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Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance (Revised)
Vote 8 - Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General (Revised)
Vote 9 - Office of the Revenue Commissioners (Revised)
Vote 10 - Tax Appeals Commission (Revised) (22 Feb 2018)

Paschal Donohoe: All of the dimensions of this will become more and more apparent. My objective is that as we deal with the challenging consequences, which we are in the middle of doing, the benefits will become more apparent than they are at the moment. The first wave of offers will likely be from financial services and FinTech companies.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance (Revised)
Vote 8 - Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General (Revised)
Vote 9 - Office of the Revenue Commissioners (Revised)
Vote 10 - Tax Appeals Commission (Revised) (22 Feb 2018)

Paschal Donohoe: There are three things I will be doing to deal with that matter, because we need to have a well-functioning and fit-for-purpose Tax Appeals Commission. The first relates to the level of resources I will make available. Let us consider the trend and where we are at the moment. In 2015, the allocation for the commission was €0.511 million. In 2016, the figure went to €0.844...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance (Revised)
Vote 8 - Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General (Revised)
Vote 9 - Office of the Revenue Commissioners (Revised)
Vote 10 - Tax Appeals Commission (Revised) (22 Feb 2018)

Paschal Donohoe: I am aware of the need to have a well-functioning Tax Appeals Commission to do two things. The first is to ensure that issues relating to the taxation status of individuals and companies are dealt with fairly. The second is to facilitate the functioning of the entire system. During the year, I will make as many resources available to that organisation as I can to deal with this. That is...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance (Revised)
Vote 8 - Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General (Revised)
Vote 9 - Office of the Revenue Commissioners (Revised)
Vote 10 - Tax Appeals Commission (Revised) (22 Feb 2018)

Paschal Donohoe: I have not heard any political opportunism in this matter. I would not agree with such an assessment. If others want to use that language to describe the debate that is under way, that is their business. The comments that Members of the Oireachtas are making are rooted in genuine anxiety that their constituents, loan owners and homeowners have. I am responding in that vein to the debate....

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance (Revised)
Vote 8 - Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General (Revised)
Vote 9 - Office of the Revenue Commissioners (Revised)
Vote 10 - Tax Appeals Commission (Revised) (22 Feb 2018)

Paschal Donohoe: The Chairman asked me if I can intervene in the timing of any loan book sale. The Single Supervisory Mechanism, which is completely independent of me, has issued a direction that the bank is following. I do not have the power available to me to intervene in the compliance with that regulation or its timing. We are talking about a bank that has non-performing loans. Going back to a comment...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance (Revised)
Vote 8 - Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General (Revised)
Vote 9 - Office of the Revenue Commissioners (Revised)
Vote 10 - Tax Appeals Commission (Revised) (22 Feb 2018)

Paschal Donohoe: As I said in an earlier answer to the Chairman, I cannot influence how a bank responds on its timing because we are dealing with an independent regulator. What I can do is influence what I can directly control. If I believe there are changes which are needed which require legislative or regulatory change, my objective is to implement them as soon as possible. I will do it against the...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance (Revised)
Vote 8 - Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General (Revised)
Vote 9 - Office of the Revenue Commissioners (Revised)
Vote 10 - Tax Appeals Commission (Revised) (22 Feb 2018)

Paschal Donohoe: The Minister, Deputy Michael Ring, and I are working on the community banking report. It will probably be a couple of months before we come back to the committee on it as we still have work to do. I am aware of its interest in the matter. When the work is done and the report complete, we will bring it to the Cabinet and it will then be made available to the committee to debate it.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance (Revised)
Vote 8 - Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General (Revised)
Vote 9 - Office of the Revenue Commissioners (Revised)
Vote 10 - Tax Appeals Commission (Revised) (22 Feb 2018)

Paschal Donohoe: I cannot guide ISIF, the organisation which manages our investments. It does so independently and I cannot tell it the projects in which it should get involved. I understand we already support iCare Any further support we might give to any organisation must be subject to tendering and procurement rules and so on.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance (Revised)
Vote 8 - Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General (Revised)
Vote 9 - Office of the Revenue Commissioners (Revised)
Vote 10 - Tax Appeals Commission (Revised) (22 Feb 2018)

