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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Service Provision (11 Oct 2016)

Michael McGrath: 103. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to set out details on the preschool special autistic spectrum disorder classes in Cork city and county; his plans to roll out further classes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29683/16]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Autism Support Services (11 Oct 2016)

Michael McGrath: 148. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the preschool special ASD classes in Cork city and county; his plans to roll out further such classes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29682/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Support Services Provision (11 Oct 2016)

Michael McGrath: 450. To ask the Minister for Health if there has been a change of policy in respect of the supports to children diagnosed by a service provider after a certain date (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29685/16]

Financial Resolutions 2017 - Financial Resolution No. 2: General (Resumed) (12 Oct 2016)

Michael McGrath: Zero for effort.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Patient Transport Provision (12 Oct 2016)

Michael McGrath: 68. To ask the Minister for Health when the awarding of a contract for the provision of taxi services in Cork city and county by the HSE will next be put out to tender or be the subject of a mini competition; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29970/16]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Single Payment Scheme Appeals (12 Oct 2016)

Michael McGrath: 80. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if there is any further recourse open to a person (details supplied) relating to a certain appeal concerning 2014 SPS area over declaration. [29971/16]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Corporation Tax Regime (13 Oct 2016)

Michael McGrath: 35. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 179 of 27 September 2016, the status of discussions with the Brazilian authorities in relation to their decision to designate Ireland as a tax haven; his views on the implications of the decision for Irish businesses; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30151/16]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: National Economic Output: Director General, Central Statistics Office (13 Oct 2016)

Michael McGrath: I welcome Mr. Dalton and his colleagues from the CSO. Like Deputy Pearse Doherty, I commend the organisation on the work it does. The information it provides is an invaluable source and resource for all of us, and I use its website regularly. I thank the CSO for all of the work being done. To start with regulation COM 551, does the CSO envisage this will have an impact on, for example,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: National Economic Output: Director General, Central Statistics Office (13 Oct 2016)

Michael McGrath: If it is decided to add questions around wealth, for example, we would see a big drop-off in the compliance or the co-operation rates. That is just a reality of life, despite the respect there is for the CSO and the reassurance it gives in terms of confidence reality and so forth. I wish the CSO well in its efforts to engage in the process and, hopefully, there will be a sensible outcome in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: National Economic Output: Director General, Central Statistics Office (13 Oct 2016)

Michael McGrath: Sure. In the previous month, June, the Department of Finance published its summer economic statement and predicted real GDP growth of 7.8%, at that stage. Given that the CSO had been working behind the scenes for a number of months, is the CSO prohibited from sending any signal or providing any information, albeit in preliminary form, to the Department of Finance to say there is a major...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: National Economic Output: Director General, Central Statistics Office (13 Oct 2016)

Michael McGrath: Okay.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: National Economic Output: Director General, Central Statistics Office (13 Oct 2016)

Michael McGrath: So the CSO is simply not allowed under the code, and that is quite clear cut. I think it is important to have that on the record.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: National Economic Output: Director General, Central Statistics Office (13 Oct 2016)

Michael McGrath: Will Mr. Dalton explain the core objective of the cross sector group established by the CSO? Is it to come up with a new measure on the domestic economy? Is the measure perhaps to be embraced further afield and be a catalyst for changes to measures internationally? The CSO is already publishing a whole host of information which provides a more meaningful measure of the domestic economy,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: National Economic Output: Director General, Central Statistics Office (13 Oct 2016)

Michael McGrath: Who is the authority on the definition of GDP and the methodology for measuring it - the UN, the IMF or EUROSTAT - and what is the legal basis of it?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: National Economic Output: Director General, Central Statistics Office (13 Oct 2016)

Michael McGrath: Mr. Dalton made reference to the residential property price index. One of the key measures in the budget, as he knows, is the income tax rebate for first-time buyers. There are some concerns that this would lead to an increase in the price of new houses. Would the information on movements in new residential properties, apartments and houses over the next number of months be easily discernible?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: National Economic Output: Director General, Central Statistics Office (13 Oct 2016)

Michael McGrath: Can it be categorised by new or second hand property?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: National Economic Output: Director General, Central Statistics Office (13 Oct 2016)

Michael McGrath: Does that apply to the existing data?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: National Economic Output: Director General, Central Statistics Office (13 Oct 2016)

Michael McGrath: I thank the Chairman.

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Fiscal Data (18 Oct 2016)

Michael McGrath: 198. To ask the Minister for Finance the way in which the fiscal space for 2017 moved from expected circa €1 billion to circa €1.2 billion on budget day in view of his previous comments that the fiscal space for 2017 could not change; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30818/16]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Pension Provisions (18 Oct 2016)

Michael McGrath: 200. To ask the Minister for Finance if he has given consideration to a suggestion in terms of pension access (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30880/16]