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Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 7 - Office of Minister for Finance
Chapter 1 - Exchequer Financial Outturn for 2019
Chapter 17 - Ireland Apple Escrow Fund (5 Nov 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: It is clear already that there are losses of that nature. It is €37 million in 2019 and €16 million in the half-year period. It is already losing money as a consequence of the negative interest rate environment. Other than that, the State would be liable at the end of whatever the period is for additional money in circumstances where the case goes the way the State would like...

Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 7 - Office of Minister for Finance
Chapter 1 - Exchequer Financial Outturn for 2019
Chapter 17 - Ireland Apple Escrow Fund (5 Nov 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: The money is not there to be taken.

Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 7 - Office of Minister for Finance
Chapter 1 - Exchequer Financial Outturn for 2019
Chapter 17 - Ireland Apple Escrow Fund (5 Nov 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: There are no rainbows in international corporate tax policy and if there are, there are certainly no pots of gold at the end of them.

Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 7 - Office of Minister for Finance
Chapter 1 - Exchequer Financial Outturn for 2019
Chapter 17 - Ireland Apple Escrow Fund (5 Nov 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: If we lose, however, there is a massive implication for other companies that had operated in Ireland in the 1990s and early 2000s which may then face, or anticipate facing, similar tax liabilities. What is the implication in terms of retrospective certainty in that instance?

Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 7 - Office of Minister for Finance
Chapter 1 - Exchequer Financial Outturn for 2019
Chapter 17 - Ireland Apple Escrow Fund (5 Nov 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: That is a concern that has grown about this amount of money, the certainty about it and the read across other companies. It is complex. Unquestionably, international corporate tax policy and international corporate tax law are incredibly complex and difficult. On the idea that there is a fund we are simply not availing of, not only are we not availing of it but to get to a position where...

Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 7 - Office of Minister for Finance
Chapter 1 - Exchequer Financial Outturn for 2019
Chapter 17 - Ireland Apple Escrow Fund (5 Nov 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: It is just a set of shared facts based on how we accrue money and how it is therefore available for disposition or otherwise.

Confidence in Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Motion (10 Nov 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I am here to state confidence in the Tánaiste and express confidence in the Government and all of the Ministers working hard to recover our country and society during this dreadful pandemic. It is preposterous that this Parliament is spending its time today on this political stunt by Sinn Féin instead of on the major issues of the day. The Tánaiste made himself immediately...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Telecommunications Infrastructure (10 Nov 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: 117. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the steps he will take to ensure the provision of high-speed broadband connection in an area (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35133/20]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Grant Payments (10 Nov 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: 230. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of persons that applied for the SEAI grant for solar photovoltaic panels in 2019; the number that received the grant in 2019; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35289/20]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child and Family Agency (10 Nov 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: 557. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if he will provide all information in the possession of Tusla that is relevant to a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35225/20]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Traveller Community (10 Nov 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: 558. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the status of the work to plan for and oversee the development, publication and implementation as appropriate to date for the national Traveller health action plan and the Traveller education strategy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35226/20]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Traveller Accommodation (10 Nov 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: 559. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the status of the interaction with the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage; the steps being taken to ensure the implementation of the report of the Expert Review Group on Traveller Accommodation, prepared by an independent expert group on behalf of the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage; and if he will...

Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 37 – Employment Affairs and Social Protection
Chapter 4 – Control over Welfare Payments (12 Nov 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I thank Mr. McKeon for coming this morning. I should say how grateful everybody is for the simply extraordinary work carried out by his Department and officials in Intreo offices all around the country and at the end of the phone. The work that has been done is without parallel and it was a huge commitment. I am sure every Deputy here has seen the benefit of it. Where minor issues have...

Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 37 – Employment Affairs and Social Protection
Chapter 4 – Control over Welfare Payments (12 Nov 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: One matter that arose with the Minister at an early stage related to someone who had a baby in February or March of this year and is returning from maternity leave. Due to the circumstances that we are in, that person has difficulties with coming back to work. Quite a number of people would hope they could get the benefit of parental leave at that stage before coming back to work. There...

Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 37 – Employment Affairs and Social Protection
Chapter 4 – Control over Welfare Payments (12 Nov 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: What about circumstances where they agree to it?

Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 37 – Employment Affairs and Social Protection
Chapter 4 – Control over Welfare Payments (12 Nov 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: The Department will pay it.

Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 37 – Employment Affairs and Social Protection
Chapter 4 – Control over Welfare Payments (12 Nov 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: A related issue arose for, I suspect, many Deputies about the link to the pandemic unemployment payment where people between 65 and 66, before pension age, who were not eligible for the pandemic unemployment payment for the technical and legislative reasons that we understand. The Minister said at the time that one of the options available was exceptional needs payments or supplementary...

Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 37 – Employment Affairs and Social Protection
Chapter 4 – Control over Welfare Payments (12 Nov 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: We can come back to it.

Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 37 – Employment Affairs and Social Protection
Chapter 4 – Control over Welfare Payments (12 Nov 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: In instances where it has worked, it has worked really well. I am curious about the number and distribution of those for each area.

Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 37 – Employment Affairs and Social Protection
Chapter 4 – Control over Welfare Payments (12 Nov 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: Mr. McKeon has every number in his head.