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Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Proposal to Establish a Rainy Day Fund: Minister for Finance (31 Jan 2018)

Joan Burton: Will the Minister tell me, as far as he knows, how this will be treated for accounting purposes, particularly as there is a double bind on it? When money is put in does it reduce our debt? When money is taken out, it counts as expenditure. In a sudden crash of the economy, that could become a very difficult issue. It certainly did on the most recent occasion.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Proposal to Establish a Rainy Day Fund: Minister for Finance (31 Jan 2018)

Joan Burton: With respect, we still need some technical answers in respect of this fund. Can we get an explanation which sets out the debt impacts, the spending limitations and any other implications which this fund will have? The Chairperson knows as well as I that when the rating agencies come to examine national debt, the gross national debt is the figure many of them use, as do the US markets. The...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Proposal to Establish a Rainy Day Fund: Minister for Finance (31 Jan 2018)

Joan Burton: The Minister has calculations of net debt balances in the NTMA and so on, but that is not the way in which the market firms that rate countries operate. I am really at a loss as to why he would do this. Finally, we have serious problems in housing------

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Proposal to Establish a Rainy Day Fund: Minister for Finance (31 Jan 2018)

Joan Burton: I am about to finish on this.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Proposal to Establish a Rainy Day Fund: Minister for Finance (31 Jan 2018)

Joan Burton: We also have problems in the area of health and a ginormous problem in respect of both public pensions and public service pensions. In fact, we also had a discussion yesterday about a supplementary pension that the Government has been unable to kick-start. There are much more valuable objectives which we could discuss as alternatives. We need a technical explanation of this proposal which...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Proposal to Establish a Rainy Day Fund: Minister for Finance (31 Jan 2018)

Joan Burton: Can I ask a brief question? I have to go to the Dáil. The question is factual.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Proposal to Establish a Rainy Day Fund: Minister for Finance (31 Jan 2018)

Joan Burton: I made some commentary during my previous contribution. Will the Minister advise us of his assessment of where the off-balance sheet investment rules currently stand in the context of EUROSTAT and the European Union? To my understanding, it is becoming increasingly difficult to have, for example, public private partnerships classified as they have been for a period as off-balance sheet...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Corporate Tax Compliance (31 Jan 2018)

Joan Burton: 132. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of companies that have applied for section 110 status in each of the years 2014 to 2017; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4705/18]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Corporate Tax Compliance (31 Jan 2018)

Joan Burton: 133. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of section 110 companies that submitted tax returns for each of the years 2010 to 2016; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4706/18]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Corporate Tax Compliance (31 Jan 2018)

Joan Burton: 134. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of audits by type, that is, single tax head, comprehensive and single issue carried out by the Revenue Commissioners on companies with section 110 status in 2016 and 2017 respectively; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4707/18]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Corporate Tax Compliance (31 Jan 2018)

Joan Burton: 135. To ask the Minister for Finance the number and value of VAT repayments issued to section 110 companies by the Revenue Commissioners in each of the years 2015, 2016 and 2017; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4708/18]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Corporate Tax Compliance (31 Jan 2018)

Joan Burton: 136. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of section 110 companies which were approved in each of the years 2005 to 2017 and to date in 2018, which have notified the Revenue Commissioners that they are no longer trading, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4709/18]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Corporate Tax Compliance (31 Jan 2018)

Joan Burton: 137. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated assets under management in section 110 companies in 2016 and 2017; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4710/18]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Corporate Tax Compliance (31 Jan 2018)

Joan Burton: 138. To ask the Minister for Finance for the number of section 110 companies which owned Irish assets in each of the years 2014, 2015 and 2016; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4711/18]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teacher Recruitment (31 Jan 2018)

Joan Burton: 176. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 198 of 5 December 2017, the progress he has made in reviewing proposals to incentivise persons to undertake the two year professional masters in education, including financial incentives; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4950/18]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teacher Recruitment (31 Jan 2018)

Joan Burton: 179. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to the fact that reports indicating the number of applications for entry to a number of postgraduate courses for second level teaching has fallen in 2018; his plans in this regard; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4953/18]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teacher Career Breaks (31 Jan 2018)

Joan Burton: 177. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans in respect of job sharing and career break entitlements for primary teachers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4951/18]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teacher Recruitment (31 Jan 2018)

Joan Burton: 178. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to address the current and potential teacher shortages in STEM subjects; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4952/18]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Supervision and Substitution Scheme (31 Jan 2018)

Joan Burton: 180. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans in respect of a properly structured national panel of substitute teachers to tackle the crisis in teacher substitution at primary level; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4954/18]

Other Questions: Credit Unions (30 Jan 2018)

Joan Burton: I ask the Minister if he has read the recent report by the Centre for Community Finance Europe regarding the fitness for purpose of the Irish credit union model reported in the Irish Independentand many other newspapers and how upset many credit union volunteers and managers are about the nature of the report and what they see as its unfairness to them and to credit unions as institutions.