Personal Insolvency Act

Pearse Doherty

481. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will provide the date on which all the provisions contained in the Personal Insolvency Act 2012 will be commenced; and if he will identify the principal person or persons responsible for ensuring processes are in place before all of the provisions can be commenced. [18424/13]

Animal Disease Controls

Pearse Doherty

516. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the supports and guidance currently available within his Department to assist farmers in their bid to eliminate BVD from their farms; if his Department will provide any financial support in terms of compensation to the suckler farming industry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18233/13]

Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Applications

Pearse Doherty

558. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason an area aid payment issue remains unresolved (details supplied) in County Donegal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19084/13]

Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Applications

Pearse Doherty

559. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a decision will be made with regard to an area aid payment in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Donegal. [19085/13]

Hospital Waiting Lists

Pearse Doherty

578. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Health when an appointment for a person (details supplied) in County Donegal will be made available, in view of the fact that this treatment was diagnosed as priority and the patient has been on a priority waiting list since November 2012; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18238/13]

Hospital Services

Pearse Doherty

582. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Health the progress that has been made to date with reinstating the rheumatology service at Letterkenny General Hospital, County Donegal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18258/13]

Departmental Expenditure

Pearse Doherty

611. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Health if he will provide the total actual and total profile spend, split by capital and current, for his Department for the three months, January, February and March 2013; and the reason for any variance [18574/13]

EU-IMF Programme of Support

Pearse Doherty

612. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Health if he will outline the information he is now required to provide each month to the programme finance Troika and the reason this additional information has been sought; the length of time this monthly reporting and monitoring will be required; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18575/13]

Organ Donation

Pearse Doherty

640. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Health the position regarding reviewing the system of organ donation to a presumed opt out; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18888/13]

Mobility Allowance Administration

Pearse Doherty

652. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Health if any further progress has been made with the way an alternative scheme to the mobility allowance and motorised transport grant will be administered; if a decision will be made prior to the cessation of payments to those currently in receipt of mobility allowance; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19014/13]

Road Projects Expenditure

Pearse Doherty

673. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the total amount contributed to date by the State for the construction of the A5 primary road route between Derry and the N2 in the State. [18733/13]

Ministerial Advisers Remuneration

Pearse Doherty

17. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide details of any and all pay increases awarded to special advisers in his Department over the last two years. [17838/13]

Pension Provisions

Pearse Doherty

36. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will consider applying a special levy or charge to reduce the pensions of former Taoisigh, Ministers and other Oireachtas officeholders. [14065/13]

Ministerial Advisers Remuneration

Pearse Doherty

55. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will provide details of all pay increases awarded to special advisers in his Department over the last two years. [18313/13]

Ministerial Advisers Remuneration

Pearse Doherty

84. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance if he will provide details of all pay increases awarded to special advisers in his Department over the last two years. [18312/13]

Ministerial Advisers Remuneration

Pearse Doherty

106. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide details of all pay increases awarded to special advisors in his Department over the last two years. [18310/13]

Ministerial Advisers Remuneration

Pearse Doherty

130. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will provide details of all pay increases awarded to special advisers in his Department over the last two years. [18315/13]

Ministerial Advisers Remuneration

Pearse Doherty

155. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide details of all pay increases awarded to special advisers in her Department over the last two years. [18317/13]

Ministerial Advisers Remuneration

Pearse Doherty

164. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if he will provide details of all pay increases awarded to special advisors in his Department over the last two years. [18306/13]

Ministerial Advisers Remuneration

Pearse Doherty

170. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will provide details of all pay increases awarded to special advisors in his Department over the last two years. [18308/13]

Ministerial Advisers Remuneration

Pearse Doherty

190. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide details of all pay increases awarded to special advisers in his Department over the last two years. [18311/13]

Ministerial Advisers Remuneration

Pearse Doherty

209. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will provide details of all pay increases awarded to special advisers in his Department over the last two years. [18316/13]

Ministerial Advisers Remuneration

Pearse Doherty

213. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Defence if he will provide details of all pay increases awarded to special advisers in his Department over the last two years. [18309/13]

Ministerial Advisers Remuneration

Pearse Doherty

232. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide details of all pay increases awarded to special advisers in his Department over the last two years. [18305/13]

Ministerial Advisers Remuneration

Pearse Doherty

235. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will provide details of all pay increases awarded to special advisors in her Department over the last two years. [18307/13]

Ministerial Advisers Remuneration

Pearse Doherty

255. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Health if he will provide details of all pay increases awarded to special advisers in his Department over the last two years. [18314/13]

Ministerial Advisers Remuneration

Pearse Doherty

262. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide details of all pay increases awarded to special advisers in his Department over the last two years. [18318/13]

School Enrolments

Pearse Doherty

49. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide a timeframe for when he intends to publish legislation to amend the Education Welfare Act to ensure fairer school enrolment policies; and if he will provide details on the way in which he plans to guarantee a more equitable admission policy to schools. [17574/13]

