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Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (16 Dec 2016)

Joan Burton: I do not know if the Minister is familiar with what happens when a rent review process commences. Decent landlords will often tell people significantly in advance that for one reason or another, they intend to increase the rent. In anybody's understanding, that is the beginning of a rent review process. 3 o’clock However, the Minister is tagging onto this a legal framework. I do...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Delivering Equality of Opportunity in Schools Scheme (16 Dec 2016)

Joan Burton: 153. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the review and expansion of the DEIS programme to additional schools; the criteria based on which schools will be added to the programme; the methods by which a school can apply to be considered in the programme; when details of the review and expansion of DEIS will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (16 Dec 2016)

Joan Burton: 154. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his Department has received the fully costed brief change from the design team in relation to a school (details supplied); if his Department has received same, if it has been reviewed and cleared by his Department; if the tender report has been submitted to enable the tender process to commence; and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (16 Dec 2016)

Joan Burton: 155. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of tenders received by the closing date of 10 December 2016, for a project (details supplied); when it is anticipated that the design team will submit the tender report to his Department; when he envisages construction will commence on site; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40538/16]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (16 Dec 2016)

Joan Burton: 156. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the design team for a school (details supplied) has submitted its assessment of the changes that are required to the tender documents for the project arising from changes introduced in public works contracts; if the report has been reviewed; when tenders will be invited for the project; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40539/16]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (16 Dec 2016)

Joan Burton: 157. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will confirm the commitment to the opening of a gaelcholáiste for north Kildare in Maynooth in 2019, as indicated in the school building programme 2016 to 2021 announced on 17 November 2015 by his predecessor; the steps being taken to secure a site for the gaelcholáiste in view of the fact that the gaelcholáiste is to...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Positive Ageing Strategy Implementation (16 Dec 2016)

Joan Burton: 342. To ask the Minister for Health when he will publish his implementation proposals on the national positive ageing strategy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40540/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Primary Care Centres (16 Dec 2016)

Joan Burton: 343. To ask the Minister for Health the expected opening date for the Celbridge primary care centre, Celbridge, County Kildare; the services which will be available to the public at the primary care centre; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40541/16]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Tax Code (17 Jan 2017)

Joan Burton: 32. To ask the Minister for Finance the measures he has put in place in order that so-called vulture funds pay both corporation tax and capital gains tax at full rate; if he will provide an estimate of the additional revenue he expects for the Exchequer in each of the years 2017, 2018 and 2019 from the closure of loopholes that enabled these funds to avoid taxation; and if he will make a...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Tax Code (17 Jan 2017)

Joan Burton: The question asks what will be the effective tax yield on a yearly basis from the changes the Minister introduced in the Finance Act on the taxation of vulture funds and the closure of loopholes which have allowed many such funds to pay little or no tax. Will the Minister advise if any of these funds contributed any corporation or capital gains taxation to the Exchequer prior to the...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Tax Code (17 Jan 2017)

Joan Burton: It is disappointing that the Minister has not been prepared to identify the likely yield from the taxation of these companies. The practice of these companies is very often to drive up rents, which they have already done in the Irish market in a significant way and to focus on relatively short-term to medium-term investment timeframes of five to seven years. If that is the outturn, this...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Tax Code (17 Jan 2017)

Joan Burton: The Minister said that behavioural changes have already commenced. It would be helpful to the House if the Minister could identify those behavioural changes. For instance, are the companies experiencing some kind of conversion to corporate social responsibility in terms of their making a contribution to the Exchequer in respect of properties which they bought cheaply? While some of these...

Other Questions: Financial Services Sector (17 Jan 2017)

Joan Burton: Today we heard the announcement by the British Prime Minister, Theresa May, that she is likely to pursue a hard Brexit option. The financial services industry has a series of structures with the Department and the Civil Service. I would like to know whether or not the Minister proposes to engage through those mechanisms with the likely number of financial services companies that may want to...

Other Questions: Financial Services Sector (17 Jan 2017)

Joan Burton: Have any changes been made or contemplated in the context of the Brexit proposals, particularly since we have had confirmed what many of us have known for a considerable period of time, namely, that the British Government is likely to opt for a hard Brexit? In the context of the City of London and the IFSC, we know that the fact that English is the local language in each location is an...

Other Questions: Financial Services Sector (17 Jan 2017)

Joan Burton: Given that this is one of the potentially positive options arising from Brexit, I am surprised that the Department has not been somewhat more proactive. I do not know when this committee last met. The Brexit referendum took place well over six months ago. We need to move as quickly as possible to build on the opportunities that exist for Ireland. A significant number of people are already...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Brexit Issues (17 Jan 2017)

Joan Burton: 56. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide a report on his recent meeting in Dublin with the British Chancellor of the Exchequer, Mr Philip Hammond. [1647/17]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Common Consolidated Corporate Tax Base Proposals (17 Jan 2017)

Joan Burton: 60. To ask the Minister for Finance the contact he has had with the European Commissioner for Economic and Financial Affairs, Taxation and Customs, Pierre Moscovici, regarding the common consolidated corporate tax base since December 2016. [39709/16]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Financial Services Regulation (17 Jan 2017)

Joan Burton: 293. To ask the Minister for Finance the proposals he is currently considering to ensure mortgage holders, tenants and SMEs that have loans or credit from non-bank lenders or vulture funds are fully protected; if he is considering extending the provisions of the Consumer Protection (Regulation of Credit Servicing Firms) Act 2015 in this regard; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Avoidance (17 Jan 2017)

Joan Burton: 66. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide an update on his Department's work with the Revenue Commissioners in tackling the tax evasion uncovered in the Panama Papers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1648/17]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: State Aid Investigations (17 Jan 2017)

Joan Burton: 68. To ask the Minister for Finance the contact he has had with fellow EU colleagues regarding a tax case (details supplied). [39936/16]