Parliamentary questions

Tax Reliefs Cost

Pearse Doherty

229. 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 doctors; the numbers who availed of the relief; and the rationale for this flat rate expense. [24171/13]

Tax Reliefs Cost

Pearse Doherty

230. 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 draughtsmen; the numbers who availed of the relief; and the rationale for this flat rate expense. [24172/13]

Tax Reliefs Cost

Pearse Doherty

231. 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 driving instructors; the numbers who availed of the relief; and the rationale for this flat rate expense. [24173/13]

Tax Reliefs Cost

Pearse Doherty

232. 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 engineers employed by semi-State bodies; the numbers who availed of the relief; and the rationale for this flat rate expense. [24174/13]

Tax Reliefs Cost

Pearse Doherty

233. 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 engineering industry and electrical industry from 1997-1998; the numbers who availed of the relief; and the rationale for this flat rate expense. [24175/13]

Tax Reliefs Cost

Pearse Doherty

234. 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 foresters employed by Coillte; the numbers who availed of the relief; and the rationale for this flat rate expense. [24176/13]

Tax Reliefs Cost

Pearse Doherty

235. 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 freelance actors; the numbers who availed of the relief; and the rationale for this flat rate expense. [24177/13]

Tax Reliefs Cost

Pearse Doherty

236. 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 grooms in racehorse training; the numbers who availed of the relief; and the rationale for this flat rate expense. [24178/13]

Tax Reliefs Cost

Pearse Doherty

237. 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 domestic staff in hospitals whose uniforms are supplied and laundered for free; the numbers who availed of the relief; and the rationale for this flat rate expense. [24179/13]

Tax Reliefs Cost

Pearse Doherty

238. 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 hotel industry employees; the numbers who availed of the relief; and the rationale for this flat rate expense. [24180/13]

Tax Reliefs Cost

Pearse Doherty

239. 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 journalists; the numbers who availed of the relief; and the rationale for this flat rate expense. [24181/13]

Tax Reliefs Cost

Pearse Doherty

240. 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 the individual local authorities employees, parks superintendents, town planners and so on; the numbers who availed of the relief; and the rationale for this flat rate expense. [24182/13]

Tax Reliefs Cost

Pearse Doherty

241. 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 workers in the mining industry; the numbers who availed of the relief; and the rationale for this flat rate expense. [24183/13]

Tax Reliefs Cost

Pearse Doherty

242. 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 workers in the motor repair and motor assembly trades; the numbers who availed of the relief; and the rationale for this flat rate expense. [24184/13]

Tax Reliefs Cost

Pearse Doherty

243. 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 nurses where their uniforms and supplied and laundered for free; the numbers who availed of the relief; and the rationale for this flat rate expense. [24185/13]

Tax Reliefs Cost

Pearse Doherty

244. 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 optometrists/dispensing opticians in employment; the numbers who availed of the relief; and the rationale for this flat rate expense. [24186/13]

Tax Reliefs Cost

Pearse Doherty

245. 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 dispensing opticians; the numbers who availed of the relief; and the rationale for this flat rate expense. [24187/13]

Tax Reliefs Cost

Pearse Doherty

246. 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 panel beaters and sheet metal workers; the numbers who availed of the relief; and the rationale for this flat rate expense. [24188/13]

Tax Reliefs Cost

Pearse Doherty

247. 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 pharmacists; the numbers who availed of the relief; and the rationale for this flat rate expense. [24189/13]

Tax Reliefs Cost

Pearse Doherty

248. 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 physiotherapists; the numbers who availed of the relief; and the rationale for this flat rate expense. [24190/13]

Tax Reliefs Cost

Pearse Doherty

249. 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 pilots; the numbers who availed of the relief; and the rationale for this flat rate expense. [24191/13]

Tax Reliefs Cost

Pearse Doherty

250. 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 plumbing trades; the numbers who availed of the relief; and the rationale for this flat rate expense. [24192/13]

