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Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Revaluation of Local Property Tax and Commercial Stamp Duty: Revenue Commissioners (12 Dec 2017)

Colm Brophy: I call Deputy Burton.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Revaluation of Local Property Tax and Commercial Stamp Duty: Revenue Commissioners (12 Dec 2017)

Colm Brophy: No other member is offering at this point, so I am going to draw our consideration of the local property tax to a conclusion. I propose that we move onto commercial stamp duty. Is anybody offering on that area?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Revaluation of Local Property Tax and Commercial Stamp Duty: Revenue Commissioners (12 Dec 2017)

Colm Brophy: That is an unfair question to land on anybody at this point. Mr. Walsh does not have necessarily have to comment on it.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Revaluation of Local Property Tax and Commercial Stamp Duty: Revenue Commissioners (12 Dec 2017)

Colm Brophy: I have no doubt that there will be plenty of follow-up on it.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Revaluation of Local Property Tax and Commercial Stamp Duty: Revenue Commissioners (12 Dec 2017)

Colm Brophy: Departmental officials will appear before the committee on 16 January 2018. I forgot to ask one question about the local property tax before we concluded our discussion on it. With regard to the movement of the local authority mean up or down, Revenue indicated earlier this year that there could be an increase because 11 local authorities had raised the rates. How does that compare to the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Respite Care Services Funding (13 Dec 2017)

Colm Brophy: 154. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the impact the recently announced €4.5 million fund to reform disability services will have on providing full-time respite care to children and adults in County Tipperary; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53296/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Special Educational Needs Service Provision (13 Dec 2017)

Colm Brophy: 173. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the provision of transportation to day services for persons with autistic spectrum disorder that require full-time care, especially before and after turning 18 years of age in the Dublin south west area; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53419/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Respite Care Services Provision (13 Dec 2017)

Colm Brophy: 174. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the provision of respite services for carers in the Dublin south west area; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53420/17]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Minor Flood Mitigation Works and Coastal Protection Scheme Applications (16 Jan 2018)

Colm Brophy: 248. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the status of proposed costal protection works at Spanish Point, County Clare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54954/17]

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Business of Joint Committee (16 Jan 2018)

Colm Brophy: As we have a quorum, we can commence. I have received no apologies. On 12 December 2017, the committee met Revenue officials to discuss matters relating to the local property tax revaluation and budget measures relating to commercial stamp duty. Today, we will follow up that discussion with officials from the Department of Finance. The committee will prepare reports on both matters in...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Local Property Tax and Commercial Stamp Duty: Department of Finance (16 Jan 2018)

Colm Brophy: Before we begin, I remind members and witnesses to turn off their mobile phones as interference from mobile phones affects sound quality and the broadcast of the meeting. I welcome our witnesses from the Department of Finance, Mr. John Hogan, assistant secretary, who is accompanied by Ms Anna Donegan and Mr. John Palmer, principal officers, Mr. Faris Bader, tax policy analyst, and Mr. Kevin...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Local Property Tax and Commercial Stamp Duty: Department of Finance (16 Jan 2018)

Colm Brophy: I thank Mr. Hogan. I would like to open up the discussion. Several Deputies have indicated to me and I know some are under time constraint. I call Deputy Eamon Ryan.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Local Property Tax and Commercial Stamp Duty: Department of Finance (16 Jan 2018)

Colm Brophy: I do not think I have ever seen someone leaving quite like that. I call Deputy Lahart.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Local Property Tax and Commercial Stamp Duty: Department of Finance (16 Jan 2018)

Colm Brophy: It is available in the Parliamentary Budget Office briefing as well.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Local Property Tax and Commercial Stamp Duty: Department of Finance (16 Jan 2018)

Colm Brophy: As we are not doing a separate section on commercial stamp duty, I ask members to put any questions they have on that issue when they contribute.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Local Property Tax and Commercial Stamp Duty: Department of Finance (16 Jan 2018)

Colm Brophy: I will have to leave in the next few minutes. I have asked Deputy McGrath to take the Chair. I have one very quick question I wish to ask before I depart. As for the local authorities that are in surplus on collection of the LPT, does Mr. Hogan know whether there is a discretionary figure available to them? The Parliamentary Budget Office, which has supplied us with some excellent...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Local Property Tax and Commercial Stamp Duty: Department of Finance (16 Jan 2018)

Colm Brophy: To clarify, there was not extra funding available. However, is there is extra funding for the local authorities that are in surplus?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Local Property Tax and Commercial Stamp Duty: Department of Finance (16 Jan 2018)

Colm Brophy: Very well.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Local Property Tax and Commercial Stamp Duty: Department of Finance (16 Jan 2018)

Colm Brophy: That is no problem.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Local Property Tax and Commercial Stamp Duty: Department of Finance (16 Jan 2018)

Colm Brophy: There is a 97% compliance rate in respect of the tax. Are there benefits to keeping a review as tight or minimal as possible? Should what has been announced enable a full reopening of the discussion, as indicated by other Deputes? Does the Department have a view on the matter? Can Mr. Hogan comment on it?