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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Health Services Funding (24 Oct 2018)

Tommy Broughan: I want the Minister to be honest.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Health Services Funding (24 Oct 2018)

Tommy Broughan: I do not want it both ways; I want it one way.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Health Services Funding (24 Oct 2018)

Tommy Broughan: I would, of course.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Health Services Funding (24 Oct 2018)

Tommy Broughan: What I am asking for is honesty. This Dáil's establishment of the Committee on Budgetary Oversight and the PBO will stand the test of time, as will the Sláintecare committee, which should probably be sitting continuously. We want the Government to implement Sláintecare and to be honest about it. I suggested a 43% top tax rate on salaries in excess of €120,000 or...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Health Services Funding (24 Oct 2018)

Tommy Broughan: Measures could be taken to get the Vote together. The conclusions in the PBO's report are damning of the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform's management of the health Vote. It seems that alignment of the national service plan and the Vote is impossible. The money that is voted and the plan's expenditure elements do not correspond. There is a lacuna, which the Minister should...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Health Services Funding (24 Oct 2018)

Tommy Broughan: Is this me again?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Health Services Funding (24 Oct 2018)

Tommy Broughan: Does the Acting Chairman refer to Question No. 78?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Health Services Funding (24 Oct 2018)

Tommy Broughan: No other Deputies are present.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Expenditure (24 Oct 2018)

Tommy Broughan: 78. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will report on his departmental spending profiles up to the end of September 2018 in gross voted capital expenditure under Budget 2018; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43864/18]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Expenditure (24 Oct 2018)

Tommy Broughan: I wish to ask the Minister about the gross Votes. Several Deputies noted that spending was under profile, particularly the Votes for housing and environment. That was certainly evident in the last report the Minister gave us. It seems incongruous that capital expenditure is running under profile in areas like housing and health. I welcome the size of the capital budget and that we are...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Expenditure (24 Oct 2018)

Tommy Broughan: I am particularly interested in the overall profile across the Government. I thought a key part of Deputy Donohoe's remit as Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform was to keep track of what is happening in those areas. My constituents are amazed that there is capital funding in different Departments which is not utilised, whether it relates to housing, communications or whatever. I...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Expenditure (24 Oct 2018)

Tommy Broughan: The Minister's staff asked me-----

Sale of Illicit Goods Bill 2017: Second Stage [Private Members] (24 Oct 2018)

Tommy Broughan: I am delighted to contribute to the debate. The illicit trade in cigarettes alcohol and solid fuel is reported to have cost the Exchequer up to €2.5 billion between 2010 and 2015. Of course, exact figures are difficult to come by but this is probably a conservative estimate. The problem became so acute that a group known as Retailers Against Smugglers, RAS, was established and is...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (25 Oct 2018)

Tommy Broughan: Have the Tánaiste and his EU Foreign Minister colleagues given consideration to referring Prince Mohammed bin Salman al Saud of Saudi Arabia to the International Criminal Court in The Hague given the appalling murder of the journalist Jamal Khashoggi and repeated serious crimes committed by the Saudi rulers in Yemen? I remember years ago, when both the Tánaiste and I were in...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Legislative Measures (25 Oct 2018)

Tommy Broughan: 30. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will report on the proposed structure and aims of the rainy day fund; when the promised national surplus (reserve fund for exceptional contingencies) Bill will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44143/18]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Property Tax Review (25 Oct 2018)

Tommy Broughan: 54. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans for household property tax; when the review group's report will be available; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44142/18]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Financial Services Sector (25 Oct 2018)

Tommy Broughan: 49. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will report on the study being carried out by a company (details supplied) into pay across the financial sector; his views on performance related salaries in banks and other financial institutions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44141/18]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Departmental Schemes (25 Oct 2018)

Tommy Broughan: 55. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of companies and employees that availed of the key employee engagement programme to date in 2018; the impact he expects to result from his proposed changes to the scheme in 2019; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44144/18]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Corporation Tax (25 Oct 2018)

Tommy Broughan: 56. To ask the Minister for Finance if the application of accounting rules known as the International Financial Reporting Standard 15 provided a one-off boost to profits and therefore a windfall effect to corporation taxes payable by information technology and pharmaceutical companies in 2018 which will not reoccur after 2018; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43979/18]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Data (25 Oct 2018)

Tommy Broughan: 82. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on the report on tax expenditures of October 2018; the key components and estimated total cost of tax expenditures as a percentage of total voted expenditure and of GNI in 2017; the likely costs in 2018; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43863/18]