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Written Answers — Department of Finance: Help-To-Buy Scheme Eligibility (7 Nov 2017)

Michael McGrath: 249. To ask the Minister for Finance the eligibility criteria for self-builds under the help to buy scheme; the reason why the market value of the home is used rather than the cost of building that home; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46915/17]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tracker Mortgages (7 Nov 2017)

Michael McGrath: 254. To ask the Minister for Finance if persons whose credit record has been affected by being wrongly denied a tracker mortgage rate or as a result of being on a less favourable tracker rate have been notified of this fact; the steps that are being taken to address this problem; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46999/17]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tracker Mortgage Examination Data (7 Nov 2017)

Michael McGrath: 255. To ask the Minister for Finance the details of the independent appeals panel established to examine tracker mortgage issues; the membership of the appeals panel; the number of cases dealt with by the panel to date in 2017 for each of the fifteen lenders included in the Central Bank's examination of tracker mortgage related issues; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47000/17]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tracker Mortgage Examination Data (7 Nov 2017)

Michael McGrath: 268. To ask the Minister for Finance if each of the fifteen lenders included in the Central Bank's examination of tracker mortgage related issues will provide details of the amount of money provided to affected borrowers for independent professional advice; if the amount or allowance provided for such advice is relative to the amount of redress involved in each case; if it is a fixed amount...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tracker Mortgage Examination (7 Nov 2017)

Michael McGrath: 256. To ask the Minister for Finance the range of compensation as a percentage of redress available to persons affected for each of the 15 lenders included in the Central Bank's examination of tracker mortgage-related issues; the minimum and maximum percentage compensation for same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47001/17]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tracker Mortgage Data (7 Nov 2017)

Michael McGrath: 257. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of persons estimated to have lost their property, private dwelling homes and buy-to-let as a result of being wrongly denied a tracker mortgage rate or as a result of being on a less favourable tracker rate; the steps that have been taken to assist these persons for each of the fifteen lenders included in the Central Bank's examination of tracker...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (7 Nov 2017)

Michael McGrath: 258. To ask the Minister for Finance the policy position in relation to the taxation treatment when a person wishes to pass on a non-farming business to adult children; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47007/17]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Mortgage Applications Approvals (7 Nov 2017)

Michael McGrath: 259. To ask the Minister for Finance if banks are permitted to rely on certain social welfare income in considering an application for a mortgage to purchase a principal dwelling house; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47015/17]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Central Bank of Ireland (7 Nov 2017)

Michael McGrath: 266. To ask the Minister for Finance if the Central Bank has received complaints or carried out investigations in relation to business loans in which the person is of the view they were wrongly removed from an interest rate linked to Euribor or were denied the option of reverting to a rate linked to Euribor following a period on a fixed rate; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Properties (7 Nov 2017)

Michael McGrath: 271. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if his Department is the owner of the site on which the Intreo office in Carrigaline, County Cork, is located; and if not, the owner of same. [45743/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teacher Secondment (7 Nov 2017)

Michael McGrath: 420. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will address a matter (details supplied). [46895/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff Recruitment (7 Nov 2017)

Michael McGrath: 742. To ask the Minister for Health the details of the HSE and other agencies under the remit of his Department for the recruitment of staff in the area of health promotion; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46485/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Care Packages (7 Nov 2017)

Michael McGrath: 814. To ask the Minister for Health the reason health in the home cover by a company (details supplied) is only available in Dublin; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46817/17]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Fire Service Staff (7 Nov 2017)

Michael McGrath: 1276. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of the entitlement of retained firefighters to jobseeker's benefit; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [47014/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Assistance Payment Administration (7 Nov 2017)

Michael McGrath: 1351. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if a reply will issue to correspondence (details supplied). [46826/17]

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2017: Committee Stage (7 Nov 2017)

Michael McGrath: I welcome the Minister and his officials. Has the Minister a figure for what is saved by the non-indexation of the personal tax system for 2018 in terms of bands and credits for example?

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2017: Committee Stage (7 Nov 2017)

Michael McGrath: We will come back to that point. Speaking to section 2, the Minister said on budget day that he will establish a working group to plan over the coming year the process of amalgamating USC and PRSI over the medium term. Will the Minister define what he regards as medium term? What are the Government's plans for the amalgamation of USC and PRSI? Can the Minister give members any detail of...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2017: Committee Stage (7 Nov 2017)

Michael McGrath: To recap, the working group will be established after the enactment of the Finance Bill.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2017: Committee Stage (7 Nov 2017)

Michael McGrath: The Minister envisages that full implementation would be over a span of three to five budgets?

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2017: Committee Stage (7 Nov 2017)

Michael McGrath: The new combined charge or contribution, call it what one may, will determine one's benefits. It is going to be a contributions-based approach?