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Topical Issue Debate: School Accommodation Provision (3 Oct 2017)

Michael McGrath: I am glad the Minister is here to take this debate. The school in question is Rochestown Educate Together national school in Rochestown, County Cork. It is a fabulous school and under the leadership of Alan Sheehan and his team, the staff are doing a wonderful job in incredibly difficult circumstances. This school opened in 2013 and now had 208 pupils but is across a split campus. One...

Topical Issue Debate: School Accommodation Provision (3 Oct 2017)

Michael McGrath: I thank the Minister for his reply. He acknowledges in it that we are looking at another school year in 2018 and 2019 where the school will be in temporary accommodation. That will be the sixth year in some children's primary school lives in this school in temporary accommodation. I do not know how long it takes to purchase a site after the price has been agreed but will the Minister...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Financial Services Regulation (3 Oct 2017)

Michael McGrath: 103. To ask the Minister for Finance the detail of the Central Bank inquiry into a building society (details supplied) currently under way; the work that has been done to date; the costs incurred to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41281/17]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Help-To-Buy Scheme Assessment (3 Oct 2017)

Michael McGrath: 104. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will address a query raised in correspondence by a person (details supplied) in County Cork regarding the help-to-buy scheme. [41315/17]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Stability and Growth Pact (3 Oct 2017)

Michael McGrath: 120. To ask the Minister for Finance when the State is required to achieve its medium-term budgetary objective of a structural deficit of not greater than 0.5% under the domestic and EU fiscal rules; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41786/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Residential Institutions Statutory Fund (3 Oct 2017)

Michael McGrath: 137. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason the appeal of a person (details supplied) in County Cork to Caranua has been refused; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41275/17]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Election Monitoring Missions (3 Oct 2017)

Michael McGrath: 207. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the travel advice for Irish citizens wishing to travel to Kenya around the time of the planned elections there on 26 October 2017; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41282/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Contracts (3 Oct 2017)

Michael McGrath: 277. To ask the Minister for Health his views on whether it is unfair that employees of section 39 organisations had their pay cut in line with the financial emergency measures in the public interest, FEMPI, legislation on the instruction of the HSE but now those organisations are not in a position to restore the pay of the employees of these section 39 organisations in view of the fact that...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products Licensing (3 Oct 2017)

Michael McGrath: 311. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 1202 of 11 September 2017, if the onus is on the manufacturer of the drug to initiate the process of having it added to the reimbursement list; and if not, if there is a way for affected persons to commence this process [41320/17]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Sports Capital Programme Administration (3 Oct 2017)

Michael McGrath: 510. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when he plans to announce the allocations under the 2017 sports capital grant programme. [41279/17]

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Taxation Agreements: Motions (3 Oct 2017)

Michael McGrath: I understand that the United Kingdom has a much more extensive network of double taxation agreements in place. It has agreements with approximately 130 countries while we are at 73. Can the Minister of State put this in context for us? Can he explain if there are historical reasons the UK has a much more extensive network than us?

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Taxation Agreements: Motions (3 Oct 2017)

Michael McGrath: A bigger economic footprint.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Taxation Agreements: Motions (3 Oct 2017)

Michael McGrath: The Minister of State also mentioned in his remarks that Ireland has concluded negotiations with the Netherlands. Is that the renegotiation of an existing treaty?

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Taxation Agreements: Motions (3 Oct 2017)

Michael McGrath: It was just a matter of bringing that up to date, then. Do similar issues apply to DTAs that we have agreed with other EU countries? Are we also in the process of updating these?

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Taxation Agreements: Motions (3 Oct 2017)

Michael McGrath: Do we have agreements with all of the EU countries?

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Taxation Agreements: Motions (3 Oct 2017)

Michael McGrath: What are the top countries that Ireland is targeting? The Minister of State has mentioned South Africa.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Taxation Agreements: Motions (3 Oct 2017)

Michael McGrath: What are the countries we do significant trade with but without an agreement? Where are the obvious gaps? I mean countries with which we do a lot of trade without the benefit of a double taxation agreement.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Taxation Agreements: Motions (3 Oct 2017)

Michael McGrath: Do we have agreements in South America?

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Taxation Agreements: Motions (3 Oct 2017)

Michael McGrath: In terms of Brexit, we have an agreement with the UK that is neutral in terms of its membership or not of the European Union. Is there potential for Brexit to create issues?

Leaders' Questions (4 Oct 2017)

Michael McGrath: Nobody ever claimed that.