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Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Joint Sub-Committee on Global Corporate Taxation: Base Erosion and Profit Shifting: Discussion with Department of Finance and Revenue (18 Sep 2013)

Michael McGrath: That does not answer my question, which is whether the European Commission has the authority to get the complete picture of information concerning the Revenue's arrangements with individual taxpayers and whether all that it has sought has been provided.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Joint Sub-Committee on Global Corporate Taxation: Base Erosion and Profit Shifting: Discussion with Department of Finance and Revenue (18 Sep 2013)

Michael McGrath: It has been given what it sought at this stage. Did the Revenue notify individual taxpayers that information has been given to a third party, albeit legitimately?

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Joint Sub-Committee on Global Corporate Taxation: Base Erosion and Profit Shifting: Discussion with Department of Finance and Revenue (18 Sep 2013)

Michael McGrath: I assume that they still have not been notified.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Joint Sub-Committee on Global Corporate Taxation: Base Erosion and Profit Shifting: Discussion with Department of Finance and Revenue (18 Sep 2013)

Michael McGrath: Do we know when the European Commission will reach a conclusion about whether it will launch a formal state aid inquiry or draw a line under the matter and say that no further action is required? Are we talking about weeks or months?

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Joint Sub-Committee on Global Corporate Taxation: Base Erosion and Profit Shifting: Discussion with Department of Finance and Revenue (18 Sep 2013)

Michael McGrath: Although the Commission's inquiries might be quite normal, the fact that they were reported in the media throughout the world has attracted publicity for Ireland and put the spotlight on our arrangements with multinational companies. It has in a sense put a question mark over the legitimacy of Ireland's corporation tax regime. I expect the Government and the authorities to put pressure on...

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Joint Sub-Committee on Global Corporate Taxation: Base Erosion and Profit Shifting: Discussion with Department of Finance and Revenue (18 Sep 2013)

Michael McGrath: I welcome Mr. Tobin, Ms Levey, Mr. O'Dea and Mr. Fanning, and I thank them for sending in their presentation which gave us an opportunity to read it through before the meeting. I begin with the most topical issue of the European Commission's information request to Ireland along with two other countries on our arrangements with some multinational companies. When was the first contact made...

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Joint Sub-Committee on Global Corporate Taxation: Base Erosion and Profit Shifting: Discussion with Department of Finance and Revenue (18 Sep 2013)

Michael McGrath: I am not asking Mr. Tobin to disclose to the committee what information was sought, but he makes the Commission's request sound anodyne. I assume what was requested was specific and detailed. It might even have asked about the tax payments of individual corporations. Is it fair to say that the request was a specific one?

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Joint Sub-Committee on Global Corporate Taxation: Base Erosion and Profit Shifting: Discussion with Department of Finance and Revenue (18 Sep 2013)

Michael McGrath: What I am asking is whether the Commission sought information on specific companies.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Joint Sub-Committee on Global Corporate Taxation: Base Erosion and Profit Shifting: Discussion with Department of Finance and Revenue (18 Sep 2013)

Michael McGrath: Did the Commission specify the provenance of its inquiries? Were they a result of a complaint lodged by another member state, for example? Mr Tobin inferred it is not surprising that, given the media coverage of the issues in recent months, the Commission would seek such information. Does he think that the request is linked directly to the hearings in the United States, for example? Is it...

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Joint Sub-Committee on Global Corporate Taxation: Base Erosion and Profit Shifting: Discussion with Department of Finance and Revenue (18 Sep 2013)

Michael McGrath: There is no reference to a complaint having made against Ireland.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Joint Sub-Committee on Global Corporate Taxation: Base Erosion and Profit Shifting: Discussion with Department of Finance and Revenue (18 Sep 2013)

Michael McGrath: When the issue was thrashed out in a public forum in the United States Senate committee - I know the Government undertook a diplomatic initiative through the ambassador in Washington, issuing a letter to the committee concerned - would there have been any direct contact between the Revenue Commissioners or the Department of Finance here and the authorities in the US on the concerns they...

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Food Promotion (18 Sep 2013)

Michael McGrath: 35. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the policy his Department has in relation to visitor attractions under the aegis of his Department promoting Irish produce; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38473/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Reliefs Availability (18 Sep 2013)

Michael McGrath: 177. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will consider extending the right to tax relief on the cost of maintaining a guide dog to families who have the use of an autism assistance dog; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37331/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Household Charge Collection (18 Sep 2013)

Michael McGrath: 228. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of persons who opted to pay their local property tax by way of weekly deduction from their social welfare payment; if he will confirm the total local property tax liability of those persons for 2013; the number of those people in respect of whom deductions from their weekly social welfare payment have commenced and the total amount collected to...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Household Charge Cost (18 Sep 2013)

Michael McGrath: 229. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide an estimate of the cost of setting up the system for the collection of the local property tax including the cost of the time spent on the project by existing Revenue staff and new staff recruited for this specific project, IT costs, consultancy fees, public advertising and any other related costs; and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Enrolments (18 Sep 2013)

Michael McGrath: 295. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to make changes to school enrolment policies at primary level; if the proposed changes will have a lead in period in terms of their implementation; when he expects legislation to be introduced; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37332/13]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Holidays Issues (18 Sep 2013)

Michael McGrath: 319. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the role his Department plays in setting the date on which primary and post primary schools start the new school year after the summer holidays each year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37703/13]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Staffing (18 Sep 2013)

Michael McGrath: 320. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will specify the elegibility criteria for joining the special needs assistants supplementary panel for filling permanent posts; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37707/13]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Staffing (18 Sep 2013)

Michael McGrath: 335. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to the fact that his Department requires a person working as a special needs assistant, and who wishes to accept a place on the online higher diploma in arts in primary education course with a college (details supplied), to take a two year career break; his views on whether this requirement makes it financially...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (18 Sep 2013)

Michael McGrath: 382. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding funding for a national school (details supplied) in County Cork to replace prefabs with permanent accommodation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38279/13]