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Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Pay (17 May 2018)

Paschal Donohoe: The Public Service Stability Agreement 2018-2020 (PSSA), provided that an examination of remaining salary scale issues in respect of post January 2011 recruits at entry grades would be undertaken within 12 months of the commencement of the Agreement. Additionally, as the Deputy is aware, this Government accepted an amendment at Section 11 of the Public Service Pay and Pensions Act...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: EU Funding (17 May 2018)

Paschal Donohoe: At the outset I would like to restate the Irish Government's firm commitment to the successful implementation of the current PEACE and INTERREG Programmes and to successor programmes post-2020. As part of the contingency planning undertaken by the Government prior to the Brexit referendum, my Department identified the risks to these EU-funded programmes in the event of the UK voting to...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Equality Proofing of Budgets (17 May 2018)

Paschal Donohoe: The ongoing work regarding Equality Budgeting in Ireland follows the Programme for a Partnership Government commitment to ‘develop the process of budget and policy proofing as a means of advancing equality, reducing poverty and strengthening economic and social rights’. The National Strategy for Women and Girls 2017-2020 also contains a related commitment. The elements that...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Shared Services (17 May 2018)

Paschal Donohoe: PeoplePoint is the Civil Service HR and pensions shared service centre – it is a processing centre for HR and pensions administration on behalf of 35,400 Civil Service customers. In 2017, PeoplePoint, now called HR Shared Services, completed in excess of 231,000 HR and pensions transactions and received over 86,000 calls and 4 million website visits. PeoplePoint applies Government HR...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Ministerial Functions (17 May 2018)

Paschal Donohoe: Under the Minister and Secretaries Act 1924, as amended, the Commissioners of Public Works in Ireland (Board of Commissioners) and its powers, duties and functions are assigned to, and administered by, the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform as the responsible head of the Board of the Commissioners to Dáil Éireann. The Ministers and Secretaries Act, 1924 designates the...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: EU Funding (17 May 2018)

Paschal Donohoe: The Europe 2020 strategy document sets out specific targets under a range of objectives including employment, research and development (R&D), climate change and energy, education, and poverty and social exclusion. The Irish targets under Europe 2020 with regard to social inclusion are to reduce: - consistent poverty to 4% by 2016 (interim target) and to 2% or less by 2020, from a...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Expenditure Data (17 May 2018)

Paschal Donohoe: Table 3 on Page 22 of the Summer Economic Statement (SES) 2017 set out an amount of €3.2 billion in respect of the estimated net fiscal space for 2019. In arriving at this net amount, the fiscal space impact of certain pre-committed voted expenditure was deducted from the gross fiscal space. The nominal amounts relating to these pre-commitments were set out in Table 1.3 on Page 9 of...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Economic Growth (17 May 2018)

Paschal Donohoe: As part of the 2018 Stability Programme Update (SPU), my Department forecast growth in the overall pay bill (private and public combined) of 5.7 per cent in 2018. This is made up of growth in average pay of 2.6 per cent, with the remainder due to growth in the number of employees. Pay bill growth is projected to average 5.1 per cent per annum thereafter, with average pay expected to grow at...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Common Consolidated Corporate Tax Base Proposals (17 May 2018)

Paschal Donohoe: As the Deputy may be aware, the European Commission’s proposal for the Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF) 2021-2027 was published on 2 May 2018. I welcome the publication of the proposals which marks the start of an important debate on the future of the EU Budget. The proposals are detailed and will require careful examination over the coming period, particularly as further...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Motor Insurance Costs (17 May 2018)

Paschal Donohoe: I note that the specific case which the Deputy mentions refers is a business owner seeking motor insurance at a competitive rate. The Deputy will appreciate that it would not be appropriate for me to comment on or review any particular case, but I will focus my reply on the Deputy's question on the steps taken within my remit to address the issue of insurance costs. As Minister for Finance,...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Dog Breeding Industry (17 May 2018)

Paschal Donohoe: Section 9 of the Dog Breeding Establishments Act 2010 provides that each local authority must maintain a register of dog breeding establishments located in its area of responsibility. The Act also places an obligation on any person seeking to operate a dog breeding establishment to have the premises included on the register. However, Revenue does not have any role to play under the Dog...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Motor Insurance Coverage (17 May 2018)

Paschal Donohoe: As Minister for Finance, I am responsible for the development of the legal framework governing financial regulation. Neither I nor the Central Bank of Ireland can interfere in the provision or pricing of insurance products, as these matters are of a commercial nature, and are determined by insurance companies based on an assessment of the risks they are willing to accept. This position is...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (17 May 2018)

Paschal Donohoe: In March the Commission published two proposed Directives in relation to the taxation of digital economy. The first proposal is a ‘temporary’ solution of a 3% levy on turnover from certain digital service activities. The thresholds for application of a global turnover of €750 million and EU turnover of at least €50 million. The second, "comprehensive solution"...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Departmental Staff Data (17 May 2018)

Paschal Donohoe: Of the seventeen Bodies under the aegis of my Department, I am informed that in the location listed by the Deputy there are seven people employed at Assistant Principal level of which one will be due to retire in the coming year.

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Departmental Staff Data (17 May 2018)

Paschal Donohoe: Of the seventeen Bodies under the aegis of my Department, I am informed that in the location listed by the Deputy there are seven people employed at Assistant Principal level.

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Departmental Staff Data (17 May 2018)

Paschal Donohoe: Of the seventeen Bodies under the aegis of my Department, I am informed that in the location listed by the Deputy there are no current plans to recruit at Assistant Principal level or equivalent in the next five years.

Written Answers — Department of Finance: House Prices (17 May 2018)

Paschal Donohoe: The Department of Finance continues to monitor developments in the residential property market, including trends in property prices. Ongoing monitoring allows my Department to assess the property sector’s contribution to the economy, as well as to scrutinise potential risks emerging from the wider construction industry. The Department monitors price levels through stamp duty returns...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (17 May 2018)

Paschal Donohoe: I am informed by Revenue that section 86 of the Capital Acquisitions Tax Consolidation Act (CATCA) 2003 provides for a dwelling house exemption which allows for property to be inherited tax-free where the inheritor is already living in the home subject to certain conditions. Firstly, the inherited dwelling house must have been the deceased person’s principal private residence at the...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: State Aid (17 May 2018)

Paschal Donohoe: The Government profoundly disagrees with the European Commission’s analysis in the Apple State Aid case. An appeal is therefore being brought before the European Courts. Such an appeal takes the form of an application to the General Court of the European Union (GCEU), asking it to annul the Commission’s Final Decision. The Attorney General prepared the legal grounds in...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Banking Sector Data (17 May 2018)

Paschal Donohoe: I have received the following response from AIB:"AIB does not monitor individual customer social media accounts and as such never makes decisions using individual customer’s social media data. The only individual social media data that’s used by the bank is when a customer contacts us on AIB Group Social Channels and we respond to specific queries from customers as is normal...