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Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Finance (No. 2) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (26 Nov 2013)

Kieran O'Donnell: Does it still apply that the upper limit is €30,000, plus VAT, namely, €34,050?

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Finance (No. 2) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (26 Nov 2013)

Kieran O'Donnell: These are practical questions. The measure is very good, but, if the limit is €34,000, could someone decide to carry out work in three parts in the years 2013, 2014 and 2015, with each part worth €12,000, and qualify to claim the tax relief in each year? People could claim the tax credit based on the limit of €34,050 but some may not be able to afford to spend the full...

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Finance (No. 2) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (26 Nov 2013)

Kieran O'Donnell: I am really thinking of the group who cannot afford that figure, namely, those under financial pressure, including young married couples. It is a question of their finding a mechanism to claim the tax credit, although they may be unable to afford all of the work in a given year. The Minister has answered my question in that the option is available for them if they want to carry out work...

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Finance (No. 2) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (26 Nov 2013)

Kieran O'Donnell: Or they get it over the following two years.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Finance (No. 2) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (26 Nov 2013)

Kieran O'Donnell: My main reason for raising this issue is in order that those who are considering availing of the scheme which is very good will know all the options and that the option the Minister outlined is available for them if they wish to avail of it.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Finance (No. 2) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (26 Nov 2013)

Kieran O'Donnell: Section 4 provides for the abolition of top slicing relief for such payments made on or after 1 January 2014. Lump sums paid as part of an approved occupational pension scheme are unaffected. What type of pension schemes are affected by this section?

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Finance (No. 2) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (26 Nov 2013)

Kieran O'Donnell: Does it apply purely to private sector schemes? Would it have other implications?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Nov 2013)

Kieran O'Donnell: If the Comptroller and Auditor General had received the information, rather than its having been sent to the Chair, what would he have done with it?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Nov 2013)

Kieran O'Donnell: I have a question for the Comptroller and Auditor General. In terms of various chapters his office has completed on the banking and credit union systems, is there a specific area that would have been covered by previous reports that relates to the work of the Governor of the Central Bank?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Nov 2013)

Kieran O'Donnell: Was there not a chapter on bank stabilisation at some point?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Nov 2013)

Kieran O'Donnell: Would it not be reasonable to say that the office is doing a follow-up report on bank stabilisation? Our role as a committee is to ensure value for money for taxpayers in the context of public spending. Would it be possible to propose an extension of previous work done on bank stabilisation, involving the credit union movement and to suggest that the office of the Comptroller and Auditor...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Nov 2013)

Kieran O'Donnell: In the context of the continuing reports to be done by the Comptroller and Auditor General on bank stabilisation and the fact that we have forthcoming report of our own regarding costs to taxpayers of the problems with the banks and credit unions, there might be follow-up correspondence with the Governor of the Central Bank to explain the context in which we are inviting him to appear before...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Nov 2013)

Kieran O'Donnell: Can the Comptroller and Auditor General explain that again, please?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Nov 2013)

Kieran O'Donnell: We have an internal audit report from the HSE before us. We held meetings on public sector allowances which the various body attended. This is very much in that vein. We should follow a similar procedure in terms of what we do. We have a defined report, which could form the basis for further work by this committee. The meetings we held on public sector allowances, where we brought in the...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Nov 2013)

Kieran O'Donnell: We should have had advance sight of that. It was not sufficient for the director general of the HSE to state he had provided a report at the start of the meeting. We should have had advance notice of this report.

Government Decision on Exiting Programme of Financial Support: Motion (Resumed) (20 Nov 2013)

Kieran O'Donnell: Regaining our sovereignty allows Ireland to make independent decisions, a privilege that was robbed from us in November 2010 when the troika came to town. I congratulate and commend the Government on the motion. Exiting the programme is a step towards restoring the country to full economic health. The fundamentals are good in terms of the cost of borrowing and the growth in jobs. The...

Government Decision on Exiting Programme of Financial Support: Motion (Resumed) (20 Nov 2013)

Kieran O'Donnell: I am delighted to contribute to this debate. I welcome the fact that Ireland will formally exit its bailout on 15 December next. We have already exited it to a substantial degree in the context of the type of options we are taking. I commend the Government and all those involved in the discussions in respect of this matter. What is the purpose of exiting the bailout? One of the key...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Proposed Changes to Pay and File Tax Date: Discussion with Irish Tax Institute (20 Nov 2013)

Kieran O'Donnell: I welcome the witnesses. What are the filing requirements of the other European countries?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Proposed Changes to Pay and File Tax Date: Discussion with Irish Tax Institute (20 Nov 2013)

Kieran O'Donnell: Typically, other countries are similar to what we have here. The return date for manual returns, 31 October, is ten months later and for online returns, it is 14 November. Is that correct?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Proposed Changes to Pay and File Tax Date: Discussion with Irish Tax Institute (20 Nov 2013)

Kieran O'Donnell: How were those dates arrived at? There was a practical aspect to those dates.