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- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (12 Feb 2019) Michael McGrath: If the OPW was entering into a contract-----
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (12 Feb 2019) Michael McGrath: The OPW would regard it as a fixed price contract, with some exclusions, for example, the nature of the works that have been discovered at Leinster House.
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (12 Feb 2019) Michael McGrath: I am struggling to understand something. The OPW sits within the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform which also hosts the Office of Government Procurement in the overall management of State contracts. Mr. Buckley is saying the property arm - the OPW - does not use a contract model that provides for the contractor being compensated on an ongoing basis for construction inflation above...
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (12 Feb 2019) Michael McGrath: My final question is for the Minister of State who has previously raised the issue of insurance and engaged with that industry on areas in which OPW schemes have been completed. The industry has provided certain statistics for the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform for the levels of flood insurance coverage in those areas and claimed that they are high. They would argue that it is...
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (12 Feb 2019) Michael McGrath: I thank the Minister of State.
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (13 Feb 2019)
Michael McGrath: 88. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding a planned new primary school (details supplied) in County Cork; the patronage for the school; when he expects it to open; the location in which the permanent school building will be located; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7160/19]
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Brexit Preparations (14 Feb 2019)
Michael McGrath: 1. To ask the Minister for Finance the status of preparedness for all Brexit scenarios from a customs perspective; the steps being taken by his Department and the agencies under his remit; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7511/19]
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Brexit Preparations (14 Feb 2019)
Michael McGrath: My question relates to Brexit and our preparedness for Brexit for all possible scenarios, particularly from a customs perspective. We had an update from the Minister at the Committee on Budgetary Oversight and from the chairman of the Revenue Commissioners at the Joint Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach within the past three weeks. We are now just six weeks...
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Brexit Preparations (14 Feb 2019)
Michael McGrath: I thank the Minister for his reply. Will he confirm the number of additional staff Revenue has in place right now? He said that by the end of March, 400 staff are expected to be in place but six weeks out from Brexit can he confirm how many of them are in place? There will be a training requirement taking several weeks. It remains a major concern that so many SMEs are not prepared for...
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Brexit Preparations (14 Feb 2019)
Michael McGrath: I am aware of the correspondence that Revenue has sent to SMEs setting out the issues involved for them. This is a good opportunity for the Minister to give his perspective as to where things currently stand overall with Brexit. What is his sense of the likelihood of a no-deal scenario? We have discussed our preparedness as a country for that terrible scenario but, as the overall guardian...
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Corporation Tax (14 Feb 2019)
Michael McGrath: 3. To ask the Minister for Finance if an independent assessment will be commissioned on the sustainability of Ireland's corporation tax receipts for the period 2020 to 2030, inclusive, in view of the rapid growth in corporation tax receipts and the concentration of those receipts; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7512/19]
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Corporation Tax (14 Feb 2019)
Michael McGrath: This question asks the Minister to commission a new independent assessment of the sustainability of Ireland's corporation tax receipts. As he well knows, we have had a boom in corporation tax receipts in recent years, but there are very serious questions about the sustainability of those receipts as part of the public finances at this time. I will come back in a moment and speak about the...
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Corporation Tax (14 Feb 2019)
Michael McGrath: It is important to look at what exactly Mr. Coffey said in his report in mid-2017, namely that “although it is impossible to be definitive, and the volatility in receipts will remain, the level-shift increase in Corporation Tax receipts seen in 2015 can be expected to be sustainable over the medium term to 2020.” In 2015 we collected €6.9 billion in corporation tax...
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Corporation Tax (14 Feb 2019)
Michael McGrath: I reiterate that receipts in 2018 were 50% higher than in 2015, which was the period examined, which underlines the need for this review. What I hear from the Minister is that he accepts the principle of a review of the sustainability of the corporation tax receipts. I welcome that. It is progress. Fianna Fáil is very happy to engage with the Minister on this issue. The review...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Corporation Tax (14 Feb 2019)
Michael McGrath: 6. To ask the Minister for Finance if consideration will be given to establishing another review on the sustainability of corporation tax receipts along the lines of the Coffey review; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7370/19]
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Corporation Tax (14 Feb 2019)
Michael McGrath: This question is very similar to a previous priority question so I do not intend to press the issue. However, I would like to take the opportunity to raise a related point. The Minister, in his earlier answer, said that there were evolving issues that could result in downward pressure on corporation tax receipts and other issues that could result in receipts getting even stronger. What...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Corporation Tax (14 Feb 2019)
Michael McGrath: Can the Minister provide a comment on recent reports that the OECD is moving ahead, perhaps faster than expected, with its own proposals around taxing the digital economy? I am aware that Pascal Saint-Amans has made some remarks, and it has certainly been reported that OECD plans are more advanced than we had understood them to be. Can the Minister confirm whether his Department and...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Credit Union Lending (14 Feb 2019)
Michael McGrath: This question concerns the Irish League of Credit Unions, ILCU, which has put in place a mechanism which would enable funds held by the ILCU to be put to good use for social housing through approved housing bodies. Can the Minister provide an update on that to the House?
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Credit Union Lending (14 Feb 2019)
Michael McGrath: In summary, the Minister is saying this is not an issue for his Department or the Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government. There is no ongoing body of work being undertaken in this space. My understanding of what the Minister of State, Deputy English, said was that by the end of the first quarter of this year, work would be completed to facilitate the SPV that we have spoken...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Credit Union Lending (14 Feb 2019)
Michael McGrath: To be clear, what I think the Minister is saying is that there is no ongoing work within his Department or the Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government of which he is aware which forms part of this objective of developing an SPV. As far as the Minister is concerned, the framework is there for the credit union movement to go ahead and do this. That is what I am hearing. I would...