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- Public Accounts Committee: Houses of the Oireachtas Commission Appropriation Account 2018 (11 Jul 2019)
David Cullinane: I will come to that shortly because I want to ask a question about the difference between allowances for party leaders and Deputies and allowances for Independents. I believe some changes were made to those recently but I will come to that. Mr. Finnegan gave headline figures in his opening statement as to State funding for political parties. Will he remind us of that?
- Public Accounts Committee: Houses of the Oireachtas Commission Appropriation Account 2018 (11 Jul 2019)
David Cullinane: I am sorry, Mr. McCarthy. Is that because it is not directly related to the work of the commission?
- Public Accounts Committee: Houses of the Oireachtas Commission Appropriation Account 2018 (11 Jul 2019)
David Cullinane: Is it listed in Mr. McCarthy's accounts?
- Public Accounts Committee: Houses of the Oireachtas Commission Appropriation Account 2018 (11 Jul 2019)
David Cullinane: Who is the Accounting Officer for it?
- Public Accounts Committee: Houses of the Oireachtas Commission Appropriation Account 2018 (11 Jul 2019)
David Cullinane: We might wait for the Department of Finance witnesses to come in.
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Refurbishment (6 Sep 2019)
David Cullinane: 257. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if funding is guaranteed to modernise a school (details supplied) in County Waterford; if the agreed plan to reunite the school on one site in the interim will be implemented; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34730/19]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Establishment (6 Sep 2019)
David Cullinane: 444. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the pledge to open an educate together national school in Dungarvan, County Waterford; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36329/19]
- Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: International Conventions (6 Sep 2019)
David Cullinane: 744. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the reason Ireland failed to ratify ILO Convention 129 on Labour Inspections in Agriculture (1969); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36502/19]
- Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Schemes (6 Sep 2019)
David Cullinane: 1531. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if his attention has been drawn to the application made by persons (details supplied) for a grant under the SEAI grant-aided deep retrofit project that was made in the first half of 2019; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36328/19]
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Scrutiny of Tax Expenditures (Resumed) (11 Sep 2019)
David Cullinane: I welcome Mr. Coffey and his team. I think it was Deputy Lahart who spoke earlier of the reason IFAC was brought into existence, namely to remind politicians of our fiscal responsibility and of the Celtic tiger years and the recession which followed. Equally, I imagine that Mr. Coffey understands that we are politicians and that politicians are under fierce pressure from our constituents...
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Scrutiny of Tax Expenditures (Resumed) (11 Sep 2019)
David Cullinane: People might see a range from €3 billion to €6 billion as being quite big.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Scrutiny of Tax Expenditures (Resumed) (11 Sep 2019)
David Cullinane: Could Mr. Tutty be a bit more specific?
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Scrutiny of Tax Expenditures (Resumed) (11 Sep 2019)
David Cullinane: IFAC refers to the potential of an element of corporation tax receipts being unsustainable. I am just putting it back to our guestsnot in a wooly way but in a direct fashionand asking whether they have done an analysis of how much of that may be unsustainable. We have heard the range of €3 billion to €6 billion but is the true figure closer to the former or the latter?
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Scrutiny of Tax Expenditures (Resumed) (11 Sep 2019)
David Cullinane: I have a question on how the money is spent. Our guests are indicating that corporation tax receipts which may well be unsustainable should not be allocated towards day-to-day spending. Would they be as concerned if an element of this was used for capital spending?
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Scrutiny of Tax Expenditures (Resumed) (11 Sep 2019)
David Cullinane: Would it be less risky to put it to capital spending rather than day-to-day spending?
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Scrutiny of Tax Expenditures (Resumed) (11 Sep 2019)
David Cullinane: I know that but I am asking if such action would be less risky.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Scrutiny of Tax Expenditures (Resumed) (11 Sep 2019)
David Cullinane: Our guests referred to revenues being more sound. What do they mean by that? Where is the capacity to increase revenue from the State's perspective?
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Scrutiny of Tax Expenditures (Resumed) (11 Sep 2019)
David Cullinane: What does Mr. Tutty mean by income earned?
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Scrutiny of Tax Expenditures (Resumed) (11 Sep 2019)
David Cullinane: In what areas could tax be increased?
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Scrutiny of Tax Expenditures (Resumed) (11 Sep 2019)
David Cullinane: Would that apply across the board to everybody?