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Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Prison Service Staff (11 Sep 2017)

Paschal Donohoe: There is a grade for Prison Service Clerical Officers in the Prison Service. The purpose of this grade is to carry out the administrative and support duties necessary for a modern and efficient Prison Service. The introduction of the grade was consistent with legislation, regulations and Codes of Practice governing Civil Service recruitment. The granting of particular...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Brexit Staff (11 Sep 2017)

Paschal Donohoe: I propose to take Questions Nos. 276 and 277 together. The head of my Department’s Brexit/EU/North South Unit is responsible for co-ordinating Brexit issues in the Department. The Principal-led Unit oversees Brexit work across the Department and acts as the contact point with the Department of the Taoiseach, the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade and other Government...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Arts Funding (11 Sep 2017)

Paschal Donohoe: The Cork Event Centre project was included in the Exchequer Stimulus package announced in Budget 2014. The project is being part-funded from the proceeds of the National Lottery licence transaction with an Exchequer grant of €12m being provided through the Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht. Overall responsibility for the management and delivery of the project lies...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Services Card (11 Sep 2017)

Paschal Donohoe: In response to the Deputy’s question, I can confirm that neither my Department nor any of the bodies under its aegis have plans to make services or payments dependent on the mandatory use and production of the Public Services Card. The Public Services Card offers a standard way of identifying customers that will reduce the administrative burden both on the...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Community Employment Schemes Supervisors (11 Sep 2017)

Paschal Donohoe: As the Deputy points out, the employees concerned are not public servants. Questions relating to the Community Employment scheme and the State pension age should be addressed to my colleague, the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection.

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Infrastructure and Capital Investment Programme (11 Sep 2017)

Paschal Donohoe: I propose to take Questions Nos. 283 and 284 together. The Programme for a Partnership Government committed to additional capital investment over the period of the Capital Plan to 2021, to be allocated on the basis of the outcome of the review of the Capital Plan. As set out in the Summer Economic Statement 2017, Government will invest a further €4.1 billion in key...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Pay (11 Sep 2017)

Paschal Donohoe: The Government concluded negotiations with the unions and associations representing public servants on the 8th of June this year, and the Workplace Relations Commission issued a set of proposals entitled the Public Service Stability Agreement 2018-2020. This draft Agreement provides for the further phased unwinding of the FEMPI measures over a number of years. The current...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Brexit Issues (11 Sep 2017)

Paschal Donohoe: I propose to take Questions Nos. 286 to 292, inclusive, and 294 together. Last May the Government published a document setting out in detail its approach and the structures it had put in place to ensure a strategic and whole-of-Government response to Brexit. 'Ireland and the negotiations on the UK’s withdrawal from the European Union: The Government’s Approach'...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Brexit Staff (11 Sep 2017)

Paschal Donohoe: Brexit issues in my Department are the responsibility of the Department's Brexit/EU/North South Unit. There are currently no posts vacant in the Unit.

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Brexit Issues (11 Sep 2017)

Paschal Donohoe: The European Structural and Investment Funds (ESIF), for which my Department has responsibility, place a priority on stakeholder engagement through a variety of structures. A key feature of ESIF Programmes, including the cross-border PEACE and INTERREG programmes, is the Programme Monitoring Committees which are comprised not only of representatives of Government Departments...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Brexit Issues (11 Sep 2017)

Paschal Donohoe: My Department has responsibility for the EU-funded cross-border programmes, PEACE and INTERREG. The Department has been working with the Managing Authority for the two programmes - the Special EU Programmes Body, one of the North South bodies established under the Good Friday Agreement - on the implications of Brexit for the Programmes. Research undertaken or commissioned by the SEUPB and...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Expenditure (11 Sep 2017)

Paschal Donohoe: The Mid-Year Expenditure Report sets out the pre-Budget expenditure ceiling for my Ministerial Vote Group of €943 million for current expenditure and €176 million for capital expenditure. This represents the spending baseline for examination of my Department's budgetary priorities for 2018. As outlined in the Mid-Year Expenditure Report, the increases planned in...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Foreign Direct Investment (20 Sep 2017)

Paschal Donohoe: The outline of the US tax reform proposal is expected to be released at the end of September. It is expected that the proposal will include a reduction in the US corporate tax rate. It remains to be seen whether any reduction in the US corporate tax rate would be permanent or temporary in nature. Agreement between the House of Representatives, the U.S. Senate and President Trump will be...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Credits (20 Sep 2017)

Paschal Donohoe: The One-Parent Family Tax Credit (OPFTC) was replaced by the Single Person Child Carer Credit (SPCCC) from 1 January 2014. The restructured credit is of the same value as the OPFTC, €1,650 per annum, and also includes the same entitlement to the additional €4,000 extended standard rate band, which increases to €37,800 per annum the point of entry to the higher rate of...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Corporation Tax (20 Sep 2017)

Paschal Donohoe: I propose to take Questions Nos. 147, 185 and 192 together. I note the comment made by President Juncker on the requirement of unanimity. There is no official proposal currently for a change on the way tax policy decisions are taken in the EU. Under the EU Treaties, for the European Council to move a policy area such as taxation from unanimity to qualified majority voting it would...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Sale of State Assets (20 Sep 2017)

Paschal Donohoe: As I have stated previously, the sale of shares in AIB held by the Ireland Strategic Investment Fund does not result in a beneficial impact to the General Government Balance under the European System of Accounts 2010.  This is due to the fact that it is classified as a 'financial transaction' whereby it is essentially the exchange of one form of asset (shares, equities, loans) for...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Banks Recapitalisation (20 Sep 2017)

Paschal Donohoe: In early 2011, as part of the agreement with the External Partners, the Central Bank commissioned a detailed evaluation of the possible loan losses that would be incurred by banks in a severe stress scenario. All the loan books were examined, including the residential mortgage books in Ireland and the UK. The results of this work were key inputs into the capital requirements...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Property Tax Administration (20 Sep 2017)

Paschal Donohoe: Dr Don Thornhill was engaged by my predecessor in 2015 to consider the operation of the LPT, and in particular, any impacts on LPT liabilities due to property price developments. The terms of reference for the review required that it also have regard to the overall yield from LPT and its contribution to total tax revenue on an ongoing basis and the desirability of achieving relative...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Motor Insurance Costs (20 Sep 2017)

Paschal Donohoe: As the Deputy is aware, the problem of rising motor insurance premiums was the main impetus for the establishment of the Cost of Insurance Working Group in July 2016. Its report titled the Report on the Cost of Motor Insurance was published in January 2017. The Report makes 33 recommendations with 71 associated actions to be carried out in agreed time-frames, which are set out in an Action...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: State Savings Schemes (20 Sep 2017)

Paschal Donohoe: It is the responsibility of credit institutions (including those in which as Minister for Finance I have a shareholding interest) and other commercial lenders to raise the funds required for their lending operations, including the provision of residential mortgage loans.  Deposits continue to be the most important source of funding for the provision of mortgage and other...