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Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Clearance Certificates (12 Dec 2017)

Paschal Donohoe: A condition for the award of State contracts or the payment of providers of services on behalf of the State is that the tenderer or the service provider must have a current tax clearance certificate in respect of Irish tax. Revenue administers the general scheme of tax clearance certification in accordance with section 1095 of the Taxes Consolidation Act 1997. The purpose of the tax...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Stamp Duty (12 Dec 2017)

Paschal Donohoe: It is assumed the Deputy is referring to the repayment of Stamp Duty where 75% of the land is used for residential development as included in section 61 of the Finance Bill 2017. I am advised by Revenue that information is not available in respect of the uptake of the measure (the future transactions that may qualify for the proposed relief from the 6 per cent rate) and therefore it is not...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tracker Mortgage Examination (12 Dec 2017)

Paschal Donohoe: As the Deputy is aware, the Central Bank’s most recent Tracker Mortgage Examination status update report was issued on 17 October last and it indicated that, as at the end of September, approximately 13,000 mortgage accounts have been identified as impacted through the examination.  This is additional to the 7,100 mortgage accounts which were rectified and...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: State Claims Agency (12 Dec 2017)

Paschal Donohoe: The SCA have informed me that in answering question 129 of 14  November 2017 it interpreted the request to relate to its audit programme carried out by its Risk Unit. They have also informed me that in August 2013 on receiving a claim in which it was alleged that personal injuries were caused by exposure to toxic substances in Baldonnel, the SCA emailed Litigation Branch and Claims...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (12 Dec 2017)

Paschal Donohoe: I am advised by Revenue that section 1049 of the Taxes Consolidation Act (TCA) 1997 sets out that a receiver appointed by a Court in the State which has the direction and control of property is assessed and charged to income tax or corporation tax, as appropriate, on the property as if the property were not under the direction and control of the Court. Such a receiver is answerable for doing...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Property Tax Application (12 Dec 2017)

Paschal Donohoe: I am advised by Revenue that under the Finance (Local Property Tax) Act 2012 (as amended), the person who is the liable person on the liability date for a particular year is the person who is responsible for the payment of Local Property Tax (LPT) for that year. Thus, for example, the person who is the liable person on 1 November 2017 is responsible for the payment of LPT for the year 2018....

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (12 Dec 2017)

Paschal Donohoe: For the purposes of Capital Acquisitions Tax (CAT), the relationship between the person who provides the gift or inheritance (i.e. the disponer) and the person who receives the gift or inheritance (i.e. the beneficiary), determines the life-time tax-free threshold – known as the “Group threshold” – below which gift or inheritance tax does not arise. Where a person...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Excise Duties Collection (12 Dec 2017)

Paschal Donohoe: I am advised by the Revenue Commissioners that details of the goods seized for the years 2012 to 2017 (to the end of November), for non compliance with excise obligations at Irish ports, are set out in the tables. I am also advised that it is not possible to extract the data by reference to individual ports, in the time available, however Revenue have stated that they will write directly to...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Oireachtas Members' Remuneration (12 Dec 2017)

Paschal Donohoe: The linking of the salary of a TD currently remunerated at €89,965 pa on the current Civil Service Principal Officer (Standard Scale) to the grade of Assistant Principal Officer (Standard Scale) at a current salary rate of  €70,281 pa would amount to an estimated annual saving of €3.11 million. The estimated...

Public Services Pay and Pensions Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (7 Dec 2017)

Paschal Donohoe: I move amendment No. 20:In page 27, between lines 34 and 35, to insert the following:"(3) Notwithstanding subsection (1)and subject to—(a) any requirement under any regulations made under section 37to repay any overpayment, or (b) any requirement arising under section 39to repay any deduction, a contribution of a public servant who is a member of a superannuation scheme established...

Public Services Pay and Pensions Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (7 Dec 2017)

Paschal Donohoe: An Garda Síochána will benefit fully from this agreement.

Public Services Pay and Pensions Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (7 Dec 2017)

Paschal Donohoe: As the arguments have been covered in dealing with several other sections, I do not intend to repeat them. However, I emphasise that the focus of the approach taken in the Bill is consistent with that of previous legislation and how I handled industrial relations disputes in the recent past. The idea is simply to try to ensure there are benefits to being inside an agreement and, therefore,...

Public Services Pay and Pensions Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (7 Dec 2017)

Paschal Donohoe: There is a good reason in that the Bill provides for the restoration of all fixed allowances that were reduced under the FEMPI (No. 2) Act 2009. The reductions were applied to allowances across the public service, including allowances paid to health sector staff such as nurses and consultants, as well as allowances paid to other public servants such as gardaí and teachers. The...

Public Services Pay and Pensions Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (7 Dec 2017)

Paschal Donohoe: I will supply all of the information to Deputy Dara Calleary. I will ensure all of it is given to him on the cost of the various options if the restoration schedule was to be changed; on what the cost would be per year and on what the impact would be on the rest of the agreement. All of that information can be supplied to him by means of a paper to him personally or his committee. In the...

Public Services Pay and Pensions Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (7 Dec 2017)

Paschal Donohoe: I move amendment No. 17:In page 19, after line 40, to insert the following:“ “NILGOSC member” means a public servant—(a) who is a ‘‘Reserved Rights scheme Member’’, as that term is defined in Rule A10 of the North/South Pension Scheme, and (b) to whom the terms of the scheme constituted by the Local Government Pension Scheme Regulations...

Public Services Pay and Pensions Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (7 Dec 2017)

Paschal Donohoe: I move amendment No. 18:In page 22, to delete lines 3 to 5 and substitute the following:“(a) a member of a public service pension scheme that is a defined contribution scheme, (b) a core member, or (c) a NILGOSC member.”.

Public Services Pay and Pensions Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (7 Dec 2017)

Paschal Donohoe: I will not be accepting the amendment for the following reason.

Public Services Pay and Pensions Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (7 Dec 2017)

Paschal Donohoe: I thank all the Deputies for the points they made. In terms of how we will move this matter forward, many Deputies are referring to two different issues. The first is the distinction between covered and non-covered workers, which is at the heart of this section. When will the provision be implemented? It will be implemented by the passage of this legislation. It does not require a...

Public Services Pay and Pensions Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (7 Dec 2017)

Paschal Donohoe: I thank the Deputies for raising these issues. The overall effect of this Bill is to bring to an end the income reduction our public and civil servants endured during the crisis. Several Deputies have called on me to end the financial emergency measures in the public interest, FEMPI, legislation. From an earnings point of view this is bringing FEMPI to an end for 90% of those in the public...

Public Services Pay and Pensions Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (7 Dec 2017)

Paschal Donohoe: It makes clear that if people vote for the agreement they will receive some of the wage changes taking place early and increment progression has not been automatic in our wage policy to date. The availability of those increments and the ability to gain them depends on whether people are part of a group of unions to accept the agreement.