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Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance (Revised)
Vote 8 - Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General (Revised)
Vote 9 - Office of the Revenue Commissioners (Revised)
Vote 10 - Tax Appeals Commission (Revised) (22 Feb 2018)

Paschal Donohoe: Section 38 and section 39 organisations receive funding from the State but they are not run or owned by the State. I have not heard many section 38 or section 39 organisations stating that they want to be State-run organisations.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance (Revised)
Vote 8 - Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General (Revised)
Vote 9 - Office of the Revenue Commissioners (Revised)
Vote 10 - Tax Appeals Commission (Revised) (22 Feb 2018)

Paschal Donohoe: The HSE is different from a section 38 or section 39 organisation. The role of the Comptroller and Auditor General is to audit and oversee State bodies and bodies associated with the State. The Comptroller and Auditor General has not told me that he or his office is looking for any additional powers or a change in remit. The HSE is subject to the scrutiny of the Comptroller and Auditor...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance (Revised)
Vote 8 - Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General (Revised)
Vote 9 - Office of the Revenue Commissioners (Revised)
Vote 10 - Tax Appeals Commission (Revised) (22 Feb 2018)

Paschal Donohoe: I did not say I did not have a plan for the reform and support of the Comptroller and Auditor General. The Chairman asked if I would support the merger of the Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General with the local authority audit organisation and I said I would be reluctant to do that because the Comptroller and Auditor General has a constitutional status, while the local government...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance (Revised)
Vote 8 - Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General (Revised)
Vote 9 - Office of the Revenue Commissioners (Revised)
Vote 10 - Tax Appeals Commission (Revised) (22 Feb 2018)

Paschal Donohoe: We are about to go into the second year of a comprehensive spending review and there is a difference between waste, which we have to identify and reduce, and a better use of taxpayers' money. There can be better ways of spending money and that is what the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform does. I have Vote teams which work with every Government Department, which cannot go ahead...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance (Revised)
Vote 8 - Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General (Revised)
Vote 9 - Office of the Revenue Commissioners (Revised)
Vote 10 - Tax Appeals Commission (Revised) (22 Feb 2018)

Paschal Donohoe: I do not have an answer to that. The Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government, Deputy Eoghan Murphy, is dealing with the matter. I will get back to the Chairman in response to this question.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance (Revised)
Vote 8 - Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General (Revised)
Vote 9 - Office of the Revenue Commissioners (Revised)
Vote 10 - Tax Appeals Commission (Revised) (22 Feb 2018)

Paschal Donohoe: We are not allowed to use that phrase.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance (Revised)
Vote 8 - Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General (Revised)
Vote 9 - Office of the Revenue Commissioners (Revised)
Vote 10 - Tax Appeals Commission (Revised) (22 Feb 2018)

Paschal Donohoe: They are excellent.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance (Revised)
Vote 8 - Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General (Revised)
Vote 9 - Office of the Revenue Commissioners (Revised)
Vote 10 - Tax Appeals Commission (Revised) (22 Feb 2018)

Paschal Donohoe: That comment might cause reverberations.

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Primary Medical Certificates Eligibility (22 Feb 2018)

Paschal Donohoe: The Disabled Drivers and Disabled Passengers (Tax Concessions) Scheme provides relief from VAT and VRT on the purchase of an adapted car for transport of a person with specific severe and permanent physical disabilities, payment of a fuel grant, and an exemption from Motor Tax. To qualify for the Scheme an applicant must be in possession of a Primary Medical Certificate. To qualify for...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Data (22 Feb 2018)

Paschal Donohoe: Finance Act 2015 introduced a new relief for landlords who commit to let their property to tenants in receipt of social housing supports for a minimum period of three years.  It allows landlords to claim an increased expense deduction for mortgage interest in their rental accounts – they will be able to claim 100% of relevant mortgage interest, in place of the 85% generally...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Freedom of Information Requests (22 Feb 2018)

