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Written Answers — Department of Finance: NAMA Staff Remuneration (13 Feb 2018)

Paschal Donohoe: The year end 2016 and 2017 headcount of the National Treasury Management Agency (NTMA) assigned to the National Asset Management Agency (NAMA) is set out in the following table. Year Headcount 2016 302 2017 264 The following table below shows the number of NAMA officers by relevant band. The numbers include staff members who left the NAMA during 2017 in addition to those employed...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: VAT Payments (13 Feb 2018)

Paschal Donohoe: I am advised by the Revenue Commissioners that under the EU VAT Directive the supply of the service of a locum doctor to a medical practice by an organisation or company constitutes a supply of the service of the provision of staff, which is subject to VAT at the standard rate, currently 23%.  In such circumstances, the organisation or company supplying staff is obliged to...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Reliefs Eligibility (13 Feb 2018)

Paschal Donohoe: I am informed by Revenue that tax relief in respect of health expenses is provided for in section 469 of the Taxes Consolidation Act 1997. Section 469 defines "health expenses" as "expenses in respect of the provision of health care including drugs or medicines supplied on the prescription of a practitioner".  The term “practitioner” is defined in the section...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Parliamentary Questions (13 Feb 2018)

Paschal Donohoe: The precise nature of the issue which the Deputy wishes to raise is unclear from the details supplied.  Further information has been requested from the Deputy's constituency office and I would be happy to address his query should the Deputy wish to ask this question again when further information is available.

Written Answers — Department of Finance: EU-IMF Programme of Support (13 Feb 2018)

Paschal Donohoe: The UK Bilateral loan provided as part of the EU-IMF Programme was drawn down in eight equal tranches of £403 million over the period October 2011 to September 2013. The total UK Bilateral loan outstanding is £3.23 billon. This is a fixed rate loan. The weighted average interest rate, including service fees, on the aggregate UK loan facility is 2.6%. Interest is paid...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Help-To-Buy Scheme Eligibility (13 Feb 2018)

Paschal Donohoe: I am advised by Revenue that, for the purposes of the Help-to-Buy incentive, the relevant definition of a qualifying residence (as set out in section 477C(1) of the Taxes Consolidation Act 1997) is “a new building which was not, at any time, used, or suitable for use, as a dwelling”. Based on the information supplied by the Deputy, it would appear that the house in question...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Unclaimed Pensions (13 Feb 2018)

Paschal Donohoe: I propose to take Questions Nos. 146 and 147 together. As the Deputy will appreciate, a number of State bodies have a role in relation to the broad area of pensions policy. As Minister for Finance, my role has been primarily in relation to the use of tax policy to incentivise pension savings. My colleague, Deputy Regina Doherty, as Minister for Employment Affairs and Social...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Unclaimed Pensions (13 Feb 2018)

Paschal Donohoe: Firstly, I must point out that the Financial Services and Pensions Ombudsman is independent in the performance of his statutory functions.  I have no role in the day to day workings of his office. Under the Financial Services and Pensions Ombudsman Act 2017, the function of the Ombudsman in relation to pension schemes is to investigate allegations of financial loss occasioned to a...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Negative Equity Mortgages (13 Feb 2018)

Paschal Donohoe: From a financial perspective the overall Government approach to the issue of mortgage difficulty has been to provide supports and measures to assist borrowers experiencing most difficulty in meeting their mortgage payments. For example, the Government has reformed personal insolvency, introduced the Abhaile Scheme which provides support via the Money Advice and Budgeting Service (MABS),...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: VAT Yield (13 Feb 2018)

Paschal Donohoe: I am informed by the Revenue Commissioners that where goods are imported from a non-EU country, VAT and Customs Duty are chargeable at the point of importation based on the value, origin and the classification of the good. The amount of VAT and Customs Duty collected from all goods coming from outside the EU is provided in the following table. These figures are provisional and may be...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Bond Markets (13 Feb 2018)

Paschal Donohoe: Schuldschein are a German instrument of loans issued against borrowers’ notes. As such they are not securities quoted on an exchange but are private placements, issued under German law and are usually held to maturity. The NTMA has advised me that it does not purchase Schuldschein but does issue Schuldschein on occasion. At present there is €602...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Service Contracts (13 Feb 2018)

Paschal Donohoe: The public procurement process for all public sector bodies is facilitated through the national eProcurement platform eTenders which is managed by the Office of Government Procurement. The eTenders platform processes both national and the European level contract award notices required to be published in the Official Journal of the EU. The accuracy of the data is dependent on that entered on...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Community Employment Schemes Supervisors (13 Feb 2018)

Paschal Donohoe: I refer the Deputy to my reply to Parliamentary Question No. 262 on 16 January 2018.

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Capital Expenditure Programme (13 Feb 2018)

Paschal Donohoe: I am not aware of the provenance of the figure referred to in the Deputy's question.  As the Deputy is aware, my Department is currently finalising a 10-year capital plan for the period 2018 to 2027.  The fundamental objective of the capital plan is to support the implementation of the objectives detailed in the forthcoming National Planning Framework...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Pension Provisions (13 Feb 2018)

Paschal Donohoe: The Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform has not been consulted by the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport in relation to pensions issues facing CIE and no request for funding from the Exchequer has been made.

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Pay (13 Feb 2018)

Paschal Donohoe: The information sought in this request would require detailed data on the position of staff on each salary scale across the public service and details of the standard working hours per week for each individual grade. This data is not available to the Department.  Pay band data available to the Department indicates that some 94% of all public service staff are on salary points in...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Procurement Contracts (13 Feb 2018)

Paschal Donohoe: The rationale for the EU public procurement regime is to open up the public procurement market and to ensure the free movement of goods, services and works within the EU. This is reflected in primary EU Law where the EU Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union promotes the fundamental principles of non-discrimination, free movement of goods and services and freedom of establishment....

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Capital Expenditure Programme (13 Feb 2018)

Paschal Donohoe: Following the announcement of the Estimates for 2018 last October, my Department published "Exchequer Capital Envelopes 2018 - 2021, Outcomes of the Mid-Term Review of the Capital Plan - New Projects and Programmes".  This document which is available at the www.budgetgov.ie website sets out the amount of additional capital allocated to each Ministerial Vote Group for the...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Civil Service Reform (13 Feb 2018)

Paschal Donohoe: The Report of the Independent Panel on Strengthening Civil Service Accountability and Performance was published in June 2014 and its recommendations were considered by the then Minister and Government in the context of determining actions for a programme of civil service renewal. The Panel made 10 key recommendations all of which have been included in the Civil Service Renewal...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Our Public Service 2020: Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (13 Feb 2018)

Paschal Donohoe: I am pleased to have the opportunity to address the committee today. Last December, I launched the new framework for development and innovation in the public service, Our Public Service 2020. There has been much progress since the first reform programme was started in 2011, in areas including procurement, shared services and Civil Service renewal, and public service reform continues to play...