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Other Questions: Strategic Banking Corporation of Ireland (30 Nov 2017)

Joan Burton: What funding is available through SBCI and how much of it is going to small and medium-sized businesses as opposed to bigger businesses?

Other Questions: Strategic Banking Corporation of Ireland (30 Nov 2017)

Joan Burton: My concern is that this mechanism is not as widely available as it should be. My understanding is that much of it is available through the pillar banks and that, as in the case of the Ireland Strategic Investment Fund, ISIF, to some extent, there does not seem to be any great desire to advertise the take-up to SMEs. The interest rate quoted by the Minister is relatively high by European...

Other Questions: Strategic Banking Corporation of Ireland (30 Nov 2017)

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Other Questions: Strategic Banking Corporation of Ireland (30 Nov 2017)

Joan Burton: The Minister said in a reply to me yesterday that he did not anticipate legislation on home building being brought before the Dáil until some time in the new year and that home building finance Ireland would be set up later in 2018. That is part of my concern because that means that it will be the guts of another full year before it is fully under way because it will have to establish...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Corporation Tax Regime (30 Nov 2017)

Joan Burton: 23. To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to remarks by a bank (details supplied) that it would pay no corporation tax as a result of accumulated tax losses; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50719/17]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Strategic Banking Corporation of Ireland Funding (30 Nov 2017)

Joan Burton: 22. To ask the Minister for Finance the amount of funding being provided by the Strategic Banking Corporation of Ireland; his plans to review the aims of the Strategic Banking Corporation of Ireland; if he has satisfied himself that the lending policies of this Government-funded institution are appropriate; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50720/17]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: State Aid Investigations (30 Nov 2017)

Joan Burton: 25. To ask the Minister for Finance if a company (details supplied) provided some or all of the fines levied by the EU Commission; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50717/17]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: EU Budget Contribution (30 Nov 2017)

Joan Burton: 26. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated likely higher contributions to the EU in view of the forecast increase in GNP over the next ten years; if he has studied the impact of our increased financial contribution to the EU; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50716/17]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tracker Mortgage Examination Data (30 Nov 2017)

Joan Burton: 51. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated number of accounts affected by the tracker mortgage scandal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50718/17]

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances (Supplementary)
Vote 17 - Public Appointments Service (Supplementary) (30 Nov 2017)

Joan Burton: I wish to ask the Minister about superannuation and retired allowances. My question relates to the restoration of the reductions that people took as a consequence of the economic collapse. People, especially retired people, are extremely confused about how the restoration may affect them. People may have retired at different times and, as a consequence, the rules are different. I am...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances (Supplementary)
Vote 17 - Public Appointments Service (Supplementary) (30 Nov 2017)

Joan Burton: Totally.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances (Supplementary)
Vote 17 - Public Appointments Service (Supplementary) (30 Nov 2017)

Joan Burton: I thank the Minister.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances (Supplementary)
Vote 17 - Public Appointments Service (Supplementary) (30 Nov 2017)

Joan Burton: Will the pre-1995 people continue to pay the universal social charge, the payment of which is a quibble for a number of them?

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances (Supplementary)
Vote 17 - Public Appointments Service (Supplementary) (30 Nov 2017)

Joan Burton: How many of them are there approximately? They seem to get less beneficial treatment than others once they have reached the pension age of 66.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances (Supplementary)
Vote 17 - Public Appointments Service (Supplementary) (30 Nov 2017)

Joan Burton: Yes.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances (Supplementary)
Vote 17 - Public Appointments Service (Supplementary) (30 Nov 2017)

Joan Burton: Does the Minister foresee them receiving the same treatment as other people? When they reach 66 will their USC contributions come to an end, for instance?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (5 Dec 2017)

Joan Burton: 7. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on Cabinet committee A - economy. [49177/17]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (5 Dec 2017)

Joan Burton: The country is taking a reputational hit in two areas of the economy. The first area, precarious jobs, makes a mockery of the republic of opportunity and highlights the Government's failure for months to publish the report on bogus self-employment. The second area, corporation tax, is causing serious reputational damage to the country. The Revenue Commissioners admit that certain large...

Public Service Pay and Pensions Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (5 Dec 2017)

Joan Burton: I support Deputy Dara Calleary's amendment. A great deal of the focus in this debate has been on the past but if one wants to talk about education in a serious way, one has to talk about the future. It is the future of all children and young adults who are students. The world in which they hope to make their way has to be taken into account. The purpose of education is not only to allow...

Public Service Pay and Pensions Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (5 Dec 2017)

Joan Burton: The Minister has made a sensible decision to accept Deputy Calleary's amendment as we need the information. While we need the facts and figures, as I stated before the Minister, Deputy Donohoe, came into the Chamber, we also need to look to the future and not just to the past, particularly in areas such as education and health. The key point in education is we are beginning to experience...