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Written Answers — Department of Finance: Fiscal Policy (16 Jun 2016)

Pearse Doherty: 85. To ask the Minister for Finance the work undertaken or plans to develop a complementary set of medium-term baseline estimates for the supply-side, based on methodologies better suited to the characteristics of the Irish economy regarding the medium-term forecasts which are currently produced using the European Union commonly agreed methodology, which is only required for fiscal...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Fiscal Policy (16 Jun 2016)

Pearse Doherty: 86. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on the assertion by the Fiscal Advisory Council that there are risks that signs of overheating may again be missed if he exclusively relies on the commonly agreed methodology; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16443/16]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (16 Jun 2016)

Pearse Doherty: 125. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to expedite a school building project (details supplied); if he recognises the need to accelerate this project, given the deteriorating condition of much of the school's existing accommodation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16550/16]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Delivering Equality of Opportunity in Schools Scheme (16 Jun 2016)

Pearse Doherty: 126. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when he will formally complete the review of the delivering equality of opportunity in schools scheme; if he will include additional schools under the scheme following the review; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16552/16]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Wind Energy Guidelines (16 Jun 2016)

Pearse Doherty: 141. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will formally finalise the revision to the 2006 wind energy development guidelines; if the revision will be informed by recent developments abroad in terms of enhanced regulations governing the industry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16553/16]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Fiscal Policy (16 Jun 2016)

Pearse Doherty: 182. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he envisages changes to, and the details of previous examples of adjustments made to European Union co-funded payments, with regard to the domestic medium-term expenditure framework, which permits revisions to ceilings, where adjustments are related to spending on cyclically related unemployment spending or European Union co-funded...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Stability Programme Data (16 Jun 2016)

Pearse Doherty: 183. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if his spending commitment of €6.75 billion includes some expenditure already committed and included in the projections in the stability programme update 2016 or if it is additional to existing commitments. [16431/16]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Harbours and Piers Development (16 Jun 2016)

Pearse Doherty: 233. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to extend the pier at Killybegs Harbour in County Donegal, including if he has formally approved it, if he has allocated the required funding, its cost and the start and completion dates; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16551/16]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Research and Development Supports (16 Jun 2016)

Pearse Doherty: 277. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if she has assessed how she could rebalance public supports for research and development, given the recent assertion by the Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development that such supports are skewed towards tax credits and should be rebalanced towards more direct support for domestic small and medium enterprises; and if...

Report of Standing Order 112 Select Committee on the Proposal for a Council Directive amending Directive 2013/34/EU: Motion (15 Jun 2016)

Pearse Doherty: Sinn Féin raised an objection to the motion.

Report of Standing Order 112 Select Committee on the Proposal for a Council Directive amending Directive 2013/34/EU: Motion (15 Jun 2016)

Pearse Doherty: I congratulate the conservative establishment for retaining the ability to shock me. Today's motion is a new level in hypocrisy. The EU Commission's proposal is a very modest attempt to bring more transparency to the tax affairs of very large companies. This State brought in country by country reporting in last year's Finance Bill but failed to make this reporting publicly available. The...

Committee on Arrangements for Budgetary Scrutiny: Engagement with Minister for Finance and Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (15 Jun 2016)

Pearse Doherty: I have a number of questions. Perhaps I can continue on the tax strategy papers. The Minister said he will publish them sometime in July. Will he give the committee an indication of when in July he expects to publish them?

Committee on Arrangements for Budgetary Scrutiny: Engagement with Minister for Finance and Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (15 Jun 2016)

Pearse Doherty: That means they would not be discussed, given that the House and the committees do not sit in August, by any budgetary committee until September at the earliest which is an issue in terms of eating into the budgetary cycle.

Committee on Arrangements for Budgetary Scrutiny: Engagement with Minister for Finance and Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (15 Jun 2016)

Pearse Doherty: I understand. There is no point in the Government's initiative which I view as a number of additional set pieces to already set pieces without a proper cycle of engagement. To say that the tax strategy papers will be published at the end of July will not give the budgetary committee that is to be established enough time to scrutinise those papers and to have a proper input into the...

Committee on Arrangements for Budgetary Scrutiny: Engagement with Minister for Finance and Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (15 Jun 2016)

Pearse Doherty: That is fine. That is an option that can be considered by the committee. The question I am putting to the Minister is this - in terms of the timing of information when the House is sitting can the tax strategy papers be presented prior to that time? Last year's two tax strategy meetings for budget 2016 between the officials took place in mid-September. The Minister says the papers will be...

Committee on Arrangements for Budgetary Scrutiny: Engagement with Minister for Finance and Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (15 Jun 2016)

Pearse Doherty: In its review the committee will have a view on what the Government has suggested regarding the tax strategy papers. The 2016 tax strategy papers have still been redacted. There are three papers that have been only partially released. Given that the rest of them were released after the budget, how likely is it that there will be further redactions if the other papers are going to be...

Committee on Arrangements for Budgetary Scrutiny: Engagement with Minister for Finance and Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (15 Jun 2016)

Pearse Doherty: I have a series of questions but I will try to get through them as quickly as I can.

Committee on Arrangements for Budgetary Scrutiny: Engagement with Minister for Finance and Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (15 Jun 2016)

Pearse Doherty: In its proposal, the Government again states that it will be published earlier, which is the start of April. That does not allow sufficient time for consideration by the new budgetary committee to allow it to examine and report on those issues and to have an input into the draft stability programme update. The OECD recommended that it be published a couple of months prior to the...

Committee on Arrangements for Budgetary Scrutiny: Engagement with Minister for Finance and Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (15 Jun 2016)

Pearse Doherty: We will come back to that issue. My view is that I have not heard a valid reason the SPU cannot be brought forward. The spring or, as it is now called, the June statement will update the figures in the SPU so the issue in terms of accurate figures is that they will only be accurate at a point in time. The idea of this engagement process is that we are looking at a continuum of information...

Committee on Arrangements for Budgetary Scrutiny: Engagement with Minister for Finance and Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (15 Jun 2016)

Pearse Doherty: A budgetary committee put on a statutory footing should also have the respect of Government and the Department and information should flow to it alongside the Irish Fiscal Advisory Council which has a specific role in respect of macroeconomic projections but which does not really go beyond that.