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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Six Month EU Scrutiny Report: Discussion with Department of Finance (9 May 2013)

Kevin Humphreys: There must be some analysis done to try to influence and measure what the impact would be.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Six Month EU Scrutiny Report: Discussion with Department of Finance (9 May 2013)

Kevin Humphreys: As Ms McVeigh says, it is moving at a hundred miles per hour. Will this come to completion at the same time as the enhanced co-operation for the 11 member countries? We have not fleshed out the details of the tax with reference to the 11 members involved in enhanced co-operation. We recognise the move could have an effect on the Irish economy, depending on the structures of the tax. I am...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Six Month EU Scrutiny Report: Discussion with Department of Finance (9 May 2013)

Kevin Humphreys: Is it possible for this committee to see the paper after it has been presented on 22 May?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Six Month EU Scrutiny Report: Discussion with Department of Finance (9 May 2013)

Kevin Humphreys: Has the NTMA given the Department some indications of its view? Has the Department requested anything? Has any information come back from the NTMA?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Six Month EU Scrutiny Report: Discussion with Department of Finance (9 May 2013)

Kevin Humphreys: A transfer of the tax base might emerge because the tax will follow the transaction.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Six Month EU Scrutiny Report: Discussion with Department of Finance (9 May 2013)

Kevin Humphreys: If the tax falls on the transactions it will mean a significant loss to the Irish economy, especially if we are not a member of the group of 11 countries that move forward. I presume some thought process is operating within that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Six Month EU Scrutiny Report: Discussion with Department of Finance (9 May 2013)

Kevin Humphreys: I want to clarify something based on the previous question. I take it that moving the budget and financial regulations forward with the budget could mean a once-off gain if there is an increase in VAT or excise duties. If they are moved in the night there could be a once-off gain this year because of the budget moving forward. Is that correct? There could be a once-off gain by moving the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Six Month EU Scrutiny Report: Discussion with Department of Finance (9 May 2013)

Kevin Humphreys: If the financial regulation is moved on 15 October with the result, for example, that there is an increase in VAT or excise duties, then there could possibly be a once-off gain in this year's budget. Is that the case?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Six Month EU Scrutiny Report: Discussion with Department of Finance (9 May 2013)

Kevin Humphreys: Normally excise matters are agreed for 15 October and therefore there is a possibility of it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Six Month EU Scrutiny Report: Discussion with Department of Finance (9 May 2013)

Kevin Humphreys: Ms Campbell gave the committee figures on the multi-annual financial framework, MFF, the PEACE programme and the Border, midlands and west, BMW, funding, all of which are positive figures. There is the Leader programme and so on as well. There are particular areas where there is economic disadvantage and there is social infrastructure funding available under these programmes. I raised this...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Six Month EU Scrutiny Report: Discussion with Department of Finance (9 May 2013)

Kevin Humphreys: I appreciate that. I wish to be very precise. Under the various programmes that come through there is money for social infrastructure in rural areas through the Leader programme, the CAP, BMW regional funding and the PEACE programme, but there is nothing for urban areas, although the indicators on social disadvantage are the same if not higher. Anyway, no money whatsoever is coming into...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Property Taxation Collection (14 May 2013)

Kevin Humphreys: 186. To ask the Minister for Finance the reason a person who signed up online to pay the local property tax by direct debit has had the payment debited already when the forms indicate that the payment would not be due until 21 July; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22347/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Staff Provision (14 May 2013)

Kevin Humphreys: 617. To ask the Minister for Health the number of qualified nurses currently employed in non-direct nursing care in (details supplied) in Dublin 4; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22348/13]

Order of Business (16 May 2013)

Kevin Humphreys: Legislation is promised to underpin research and development. A previous speaker pointed out how important this work is in cancer research. Ireland has been at the forefront of research in DNA, and today there has been an announcement of a breakthrough in cloning research. Legislation was promised in the programme for Government that would underpin research and development in a way that...

Issuing of fixed ticket charges and exercise of Garda discretion: Statements (21 May 2013)

Kevin Humphreys: I thank the Minister for coming into the House and making a statement and taking questions because this is the proper forum for this discussion and debate which has not happened in the past. I welcome the Minister's coming in to the House. I confirm that it is not only journalists who find him awkward but a few of us in the House do so as well.

Issuing of fixed ticket charges and exercise of Garda discretion: Statements (21 May 2013)

Kevin Humphreys: I have three questions but first I want to put them in context because this discussion and debate is a disclosure of personal information. It is not about penalty points or all the dossiers or any other issues which are starting to cloud it. I am similar to the Minister but I was in the wrong. I got a tap on the window from a garda and got the finger. I said sorry and moved on. That is...

Issuing of fixed ticket charges and exercise of Garda discretion: Statements (21 May 2013)

Kevin Humphreys: I am just asking that it should not be done. This affair has raised questions about the impact on civil liberties, as well as how information is recorded and comes into the public ether. Will the Minister explain clearly how this information came all the way up to the top of the Garda and was then given to the Minister as a kind of gossip?

Ireland and the Eurozone: Motion [Private Members] (21 May 2013)

Kevin Humphreys: I welcome the motion because it is important that we discuss this issue. In that regard, I do not agree with the previous speaker that it is ever the wrong time to discuss our position and role in Europe. I fully support the Government amendment to the motion and commend the work done by Ministers, the Taoiseach and Tánaiste in particular, and civil servants in the past five months as...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Office of Public Works Projects (21 May 2013)

Kevin Humphreys: 378. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide a breakdown of the supports or design work the Office of Public Works has provided to the Irish Jewish Museum; the costs of those supports; if the OPW has been reimbursed for this work; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24356/13]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Office of Public Works Projects (21 May 2013)

Kevin Humphreys: 379. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the programme or initiative from which community groups receive access to the design services of the Office of Public Works; the criteria that applies for access to those services as provided to (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24357/13]