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Financial Resolutions 2018 - Budget Statement 2018 (10 Oct 2017)

Paschal Donohoe: I am also pleased to announce that a Christmas bonus payment of 85% will again be paid to all social welfare recipients in 2017. I am conscious of the need to facilitate working families and ensure that being at work pays. Accordingly, from the last week in March I am increasing the earnings disregard for the one parent family payment and the jobseeker's transitional scheme by €20...

Financial Resolutions 2018 - Budget Statement 2018 (10 Oct 2017)

Paschal Donohoe: Thanks, Mattie. The scheme will be introduced in 2019 in respect of VAT expenses incurred in 2018. Charities will be entitled to a proportion of VAT based on the level of non-public funding they receive. A fund of €5 million will be available to the scheme in 2019. I am also pleased to say that work on equality and gender proofing of the budget continues. The Government is working...

Financial Resolutions 2018 - Budget Statement 2018 (10 Oct 2017)

Paschal Donohoe: Our position is clear. The 12.5% tax rate is, and will remain, a core part of our offering.

Financial Resolutions 2018 - Budget Statement 2018 (10 Oct 2017)

Paschal Donohoe: I also recognise the value of stability. With so much change ahead, Ireland must compete, not only on the rate, but on the ability to offer certainty. Last month I published the Seamus Coffey report which set out a roadmap for Ireland to implement a range of reforms over the coming years up to the end of 2020. The report recognises the importance of certainty and identifies the need for...

Financial Resolutions 2018 - Budget Statement 2018 (10 Oct 2017)

Paschal Donohoe: -----in households and business. Ireland at the Centre of the World I share the Taoiseach’s view that Ireland is not a country at the edge of Europe, but at the centre of the world. That is why I am announcing increased allocations for the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade and the Department of Defence. Included in the increased funding of €23 million for the Department...

Financial Resolutions 2018 - Budget Statement 2018 (10 Oct 2017)

Paschal Donohoe: This means that over 1,000 additional special needs assistants, SNAs, can be recruited in time for September 2018, bringing the total number of SNAs to over 15,000.

Financial Resolutions 2018 - Budget Statement 2018 (10 Oct 2017)

Paschal Donohoe: The quality of the Irish education system, our students, research and graduates has been a cornerstone of our economic success. It attracts investment, nurtures local business and fosters innovation but we cannot live on past glories and achievements, so I am increasing the national training fund, NTF, levy in 2018 from 0.7% to 0.8% to provide a further €47.5 million of additional...

Financial Resolutions 2018 - Budget Statement 2018 (10 Oct 2017)

Paschal Donohoe: Another 500 civilians will also be hired. The additional allocation for the justice sector in 2018 is €63 million. The rationale for this investment is to continue to invest and develop a modern police force that delivers an exemplary level of service to communities. The Minister for Justice and Equality and I are in agreement that increased spending on gardaí and police...

Financial Resolutions 2018 - Budget Statement 2018 (10 Oct 2017)

Paschal Donohoe: Some €90 million is being allocated to roll out of a new access plan which will ensure that patients can avail of the medical care they need in the most appropriate setting for them. This will particularly benefit our most vulnerable patients as we enter the approaching winter. As part of the access plan, a total allocation of €55 million has been provided for the National...

Financial Resolutions 2018 - Budget Statement 2018 (10 Oct 2017)

Paschal Donohoe: Some €40 million is being provided for primary care developments, which will allow a number of initiatives to go ahead. In particular, the Government looks forward to further progress in relation to the GP contract and we hope agreement can be reached on the introduction of additional services throughout 2018. I also acknowledge that continued investment in primary care, including...

Financial Resolutions 2018 - Budget Statement 2018 (10 Oct 2017)

Paschal Donohoe: Budget day offers the opportunity to reflect on a journey made, to recognise both what our country has achieved and what we want to achieve. On this budget day, we build on progress that would have looked impossible only a few short years ago. Today, we redouble our efforts to rise to the challenges that exist while mapping our national response to the new risks but also to the new...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Insurance Coverage (10 Oct 2017)

Paschal Donohoe: I am conscious of the difficulties that the absence or withdrawal of flood insurance cover can cause to homeowners and businesses, and that is one of the reasons the Government has been prioritising investment in flood defences over the last number of years.  However, the provision of insurance cover and the price at which it is offered is a commercial matter for...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tribunals of Inquiry Expenditure (10 Oct 2017)

Paschal Donohoe: The State Claims Agency have advised me that it is not possible, at the present time, to divulge the full details of the seven third-party costs settlements comprising the sum of €5,493,524.00, on grounds of the commercial sensitivity attaching to those settlements, in circumstances where there are other outstanding thirty party Bills of Costs. However, when all Moriarty Tribunal...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Property Tax Assessments (10 Oct 2017)

Paschal Donohoe: The 2012 report of the Inter-departmental Group on the Design of a Local Property Tax (the "Thornhill Group") comprehensively examined the basis of assessment for the Local Property Tax (LPT). The report favoured the use of market value of residential properties as the basis of assessment and this recommendation was accepted by the Government. The Group considered that under a market value...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: NAMA Reports (10 Oct 2017)

Paschal Donohoe: I wish to advise the Deputy that as outlined in my response to Dáil Question No. 80 of 26 September, 2017, a stipulation of the European Commission's decision , of 26 February 2010, on the "Establishment of a National Asset Management Agency (NAMA): Asset relief scheme for banks in Ireland", (Ref: State aid N725/2009 - Ireland), was a requirement that the Irish authorities "report...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: State Claims Agency (10 Oct 2017)

Paschal Donohoe: The NTMA is designated as the State Claims Agency (SCA) when managing claims against the State and State Authorities and carrying out related risk management functions in order to reduce the costs of future litigation against the State. The SCA’s remit covers personal injuries and third-party property damage claims made against approximately 146 State Authorities including the...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Help-To-Buy Scheme Eligibility (10 Oct 2017)

Paschal Donohoe: In order to be successful, claims under the Help to Buy incentive must satisfy a range of criteria, including that the qualifying loan is secured by the mortgage of a freehold or leasehold estate or interest in, or a charge on, a qualifying residence or a self-build qualifying residence and that the loan is provided by a qualifying lender. In accordance...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Nursing Homes Support Scheme (10 Oct 2017)

Paschal Donohoe: Revenue’s role in the Nursing Home Support scheme is confined to that of collection agent for the Health Service Executive (HSE) in respect of loan funding provided under the Ancillary State Support scheme. The table sets out the loan amounts and associated interest recovered by Revenue for the years 2011 to 2017 (year to date) inclusive. Revenue has no role to play in the wider...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: NAMA Operations (10 Oct 2017)

Paschal Donohoe: I wish to advise the Deputy that in its decision issued in July 2009, Eurostat (the statistical office of the European Union) ruled that special purpose vehicles (SPVs) which were majority owned by private companies would be regarded as being outside of the government sector if they met a number of conditions. Among the conditions were that the SPVs were of temporary duration and were...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Public Services Card (10 Oct 2017)

Paschal Donohoe: I am advised that of the eighteen bodies under the aegis of my Department, seventeen have no plans to make services or payments dependent on the public services card. In line with Government policy to develop a single authentication mechanism for customers to access public services and to get their due entitlements, the Office of the Revenue Commissioners is in discussion with...