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Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Nov 2016)

Peter Burke: It is a technical issue and we want clarity. Is that agreed? Agreed.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Nov 2016)

Peter Burke: If the Revenue or Department officials want to give further briefing for more clarification the committee can go in to private session again.

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: National Lottery Funding Disbursement (15 Nov 2016)

Peter Burke: 127. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if proposed changes to the Lottery Act 1956 would drive spending away from local voluntary groups; the way changes may affect key lottery income to local community organisations (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35144/16]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Motor Tax (15 Nov 2016)

Peter Burke: 287. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if he will include bloodstock owners and breeders who may not have a herd number as a group on the commercial tax listing of vehicles; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34668/16]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Motor Tax (15 Nov 2016)

Peter Burke: 278. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if he will advise on a motor tax issue for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34440/16]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (15 Nov 2016)

Peter Burke: 281. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if he will provide information on a proposed development (details supplied) in County Longford; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34482/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Applications (15 Nov 2016)

Peter Burke: 493. To ask the Minister for Health if he will expedite a medical card application in respect of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34609/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Administration (15 Nov 2016)

Peter Burke: 514. To ask the Minister for Health if he will expedite a procedure for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34663/16]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: GLAS Issues (15 Nov 2016)

Peter Burke: 644. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans for SAC farmland in terms of recent cuts to GLAS; the future EU funding for SAC farmland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34664/16]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Heavy Goods Vehicle Levy (15 Nov 2016)

Peter Burke: 679. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason haulage companies have to pay a tariff when entering Northern Ireland; the reason the reverse is not the case in the interests of equity; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34666/16]

Topical Issue Debate: Regional Development Initiatives (10 Nov 2016)

Peter Burke: I thank the Minister for taking this matter. On 30 June the local representatives in Mullingar received details from the legal adviser of Imperial Tobacco that the factory intended to close and relocate its manufacturing to the Netherlands. The decision meant the loss of 87 jobs, which were good strong jobs in Mullingar whose loss had a generational impact throughout the town. I demand...

Topical Issue Debate: Regional Development Initiatives (10 Nov 2016)

Peter Burke: I am aware that ownership of the site is not in the control of Enterprise Ireland or the IDA but we are talking about delivering an advance factory unit to Westmeath in 2017 and this unit is 10,000 sq. m in size and stands on a site of 8.5 ha. It is a large, ready-made site which can deliver a manufacturing facility into Mullingar. A total of 16 client companies from the IDA employ 2,300...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Nov 2016)

Peter Burke: As someone who has operated the new RCT system as an accountant, I would point out that there is a significant amount of genuine self-employment. Revenue has never been in possession of as much data as it has now. If one takes into consideration the changes that have happened since 2016 in terms of a principal actually registering a contract through the eRCT system, one will see that the...

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (10 Nov 2016)

Peter Burke: In the Comptroller and Auditor General's report, the discount rate is backed up by NAMA's cashflow projections and we have a lower discount rate, 2.5%, on the extract that is replicated in the report. What work does Mr. McCarthy's office undertake to stress test it commercially? At times, I get a view that it has to be backed up by the minutes and the board and its replicated cashflows....

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (10 Nov 2016)

Peter Burke: Has that work been carried out?

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (10 Nov 2016)

Peter Burke: My concern is in terms of the value-for-money audit. We are checking everything that is in the board. We are checking the data and backup, or lack thereof, NAMA has had for its decision. Mr. McCarthy's scope is to get the backup for the discount rate NAMA chose. It had cited different discount rates in the past which were lower than the one it chose for the portfolio. This is the...

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (10 Nov 2016)

Peter Burke: They need flexibility in that, but in the report it states that the board noted "that 5.5% rate should not be used as an over-arching discount rate to evaluate all potential transactions".

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (10 Nov 2016)

Peter Burke: Does the Comptroller and Auditor General stress test that to see if it is correct? The 2.5% sensitivity analysis it did on the cashflows could be off the wall commercially. That could be a reasonable comment.

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (10 Nov 2016)

Peter Burke: That aspect is important for this committee. When the Minister for Finance was before the committee, he quoted €32 billion of contingent liabilities for the State in exiting the bailout and it was not an option to work all these loans out to 2020. We are reading NAMA strategy but things evolve as the pace in Europe gathers. Does Mr. McCarthy concur with the Minister's view? I know...

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (10 Nov 2016)

Peter Burke: That is the nub of the issue, but how long could it hold them? Surely if the State had so much debt on its balance sheet, it had to get sales through and show that the banking system and the property market were getting back to some normality. Essentially that is what NAMA was there to do. That would be a fair point.