Paschal Donohoe: My Department endeavours to comply with the decision deadlines set out in the Freedom of Information Act 2014. However, the scope of work of the Department, especially in preparing the Budget, the Finance Bill, and associated Oireachtas briefings, sometimes delays the processing of freedom of information requests. In relation to the two freedom of information requests referred to by the...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Reliefs Eligibility (22 Feb 2018)

Paschal Donohoe: As the Deputy will be aware, the Home Renovation Incentive (HRI) provides a tax relief by way of an income tax credit in respect of repair, renovation or improvements works on principal private residences or rental properties where the works are carried out by tax compliant contractors.  The repair, renovation or improvement works must have been carried out on or after 25 October 2013...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: VAT Rebates (22 Feb 2018)

Paschal Donohoe: I propose to take Questions Nos. 46 and 47 together. The Value Added Tax (Refund of Tax) (No 15) Order 1981 provides for the refund of VAT on certain aids and appliances used by disabled persons. I am advised by The Revenue Commissioners that the table below sets out the number of VAT claims and amounts refunded in accordance with the Order for the years 2014 to 2017 (inclusive). No...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: VAT Rate Application (22 Feb 2018)

Paschal Donohoe: The Value-Added Tax (Refund of Tax) (No. 15) Order, 1981 enables VAT paid on qualifying goods, such as aids and appliances constructed or adapted for use by a disabled person, to be refunded where the goods are purchased for the exclusive use of disabled persons suffering a specified degree of disablement. I am advised by The Revenue Commissioners that motor vehicles are excluded...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Fiscal Policy (22 Feb 2018)

Paschal Donohoe: I propose to take Questions Nos. 49 and 50 together. There are two specific changes to the Exchequer Borrowing Requirement (EBR) as published in the Economic and Fiscal Outlook for Budget 2018. These forecasts cover the period to 2021. The first relates to the passing of the Water Services Bill 2017 into law. As explained in the Economic and Fiscal Outlook, Chapter 7 'Budgetary Reform', Irish...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Inflation Rate (22 Feb 2018)

Paschal Donohoe: Inflation in Ireland and other developed economies has been subdued for a prolonged period. While inflation picked up elsewhere last year, inflation in Ireland remained close to zero. Overall HICP inflation averaged just 0.3 per cent last year, the fifth consecutive year of inflation below 1 per cent. By contrast, inflation in the euro area as a whole, on a HICP basis, averaged 1.5 per cent...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Economic Policy (22 Feb 2018)

Paschal Donohoe: Although the economic recovery has been much faster than anticipated, developments in the labour market, which is probably the best barometer of the Irish economy given distortions to GDP and GNP, suggest that the economy is not yet operating at full capacity. While unemployment has fallen rapidly to 6.1 per cent in January, from a peak of 16 per cent in 2012, this is still above the level...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Stability and Growth Pact (22 Feb 2018)

Paschal Donohoe: I propose to take Questions Nos. 53 and 54 together. The level of gross voted capital expenditure for 2018 of €5.8 billion set out in Table 3.1 of the National Development Plan, which is the same as the level set out in the 2018 Revised Estimates Volume, is consistent with the general government expenditure forecasts included in Budget 2018.  Therefore, the forecasts for both...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Credit Union Lending (22 Feb 2018)

Paschal Donohoe: The Credit Union and Co-Operation with Overseas Regulators Act 2012 introduced changes to the Credit Union Act, 1997 (the 1997 Act). Since 1 January 2016, section 43 of the 1997 Act provides that the Central Bank may prescribe investments in which a credit union may invest its funds. Following engagement with the credit union sector on proposals for credit unions to provide funding...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Cycle to Work Scheme (22 Feb 2018)

Paschal Donohoe: I propose to take Questions Nos. 56 and 57 together. The Cycle to Work Scheme exempts (from income tax, employee PRSI and USC) the benefit-in-kind (BIK) arising from the provision of a bicycle / cycle safety equipment by an employer to an employee (or director), where the bicycle is used by the employee to cycle to and from work or between workplaces. I have no plans to amend the...