Tax Reliefs Cost

Pearse Doherty

251. 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 printing, bookbinding and allied trades; the numbers who availed of the relief; and the rationale for this flat rate expense. [24193/13]

Tax Reliefs Cost

Pearse Doherty

252. 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 professional valuers in the Valuation Office; the numbers who availed of the relief; and the rationale for this flat rate expense. [24194/13]

Tax Reliefs Cost

Pearse Doherty

253. 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 radiographers; the numbers who availed of the relief; and the rationale for this flat rate expense. [24195/13]

Tax Reliefs Cost

Pearse Doherty

254. 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 respiratory and pulmonary function technicians; the numbers who availed of the relief; and the rationale for this flat rate expense. [24196/13]

Tax Reliefs Cost

Pearse Doherty

255. 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 members of the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra; the numbers who availed of the relief; and the rationale for this flat rate expense. [24197/13]

Tax Reliefs Cost

Pearse Doherty

256. 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 shipping employees, excluding the relief for members of the British merchant navy and British home or coasting trade; the numbers who availed of the relief; and the rationale for this flat rate expense. [24198/13]

Tax Reliefs Cost

Pearse Doherty

257. 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 members of the British merchant navy and the British home or coasting trade; the numbers who availed of the relief; and the rationale for this flat rate expense. [24199/13]

Tax Reliefs Cost

Pearse Doherty

258. 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 teachers; the numbers who availed of the relief; and the rationale for this flat rate expense. [24200/13]

Tax Reliefs Cost

Pearse Doherty

259. 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 veterinary surgeons in employment; the numbers who availed of the relief; and the rationale for this flat rate expense. [24201/13]

Tax Code

Pearse Doherty

264. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 65 of 9 May, if he will confirm that a form of SARP, old SARP, was operational in 2011, the conditions of which included the persons having earnings in excess of €100,000, being non-Irish domiciled and paid from a foreign payroll, that once these conditions were met the person was entitled to tax relief of 50% of their salary above €100,000 and that everyone who was entitled to this relief would have claimed it by now through either a form 12 or form 11, due by 31 October 2012, that this relief has now been grandfathered, meaning persons can continue to claim that relief and that there is no job creation condition attached to that relief; the number of persons that availed of the relief; the average cost per person; the total tax lost to the Exchequer; and if he will re-state that he is confident that only six persons have availed of the new SARP regime. [24249/13]

NAMA Bonds

Pearse Doherty

265. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 51 of 9 May 2013, if the Central Bank of Ireland’s holding of National Asset Management Agency bonds is considered a financial asset holding with limits; if consideration has been given by him in discussions with the Governor of the Central Bank of Ireland for the Central Bank of Ireland to acquire the outstanding NAMA bonds from Bank of Ireland, Allied Irish Banks and Permanent TSB as a way of reducing the balance sheet of those banks, freeing up capital costs for those banks who have to use or hold capital to provide against the NAMA bonds, reducing the amount of ECB funding that is extended on foot of the NAMA bond collateral to those banks and return the interest payable from NAMA on these bonds directly to the Central Bank of Ireland and thus ultimately to the Exchequer; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24251/13]

Tax Yield

Pearse Doherty

266. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 187 of 30 April 2013, in which he stated that the exemption of interest on savings certificates, national instalment savings and index linked savings bonds cost the Exchequer €138.2 million in the last full tax year for which there is data, if he will confirm that the money lost to the Exchequer from this exemption is estimated based on DIRT being applied to the interest in these savings; and if he will confirm the current DIRT rate. [24252/13]

Tax Code

Pearse Doherty

267. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance if international investors have to pay capital gains tax on the disposal of property here; and if not, the amount lost to the Exchequer as a result of this exemption. [24255/13]

