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Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Reliefs Costs (25 Oct 2017)

Paschal Donohoe: In Budget 2018 I introduced the Key Employee Engagement Programme with the objective of supporting SMEs in Ireland in competing with larger companies to recruit and retain key employees. Share options can provide key employees with a financial incentive linked to the success of the company and may improve the attractiveness of an SME employment offer. The Deputy has requested a costing...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Community Sector High Level Forum (25 Oct 2017)

Paschal Donohoe: I would like to refer the Deputy to PQ 43759/17 answered on 17 October 2017.

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Community Sector High Level Forum (25 Oct 2017)

Paschal Donohoe: I would like to refer the Deputy to PQ 43759/17 answered on 17 October 2017.

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Community Sector High Level Forum (25 Oct 2017)

Paschal Donohoe: I would like to refer the Deputy to PQ 43759/17 answered on 17 October 2017.

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Office of the Ombudsman (25 Oct 2017)

Paschal Donohoe: The Office of the Ombudsman is a statutorily independent Office and, as such, my Department has no direct involvement in its in-house complaints procedures or in the handling of judicial reviews against that Office. The Office of the Ombudsman has informed me that it was the subject of four separate judicial review applications in 2015, all of which had a common subject matter. Subsequent to...

Finance Bill 2017: Second Stage (24 Oct 2017)

Paschal Donohoe: Deputy Boyd Barrett proposed the adjournment in a very statesmanlike way, with panache and a little flourish.

Finance Bill 2017: Second Stage (24 Oct 2017)

Paschal Donohoe: I thank the Leas-Cheann Comhairle. The Companies Act 2014, which came into effect on 1 June 2015, consolidated and amended existing company law statutes. The main changes affecting the Taxes Consolidation Act 1997, the Stamp Duty Consolidation Act 1999 and the Capital Acquisitions Tax Consolidation Act 2003 related to company structures and the new streamlined procedures for the merger and...

Finance Bill 2017: Order for Second Stage (24 Oct 2017)

Paschal Donohoe: I move: "That Second Stage be taken now."

Finance Bill 2017: Second Stage (24 Oct 2017)

Paschal Donohoe: I move: "That the Bill be now read a Second Time." When I made my Budget Statement in this House two weeks ago, I said this was a budget to safeguard our national finances and to help rebalance our economy. It was a budget to promote fairness and provide for modest but sustainable improvements in the lives of those we serve. Many of the measures to help us achieve these goals are...

Other Questions: Tax Compliance (24 Oct 2017)

Paschal Donohoe: I will provide a table for Deputy Boyd Barrett that will give, in a fair amount of detail, the figures he was looking for. I do not accept the distinction between gross and net taxation. People pay their tax and that is collected but the table I have here goes through the tax collected under the RCT system, and any tax then offset against tax liabilities and so on. I will provide all of...

Other Questions: Tax Compliance (24 Oct 2017)

Paschal Donohoe: The Deputy never made reference in his question to supplying me with details of a particular raid or visit attached as he could have done. If he had given me that information I might have been able to respond to some of the points he made publicly or privately. The Deputy, however, chose not to do so.

Other Questions: Tax Compliance (24 Oct 2017)

Paschal Donohoe: The Deputy comes in here and raises allegations about a particular activity of the Revenue Commissioners but if he had given me advance notice of that issue I might be in a position to respond but the Deputy did not do that.

Other Questions: Tax Compliance (24 Oct 2017)

Paschal Donohoe: In respect of the efforts of the Revenue Commissioners to deal with this matter I have outlined the amount of activity that has happened in response-----

Other Questions: Tax Compliance (24 Oct 2017)

Paschal Donohoe: I am puzzled as to why the Deputy wants to keep interrupting me on this matter. He alleges that nothing is happening and when I try to tell him-----

Other Questions: Tax Compliance (24 Oct 2017)

Paschal Donohoe: That is fair. He does not allege that nothing is happening but he alleges that not enough is happening and when I try to update the House on what is happening the Deputy wants to continue to interrupt me in so doing. I was about to say, before the Deputy concluded, that compliance activity in this sector alone, for example in 2016, yielded €54.7 million for the Exchequer, which is...

Other Questions: Economic Data (24 Oct 2017)

Paschal Donohoe: The strong performance of the economy is expected to continue over the short run. As part of budget 2018, my Department is forecasting real GDP growth of 4.3 % for this year and 3.5% for next year. The benefit of this growth will be felt in the labour market, with an additional 48,000 jobs projected to be created next year. Recent economic indicators have generally been positive. Real...

Other Questions: Economic Data (24 Oct 2017)

Paschal Donohoe: The Deputy referred to the European Commission and its views on taxation. Our views are clear on the matter. I outlined them earlier on in response to Deputy Michael McGrath. I do not foresee any circumstances in which the ability of our State to set our corporation tax rate in the way we do so at the moment will be affected by the proposals from the European Commission. More broadly,...

Other Questions: Economic Data (24 Oct 2017)

Paschal Donohoe: We are seeking to manage all those risks carefully. This is why we are increasing the amount of resources available to agencies which are involved in promoting Ireland to ensure that our message about the Irish economy and its attractiveness is well understood by all. Our recent record in job creation and investment into our country points to the ability of our agencies and the Government...

Other Questions: Tax Compliance (24 Oct 2017)

Paschal Donohoe: I propose to take Questions Nos. 13 and 38 together. I am informed by Revenue that many outdoor operations are carried out by their joint investigation units with some operations carried out on a multi-agency basis with other Departments or agencies such as the Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection and the Workplace Relations Commission. The role of Revenue’s...

Other Questions: Tax Compliance (24 Oct 2017)

Paschal Donohoe: Yes. Broadly, on those figures for 2015, the tax collected under the RCT system was €200 million.