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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Macroeconomic Forecasting: Discussion with Department of Finance (8 Oct 2013)

Kevin Humphreys: To rule out conspiracy theories, I welcome the witnesses. I originally raised the point about getting access to information at the same time as IFAC. I take on board the earlier points but as this is our first time to do this, we should learn from it, build on it and improve it in years to come. I do not buy into conspiracy theories.

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Government Fund (9 Oct 2013)

Kevin Humphreys: 149. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will detail the sums remitted to the local government fund in 2013, and the source of those revenues, outlining the amount of direct funding from the Exchequer and the portion from motor taxes with a breakdown of any other revenues; and if he will outline the way the local property tax revenues are accounted for in...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child Poverty (9 Oct 2013)

Kevin Humphreys: 179. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will provide an update in the area based approach to child poverty; the funding available for same; the date on which the areas and allocations will be announced; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42681/13]

Financial Resolutions 2014 - Budget Statement 2014 (15 Oct 2013)

Kevin Humphreys: The Deputy would have to pay his taxes though.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Staff Issues (15 Oct 2013)

Kevin Humphreys: 48. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the circumstances in which it is permitted for academic staff in third level institutions to return to paid teaching duties following retirement; the oversight mechanism there is; if these staff continue to draw their occupational pension while being employed on the double; the numbers of these academics who are teaching in their paid...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Eligibility (16 Oct 2013)

Kevin Humphreys: 166. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the medical card which had been provided for the last three years was removed from a three year old child (details supplied) who has profound cerebral palsy with severe developmental delay and mental retardation; if he will arrange for the child to be given a medical card on the basis of medical need as they require intensive and regular medical...

Other Questions: Arts Funding (22 Oct 2013)

Kevin Humphreys: As already stated, arts groups play an important role in Irish society in terms of them being ambassadors for Ireland at home and abroad. I know from my interaction with arts groups that they have done more with less over the past number of years. Planning and budgetary matters require certainty. Currently, arts groups can only plan from year to year. Will the Minister consider the...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Mortgages (22 Oct 2013)

Kevin Humphreys: 357. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide a breakdown by housing body of local authority mortgages issued, the number in arrears, the number in arrears of more than 90 days, more than 180 days, and over a year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44454/13]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Mortgages (22 Oct 2013)

Kevin Humphreys: 358. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide a breakdown by local authority housing body of the total number of mortgages currently outstanding under the affordable housing scheme, and of those mortgages, the total number that are in arrears in each local authority, the number in arrears of over 90 days, over 180 days, and over a year; and if he...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Shared Ownership Scheme (22 Oct 2013)

Kevin Humphreys: 359. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide a breakdown by local authority housing body of the outstanding number of persons in the shared ownership scheme in each local authority; the number in that scheme that are in arrears and the total number of loans in arrears; the number in arrears of more than 90 days, more than 180 days, and over a...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Repossessions (22 Oct 2013)

Kevin Humphreys: 360. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide a breakdown by local authority and housing body of the number of homes they have repossessed in each year since 2010, under any lending or finance scheme they offer, indicating the numbers repossessed in each scheme mortgage, shared ownership, affordable ownership; and if he will make a statement on...

Topical Issue Debate: Flood Risk Insurance Cover (23 Oct 2013)

Kevin Humphreys: I will be brief. I am grateful to the Chair for allowing me to raise this Topical Issue. I recognise the work that the Minister of State, Deputy Brian Hayes, has done on this issue over some time. While I intend to focus on a local example from Dublin South-East, I emphasise that this is a national issue. In 2007, some €13 million was spent on flood defences along the River Dodder...

Topical Issue Debate: Flood Risk Insurance Cover (23 Oct 2013)

Kevin Humphreys: I thank the Minister of State for his reply. I know that this is not his area. What I hear in the response is that the insurance industry is talking the talk but delivering very little. There is nothing really new in the reply from the industry. Insurance Ireland came before the Oireachtas Joint Committee on the Environment Community and Local Government where it cited the figure of "only...

Local Government Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (23 Oct 2013)

Kevin Humphreys: I am, ten minutes each.

Local Government Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (23 Oct 2013)

Kevin Humphreys: I welcome the move to reform local government in Ireland. It is long overdue. I would have gone much further but it is a start. The reorganisation that is taking place and the streamlining into municipal districts will prove to be a success. There is some fear of that but when we see the way local area committees work in urban areas, I believe these municipal districts in local town areas...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Reliefs Abolition (5 Nov 2013)

Kevin Humphreys: 147. To ask the Minister for Finance following budget 2014, if he will outline the taxation treatment of retirement gratuity payment for local authority councillors will be following the abolition of top slicing relief; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45635/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Banking Sector Staff Issues (5 Nov 2013)

Kevin Humphreys: 158. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No.77 of 26 September 2013, the number of staff who were offered two day overnight retirement seminars; the staff grades who received this; if he will confirm that all grades receive this treatment; the costs associated with the seminar; if the bank picks up the cost of meals, entertainment and accommodation and if so, the...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Central Bank of Ireland Properties (5 Nov 2013)

Kevin Humphreys: 159. To ask the Minister for Finance the expected costs of making the new Central Bank building fit for use, the amount expected to be spent to ensure the concrete superstructure is safe after several years of being exposed to environmental degradation and corrosion from frost and salt air; the person who will conduct the work to clad the building; if the cladding that was previously ordered...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Budget 2014 (5 Nov 2013)

Kevin Humphreys: 160. To ask the Minister for Finance the projected additional yield or loss of revenue or the Exchequer for the remainder of 2013 for the measures announced in budget 2014 that will come into force on the night and if he will provide a breakdown of the yield by measure; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45871/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (5 Nov 2013)

Kevin Humphreys: 204. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to address the rental income tax issue that arises where a family that owns an apartment that is now too small for its needs wants to rent out that property while continuing to pay the mortgage on it which may be in negative equity, while proceeding to rent a residence elsewhere suitable to the family's needs; if he will consider introducing an...