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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Economic Impact of Brexit: Discussion (18 Oct 2016)

Stephen Donnelly: I thank the delegates for their presentations. My first question is on funding. Enterprise Ireland, IDA Ireland and InterTradeIreland do a phenomenal job and as such, I was disappointed to see that only €3 million had been allocated in the budget. The figures speak for themselves in terms of the trade risk to various sectors. The sum of €3 million allocated in the budget...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Economic Impact of Brexit: Discussion (18 Oct 2016)

Stephen Donnelly: Yes. I thank Ms Buckley for her answer to the question on the talks, but it was less on IDA Ireland and its clients than on whether officials are talking. Are there officials from Dublin, London and Belfast beginning to sit down and identify exactly the sort of micro-opportunities and threats that Mr. Gough was talking about?

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (25 Oct 2016)

Stephen Donnelly: 194. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a timeline for construction has been put in place with regard to the proposed new location of a school (details supplied); the timeline in this regard; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31484/16]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (25 Oct 2016)

Stephen Donnelly: 195. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the new site of a school (details supplied) will begin construction in 2018; if his department foresees any barriers to this construction beginning in 2018; if these barriers exist, the plans in place to mitigate these barriers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31485/16]

Finance Bill 2016: Second Stage (Resumed) (26 Oct 2016)

Stephen Donnelly: Sure.

Finance Bill 2016: Second Stage (Resumed) (26 Oct 2016)

Stephen Donnelly: I would be honoured to hear Deputy Durkan.

Finance Bill 2016: Second Stage (Resumed) (26 Oct 2016)

Stephen Donnelly: I will focus on amendments made in the Finance Bill to tackle tax avoidance by vulture funds. As I have laid out previously, if the current situation is allowed to continue, with vulture funds paying virtually zero taxes, the State will lose out on €10 billion to €20 billion in taxes it should be collecting and that would be collected in other eurozone countries. That amount...

Leaders' Questions (27 Oct 2016)

Stephen Donnelly: Businesses all over Dublin are coming under significant pressure because of spiralling commercial rents. Dublin has the second highest rents in the eurozone. Not only are they high, they are rising quickly. In the past two to three years, commercial rent in Dublin has nearly doubled. Obviously, that is bad for businesses, but it is also bad for consumers, who must pay too much money for...

Leaders' Questions (27 Oct 2016)

Stephen Donnelly: I will be seeking to meet the Minister, Deputy Noonan, privately and I will obviously be tabling amendments. The problem is that this is not a technicality in the Finance Bill. The Finance Bill provides for the establishment of a new vehicle called an Irish real estate fund, IREF. It explicitly states that once a commercial property is held for five years there will be no capital gains tax...

Leaders' Questions (27 Oct 2016)

Stephen Donnelly: This is a policy position: it is not a technicality in the Finance Bill.

Leaders' Questions (27 Oct 2016)

Stephen Donnelly: I will conclude on this point. Does the Tánaiste believe that the Irish commercial property sector should not become tax-free? I am asking that she take up this matter with the Cabinet and, in particular, the Minister, Deputy Noonan, and find out what is going on because I doubt that any Deputy will be able to bring about serious policy change on Committee Stage.

Questions on Proposed Legislation (27 Oct 2016)

Stephen Donnelly: I am on behalf of myself now.

Questions on Proposed Legislation (27 Oct 2016)

Stephen Donnelly: The programme for Government contains some very welcome measures for mortgage resolution. They are some of things myself and many others advocated in the last Dáil. Some of this is legislative and some just requires the provision of resources. I asked the Minister for Finance for an update about two months ago but he did not have one. The ambitions are good and what is in there is...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: National Council for Special Education (2 Nov 2016)

Stephen Donnelly: 159. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the changes involved in moving from GAM, the general allocation model, to TAM, the teacher allocation model, of resource learning support teaching; when these changes will be implemented; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32973/16]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: IDA Site Visits (2 Nov 2016)

Stephen Donnelly: 473. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of IDA site visits per county in 2016 in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32974/16]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (8 Nov 2016)

Stephen Donnelly: 108. To ask the Minister for Finance to outline his views on the rapidly increasing commercial rents in Dublin; and his views on whether the proposed new tax breaks for commercial property in the Finance Bill will drive these rents higher. [33408/16]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Commercial Property (8 Nov 2016)

Stephen Donnelly: 493. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the driving factors her Department has identified in the increases with regard to commercial office rents in Dublin; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33409/16]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Commercial Rent Reviews (8 Nov 2016)

Stephen Donnelly: 494. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if her Department has conducted a review of demand for prime office space in Dublin city centre; if this study has been conducted, the projections of future annual demand in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33410/16]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Brexit Issues (8 Nov 2016)

Stephen Donnelly: 495. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the actions that have been taken to address the falling value in sterling in her Department; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33411/16]

An Bille um an gCúigiú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Uisce faoi Úinéireacht Phoiblí) (Uimh. 2) 2016: An Dara Céim [Comhaltaí Príobháideacha] - Thirty-fifth Amendment of the Constitution (Water in Public Ownership) (No. 2) Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (9 Nov 2016)

Stephen Donnelly: I support the Bill proposed by Deputy Collins. It is welcome that it is not being opposed and that it is being supported by Fianna Fáil. I think there is cross-party agreement that the water system should remain in public ownership and that it is a strategic asset. The argument put forward by the last Government when many of us pushed for this was that it would never privatise the...