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Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (22 Nov 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: 118. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the average wait time for each type of passport application; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57514/22]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Broadband Infrastructure (22 Nov 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: 178. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if there are plans to install fibre broadband in a location (details supplied). [57530/22]

Dublin City Safety Initiatives and Other Services: Statements (17 Nov 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: I echo the comments of my colleagues from Dublin regarding how proud we are of the city. When we talk about its problems, we are often serving to denigrate the city we are all passionate about. I am very proud of Dublin. I am proud of its representatives when they play in Croke Park, when I visit many of the community projects here and when I travel to other cities and see what we do well....

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (17 Nov 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: The Government has a very strong ambition to decarbonise the taxi fleet and it has in place a grant for taxi drivers to do so. This week, however, many taxi drivers who have applied and were approved for the grant and placed orders for e-vehicles have received notification that the grant will be cancelled and they will have to reapply next February, and that is because the vehicle cannot be...

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance
Finance Accounts 2021
2021 Report on the Accounts of the Public Services of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 1 - Exchequer Financial Outturn for 2021
Chapter 2 - Net Cost of Banking Stabilisation Measures
Chapter 22 - Ireland Apple Escrow Fund (17 Nov 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: I welcome Mr. Hogan and his team. Let us start with the external factors. Today, the British Chancellor of the Exchequer will introduce austerity measures amounting to nearly £24 billion and increase taxation by something similar. From an Irish perspective, this is in direct contrast with the €11 billion cost-of-living package we were able to put in place a number of weeks ago...

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance
Finance Accounts 2021
2021 Report on the Accounts of the Public Services of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 1 - Exchequer Financial Outturn for 2021
Chapter 2 - Net Cost of Banking Stabilisation Measures
Chapter 22 - Ireland Apple Escrow Fund (17 Nov 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: Given the increase in corporation tax receipts in the years we are examining, does Mr. Hogan expect an increase in 2022?

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance
Finance Accounts 2021
2021 Report on the Accounts of the Public Services of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 1 - Exchequer Financial Outturn for 2021
Chapter 2 - Net Cost of Banking Stabilisation Measures
Chapter 22 - Ireland Apple Escrow Fund (17 Nov 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: I suppose-----

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance
Finance Accounts 2021
2021 Report on the Accounts of the Public Services of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 1 - Exchequer Financial Outturn for 2021
Chapter 2 - Net Cost of Banking Stabilisation Measures
Chapter 22 - Ireland Apple Escrow Fund (17 Nov 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: That point is well made. It was never about the rate and was always about the certainty. The Department expects that corporation tax receipts will increase next year. Is there a similar expectation that income tax receipts will increase as well?

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance
Finance Accounts 2021
2021 Report on the Accounts of the Public Services of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 1 - Exchequer Financial Outturn for 2021
Chapter 2 - Net Cost of Banking Stabilisation Measures
Chapter 22 - Ireland Apple Escrow Fund (17 Nov 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: Will Mr. McCarthy point out the figure for the percentage of the overall income tax take paid by those high-income earners?

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance
Finance Accounts 2021
2021 Report on the Accounts of the Public Services of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 1 - Exchequer Financial Outturn for 2021
Chapter 2 - Net Cost of Banking Stabilisation Measures
Chapter 22 - Ireland Apple Escrow Fund (17 Nov 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: Before we move on to that, what I am trying to calculate is the lag. At this point, we expect an increase next year, in both corporation tax and ICT. We can see the ICT sector making shifts at this point and I imagine the changes in the interest rate environment will have impacts in other sectors as well. Could that have an impact on the overall Irish taxation system in 2023 or 2024? Is...

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance
Finance Accounts 2021
2021 Report on the Accounts of the Public Services of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 1 - Exchequer Financial Outturn for 2021
Chapter 2 - Net Cost of Banking Stabilisation Measures
Chapter 22 - Ireland Apple Escrow Fund (17 Nov 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: Our time is limited, and our guests were going to outline how we could change that risk. That figure of 500,000 workers in ten firms is stark. The capacity of the economy is such that if there are ten top firms, it is inevitable that the figure will be of that order no matter what we do as an economy. How can we prevent a cumulative collapse in both corporation tax and ICT? Is it a case...

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance
Finance Accounts 2021
2021 Report on the Accounts of the Public Services of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 1 - Exchequer Financial Outturn for 2021
Chapter 2 - Net Cost of Banking Stabilisation Measures
Chapter 22 - Ireland Apple Escrow Fund (17 Nov 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: Will Mr. McCarthy confirm the figure for that surplus?

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance
Finance Accounts 2021
2021 Report on the Accounts of the Public Services of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 1 - Exchequer Financial Outturn for 2021
Chapter 2 - Net Cost of Banking Stabilisation Measures
Chapter 22 - Ireland Apple Escrow Fund (17 Nov 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: I do not mean to editorialise what Mr. McCarthy is saying, but does he mean the rainy day fund may be used in 2023 or, more likely, in 2024 and that that rainy day fund is there to buffer against what might happen in that period?

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance
Finance Accounts 2021
2021 Report on the Accounts of the Public Services of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 1 - Exchequer Financial Outturn for 2021
Chapter 2 - Net Cost of Banking Stabilisation Measures
Chapter 22 - Ireland Apple Escrow Fund (17 Nov 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: I have been a Member of this House for two and a half years and I am yet to have a month when we have not had a shock, between Covid and everything else. I might move on to the interest rate environment and we can return to the other issues later. Mortgage holders are seeing increases in their mortgages, and people who might have had mortgages of the order of €1,200 a month are now...

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance
Finance Accounts 2021
2021 Report on the Accounts of the Public Services of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 1 - Exchequer Financial Outturn for 2021
Chapter 2 - Net Cost of Banking Stabilisation Measures
Chapter 22 - Ireland Apple Escrow Fund (17 Nov 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: I think I saw a figure suggesting that almost 90% of our debt has a maturity beyond five years. I would be concerned about the portion that has a shorter period than that because, obviously, interest rates are increasing. Has the Department crunched numbers for what impact the recent increase in interest rates will have on borrowing this year or next year?

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance
Finance Accounts 2021
2021 Report on the Accounts of the Public Services of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 1 - Exchequer Financial Outturn for 2021
Chapter 2 - Net Cost of Banking Stabilisation Measures
Chapter 22 - Ireland Apple Escrow Fund (17 Nov 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: My question related to the sum allocated to the rainy day fund.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (17 Nov 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: I will explore that point. The concern was that test cases were being used. Mr. McCarthy said there was no evidence in the sample he examined of a test case being applied across a whole sector. Is that fair?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (17 Nov 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: There are issues with the word, "test". When the courts are determining between a contract of service or a contract for services, they use a number of tests such as integration and control tests. That is separate from the use of the word "test" in the example that we have used.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (17 Nov 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: The courts use the term "test" but those are the criteria. Is there any evidence that criteria are being used for industries or were questions pursued and a response given in each case looked at?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (17 Nov 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: What was the size of the sample?