Government Bonds

Pearse Doherty

268. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance if he will detail as part of his Department of Finance’s budgetary calculations if the figure of €800 million for 2013, €875 million for 2014 and €950 Million for 2015 in interest costs cited in the Department of Finance Pro Forma Transaction Impact Analysis – State Finances (Based on No Policy Change) document for those years are interest payments which his Department expect to be returned to the state from the Central Bank of Ireland profits after earnings at the end of 2013, 2014 and 2015 as part of their budgetary accounting for those years; if he will confirm if the full interest payments on these bonds as cited in the aforementioned document are not expected as part of his Department's calculations to be returned to the Exchequer as profits from the Central Bank of Ireland; if he will detail the calculations by his Department of the total profits expected to be returned from the Central Bank of Ireland to the Exchequer for 2013, 2014 and 2015; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24256/13]

European Banking Sector

Pearse Doherty

269. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance if discussions at an ECB level regarding acquisitions of asset backed securities could potentially include acquisitions of National Assets Management Agency bonds; if he will confirm further to his statements to the Joint Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform on the 8 of May 2013 if discussions at an ECB level regarding acquisitions of asset backed securities could potentially include acquisitions of securities tracker mortgage loans where the actual tracker mortgage loans would be taken completely off the balance sheet of the selling institution and taken onto the ECB’s balance sheet; if he will detail whether he has provided input to the Governor of the Central Bank of Ireland to seek to include NAMA bonds and tracker mortgages as a potential asset class which could be acquired by the ECB in any potential asset backed security purchase programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24257/13]

NAMA Bonds

Pearse Doherty

270. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance if he will detail the total combined impairment charges provided against the National Assets Management Agency senior and subordinated bonds in Allied Irish Banks, Bank of Ireland and Permanent TSB; if he will detail the total amount in euro of regulatory capital which is currently held by Allied Irish Banks, Bank of Ireland and Permanent TSB as a requirement arising from its holdings of NAMA senior and subordinated bonds; if he will detail if the regulatory changes at a domestic, European or global level may lead to an increase in capital being necessary to hold for banks retaining NAMA bonds; if he will detail the total amount of interest that shall be paid by NAMA to Allied Irish Banks, Bank of Ireland and Permanent TSB on its holding of NAMA bonds in 2013, 2014 and 2015 assuming no redemption of NAMA bonds are made for those 3 years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24258/13]

Government Bonds

Pearse Doherty

271. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance the total amount in euro of regulatory capital which is currently held by Allied Irish Banks, Bank of Ireland and Permanent TSB as a requirement arising from its holdings of Irish government bonds; if he will detail what regulatory changes at a domestic, European or global level that may lead to an increase in capital being necessary to hold for banks retaining Irish Government bonds; if he will detail the total amount of interest that shall be paid by the Irish Government on these government bonds held by Allied Irish Banks, Bank of Ireland and Permanent TSB in 2013, 2014 and 2015 assuming no sale of these bonds by the banks in question are made for those three years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24259/13]

IBRC Liquidation

Pearse Doherty

272. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance in view of the insider knowledge that Blackstone has on the Irish Bank Resolution Corporation arising from the work it has done on the IBRC loan book after it was retained in December 2011 to advise on the bank’s portfolio if it shall be precluded by the special liquidator KPMG from the bidding process for IBRC’s assets; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24260/13]

Central Bank of Ireland

Pearse Doherty

273. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance if he will detail further to his statement to the Joint Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform on Wednesday, 8 May 2013 that 10 days prior to the Committee hearing, the Central Bank of Ireland notified his Department that it had excess profits of about another €120 million or €125 million; if he will confirm if this is in addition to the €1.1 billion after retained earnings of profits announced by the Central Bank of Ireland in the publication of their annual report on the 30 of April 2013 that was paid to the Exchequer; if he will confirm whether the extra €120 or €125 million is above the calculations his Department had expected to be paid to the Exchequer from the Central Bank of Ireland in its published Pro Forma Transaction Impact Analysis – State Finances (Based on No Policy Change) document, and if so by how much; if he will provide an adjustment of the calculations in this document based on any changes to their assumptions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24261/13]

