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Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Garda Station Refurbishment (27 Jun 2018)

Paschal Donohoe: The refurbishment and upgrade of Newcastle West Garda Station is included in the Capital Investment Plan 2016-2021 for An Garda Síochána. The Office of Public Works is currently developing plans  for a new District Headquarters facility on the existing site in Newcastle West which is based on a brief of requirements received from An Garda...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Pay (27 Jun 2018)

Paschal Donohoe: I refer the Deputy to my answer to PQ 2235/18 on the 18 January 2018.

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Pension Provisions (27 Jun 2018)

Paschal Donohoe: An application for an abatement waiver must come from the individual’s current employer and must be signed by the Secretary General (or equivalent) of the Department/Office. An abatement waiver, if successful, is only granted in exceptional circumstances and for a limited period. An application for an abatement waiver must be addressed to the Minister for Public Expenditure and...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Teachers' Remuneration (27 Jun 2018)

Paschal Donohoe: The Public Service Stability Agreement 2018-2020 (PSSA), provided that an examination of remaining salary scale issues in respect of post January 2011 recruits at entry grades would be undertaken within 12 months of the commencement of the Agreement. Additionally this Government accepted an amendment at Section 11 of the Public Service Pay and Pensions Act 2017, that within 3 months of...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Electric Vehicles (27 Jun 2018)

Paschal Donohoe: There are no charging points in any buildings currently occupied by the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform.  There is a very small number of charging points, maybe 4 or 5, in other buildings owned or leased by the Office of Public Works and occupied by central Government Departments and Agencies.  These have been installed at the request of the occupying...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Betting Regulations (28 Jun 2018)

Paschal Donohoe: As the Deputy will be aware, it is a longstanding practice of the Minister for Finance not to comment, in advance of the Budget, on any tax matters that might be the subject of Budget decisions.

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Brexit Issues (28 Jun 2018)

Paschal Donohoe: President of the European Commission, Jean-Claude Juncker, and Chief EU Brexit Negotiator, Michel Barnier, visited Dublin on 21 June, this was an important opportunity for the Government and the Commission to take stock of state of play in the Brexit negotiations. President Juncker again emphasised that Ireland has the full backing of the EU and that Irish issues must be dealt with in...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Stability Programme Data (28 Jun 2018)

Paschal Donohoe: The Government is committed to establishing the Rainy Day Fund as a fiscal buffer in the event of a major shock to the economy. By spending the €900 million available as per minimum compliance with the expenditure benchmark, it would increase borrowing further by the amounts shown in the table below and would result in not achieving the Medium Term Objective (MTO)...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Fiscal Data (28 Jun 2018)

Paschal Donohoe: I propose to take Questions Nos. 101 and 102 together. The Government is committed to establishing the rainy day fund as a fiscal buffer in the event of a major shock to the economy. This will impact on the State’s borrowing by €500 million for each of the years 2019, 2020 and 2021 and is already captured in the State’s debt. If this €500 million were to be spent...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Stability Programme Data (28 Jun 2018)

Paschal Donohoe: The estimates prepared by the European Commission, in its Spring Forecast, and my Department, in the Stability Programme Update 2018, both project a structural deficit of 0.4 per cent of GDP for next year. The impact of spending this €900 million is shown in Line ‘d’ in table 4 of the Summer Economic Statement. The deficit in 2019 would increase from 0.1 per cent of...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Banking Sector (28 Jun 2018)

Paschal Donohoe: As the Deputy is aware, my Department, along with the Department of Rural and Community Development, are responsible for fulfilling the Programme for a Partnership Government to "thoroughly investigate the German Sparkassen model for the development of local public banks that operate within well-defined regions". Local public banking is where the state, or another public body, has...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Departmental Reports (28 Jun 2018)

Paschal Donohoe: It is my understanding that the Deputy is referring to 'Ireland's Corporation Tax Roadmap.' This report relates to the implementation of the Anti-Tax Avoidance Directives and also the recommendations of the ‘Review of Ireland's Corporation Tax Code’, undertaken by Mr Seamus Coffey At present, this report is being finalised and it is my intention to publish it in...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Data (28 Jun 2018)

Paschal Donohoe: It is assumed that the Deputy is referring to dividend income from Irish resident companies. I am advised by Revenue that based on tax returns and the yield from Dividend Withholding Tax for 2016, the replacement of all Income Tax, USC and PRSI on dividend income with a flat rate of taxation of 20% is tentatively estimated to be a loss in the region of €95 million. On the...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Reliefs Data (28 Jun 2018)

Paschal Donohoe: I propose to take Questions Nos. 107 and 114 together. I am advised by the Revenue Commissioners that based on initial analysis of Capital Gains Tax (CGT) returns filed for the tax year 2016, the latest year available, approximately 410 individuals have availed of entrepreneurial relief with an estimated cost in the region of €20 million. This is provisional and likely to change as...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Data (28 Jun 2018)

Paschal Donohoe: As the Deputy will be aware, Start Up Refunds for Entrepreneurs (SURE) provides a refund of tax paid in the previous six tax years to those previously in PAYE employment, or recently unemployed, where they invest funds into a new company set up by them. I am advised by Revenue that there is no statistical basis on which to estimate the cost of broadening the SURE scheme to...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Employment Investment Incentive Scheme (28 Jun 2018)

Paschal Donohoe: I propose to take Questions Nos. 109 and 110 together. As the Deputy will be aware, I made significant changes to the operation of the Employment and Investment Incentive (EII) in Finance Bill 2017 in order to ensure that the incentive accords with Art 21(3) of the European Commission General Block Exemption Regulations (GBER). GBER requires that risk finance aid schemes such as the EII...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Deduction Systems (28 Jun 2018)

Paschal Donohoe: I propose to take Questions Nos. 111 and 115 together. I am advised by Revenue that the latest information on the cost and number of individuals availing of the Foreign Earnings Deduction (FED) is as follows: Year Numbers €m 2015 472 3.2 2014 144 1.1 2013 135 1 2012 108 0.8 The latest year for which data is currently available is 2015. I am further advised by...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Data (28 Jun 2018)

Paschal Donohoe: I propose to take Questions Nos. 112 and 113 together. I am advised by Revenue that information in respect of the additional cost of the credit that would arise if the outsourcing restriction was lifted is not available as there is no reliable basis from tax returns data to allow an estimate of the cost to be produced.  I am further advised by Revenue that details of the number of...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Civil Service Staff Data (28 Jun 2018)

Paschal Donohoe: I propose to take Questions Nos. 116 to 118, inclusive, together. As the Deputy will be aware, I am responsible for employment in the civil service. Other Ministers are responsible for employment in other parts of the public service  PAS undertook competitions in 2016 for Executive Officer and Higher Executive Officer in ICT for the civil service, and approximately 240...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Teachers' Remuneration (28 Jun 2018)

Paschal Donohoe: The Public Service Stability Agreement 2018-2020 (PSSA), provided that an examination of remaining salary scale issues in respect of post January 2011 recruits at entry grades would be undertaken within 12 months of the commencement of the Agreement. Additionally this Government accepted an amendment at Section 11 of the Public Service Pay and Pensions Act 2017, that within 3 months of...