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- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Tax Code (23 Jun 2015)
Michael Noonan: I have not seen any evidence of a negative impact on Exchequer returns and a change to self-employment in the construction sector and I cannot, therefore, accept the Deputy's assertion in that regard. I assume that the Deputy's reference to ensuring that RCT is "not used in a manner to deny workers in the sector basic rights" relates to the RCT system which is a tax deduction at source...
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Tax Code (23 Jun 2015)
Michael Noonan: As I stated already, guidance on whether a person is engaged as an employee or as a self-employed contractor is provided in the Code of Practice for Determining Employment or Self-Employment Status of Individuals, which document was prepared jointly by the Irish Congress of Trade Unions, business representative bodies and relevant State agencies. The guidance on the different conditions of...
- 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-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Tax Code (23 Jun 2015)
Michael Noonan: I know. I am not objecting. I am completing the answer by giving the Deputy the e-mail reference.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Tax Code (23 Jun 2015)
Michael Noonan: Deputy Coppinger has made allegations of widespread abuse arising from the fact that persons who should be treated as employees-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Tax Code (23 Jun 2015)
Michael Noonan: -----are being treated as self-employed to their disadvantage. Normally, the charge is that people who should be treated as employees want to be self-employed for tax purposes.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Tax Code (23 Jun 2015)
Michael Noonan: The Deputy has reversed that, saying that they are being exploited. If she has facts to support that, she should go to Revenue. I am giving her the reference to do so.
- Other Questions: Bank Restructuring (23 Jun 2015)
Michael Noonan: I thank the Deputy for her question. As she will be aware, under the relationship framework the State does not intervene in the day-to-day operations of the banks in which it holds investments or their management decisions regarding commercial matters. Hence, any discussion around matters such as outsourcing is a matter for the bank, the relevant staff and their union...
- Other Questions: Bank Restructuring (23 Jun 2015)
Michael Noonan: The Deputy would have received answers to the effect that the State was at arm's length from the banks and that we did not interfere in commercial decisions. The relationship framework sets out clearly that the political side should not interfere in commercial decisions. Consider when Anglo Irish Bank was nationalised or when, in the early days of this Government, I recapitalised PTSB, AIB...
- 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...
- 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: 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...