Central Bank of Ireland

Pearse Doherty

274. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance if he will detail in tabular form the total profits from the Central Bank of Ireland paid to the Exchequer on an annual basis between 2000 and to date; if he will confirm on what calendar date in the year are the profits of the Central Bank of Ireland after earnings paid to the Exchequer; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24262/13]

State Banking Sector

Pearse Doherty

275. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance if he is targeting a sale of Bank of Ireland preference shares before the deadline of the par payment by Bank of Ireland in March of 2014 of the €1.8 billion in preference shares; if he is concerned about risks of dilution of the value of the States shareholding in Bank of Ireland if the Bank is required to raise capital to replace the par payments made to the state under the preference share agreement with the Bank; if he will detail how much of the €1.8 billion par repayment of the preference shares he expects to receive from Bank of Ireland in March 2014 and if he expects to be paid in ordinary shares in the bank or in cash settlement for this par repayment; if he will detail when the total €1.8 billion is required to be repaid in par repayment from the Bank; if he will detail whether any par settlements for these preference shares are directly returnable to the Exchequer or the national pension reserve fund; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24263/13]

Budget 2014

Pearse Doherty

276. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance further to a meeting of the Joint Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform on Thursday, 9 May 2013 (details supplied) stating that the persons responsible for assessing budget 2014 and the SPU as part of the EU 6 and 2 pack system shall be the European Commission officials at the Ireland desk if he will detail the names of these officials and the number of officials responsible in the European Commission for supporting or criticising the SPU or the Ireland 2014 budget; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24264/13]

Tax Reliefs Cost

Pearse Doherty

279. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 187 of 30 April 2013, where he stated that tax relief for investment in films cost the Exchequer €42 million in the last full tax year for which there is data, if he will set out the criteria involved in availing of film tax relief; the number of persons that availed of the relief that year; if his attention has been drawn to any abuse of the relief scheme; and if so, the action he has taken to curtail the abuse. [24309/13]

Tax Reliefs Cost

Pearse Doherty

280. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 187 of 30 April 2013, where he stated that exemption of profits or gains from woodlands claimed from the Exchequer was €48.2 million in the last full year of data, which the maximum tax cost of €14.4 million, if he will set out the criteria for this tax exemption; the way it operates; his views on whether it is having any impact on agricultural development; or if there is an abuse of the scheme. [24310/13]

IBRC Liquidation

Pearse Doherty

286. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question 63 of 9 of May 2013, if he will confirm whether legal proceedings have already been issued in relation to whether the insolvency of IBRC is a relevant insolvency within the meaning of the British Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) Regulations 2006 in a British court; if he will detail the total number of employees prior to the liquidation of IBRC whose employment agreements were governed by British rather than Irish law; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24323/13]

IBRC Liquidation

Pearse Doherty

287. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 63 of 9 May 2013, if the insolvency of Irish Bank Resolution Corporation is not considered a relevant insolvency within the meaning of the British Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) Regulations 2006 that this legal reality could negatively impact on IBRC asset values and thus potential IBRC asset sales before transfer to National Assets Management Agency; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24324/13]

Tax Reliefs Cost

Pearse Doherty

288. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 187 of 30 April 2013, where he stated a figure of €52.6 million claimed and €19.5 million in assumed maximum tax costs in 2009 for other exemptions claimed by 635 people, if he will state what other exemptions consist of and the number of persons claimed per category. [24326/13]

Land Transfers

Pearse Doherty

289. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance the reason a student applying for stamp duty exemption under the transfer of land to young trained farmers, who successfully completed an honours BSc in agricultural technology at Queens University Belfast would be required to provide an additional letter of equivalence from Teagasc at the cost of €150; the reason there appears to be no consideration given to any education institutions in North of Ireland that award degrees in agriculture; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24327/13]

