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- Other Questions: Tax Compliance (23 Jun 2015)
Michael Noonan: First, the Deputy's request for me to get off the script is rather inappropriate because the script is the prepared reply to the question the Deputy put down and if I did not did not reply to the question he put down, he would have another problem and another grievance.
- Other Questions: Tax Compliance (23 Jun 2015)
Michael Noonan: I have also informed the Deputy that the adjudication of whether somebody is an employee and-or self-employed is not a matter for the Revenue Commissioners. It is in accordance with the code of practice for determining employment or self-employment status of individuals and that document was prepared jointly by the Irish Congress of Trade Unions, business representative bodies and the...
- Other Questions: Tax Compliance (23 Jun 2015)
Michael Noonan: As a responsible citizen and as a Deputy of this House, I have no doubt the Revenue will take any allegation the Deputy makes seriously. I will bring the record of the House today to the attention of the Revenue Commissioners and I will request them to follow up the allegations he has made, but I presume that if they contact him personally, he will try and give them more precise information...
- Other Questions: Tax Compliance (23 Jun 2015)
Michael Noonan: -----with their follow-up.
- Other Questions: IBRC Mortgage Loan Book (23 Jun 2015)
Michael Noonan: What happened was that a number of purchasers of mortgage books complied voluntarily with the code of practice. If that is the precise question the Deputy wants answered, that means they willingly subjected themselves to the regulations and protocols being operated by the Central Bank in respect of regulated entities. We are now putting that on a statutory basis. We had very good...
- Other Questions: IBRC Mortgage Loan Book (23 Jun 2015)
Michael Noonan: Yes. The Deputy referred to a company which voluntarily complied with the code of practice. If it voluntarily complied, the Central Bank would ensure compliance. That is on a statutory basis from the time the Bill passes through the Seanad and is signed by the President. If there is a particular issue about a particular mortgage, I ask the Deputy to send it directly to the Central Bank or...
- Other Questions: Tax Compliance (23 Jun 2015)
Michael Noonan: I thank Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett for his question. Bogus self-employment in the context of the Deputy's question is generally accepted as referring to a practice of employers erroneously describing or treating employees as self-employed contractors. As the Deputy may be aware, a number of questions have been put down by other Deputies in recent times on this issue, especially as it...
- Other Questions: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (23 Jun 2015)
Michael Noonan: It is factored into the numbers, but the break-up of the measures within the fiscal space is not factored into them.
- Other Questions: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (23 Jun 2015)
Michael Noonan: I will publish a detailed reply to the report.
- Other Questions: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (23 Jun 2015)
Michael Noonan: I am not sure all the Opposition parties would be pleased if I were to do as the Deputy suggests.
- Other Questions: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (23 Jun 2015)
Michael Noonan: I, too, am independent.
- Other Questions: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (23 Jun 2015)
Michael Noonan: I am answerable to the House and constitutionally the Minister for Finance of the country. I do not have to follow the advice of the Irish Fiscal Advisory Council when it misunderstands my position.
- Other Questions: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (23 Jun 2015)
Michael Noonan: I do not believe the Irish Fiscal Advisory Council got it wrong. I agree with the main thrust of its advice, as I always have. The council operates in very much the same space as the Government and me. There is disagreement about some elements of detail, and much of the detail the council has focused on is due to a misunderstanding of what was in the stability programme update. I do not...
- Other Questions: IBRC Mortgage Loan Book (23 Jun 2015)
Michael Noonan: The code of conduct on mortgage arrears, CCMA, provides a strong consumer protection framework to ensure that borrowers struggling to keep up mortgage repayments are treated in a fair and transparent manner by their lender, and that long-term resolution is sought by lenders with each of their borrowers. The Central Bank uses a number of methods to monitor compliance with consumer...
- Other Questions: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (23 Jun 2015)
Michael Noonan: I admire the work of the Fiscal Advisory Council and am in general agreement with its overall view of the fiscal policy that should be followed. In the SPU, however, I had to use the data to hand at the time and we made it quite clear in the SPU that as the data changed the compliance rates would change. Subsequent to the publication of the SPU, the Commission came out with a new set of...
- Other Questions: Bank Restructuring (23 Jun 2015)
Michael Noonan: It will consult immediately with the staff if such a decision is made.
- Other Questions: Bank Restructuring (23 Jun 2015)
Michael Noonan: Commercial decisions.
- Other Questions: Bank Restructuring (23 Jun 2015)
Michael Noonan: I could not disagree more with the Deputy than in her policy position that Deputies and Ministers should be enabled to influence commercial decisions of the banks. We had a touch of that in the past and it would lead to absolute chaos. It is not the ordinary people of Ireland who would benefit from that, rather it is the people on the inside track who would benefit again. The policy is no...
- Other Questions: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (23 Jun 2015)
Michael Noonan: The Irish Fiscal Advisory Council was established in 2011 as part of a wider agenda of reform of Ireland's budgetary architecture as envisaged in the programme for Government. Subsequently, following approval of the fiscal compact treaty by referendum in 2012, the Irish Fiscal Advisory Council was placed on a statutory basis to fulfil the role of monitoring compliance with the fiscal...
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Tax Code (23 Jun 2015)
Michael Noonan: The Deputy has made a series of unsubstantiated allegations again, none of which is true as far as I am concerned. I am not patronising her in any way whatsoever. The Leas-Cheann Comhairle cut me off before I had completed the answer, the end of which would have pointed out-----