Paschal Donohoe: What was the question on merging? I missed the start of it.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance (Revised)
Vote 8 - Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General (Revised)
Vote 9 - Office of the Revenue Commissioners (Revised)
Vote 10 - Tax Appeals Commission (Revised) (22 Feb 2018)

Paschal Donohoe: Section 38 and section 39 organisations receive funding from the State but they are not run or owned by the State. I have not heard many section 38 or section 39 organisations stating that they want to be State-run organisations.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance (Revised)
Vote 8 - Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General (Revised)
Vote 9 - Office of the Revenue Commissioners (Revised)
Vote 10 - Tax Appeals Commission (Revised) (22 Feb 2018)

Paschal Donohoe: The HSE is different from a section 38 or section 39 organisation. The role of the Comptroller and Auditor General is to audit and oversee State bodies and bodies associated with the State. The Comptroller and Auditor General has not told me that he or his office is looking for any additional powers or a change in remit. The HSE is subject to the scrutiny of the Comptroller and Auditor...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance (Revised)
Vote 8 - Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General (Revised)
Vote 9 - Office of the Revenue Commissioners (Revised)
Vote 10 - Tax Appeals Commission (Revised) (22 Feb 2018)

Paschal Donohoe: I did not say I did not have a plan for the reform and support of the Comptroller and Auditor General. The Chairman asked if I would support the merger of the Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General with the local authority audit organisation and I said I would be reluctant to do that because the Comptroller and Auditor General has a constitutional status, while the local government...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance (Revised)
Vote 8 - Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General (Revised)
Vote 9 - Office of the Revenue Commissioners (Revised)
Vote 10 - Tax Appeals Commission (Revised) (22 Feb 2018)

Paschal Donohoe: We are about to go into the second year of a comprehensive spending review and there is a difference between waste, which we have to identify and reduce, and a better use of taxpayers' money. There can be better ways of spending money and that is what the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform does. I have Vote teams which work with every Government Department, which cannot go ahead...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance (Revised)
Vote 8 - Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General (Revised)
Vote 9 - Office of the Revenue Commissioners (Revised)
Vote 10 - Tax Appeals Commission (Revised) (22 Feb 2018)

Paschal Donohoe: I do not have an answer to that. The Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government, Deputy Eoghan Murphy, is dealing with the matter. I will get back to the Chairman in response to this question.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance (Revised)
Vote 8 - Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General (Revised)
Vote 9 - Office of the Revenue Commissioners (Revised)
Vote 10 - Tax Appeals Commission (Revised) (22 Feb 2018)

Paschal Donohoe: We are not allowed to use that phrase.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance (Revised)
Vote 8 - Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General (Revised)
Vote 9 - Office of the Revenue Commissioners (Revised)
Vote 10 - Tax Appeals Commission (Revised) (22 Feb 2018)

Paschal Donohoe: They are excellent.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance (Revised)
Vote 8 - Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General (Revised)
Vote 9 - Office of the Revenue Commissioners (Revised)
Vote 10 - Tax Appeals Commission (Revised) (22 Feb 2018)

Paschal Donohoe: That comment might cause reverberations.

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Mortgage Debt (27 Feb 2018)

Paschal Donohoe: I was first informed by Department officials of PTSB’s intention to offer this particular portfolio of loans for sale on Friday 19thJanuary. They were first briefed on the timing of the sale, and potential composition of the portfolio, earlier that week. As this information is commercially sensitive, and as I must respect stock exchange disclosure rules, I was unable to discuss it...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (27 Feb 2018)

Paschal Donohoe: I am informed by Revenue that employer-provided parking is not currently subject to benefit-in-kind taxation. I do not currently have any plans to change this. My officials are unaware of a committee such as the Deputy describes.

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Freedom of Information Data (27 Feb 2018)

Paschal Donohoe: In response to the Deputy's question, the following table provides the requested information where such statistics have been collated and are available: Year Total FoI requests received  Total FoI requests  granted, and part granted Total FoI requests refused, withdrawn, transferred  to another public body or handled outside FOI Total FoI requests appealed...