Tax Code

Pearse Doherty

291. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance the revenue that would be raised for the Exchequer, based on the last full year of data, if the surcharge amount applied to late filing of tax returns was increased to 6% after one month and 12% after two months; the current interest rate on late returns; and the estimated return for the Exchequer if interest on late payments was applied to all returns and not left to the Revenue to decide on a case by case basis. [24347/13]

State Bodies Accounts

Pearse Doherty

306. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance 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. [25022/13]

State Bodies Accounts

Pearse Doherty

365. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Education and Skills 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. [25020/13]

State Bodies Accounts

Pearse Doherty

366. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will outline any deadlines which exist for the laying of accounts before the Houses of the Oireachtas in respect of State-owned or substantially State-funded agencies. [24088/13]

State Bodies Accounts

Pearse Doherty

367. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his views on the impact on good governance and transparency of allowing the laying of accounts before the Houses of the Oireachtas in respect of State-owned or State-funded agencies to take place more than ten months after the end of the period to which the accounts relate. [24089/13]

State Bodies Accounts

Pearse Doherty

368. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will set out in tabular form the names of all State-owned or substantially State-funded organisations 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 the names of such organisations whose latest accounts are more than two years old - that is, relating to a period ending before May 2011.. [24090/13]

State Bodies Accounts

Pearse Doherty

369. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his views on imposing rules on all State-owned or substantially State-funded agencies so that they are compelled to lay their accounts before the Houses of the Oireachtas using the same deadlines that apply in the private sector for limited liability corporations. [24091/13]

State Bodies Accounts

Pearse Doherty

370. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the reason there are substantial delays between the auditing of the accounts of State-owned or substantially State-funded agencies by the Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General and the laying of such audited accounts before the Houses of the Oireachtas. [24092/13]

State Bodies Accounts

Pearse Doherty

381. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will lay before the Houses of the Oireachtas the latest report and accounts for the Labour Relations Commission. [24119/13]

Employment Appeals Tribunal

Pearse Doherty

382. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the current waiting times for hearings of the Employment Appeals Tribunal in each region; and his proposals to reduce same. [23748/13]

Company Law

Pearse Doherty

391. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will provide for 2012 the total number of six monthly filings at the Companies Registration Office in respect of companies that are in receivership; and of that total, the number that were delivered later than the statutory deadline. [24488/13]

Company Law

Pearse Doherty

392. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the avenues available to former business owners whose businesses are now in receivership and who are seeking information about the affairs of the company that would ordinarily be produced on the six monthly filing by the receiver but which has not been filed. [24489/13]

Company Law

Pearse Doherty

393. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will provide for 2012 the total number of six monthly filings at the Companies Registration Office in respect of companies that are in receivership; and of that total, the number that were incomplete when originally filed. [24490/13]

Company Law

Pearse Doherty

394. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will provide an assessment of the damage to good corporate governance and transparency that is done by receivers who fail to file six monthly filings at the Companies Registration Office in respect of companies that are in receivership. [24491/13]

Company Law

Pearse Doherty

395. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will provide in respect of 2012 an analysis by name of receiver the number of six monthly filings at the Companies Registration Office in respect of companies that are in receivership that were delivered later than the statutory deadline; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24492/13]

State Bodies Accounts

Pearse Doherty

396. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will lay the latest annual report and accounts of the Company Registration Office before the Houses of the Oireachtas. [24493/13]

State Bodies Accounts

Pearse Doherty

443. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Social Protection if she 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. [25024/13]

Cultural Trusts

Pearse Doherty

454. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if his attention has been drawn to the recent audit findings regarding the Temple Bar Cultural Trust; if his Department made any grants to the trust previously; and if so, if he will confirm that these grants were properly scrutinised in their operation and accounted for by the trust. [24219/13]

