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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: General Scheme of the Finance (Local Property Tax) (Amendment) Bill 2021: Discussion (7 Jul 2021)

Mairéad Farrell: I am aware the Acting Chairperson also wants to come in so I will ask my two questions together because we only have approximately seven minutes. My first question is on the surcharge for non-compliance with LPT requirements that was provided for by section 38 of the Finance (Local Property Tax) Act 2012. This 10% surcharge is applied against the amount of tax contained in an income tax,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: General Scheme of the Finance (Local Property Tax) (Amendment) Bill 2021: Discussion (7 Jul 2021)

Mairéad Farrell: The Central Bank refers to these as orphan structures. There are types of investment firms that inappropriately use charitable trust ownership structures. I know this is a specific issue, and if the Minister wants to come back on it, that is no problem. On the use of a charitable trust ownership structure, and I understand this is relevant to the previous Act rather than the one we are...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: General Scheme of the Finance (Local Property Tax) (Amendment) Bill 2021: Discussion (7 Jul 2021)

Mairéad Farrell: I understand they are liable for property tax. The issue is the surcharge for non-compliance, which is done through tax liability. As the IREFs are not liable for corporation or capital gains taxes, is this a loophole they can use? That is what I am asking about.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: General Scheme of the Finance (Local Property Tax) (Amendment) Bill 2021: Discussion (7 Jul 2021)

Mairéad Farrell: That would be great. I thank the Minister.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Summer Economic Statement: Minister for Finance and Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (15 Jul 2021)

Mairéad Farrell: Go raibh maith agat a Chathaoirligh. Go raibh maith agaibh na hAirí chun teacht chuig an gcoiste seo. We are short on time so I will focus on two questions. Would the Chair prefer if I asked the two questions together?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Summer Economic Statement: Minister for Finance and Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (15 Jul 2021)

Mairéad Farrell: I refer to page 31, table 6, on the budgetary projections for 2020 to 2025. Specifically, I am looking at the capital spending as per the stability programme update, SPU, and the summer economic statement, SES. I notice that next year the difference in capital is only €800 million over what the SPU had projected. We are all aware that it took additional time for this summer economic...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Summer Economic Statement: Minister for Finance and Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (15 Jul 2021)

Mairéad Farrell: I have one more question, but I will comment on that response. I hope Housing for All is ambitious and that I will be shocked when I see it and that it will be positive. The reality is that people are desperate. We had a situation Galway city where, for six-year period, not a single house was built by Government. I am aware that the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform, Deputy...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Summer Economic Statement: Minister for Finance and Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (15 Jul 2021)

Mairéad Farrell: Go raibh maith agaibh. There are only two minutes left in the meeting, so there is no point me starting to ask another question.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Framework for Parliamentary Engagement Throughout the Budgetary Cycle: Discussion (9 Feb 2021)

Mairéad Farrell: Gabhaim buíochas leis an gCathaoirleach agus leis na hAirí as teacht os comhair an chruinnithe seo. We know that the Government is planning to ratify CETA. As the Ministers are aware, it provides for the investor court system, which is a legal mechanism that will allow large corporations to sue the State for massive sums of money. This has the potential to have a significant...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Framework for Parliamentary Engagement Throughout the Budgetary Cycle: Discussion (9 Feb 2021)

Mairéad Farrell: I am absolutely astonished, given our 20-year liability, that a risk assessment has not been done. Perhaps it is something that should be considered. The Minister mentioned performance budgeting in his opening statement and referred to the need to manage public sector pay. The Public Service Stability Agreement, PSSA, rules on lateral movements within the public service stipulate that...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Framework for Parliamentary Engagement Throughout the Budgetary Cycle: Discussion (9 Feb 2021)

Mairéad Farrell: So it will go against that aspect of the PSSA.

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Special Areas of Conservation (27 Jul 2021)

Mairéad Farrell: 64. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the reason a bye law on the Lough Corrib special area of conservation 000297 uses the term, managed primarily for the benefit of salmonids, given the addition of the words primarily managed is a dilution of the SAC and may impact on the integrity of the SAC; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39760/21]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Banking Sector (27 Jul 2021)

Mairéad Farrell: 299. To ask the Minister for Finance if banks are entitled to refuse a mortgage to a person whose employer is availing of the employment wage subsidy scheme; and if not, the avenue that is open to employees who are being refused on such a basis. [39101/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Community Care (27 Jul 2021)

Mairéad Farrell: 1705. To ask the Minister for Health the cost of delivering the Sláintecare commitment to invest in 32 community specialist hubs for older persons and persons living with chronic disease; the timeframe involved; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34282/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Policy (27 Jul 2021)

Mairéad Farrell: 1693. To ask the Minister for Health the cost of delivering the Sláintecare commitment to establishing a statutory homecare scheme; the timeframe involved; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34281/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Maternity Hospital (27 Jul 2021)

Mairéad Farrell: 1735. To ask the Minister for Health the funding spent to date on the national maternity hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35225/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (27 Jul 2021)

Mairéad Farrell: 1939. To ask the Minister for Health if consideration has been given to easing hospital visitation restrictions for long-term patients given the high levels of vaccination against Covid-19; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35911/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Maternity Hospital (27 Jul 2021)

Mairéad Farrell: 1949. To ask the Minister for Health the variance to the budget of the new national maternity hospital by expense category in tabular form in view of the reports that the hospital is set to cost €800 million up from the original estimated cost of circa €150 million. [35966/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (27 Jul 2021)

Mairéad Farrell: 2859. To ask the Minister for Health the effect the Galway races have on the vaccination programme based at the Ballybrit vaccination centre; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39405/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services (27 Jul 2021)

Mairéad Farrell: 2898. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the children’s disability network team for CHO2 – 6; if it is set to go ahead in 2021; the timeframe for it; if it is not going ahead, the reason; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39551/21]