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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...

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

Paschal Donohoe: An independent assessment of the Help to Buy initiative with the following terms of reference was commissioned by my predecessor earlier this year: - Undertake a general evaluation of the Help to Buy Incentive since its inception, including the level of uptake by potential first-time buyers and the rates of registration by contractors to participate in the scheme. - Examine the...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Primary Medical Certificates Provision (10 Oct 2017)

Paschal Donohoe: The provision of a primary medical certificate is based on a professional clinical determination by the Senior Medical Officer for the relevant local Health Service Executive. To qualify for a primary medical certificate an applicant must be permanently and severely disabled within the terms of the Disabled Drivers and Disabled Passengers (Tax Concessions) Regulations 1994. An unsuccessful...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Mortgage Schemes (10 Oct 2017)

Paschal Donohoe: It appears that the Deputy’s question may refer to a UK initiative, the "Key Worker Living Programme” for public sector workers, as a ‘key worker mortgage scheme’ has never existed in Ireland. The provision of housing-related supports is primarily a matter for my colleagues the Minister for Housing, Mr. Eoghan Murphy, T.D., and the Minister for Employment...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Approved Housing Bodies (10 Oct 2017)

Paschal Donohoe: The Social Housing Current Expenditure Programme provides a means whereby properties can be built or bought by Approved Housing Bodies (AHBs) with the combined use of State and private funding, and leased by AHBs and Local Authorities from private providers, for the provision of social housing. This scheme is underpinned by a lease and other legal agreements. These provide that rental...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Employment Investment Incentive Scheme (10 Oct 2017)

Paschal Donohoe: The Employment and Investment Incentive (“EII”) scheme, found in Part 16 of the Taxes Consolidation Act 1997, is a tax incentive whereby individuals who invest in certain qualifying companies obtain tax relief on the amount invested.  The entitlement to relief under the scheme is determined after the SME has issued shares to a qualifying investor. However, I am advised...