School Guidance Counsellors

Pearse Doherty

57. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Education and Skills his views on whether the more marginalised children are suffering the worst effects of cuts to guidance counselling in schools; and his plans to have guidance and counselling staffed in an ex-quota manner. [17573/13]

Child Care Costs

Pearse Doherty

135. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the proposals she has to improve the level of child care and early education cost supports, particularly for parents on low to middle incomes; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17269/13]

Youth Services Provision

Pearse Doherty

166. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will list the funding allocations for each of the past five years for each funded youth project in the city of Dublin and throughout the State; her plans to secure additional funding for these projects; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17281/13]

Employment Rights

Pearse Doherty

209. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance if he will re-examine the case of a person (details supplied) in County Wexford with respect to the failure of a previous employer to provide a P45. [17612/13]

Banks Recapitalisation

Pearse Doherty

219. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance if he will provide an assessment of the overall cost to the State of the bailout of Permanent TSB if senior bondholders had been wiped out in March 2011. [16124/13]

Banks Recapitalisation

Pearse Doherty

220. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance if he will provide an assessment of the overall cost to the State of the bailout of Anglo Irish Bank and Irish Nationwide Building Society if senior bondholders had been wiped out in March 2011. [16122/13]

Banks Recapitalisation

Pearse Doherty

221. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance if he will provide an assessment of the overall cost to the State of the bailout of Allied Irish Banks and the Educational Building Society if senior bondholders had been wiped out in March 2011. [16123/13]

Economic Growth Rate

Pearse Doherty

238. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance if he will confirm that the economy is back in recession; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16281/13]

IMF Loan Issues

Pearse Doherty

239. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 96 of 21 March 2013, if he will confirm that the State is paying a higher rate of interest on its borrowings from the International Monetary Fund than the rate of interest nationally applying to similarly-dated sovereign bonds; and the consideration that has been given by his Department and the National Treasury Management Agency to the early repayment of IMF loans through the issuance of sovereign debt. [16282/13]

State Banking Sector

Pearse Doherty

240. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance if he will confirm the stake held in Bank of Ireland by the American group of investors (details supplied); the consideration paid for that stake; the stake held by the State in Bank of Ireland; and the consideration paid for that stake. [16283/13]

Banks Recapitalisation

Pearse Doherty

241. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance if he will estimate the additional provision that will need to be made in the accounts of Bank of Ireland; if that bank has to write down the value of non-performing loans to the value of the underlying security; and if he will confirm that such a write-down will result in demands to the State to provide additional capital. [16284/13]

Banking Sector

Pearse Doherty

242. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance if he is concerned that following the recent sale by KBC and Banco Santander of their 21.4% share in the Polish bank, Bank Zachodni WBK, for €1.2bn, that Allied Irish Banks in which he holds 99.8% of the shares, sold its 70% share in the same bank for €2.94bn in 2010. [16285/13]

Banking Sector

Pearse Doherty

243. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance if he will confirm the current deficit in the pension scheme of Bank of Ireland, in which he owns 15% of the shares and in which he owns a substantial preference shareholding; and if addressing the deficit may result in demands to the State to provide additional capital. [16286/13]

Banking Sector Remuneration

Pearse Doherty

244. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance further to the recent publication of the report and accounts for Bank of Ireland for 2012, in which the Chief Executive Officer confirmed that he had waived €67,000 of his remuneration, if he has sought waivers of salary at Bank of Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16287/13]

Banks Recapitalisation

Pearse Doherty

245. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance his position regarding the provision of additional capital to Bank of Ireland, should that bank decide to pursue a new rights issue. [16288/13]

Banks Recapitalisation

Pearse Doherty

250. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 179, 180, 188 and 227 of 26 March 2013, to which he, in part, responded that the Eurogroup advised against this proposal, but it recognised that fiscal measures such as taxes and levies are matters for individual member states, whether in a programme of assistance or not, if he will provide an assessment of the benefit that would have flowed to the State if a 99% tax or levy had been imposed on senior unguaranteed bondholders in Anglo Irish Bank and Irish Nationwide Building Society from March 2011. [16361/13]

Banking Sector

Pearse Doherty

251. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 193 of 26 March 2013, the way advertised threat of forcing banks to write down the value of problem loans to the value of the underlying security is any different to pre-existing requirements under International Financial Reporting Standards and particularly International Accounting Standard 39. [16362/13]

Mortgage Resolution Processes

Pearse Doherty

252. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 194 of 26 March 2013, in which he stated that banks have been given targets of proposing sustainable mortgage solutions to 20% of mortgage loans that are 90 days in arrears by 30 June 2013, and that this would equate to 20% of 94,488 PDH and 28,421 BTL loans by reference to arrears at 31 December 2012, his views on whether it is feasible that banks can propose solutions to 25,000 mortgage accounts in the forthcoming three months, equivalent to 2,000 per week or 400 per working day; and if the Central Bank of Ireland will be monitoring progress on reaching targets on an ongoing basis. [16363/13]

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]

