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Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Property Taxation Administration (17 Jun 2014)

Pearse Doherty: 428. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his plans to make regulations under section 20(6) of the Finance (Local Property Tax) Act 2012 and if so, when he will publish same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25771/14]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Housing Issues (17 Jun 2014)

Pearse Doherty: 459. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will consider a redress scheme for the many homeowners in County Donegal who have had structural faults confirmed on their homes due to faulty building blocks; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25701/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff Data (17 Jun 2014)

Pearse Doherty: 610. To ask the Minister for Health if the same person holds the role of chief operations office and facilities director at University Hospital Limerick; if so, the total remuneration this person receives; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25237/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff Data (17 Jun 2014)

Pearse Doherty: 611. To ask the Minister for Health the measures in place to prevent a hospital-Health Service Exective employee from awarding contracts where they may have a conflict of interest; if any such allegations are being investigated; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25238/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: EU Directives (17 Jun 2014)

Pearse Doherty: 613. To ask the Minister for Health the reason nine months after its due transposition date the EU Commission says Ireland has not yet notified it of any transposition measures for Directive 2011/24/EU; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25254/14]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staffing (12 Jun 2014)

Pearse Doherty: 94. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will consider allocating a school (details supplied) in County Donegal with a base post as it has been allocated 17.425 resource hours bearing in mind it has another child enrolled in September who will require additional resource hours. [25104/14]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Broadcasting Sector Regulation (12 Jun 2014)

Pearse Doherty: 140. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the reason a person has not had a resolution to the investigation by ComReg into the operations of a company (details supplied), despite regulations having been put in place to protect consumers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25103/14]

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Joint Sub-Committee on Global Corporate Taxation: Reform of Global System of Corporation Tax: EU Commission and KPMG (11 Jun 2014)

Pearse Doherty: I have question for Mr. Lynch that stems from his paper about the boardroom and tax planning. I am sure Mr. Lynch was the partner in KPMG who wrote it. He talked about the morality of tax planning, how it has become fashionable to talk about aggressive tax planning and morals and how we should not consider tax and morals because we get into trouble and that we should just look at the law....

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Joint Sub-Committee on Global Corporate Taxation: Reform of Global System of Corporation Tax: EU Commission and KPMG (11 Jun 2014)

Pearse Doherty: I am sure he is delighted I am quoting papers he wrote five or six years ago.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Joint Sub-Committee on Global Corporate Taxation: Reform of Global System of Corporation Tax: EU Commission and KPMG (11 Jun 2014)

Pearse Doherty: To follow up on that, and Mr. Lynch is welcome to intervene on this as well, I am not asking Mr. Kermode to go into details about an individual company, although we have discussed Apple because it is in the middle of a formal investigation and it is encompassed by these figures in a big way. However, this is applicable across the State. Perhaps the best way to look at this is to compare it...

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Joint Sub-Committee on Global Corporate Taxation: Reform of Global System of Corporation Tax: EU Commission and KPMG (11 Jun 2014)

Pearse Doherty: One can make statements of fact. Otherwise we would be unable to talk about any entity in this committee, be it a financial institution or whatever. One can make statements of fact, but one is not allowed to make charges.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Joint Sub-Committee on Global Corporate Taxation: Reform of Global System of Corporation Tax: EU Commission and KPMG (11 Jun 2014)

Pearse Doherty: One of the actions required if the Commission found state aid issues would be that money would have to be paid back. In the Irish case, Apple would have to repay money to the Revenue Commissioners. Is that correct?

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Joint Sub-Committee on Global Corporate Taxation: Reform of Global System of Corporation Tax: EU Commission and KPMG (11 Jun 2014)

Pearse Doherty: The company that benefited from state aid would have to repay the money to the Revenue Commissioners. Is that the principle?

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Joint Sub-Committee on Global Corporate Taxation: Reform of Global System of Corporation Tax: EU Commission and KPMG (11 Jun 2014)

Pearse Doherty: No.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Joint Sub-Committee on Global Corporate Taxation: Reform of Global System of Corporation Tax: EU Commission and KPMG (11 Jun 2014)

Pearse Doherty: So there would be a further decision rather than an automatic consequence.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Joint Sub-Committee on Global Corporate Taxation: Reform of Global System of Corporation Tax: EU Commission and KPMG (11 Jun 2014)

Pearse Doherty: Could other action be taken against the State if it were proven that the Revenue Commissioners made rulings that involved state aid? Would the company be the only party affected?

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Joint Sub-Committee on Global Corporate Taxation: Reform of Global System of Corporation Tax: EU Commission and KPMG (11 Jun 2014)

Pearse Doherty: This is a significant development in an Irish context. The committee heard last year from the Minister and officials from both the Department and the Revenue Commissioners. When we questioned them about the issue, it was broadly accepted that they did not expect the process to go any further, as the Commission was trawling for information across a number of member states. As has been...

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Joint Sub-Committee on Global Corporate Taxation: Reform of Global System of Corporation Tax: EU Commission and KPMG (11 Jun 2014)

Pearse Doherty: Is it correct that the Commission only has powers to examine issues over a ten-year span?

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Joint Sub-Committee on Global Corporate Taxation: Reform of Global System of Corporation Tax: EU Commission and KPMG (11 Jun 2014)

Pearse Doherty: Yes.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Joint Sub-Committee on Global Corporate Taxation: Reform of Global System of Corporation Tax: EU Commission and KPMG (11 Jun 2014)

Pearse Doherty: The Department issued a strong statement before the Commission statement was made. It defended its position and indicated the period covered was between 2004 and 2014. The evidence provided to the US McCain hearings with the company's chief executive was that since the early 1990s, the Irish Government had calculated Apple's taxable income in a way so as to produce an effective tax rate in...