State Bodies Accounts

Pearse Doherty

456. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht 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, relate to a period ending before May 2012 and more than two years old, that is, relate to a period ending before May 2011. [25016/13]

RTE Expenditure

Pearse Doherty

467. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he has any responsibility in relation to the financial situation in RTÉ; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24132/13]

State Bodies Accounts

Pearse Doherty

471. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources 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 the names of such organisations whose latest accounts are more than two years old - that is, relating to a period ending before May 2011. [25018/13]

Tenant Purchase Scheme Eligibility

Pearse Doherty

476. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if he has given consideration to the current economic difficulty facing some local authority tenants, who are relying solely on social welfare payments at the moment; if he will consider a provision in the legislation currently being finalised in his Department whereby these tenants can avail of the incremental purchase scheme to enable them to purchase their local authority homes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23677/13]

Emigration Data

Pearse Doherty

498. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if he will confirm the funding that he is providing to the National Youth Council of Ireland for the research on emigration which formed the basis of the recent report Time to Go a qualitative research study exploring the experience and impact of emigration on Ireland’s youth. [24124/13]

Water Supply Contamination

Pearse Doherty

509. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the lack of clean water in the Lifford area of County Donegal over the past six years; if he will allocate funding for pipe replacement in 2013 to Donegal County Council to ensure that problems (details supplied) are rectified without further delay; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24353/13]

State Bodies Accounts

Pearse Doherty

512. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government 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. [25021/13]

Personal Insolvency Act

Pearse Doherty

534. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of personal insolvency practitioners who are currently authorised in the State to provide services pursuant to the Personal Insolvency Act 2012. [24126/13]

Personal Insolvency Act

Pearse Doherty

535. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Justice and Equality if there is a plan or target for end of June 2013 for the number of personal insolvency practitioners authorised in the State to provide services pursuant to the Personal Insolvency Act 2012; and if so, the way such targets will be achieved and the way targets are monitored; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24127/13]

Personal Insolvency Act

Pearse Doherty

536. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 204 of 24 April, 2013 if he will estimate the number of personal insolvency practitioners required to service 15,000 personal insolvency applications, 3,000 to 4,000 applications for debt relief notices and 3,000 bankruptcy applications in a 12 month period. [24128/13]

Commercial Leases Database

Pearse Doherty

537. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 489 of 26 February 2013 in which he advised the Commercial Leases Database would be published by the end of March 2013, and the subsequent failure of the Property Services Regulatory Authority which acts under his auspices to publish the CLD by the end of March 2013, if he will provide an explanation for the delay and a new date for the publication of the CLD; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24129/13]

Commercial Rent Reviews

Pearse Doherty

538. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Justice and Equality following the enactment of the Irish Bank Resolution Act 2013 and its provision to suspend property rights in the common good, and in view of a raft of recent examinerships in which reductions in commercial rents in so-called Upward Only Rent Review leases to market levels, have led to several high-profile businesses being saved, if he has considered consulting with his colleagues to re-examine the possibility of abolishing UORR leases; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24131/13]

State Bodies Accounts

Pearse Doherty

556. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Defence 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. [25019/13]

State Bodies Accounts

Pearse Doherty

591. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine 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. [25015/13]

State Bodies Accounts

Pearse Doherty

602. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will set out in tabular form the names of all State owned or substantially State funded organisations under her Department whose latest accounts laid before the Houses of the Oireachtas are more than one year old, that is, relate to a period ending before May 2012 and more than two years old, that is, relate to a period ending before May 2011. [25017/13]

Services for People with Disabilities

Pearse Doherty

606. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Health his views on whether it is appropriate that a child diagnosed with autism in February 2013 (details supplied) in County Donegal is still awaiting assistance from the Donegal autism services; if he will provide details on the current waiting times for children diagnosed with autism awaiting assistance in County Donegal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23639/13]

