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Written Answers — Department of Finance: VAT Rate Application (14 Nov 2017)

Joan Burton: 117. To ask the Minister for Finance the expected gain to the Exchequer in 2018 arising out of the right to retain a proportion of the VAT paid on certain services provided to unregistered customers in other member states which has been assumed in his Department's estimates of tax yield for the year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47807/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Gaelscoil Issues (14 Nov 2017)

Joan Burton: 157. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of Gaeltacht schools at primary and post-primary level that expressed interest and did not express interest in being designated as a Gaeltacht school under his departmental plan; the anticipated difference in the number of Gaeltacht schools resulting from this process; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47811/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (14 Nov 2017)

Joan Burton: 158. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of days worked by substitute teachers in primary schools in the school year 2016-2017; the number of days of absence by primary teachers for which substitute teachers could have been employed in the same period; the number of substitute days worked in primary schools in 2016-2017 by retired teachers and unqualified persons acting in...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teachers' Remuneration (14 Nov 2017)

Joan Burton: 159. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason for the difference in figures for the cost of restoring pay equality for post 2010 education and training sector employees as set out by him in the Dáil Éireann on 10 October 2017 as €130 million in a full year, compared with his response of 11 September 2017 in which the cost was €85 million for a full year;...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Complaints Procedures (14 Nov 2017)

Joan Burton: 160. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to issue guidelines for a procedure under the Education Act 1998 whereby parents' complaints regarding teaching or other school matters may be dealt with at local level. [47814/17]

Topical Issue Debate: Tax Avoidance (9 Nov 2017)

Joan Burton: I do not know that there is anything new in what the Minister of State has said. I would like to know what new demands, if any, the Minister for Finance has made in respect of the banks since the publication of this information. I refer in particular to those banks which were bailed out at a significant and continuing cost to Irish taxpayers. Was any new initiative undertaken as a...

Topical Issue Debate: Tax Avoidance (9 Nov 2017)

Joan Burton: The recently released Paradise Papers and, before them, the Panama Papers tell a shocking story of the world's wealthiest companies and individuals using secretive offshore tax havens to shelter their wealth from the legitimate tax demands of tax authorities across the world. Ireland's name features in all this, which, like Robin Hood in reverse, seeks to rob the poor, the working class and...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 Nov 2017)

Joan Burton: I do not believe there is too much distance between the various arguments being made around the table. Perhaps it might be helpful to look at some principles. One of the first principles relates to someone who is earning a good deal or has a business where that business is making a large profit. If that business is a key domestic business, such as banking, and it is profitable on a current...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 Nov 2017)

Joan Burton: The Minister referred to the Minister of State, Deputy Michael D'Arcy, who took over from him yesterday. He promised, if requested, to give us a technical note on the parallel issue of Irish real estate funds, IREFs, which were debated yesterday. I am requesting that the technical note be provided.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 Nov 2017)

Joan Burton: I move amendment No. 47: In page 39, between lines 7 and 8, to insert the following: “Report on minimum effective rate of corporation tax. 22. The Minister shall within one month from the passing of this Act prepare and lay before Dáil Éireann a report on the merits of a minimum effective rate of corporation tax, along the lines of the minimum effective rate of income...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 Nov 2017)

Joan Burton: I am sure that the Minister knows that the premise on which that particular 2014 report was produced is not appropriate to the dilemma now faced by this country on this matter. We have already had a number of examples in this debate of prominent companies and structures of one kind or another which have had the happy result for their owners of being able to avoid paying practically any...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 Nov 2017)

Joan Burton: I used it in reference to our reputation.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 Nov 2017)

Joan Burton: Our reputation-----

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 Nov 2017)

Joan Burton: Yes, in terms of reputation.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 Nov 2017)

Joan Burton: I wish to reply.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 Nov 2017)

Joan Burton: In the Revenue documentation that was given to the Committee on Budgetary Oversight where the Revenue did point to the fact that of the €46 billion increase in profits in the tax returns was the primary factor underlying the increase of €2.2 billion in corporation tax. That is the stand-out fact in relation to the story of Irish corporation tax in recent years. The country has...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 Nov 2017)

Joan Burton: In regard to the point made by Deputy Michael McGrath about how one deals with minimum effective tax rates, I do not think one has to worry in the sense that one can pick a figure at which that begins to operate. The discussion earlier was in relation to the banks and their very significant profits running into the hundreds of millions, and probably into billions in the next year or two. It...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 Nov 2017)

Joan Burton: Yes.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 Nov 2017)

Joan Burton: I strongly support the two amendments tabled by Deputy Michael McGrath which are reasonable, contained and confined. Unless Revenue or the Department can show otherwise, I do not believe the amendments would constitute a mechanism that would facilitate the widespread abuse of the scheme. As the Chairman said, in terms of their quality of life and access to the ordinary activities of life...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 Nov 2017)

Joan Burton: I wish to comment on amendment No. 69, the proposal to have a risk assessment of the sustainability of stamp duty receipts. At the beginning of the debate on the Finance Bill I said I was shocked that this increase in stamp duty was leaked. It was leaked very comprehensively in all of the main national newspapers, particularly on the weekend before the budget, in a way...