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Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (18 Feb 2014)

Eoghan Murphy: 766. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to tackle the emerging hospital consultant recruitment crisis. [8264/14]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Noise Pollution (18 Feb 2014)

Eoghan Murphy: 837. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide details of the policy of Iarnród Éireann regarding the operation of diesel trains that remain in stations in residential areas; if there is a policy of not allowing such engines to stand idle with engine running for longer than 15 minutes; if this policy is observed; the way it is monitored; if the policy...

Recent Flooding: Statements (Resumed) (19 Feb 2014)

Eoghan Murphy: I commend the Minister of State, Deputy Brian Hayes, on all of the work he has done in this area since 2011. In October 2011 Dublin city was hit very badly by flooding and the Minister of State responded immediately. We debated in the Dáil the next day as a Topical Issue what had happened the previous evening and what needed to be done. Deputy Kevin Humphreys and I, from Dublin Bay...

Roads Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) (20 Feb 2014)

Eoghan Murphy: I will pick up where the last speaker left off with regard to the major potential for rail in this country, including passenger services and especially freight. I hope when the new agency is up and running it will focus as part of its work programme on how we can expand and improve that area of transport infrastructure in our economy. I very much welcome the Bill, which is important...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (20 Feb 2014)

Eoghan Murphy: Can I ask the Clerk to organise our next sub-committee meeting on NAMA for the beginning of March if possible? Could the Comptroller and Auditor General give us a quick update on preparations for the tri-annual report, the first one under the legislation? With regard to this correspondence, after NAMA informed us that it had done a board evaluation report again this year, we requested...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (20 Feb 2014)

Eoghan Murphy: I have a question on the tri-annual report by the Comptroller and Auditor General. Has he had a chance to look at those board evaluations and has it been in detail?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (20 Feb 2014)

Eoghan Murphy: In the correspondence that we received on 22 January it stated that the Comptroller and Auditor General would look at them.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (20 Feb 2014)

Eoghan Murphy: Is it correct that we would not be able to see, for example, the 2013 evaluation until some time next year? The Comptroller and Auditor General would not be looking at it until some time next year when the accounts for 2013 were-----

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (20 Feb 2014)

Eoghan Murphy: Are you looking at it now?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (20 Feb 2014)

Eoghan Murphy: Will that be contained in the tri-annual report in terms of the evaluation after 2013?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (20 Feb 2014)

Eoghan Murphy: I do not know whether the committee wants to write to NAMA to push this point and seek more details on the actual evaluation. In terms of the presentation that was given to the board, I do not know if we want to push that or wait until April, when the Comptroller and Auditor General has had a chance to look at it himself.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (20 Feb 2014)

Eoghan Murphy: Agreed.

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 9 - Office of the Revenue Commissioners
Chapter 23 - Revenue Collection
Chapter 24 - Management of Revenue Debt
Chapter 25 - Taxpayer Compliance
Chapter 26 - Corporation Tax Losses
Chapter 27 - Tax Audit Settlements (20 Feb 2014)

Eoghan Murphy: I thank Ms Feehily and her colleagues for attending. I want briefly to touch on four areas. The first is to pick up where others have left off regarding LPT statistics. When Revenue took over this responsibility when this new tax was introduced, in terms of resources how did that impact on Revenue?

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 9 - Office of the Revenue Commissioners
Chapter 23 - Revenue Collection
Chapter 24 - Management of Revenue Debt
Chapter 25 - Taxpayer Compliance
Chapter 26 - Corporation Tax Losses
Chapter 27 - Tax Audit Settlements (20 Feb 2014)

Eoghan Murphy: Was Revenue given additional resources to manage this?

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 9 - Office of the Revenue Commissioners
Chapter 23 - Revenue Collection
Chapter 24 - Management of Revenue Debt
Chapter 25 - Taxpayer Compliance
Chapter 26 - Corporation Tax Losses
Chapter 27 - Tax Audit Settlements (20 Feb 2014)

Eoghan Murphy: Is Revenue requesting additional staff?

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 9 - Office of the Revenue Commissioners
Chapter 23 - Revenue Collection
Chapter 24 - Management of Revenue Debt
Chapter 25 - Taxpayer Compliance
Chapter 26 - Corporation Tax Losses
Chapter 27 - Tax Audit Settlements (20 Feb 2014)

Eoghan Murphy: Earlier Ms Feehily talked about the data available to her from the property tax returns and how she would like to do more work with it when she has time. Is she requesting staff to do that kind of work? Is that in the pipeline?

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 9 - Office of the Revenue Commissioners
Chapter 23 - Revenue Collection
Chapter 24 - Management of Revenue Debt
Chapter 25 - Taxpayer Compliance
Chapter 26 - Corporation Tax Losses
Chapter 27 - Tax Audit Settlements (20 Feb 2014)

Eoghan Murphy: Revenue would use that to feed into investigations in other areas.

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 9 - Office of the Revenue Commissioners
Chapter 23 - Revenue Collection
Chapter 24 - Management of Revenue Debt
Chapter 25 - Taxpayer Compliance
Chapter 26 - Corporation Tax Losses
Chapter 27 - Tax Audit Settlements (20 Feb 2014)

Eoghan Murphy: Revenue took over responsibility for the household charge that preceded the LPT. What is the compliance rate with that?

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 9 - Office of the Revenue Commissioners
Chapter 23 - Revenue Collection
Chapter 24 - Management of Revenue Debt
Chapter 25 - Taxpayer Compliance
Chapter 26 - Corporation Tax Losses
Chapter 27 - Tax Audit Settlements (20 Feb 2014)

Eoghan Murphy: Is Revenue's figure more accurate?

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 9 - Office of the Revenue Commissioners
Chapter 23 - Revenue Collection
Chapter 24 - Management of Revenue Debt
Chapter 25 - Taxpayer Compliance
Chapter 26 - Corporation Tax Losses
Chapter 27 - Tax Audit Settlements (20 Feb 2014)

Eoghan Murphy: How would that work? Would Revenue add an additional charge to their property tax?