Hospital Appointment Status

Pearse Doherty

640. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Health when an urgent appointment will be made available for a person (details supplied) in County Donegal; if he can clarify the current waiting times for a public patient and a private patient awaiting appointment to see this consultant; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23992/13]

State Bodies Accounts

Pearse Doherty

705. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Health 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 the names of such organisations whose latest accounts are more than two years old - that is, relating to a period ending before May 2011. [25023/13]

Public Transport Subsidies

Pearse Doherty

719. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will outline the way the Public Service Obligation subvention paid to Bus Eireann is calculated and if there has been any change to the calculation basis for 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012 and to date in 2013. [24120/13]

Bus Éireann Services

Pearse Doherty

720. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide an assessment of the finances of Bus Éireann. [24121/13]

Bus Éireann Finances

Pearse Doherty

721. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will outline the financial results for Bus Éireann in 2012, its revenue, its profit and net assets. [24122/13]

Public Transport Subsidies

Pearse Doherty

722. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will confirm the Public Service Obligation payment made to Bus Éireann in each of 2009, 2010, 2011,2012 and proposed for 2013; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24123/13]

Human Rights Issues

Pearse Doherty

11. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his attention has been drawn to the recently released Human Rights Watch report which accuses the Burmese Government of crimes against humanity and not doing enough to stop ethnic violence in the country; and if he has discussed this issue with his European counterparts. [23223/13]

Human Rights Issues

Pearse Doherty

59. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his attention has been drawn to a recently released report by the US State Department which detailed human rights abuses in Bahrain; the recent arrest of prominent human rights defender Naji Fateel on 2 May ; and if he has discussed these issues with his European counterparts. [23232/13]

Deontais Caipitil

Pearse Doherty

193. D'fhiafraigh Deputy Pearse Doherty den Aire Ealaíon, Oidhreachta agus Gaeltachta maidir leis an gcúnamh caipitil a chuireann an Rannóg Áiseanna Pobail agus Teanga ina Roinn ar fáil, cad é luach na ndeontas a ceadaíodh in 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011 agus 2012, agus cén céatadán, contae ar chontae, a fuair na contaetha sin. [23475/13]

Health Services Expenditure

Pearse Doherty

250. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Health if he will provide in tabular form on a county basis, the way the €35 million allocated for additional staff in mental health services in Budget 2013 was spent; the locations at which the positions were created; the amount of additional posts that were created; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23376/13]

Health Services Expenditure

Pearse Doherty

251. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Health if he will outline the way the extra allocation of €35 million for mental health services in Budget 2013 has benefitted service providers and users; if he is satisfied that the allocation has been utilised to the maximum extent possible to increase the level of frontline mental health services available to the public; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23377/13]

Tourism Industry Issues

Pearse Doherty

46. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to address the fact that the number of nights spent in Ireland by overseas travellers decreased by 4.7% in 2012, down from 50.3 million to 47.9 million; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22858/13]

Sports Capital Programme Applications

Pearse Doherty

67. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when he expects to distribute the €13.5m in the sports capital programme 2013; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22847/13]

Consular Services Expenditure

Pearse Doherty

96. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade further to Parliamentary Question No. 48 of 2 May 2013, if he will provide an analysis, by type of allowance, of the €8,709,948 allowances paid to headquarter staff working at diplomatic missions in 2012. [23167/13]

Consular Services Expenditure

Pearse Doherty

97. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade further to Parliamentary Question No. 48 of 2 May 2013, in respect of the €8,709,948 allowances paid to headquarter staff working at diplomatic missions in 2012, if he will confirm the total of allowances paid against vouched receipts. [23168/13]

IBRC Loans

Pearse Doherty

113. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance his views on whether the Irish Bank Resolution Corporation breached the terms of its Commitments Letter to the European Commission by issuing a further €5 million loan to a person (details supplied) in 2012 to pay legal costs, when their debt with IBRC amounted to approximately €900 million in personal and corporate accounts at the time. [23153/13]