School Patronage

Pearse Doherty

437. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide details of a proposed new school (details supplied) in County Dublin; the type of school; the size; the catchment area; the time scale for its construction; and when it expects to start enrolment. [16769/13]

Company Law

Pearse Doherty

544. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation his plans to examine the so called prepack receiverships to address concerns that companies are being bought out of debt by their existing owners, with limited marketing of the business to other potential buyers, while smaller creditors are being excluded from the process. [16280/13]

Private Residential Tenancies Board Remit

Pearse Doherty

586. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Social Protection further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 136 and 144 on 21 March 2013, in which she stated she had obtained data from the Private Residential Tenancies Board including a snapshot of the PRTB’s database which stores all annual rental values and relevant addresses, if she will confirm the way accessing such information was permitted in the context of data protection legislation. [16295/13]

Job Vacancies

Pearse Doherty

599. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Social Protection the number of persons who have had their attention brought to a job (details supplied) by her Department; the number of jobs outside the island of Ireland her Department has brought to the attention of jobseekers; and if she will list the countries in which her Department has brought jobs to the attention of jobseekers. [16538/13]

Broadcasting Sector Regulation

Pearse Doherty

724. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if Radio Telefís Éireann journalists and presenters are subject to contracts which prevent them doing their job in a way which will undermine the objectives, including the commercial objectives, of RTÉ; and if there is a conflict between such terms and a journalist and presenter’s duty to report on matters in an unfettered manner, particularly on matters relating to RTÉ. [16292/13]

Broadcasting Sector Regulation

Pearse Doherty

725. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will lay before the Oireachtas the latest report and financial statements of the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland. [16293/13]

Broadcasting Sector Remuneration

Pearse Doherty

733. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will provide a list of the top ten remuneration packages paid at RTE in 2011 and 2012, including the packages paid to presenters and management; and, if such information cannot be provided because of data protection reasons, if he will provide an overall total of the top ten remuneration packages split between total salary, total employer contributions to pensions, total other pay and perks. [16535/13]

Local Authority Finances

Pearse Doherty

765. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 165 and 166 of 21 March 2013, if he will provide, in tabular form, the total income of local authorities for 2002-2010 setting out amounts received under the headings of specific State grants, commercial rates, fees and charges for goods and services and general purpose grants from the Local Government Fund. [16296/13]

Departmental Funding

Pearse Doherty

768. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government when full approval will be granted by his Department for a project (details supplied) in County Donegal, which has been initially approved for funding by DLDC and has been referred to his Department for approval in December 2012; if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the delay in granting final approval for this project has put this project significantly behind schedule for construction; if the project will be approved by his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16317/13]

Departmental Funding

Pearse Doherty

769. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the total amount of money that has been allocated to projects under the LEADER programme to date; the total amount of money available for allocation under the LEADER programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16318/13]

Election Management System

Pearse Doherty

785. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government following the recent by-election in Meath East, the steps he took to reserving polling station and count staff positions for those on the live register where practicable; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16596/13]

Election Management System

Pearse Doherty

786. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government following the recent by-election in Meath East, if he will outline the requirements in respect of the advertising of polling station and count staff positions in advance of each election; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16597/13]

Election Management System

Pearse Doherty

787. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government following the recent by-election in Meath East, the number of the persons employed in the following roles in the by-election who were immediately previously unemployed or on the live register: Special Presiding Officers, Presiding Officers, Supervisory Presiding Officers and Area Inspectors, Poll Clerks, Count Supervisors, Count Calculators and Counters. [16598/13]

Election Management System

Pearse Doherty

788. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government following the recent by-election in Meath East, if he will provide the number of the persons employed in the following roles in the by-election, and the average remuneration provided: Special Presiding Officers, Presiding Officers, Supervisory Presiding Officers and Area Inspectors, Poll Clerks, Count Supervisors, Count Calculators and Counters. [16599/13]

Property Taxation Exemptions

Pearse Doherty

794. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the reason an estate (details supplied) in County Dublin was not included on the current or previous list of unfinished estates prepared by his Department; and if he will consider its inclusion. [16693/13]

Property Taxation Exemptions

Pearse Doherty

795. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the criteria used in the compilation of the list of unfinished estates by his Department; and the criteria used in drawing up the initial list under the previous Government. [16694/13]

Liquor Licensing Laws

Pearse Doherty

887. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Justice and Equality if there is any current provision similar to section 19 of the Intoxicating Liquor Act 2000, which was in operation for one year, to allow those who currently hold a restricted publican licence to apply for a full seven day licence; if he intends to amend existing legislation to facilitate those wishing to upgrade their licences; his views on whether introducing such a provision would provide a boost to already established and successful businesses operating under restricted licences; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16332/13]

Crime Data

Pearse Doherty

899. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Justice and Equality the controls which exist in An Garda Síochána to ensure that all reported crimes are captured for statistical purposes by the Central Statistics Office. [16594/13]

Crime Data

Pearse Doherty

900. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Justice and Equality the way a member of the public who has reported a crime to An Garda Síochána can be confident that the crime has been captured for statistical purposes by the Central Statistics Office. [16595/13]