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Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Other Questions: Public Sector Pensions (3 Jul 2018)

Joan Burton: If he wishes to answer me, that would be fine.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Other Questions: Public Sector Pensions (3 Jul 2018)

Joan Burton: Given the reference to supplementary pensions-----

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Other Questions: Public Sector Pensions (3 Jul 2018)

Joan Burton: -----and the fact that auto-enrolment was not mentioned, I believed this was about the Department of Finance's supplementary pension.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Other Questions: Public Sector Pensions (3 Jul 2018)

Joan Burton: They are related.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Other Questions: Public Sector Pensions (3 Jul 2018)

Joan Burton: I am asking these questions for a reason. It is clear that, at all levels in the public sector, a significant number of retirements are taking place. Many others are in the cohort approaching retirement age. People must make that decision some years, if not months, in advance and consult their families. Across the public service, people of considerable skill and experience would like to...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Other Questions: Public Sector Pay (3 Jul 2018)

Joan Burton: Will the Minister indicate when he plans to roll out the supplementary pension, with regard to public service pensions.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Other Questions: Public Sector Pay (3 Jul 2018)

Joan Burton: It is very simple. When does the Minister propose to proceed with the expansion of the age limit for employment in the public service? Many people want to retire early while there are others who want to stay on. The Minister indicated that he would raise the age of retirement and abolish the compulsory retirement age in line with many other countries. How has that work progressed? Am I...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Other Questions: Public Sector Pay (3 Jul 2018)

Joan Burton: 106. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the status of the negotiations with regard to pay equalisation; the timeline for negotiations to conclude; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29010/18]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Gender Balance (3 Jul 2018)

Joan Burton: Taking the Department of Finance as being the leadership Department of the public service, as opposed to all Civil Service positions, would the Minister agree that women who have professional careers in the public service at all grades are paying a penalty in this day and age in their ability to get promotion, status and the pay that comes with promotion for taking time out to have children?...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Gender Balance (3 Jul 2018)

Joan Burton: 4. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide a gender analysis of the various grades of staff in his Department and the Department of Finance at grades (details supplied); the existing gender pay gap; the way in which he plans to address same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29228/18]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Gender Balance (3 Jul 2018)

Joan Burton: I ask the Minister what is he doing to address the gender gap in his Department. The Civil Service has not only a gender pay gap but a gender promotion gap. I ask the Minister what proposals he has to provide for women's equality in all positions in the Department, which is dominated by men except at the lower grades.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Gender Balance (3 Jul 2018)

Joan Burton: While I appreciate the Minister's sentiments, 100 years after women got the vote one must say when one looks at the Department of Finance that the old cliché, "male, stale and pale" comes immediately to mind. Both Secretaries General of the Department - admirable persons, I am sure, in their own right - are men. As the Minister stated, when one adds up the totality of staff in the...

Tax Law Reform and Codification Advisory Committee Bill 2018: First Stage (3 Jul 2018)

Joan Burton: I move: "That the Bill be taken in Private Members' time."

Tax Law Reform and Codification Advisory Committee Bill 2018: First Stage (3 Jul 2018)

Joan Burton: I move:That leave be granted to introduced a Bill entitled an Act to establish a permanent body to monitor, review and advise on the implementation, reform and codification of tax law; and to provide for connected matters. This statutory body would be tasked with monitoring, reviewing and advising the Minister for Finance on matters concerning the implementation and reform of tax law and...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Private Partnerships (3 Jul 2018)

Joan Burton: 26. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform when the inter-departmental inter-agency group he established in 2017 to review Ireland’s experience of using PPPs will report; the detail of the ongoing work on same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28990/18]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Climate Change Policy (3 Jul 2018)

Joan Burton: 34. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if an evaluation has been carried out of the cost to the Exchequer of failure to meet the Paris Agreement's targets in respect of climate change; his plans to reform the tax system in line with the Paris Agreement; if there will be plans in budget 2019 to reduce carbon use; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28992/18]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Ministerial Meetings (3 Jul 2018)

Joan Burton: 62. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will report on his meeting with the IMF Director General, Ms Christine Lagarde; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29014/18]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: VAT Rate Reductions (3 Jul 2018)

Joan Burton: 63. To ask the Minister for Finance the evaluation which has been carried out in respect of the ongoing retention of the 9% VAT rate; the estimated cost of the tax reduction in 2018; the estimated cost in 2019; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29091/18]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Staff Retirements (3 Jul 2018)

Joan Burton: 107. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform when legislation to increase the compulsory retirement age for public servants will be published; the timeframe for the legislation to pass in Dáil Éireann; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29011/18]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Staff Retirements (3 Jul 2018)

Joan Burton: 111. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the timeframe for the publication of the legislation to abolish the mandatory retirement age for public sector workers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29092/18]