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Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 6 - Financial Commitments under Public Private Partnerships
Chapter 16 - Central Government Funding of Local Authorities (6 Dec 2012)

Gerald Nash: What about next year? I accept it may be difficult to extrapolate into next year. I accept as well that the Department will not have targets. It is a demand-led scheme in some ways. Will the Department elaborate on expectations for the number of people who will successfully secure mortgage-to-rent arrangements next year? Is that possible?

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 6 - Financial Commitments under Public Private Partnerships
Chapter 16 - Central Government Funding of Local Authorities (6 Dec 2012)

Gerald Nash: What are the collection levels for commercial rates in 2010 and 2011 in percentage terms? Has the Department noticed a steep decline year on year?

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 6 - Financial Commitments under Public Private Partnerships
Chapter 16 - Central Government Funding of Local Authorities (6 Dec 2012)

Gerald Nash: Under new funding arrangements for local government the household charge is to be replaced by the local property tax. How reliant will local authorities be on commercial rates as a sustainable way of funding local government? The funding base is broadening. Everybody will be making a contribution of one sort or another. Is it anticipated that the burden of commercial rates on hard-pressed...

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 6 - Financial Commitments under Public Private Partnerships
Chapter 16 - Central Government Funding of Local Authorities (6 Dec 2012)

Gerald Nash: I have a question about the non-principal private residence charge, NPPR, which is to be discontinued presently. The non-principal residence charge is a self-assessed charge which has provided significant revenue for local authorities. People who registered for this charge were issued with e-mail or postal reminders. However, I am aware of instances in which additional charges have been...

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 6 - Financial Commitments under Public Private Partnerships
Chapter 16 - Central Government Funding of Local Authorities (6 Dec 2012)

Gerald Nash: Is there any possibility of issuing reminders to people of their obligation to pay the charge? I know that in some cases this payment is not high on an individual's list of priorities. As a result of late payment such individuals are encountering additional charges. They claim they did not receive reminders. I accept there is no obligation on local authorities to issue reminders.

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 6 - Financial Commitments under Public Private Partnerships
Chapter 16 - Central Government Funding of Local Authorities (6 Dec 2012)

Gerald Nash: Not in my experience.

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 6 - Financial Commitments under Public Private Partnerships
Chapter 16 - Central Government Funding of Local Authorities (6 Dec 2012)

Gerald Nash: I have a question about bonds submitted to local authorities under planning legislation. I am aware of the practice of local authorities accepting paper bonds - insurance from the Construction Industry Federation, CIF - to cover a bond for a residential development. This practice is of concern to me. The CIF is effectively insuring a development in lieu of a cash bond. In some...

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 6 - Financial Commitments under Public Private Partnerships
Chapter 16 - Central Government Funding of Local Authorities (6 Dec 2012)

Gerald Nash: The CIF has been operating this practice for quite some time. I am concerned if the Department does not have a view. Estates need to be completed. Cash bonds are more straightforward but an insurance bond from the CIF is more complex.

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Ministerial Remuneration (11 Dec 2012)

Gerald Nash: To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if, following the decision to end the arrangements whereby Ministers and Ministers of State receive severance payments on stepping down from office, he will consider extending this arrangements to cover local authority members who are elected to either House of the Oireachtas [55656/12]

Order of Business (14 Dec 2012)

Gerald Nash: Spare us.

Order of Business (14 Dec 2012)

Gerald Nash: Spare us.

Topical Issue Debate: Carer's Allowance Eligibility (19 Dec 2012)

Gerald Nash: As the Minister of State is aware, it can cost up to €2,000 per week to provide care to an older person in a residential nursing home in the public sector. It costs the State about €200 per week for a carer, who is, more often than not, an immediate relative, to provide round the clock care for a parent, aunt or uncle in his or her home through the provision of the carer's...

Topical Issue Debate: Carer's Allowance Eligibility (19 Dec 2012)

Gerald Nash: I thank the Minister of State for her detailed response. Part of the problem is a lack of clarity among the public with regard to how claims may be handled in certain offices of the Department of Social Protection. I have detected a pattern in recent times whereby once the issue of habitual residency is put forward an official may - this is not always the case - suggest there is little...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Pension Provisions (20 Dec 2012)

Gerald Nash: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will bring forward his decision announced in his recent budget speech in respect of the maximum allowable pension fund, to a point in 2013 as opposed to 2014; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57414/12]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Reliefs (16 Jan 2013)

Gerald Nash: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will publish details of all of the authors, and the relevant publications which have taken advantage of the artist's exemption scheme for non-fiction titles in each of the years 2009, 2010 and 2011. [1024/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Reliefs (16 Jan 2013)

Gerald Nash: To ask the Minister for Finance the number of applications made for non-fiction works to be considered for inclusion under the artist's exemption scheme; and the number of applications approved by the Revenue Commissioners in each of the years 2009, 2010 and 2011. [1025/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Reliefs (16 Jan 2013)

Gerald Nash: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide details on the number of applications made to the Revenue Commissioners in 2009, 2010 and 2011 for consideration under the artist's exemption scheme; the number of appeals made in relation to initially unsuccessful applications in these years; if he will provide details of the number of successful appeals in these years; the names of those...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Reliefs (16 Jan 2013)

Gerald Nash: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will consider tightening up the criteria and the application of the artist's exemption scheme for non-fiction publications; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1026/13]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: National Employment and Entitlements Service (16 Jan 2013)

Gerald Nash: To ask the Minister for Social Protection in view of recent developments in the roll out of service programmes from her Department if she will provide clarification on the current status of the National Employment Programme and it's dual stranded approach to solving the problem of long term unemployment and for those who are most disadvantaged in terms of the employment market; and if she...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Mortgage Arrears (16 Jan 2013)

Gerald Nash: To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the reason the greater Drogheda area is not included in the €220,000 valuation bracket under the mortgage to rent scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57910/12]