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Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Consultation Process (19 Jun 2018)

Paschal Donohoe: Details of all public consultations held by my Department, and the bodies under the aegis of my Department, are outlined in the following table. Department Of Public Expenditure and Reform Year Title of Public Consultation: Responses Cost 2011 Regulation of Lobbying Bill 61 €3,719.83 Comprehensive Review of Expenditure 1,000+ Nil 2012 None N/A N/A 2013 Review of...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Correspondence (19 Jun 2018)

Paschal Donohoe: My Department has not received any documentation in relation to Cork Event Centre in the last three months. However, my Department has been made aware by the Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht that it is in ongoing correspondence with Cork City Council in relation to the project.

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Pensions (19 Jun 2018)

Paschal Donohoe: My Department issued circulars in December 2017 and January 2018 authorising the application to qualifying public service pensions of certain public service pay increases, and giving guidance on the implementation of those pension increases. DPER Circular 20/2017, which issued in December 2017, authorised public service pension increases with effect from 1 September 2017, by reference to...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Proposed Legislation (19 Jun 2018)

Paschal Donohoe: I refer the Deputy to my answer to PQ 24451/18 on the 12 June 2018. When I wrote to the Joint Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform about pre-legislative scrutiny of the Bill earlier this year, the Committee responded indicating that, while it did not intend to undertake pre-legislative scrutiny of the Bill, it would engage fully on the draft legislation in the context of the...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Office of Director of Public Prosecutions (19 Jun 2018)

Paschal Donohoe: As voted by the Houses of the Oireachtas and published in the Revised Estimates for Public Services 2018, the estimate of the amount required for the operation of the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions for 2018 is €43,502,000 (net).

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Freedom of Information Data (14 Jun 2018)

Paschal Donohoe: To date, 185 FOI requests have been processed by the Department of Finance since January 2018. Five FOI requests were appealed to the Department requesting Internal Review; four affirmed the original decision, while one varied the original decision. One FOI request was appealed directly to the Office of the Information Commissioner and was subsequently withdrawn by the requestor. To date...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Vehicle Registration (14 Jun 2018)

Paschal Donohoe: I propose to take Questions Nos. 62 and 63 together. I am informed by Revenue that section 130 of the Finance Act 1992, as amended by section 53 of the Finance Act 2017, provides that EU category N1 vehicles with 4 or more seats and to which a BE Bodyworks code has not been assigned will be included in the Category A rate from 31 July 2018. Those N1s with 4 seats or more and which have...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Community Banking (14 Jun 2018)

Paschal Donohoe: My Department, along with the Department of Rural and Community Development, are responsible for the task of fulfilling the Programme for a Partnership Government commitment to "thoroughly investigate the German Sparkassen model for the development of local public banks that operate within well-defined regions". Local public banking is where the state, or another public body, has...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Credit Union Regulation (14 Jun 2018)

Paschal Donohoe: I can advise the Deputy that the following funds are in place which can be utilised under certain conditions to provide stabilisation, resolution or member deposit protection support respectively to credit unions. 1. The Credit Institutions Resolution Fund (CIRF) The CIRF was established under Section 10(1) of the Central Bank and Credit Institutions (Resolution) Act 2011 (2011 Act). The...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Revenue Commissioners Investigations (14 Jun 2018)

Paschal Donohoe: Revenue have informed me that they are bound by taxpayer confidentiality in accordance with Section 851A of the TCA 1997 and thus can not provide any information that might disclose the tax affairs of any individual taxpayer or business, including in regard to any third party. The vast majority of taxpayers are voluntarily compliant and Revenue assume that recipients of income from the...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Revenue Commissioners Investigations (14 Jun 2018)

Paschal Donohoe: I am advised by Revenue that it has not started a specific investigation of the type described by the deputy but that the rental sector, including businesses or taxpayers operating through online websites, are subject to the same level of risk analysis and intervention scrutiny as any other commercial entity. The risk analysis includes examination of data that is extracted from multiple...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (14 Jun 2018)

Paschal Donohoe: I am advised by Revenue that income arising from the provision of short term accommodation through online websites is subject to tax and the amount of taxable income is computed and charged to tax in the normal manner. Where the accommodation is provided as part of a trade carried on by the taxpayer, the income is taxable under Case I of Schedule D of the Taxes Consolidation Act 1997.However,...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Banking Operations (14 Jun 2018)

Paschal Donohoe: As the Deputy is aware, the State's shareholding varies across each of the three main banks. AIB currently supports Apply Pay and details are available on their website: Bank of Ireland provided the following reply: "Bank of Ireland is not a State owned bank. The Bank has an existing Pay to Mobile service for customers and expects to integrate other third party phone payments propositions...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Reliefs Data (14 Jun 2018)

Paschal Donohoe: I propose to take Questions Nos. 70, 71 and 72 together. I am advised by Revenue that the Cost of Tax Expenditures Table is available on the Revenue Statistics webpage at this . This sets out, in tabular form, data on a wide range of reliefs, credits and allowances including person taking care of incapacitated taxpayer, health expenses and nursing home related health expenses. The information...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Office of Government Procurement (14 Jun 2018)

Paschal Donohoe: Procurement is a key element of the Government's Reform agenda. The Office of Government Procurement (OGP) was established to drive the reform agenda, adopt a strategic approach to public procurement, leverage the State's spending power and deliver savings for the State. Framework agreements are one of a number of ways in which the OGP engages with the market to achieve value for money in...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Freedom of Information Data (14 Jun 2018)

Paschal Donohoe: Details of the number of FOI requests received by my Department from 1 January 2018 to 11 June 2018 are outlined in the following table. An appeal of an FOI decision by my Department can be made by seeking an Internal Review of the matter. The appeal will involve a complete reconsideration of the matter by a senior member of staff of my Department and a decision will be communicated within...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Sale of State Assets (14 Jun 2018)

Paschal Donohoe: I assume that the Deputy is referring to the €400m of proceeds from the sale of Bord Gais Energy that the Government announced, in Budget 2015, would be made available to support the Government's Social Housing Strategy. As the Deputy will be aware, the intention at the time was that this €400m would be made available to establish an off-balance sheet financial vehicle to...

Questions on Promised Legislation (13 Jun 2018)

Paschal Donohoe: Is that the best the Deputy can do?

Questions on Promised Legislation (13 Jun 2018)

Paschal Donohoe: Is that the best the Deputy can do?

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (13 Jun 2018)

Paschal Donohoe: I have no plans to extend the sugar swetened drinks tax at this time. The recently introduced tax on sugar-sweetened drinks commenced on 1 May 2018 and applies to water and juice based drinks with a sugar content of 5 grams per 100 mililitres or above. The European Commission found that the introduction of the tax constituted no aid and further to that decision, a legislative amendment will...