Parliamentary questions

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]

NAMA Staff Unauthorised Disclosures

Pearse Doherty

200. 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, including the par value and NAMA acquisition value, to borrowers in respect of loans which do not directly relate to the borrower. [24105/13]

NAMA Staff Unauthorised Disclosures

Pearse Doherty

201. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 62 of 8 May 2013, if he will confirm the actions undertaken by the National Asset Management Agency to address the apparent provision of loan information to its borrowers showing the par value of loans and the NAMA acquisition price. [24106/13]

NAMA Staff Unauthorised Disclosures

Pearse Doherty

202. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 62 of 8 May 2013, if he will confirm that he has confidence in the ability of the National Asset Management Agency to protect confidential loan information relating to its borrowers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24107/13]

Debt Resolution Pilot Scheme

Pearse Doherty

203. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance the consultation that took place between his Department and the Central Bank of Ireland before the launch of the pilot scheme for consumer multi-debt restructuring on 8 May 2013. [24108/13]

Debt Resolution Pilot Scheme

Pearse Doherty

204. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance if there is a legislative basis by which unsecured creditors can be forced to accept write-downs in outstanding debt under the Central Bank of Ireland pilot scheme for consumer multi-debt restructuring. [24109/13]

Debt Resolution Pilot Scheme

Pearse Doherty

205. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance the names of creditor companies that have signed up to the Central Bank of Ireland pilot scheme for consumer multi-debt restructuring; and if he will outline the impact the reported rejection of the scheme by the Irish League of Credit Unions will have on the scheme. [24110/13]

Debt Resolution Pilot Scheme

Pearse Doherty

206. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance if he will outline the way so-called service providers will be accredited or appointed by the Central Bank of Ireland under the pilot scheme for consumer multi-debt restructuring; his views on newspaper reporting that a single British service provider might be engaged by the CBI; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24111/13]

NAMA Qualifying Investor Fund

Pearse Doherty

207. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 51 of 17 January 2013, if he will provide an update on the National Asset Management Agency plans for Qualified Investor Funds, tenders for the administration of which were issued more than a year ago, with NAMA predicting it would launch at least two QIFs in 2012. [24112/13]

NAMA Investment Funds

Pearse Doherty

208. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance further to the announcement by the National Asset Management Agency in May 2012 of €2bn of investment to confirm the way this investment is differentiated by NAMA with other advances made prior to the announcement, and in respect of the investment not covered by the €2bn announcement, the investment approved to date and the total investment provided to date. [24113/13]

NAMA Operations

Pearse Doherty

209. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance further to the announcement by the National Asset Management Agency in May 2012 of €2bn of so-called vendor financing or staple financing, if he will confirm the total of such financing provided by NAMA to date; the number of transactions to which such financing has applied; and the total amount repaid to NAMA from such arrangements. [24114/13]

NAMA Portfolio

Pearse Doherty

210. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance in respect of the €6,758,000 of so-called trading properties held in the balance sheet of the National Asset Management Agency at 31 December 2012, if he will provide an analysis of this property by property type including totals for each residential real estate, commercial real estate, jewellery and art, and if he will outline the way NAMA disposes of this property. [24115/13]

IBRC Liquidation

Pearse Doherty

211. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance if he will provide a schedule of reports that he will lay before the Houses of the Oireachtas on the special liquidation of the Irish Bank Resolution Corporation, an outline of the content of the reports and the dates on which they will be published. [24116/13]

NAMA Portfolio Value

Pearse Doherty

212. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance if he will confirm the number of acres of agricultural land in the State under the control of the National Asset Management Agency. [24117/13]

NAMA Operations

Pearse Doherty

213. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance if he will confirm the amounts paid by the National Asset Management Agency to educational institutions for research in each of 2010, 2011,2012 and to date in 2013. [24118/13]

Tax Reliefs Cost

Pearse Doherty

215. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance the cost to the Exchequer in the latest tax year for which full data is available of flat rate expenses for agricultural advisors employed by Teagasc; the numbers who availed of the relief; and if he will set out the rationale for this flat rate expense. [24157/13]

Tax Reliefs Cost

Pearse Doherty

216. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance the cost to the Exchequer in the latest tax year for which full data is available of flat rate expenses for archaeologists; the numbers who availed of the relief; and the rationale for this flat rate expense. [24158/13]

Tax Reliefs Cost

Pearse Doherty

217. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance the cost to the Exchequer in the latest tax year for which full data is available of flat rate expenses for airline cabin crews; the numbers who availed of the relief; and the rationale for this flat rate expense. [24159/13]

Tax Reliefs Cost

Pearse Doherty

218. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance the cost to the Exchequer in the latest tax year for which full data is available of flat rate expenses for bar trade employees; the numbers who availed of the relief; and the rationale for this flat rate expense. [24160/13]

Tax Reliefs Cost

Pearse Doherty

219. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance the cost to the Exchequer in the latest tax year for which full data is available of flat rate expenses for trades people and professionals working in the building industry; the numbers who availed of the relief; and the rationale for this flat rate expense. [24161/13]

Tax Reliefs Cost

Pearse Doherty

220. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance the cost to the Exchequer in the latest tax year for which full data is available of flat rate expenses for bus, rail and road operatives; the numbers who availed of the relief; and the rationale for this flat rate expense. [24162/13]

Tax Reliefs Cost

Pearse Doherty

221. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance the cost to the Exchequer in the latest tax year for which full data is available of flat rate expenses for cardiac technicians; the numbers who availed of the relief and the rationale for this flat rate expense; and the reason it is paid differently for men and women. [24163/13]

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Pearse Doherty

222. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance the cost to the Exchequer in the latest tax year for which full data is available of flat rate expenses for carpentry and joinery tradespeople; the numbers who availed of the relief; and the rationale for this flat rate expense. [24164/13]

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Pearse Doherty

223. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance the cost to the Exchequer in the latest tax year for which full data is available of flat rate expenses for architectural technologists and assistants, clerks of work, engineering technicians for archaeologists, parks rangers and constables employed for the Office of Public Works, engineers and surveyors; the numbers who availed of the relief; and the rationale for this flat rate expense. [24165/13]

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Pearse Doherty

224. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance the cost to the Exchequer in the latest tax year for which full data is available of flat rate expenses for clergymen in the Church of Ireland; the numbers who availed of the relief; and the rationale for this flat rate expense. [24166/13]

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Pearse Doherty

225. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance the cost to the Exchequer in the latest tax year for which full data is available of flat rate expenses for hospital consultants; the numbers who availed of the relief; and the rationale for this flat rate expense. [24167/13]

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Pearse Doherty

226. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance the cost to the Exchequer in the latest tax year for which full data is available of flat rate expenses for cosmetologists; the numbers who availed of the relief; and the rationale for this flat rate expense. [24168/13]

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Pearse Doherty

227. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance the cost to the Exchequer in the latest tax year for which full data is available of flat rate expenses for dentists in employment; the numbers who availed of the relief; and the rationale for this flat rate expense. [24169/13]

Tax Reliefs Cost

Pearse Doherty

228. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance the cost to the Exchequer in the latest tax year for which full data is available of flat rate expenses for dockers; the numbers who availed of the relief; and the rationale for this flat rate expense. [24170/13]