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Written Answers — Pension Provisions: Pension Provisions (18 May 2010)

Brian Lenihan Jnr: Budget 2010 announced that the Government would be considering using the Consumer Price Index as the basis for post-retirement increases for both existing and future public service pensioners. The CPI linkage would displace the linking of public service pensions to earnings, also known as "pay parity". The Government is conscious of the substantial long-term saving for the Exchequer which...

Written Answers — Labour Court Recommendations: Labour Court Recommendations (18 May 2010)

Brian Lenihan Jnr: The Deputy's question refers to Labour Court Recommendation LCR 19764 relating to the closure of the Finglas Child and Adolescent Centre operated by the Irish Youth Justice Service of the Department of Justice, Equality and Law Reform. The Centre closed on 31 March 2010 and the staff and residents moved to the Irish Youth Justice Service facility at Oberstown in Lusk, Co. Dublin. My...

Written Answers — Tax Clearance Certificates: Tax Clearance Certificates (18 May 2010)

Brian Lenihan Jnr: I am advised by the Revenue Commissioners that the issue of a tax clearance certificate to the person in question will be considered on receipt of an application. A tax clearance application may be made online at www.revenue.ie or by completing a Form TC1 and forwarding it to the Office of the Revenue Commissioners, Tax Clearance Section, Revenue House, Cork.

Written Answers — Departmental Staff: Departmental Staff (18 May 2010)

Brian Lenihan Jnr: The Renewed Programme for Government provides for the taking on of 1,000 Third and Fourth level graduates to provide additional capacity and skills across the Public Service and in Government Departments and to provide valuable work experience. These are work placements as distinct from additional posts in the Public Service. My Department would be directly concerned with recruitment to the...

Written Answers — Tax Code: Tax Code (18 May 2010)

Brian Lenihan Jnr: A gain accruing to an individual on the disposal of an interest in a private residence and grounds of up to one acre, which has been occupied by him/her throughout the period of ownership as his/her only or main residence, is fully relieved from Capital Gains Tax (CGT). Certain periods of absence are treated as periods of occupation for the purposes of the relief. For example, the last...

Written Answers — Pension Provisions: Pension Provisions (18 May 2010)

Brian Lenihan Jnr: By "State pension", I understand the Deputy to refer to an occupational pension as a result of previous service in the civil or public service. I further understand the Deputy to refer to the full or part time employment of retired public servants as part of the staffing of the Department. As I indicated in a reply to Parliamentary Question No. 149 on 5 May, 2010, records of past...

Euro Area Loan Facility Bill 2010: Second Stage (18 May 2010)

Brian Lenihan Jnr: I cannot fully brief the Deputy because I do not yet have a final text but I will do so as soon as I obtain it.

Euro Area Loan Facility Bill 2010: Second Stage (18 May 2010)

Brian Lenihan Jnr: Yes. It should be remembered that we lived within the terms of the Stability and Growth Pact, which proves its inadequacy.

Euro Area Loan Facility Bill 2010: Second Stage (18 May 2010)

Brian Lenihan Jnr: I am pleased the Deputy did not refer to our local Icarus.

Euro Area Loan Facility Bill 2010: Order for Second Stage (18 May 2010)

Brian Lenihan Jnr: I move: "That Second Stage be taken now."

Euro Area Loan Facility Bill 2010: Second Stage (18 May 2010)

Brian Lenihan Jnr: I move: "That the Bill be now read a Second Time." The Bill before Members today will enable Ireland to play its part along with all other euro area countries in providing financial support to Greece. Our assistance, in the form of repayable loans, will be channelled centrally through the European Commission as part of an agreed euro area package, together with the International Monetary...

Euro Area Loan Facility Bill 2010: Second Stage (18 May 2010)

Brian Lenihan Jnr: We were within the requirements of the Stability and Growth Pact.

Written Answers — Social and Affordable Housing: Social and Affordable Housing (13 May 2010)

Brian Lenihan Jnr: I would like to point out in regard to deferring the implementation date of applying VAT on services provided by public bodies, that the European Court of Justice ruled, in the case C-544/07 against Ireland on 16 July 2009, that Ireland should amend its VAT legislation to provide that State and public bodies are in general subject to VAT. This case goes back to 2004 when infringement...

Written Answers — Social and Affordable Housing: Social and Affordable Housing (13 May 2010)

Brian Lenihan Jnr: I would point out that the European Court of Justice ruled, in the case C-544/07 against Ireland on 16 July 2009, that Ireland should amend its VAT legislation to provide that services provided by State and public bodies are in general subject to VAT. The Finance Act 2010 provided that the services of public bodies, including local authorities, would become subject to VAT from 1 July 2010....

Written Answers — Tax Code: Tax Code (13 May 2010)

Brian Lenihan Jnr: On 16 July 2009 the European Court of Justice ruled in case C-544/07 against Ireland, that Ireland should amend its VAT legislation to provide that services provided by State and public bodies, including local authorities, are in general subject to VAT. The Finance Act 2010 provided that such services will become taxable from 1 July 2010. With regard to the definition of not-for-profit...

Written Answers — Tax Code: Tax Code (13 May 2010)

Brian Lenihan Jnr: I am informed by the Revenue Commissioners that the relevant information available on numbers of claimants who claimed income tax relief for a deduction for interest on borrowings to be offset against rental income assessable under Case V, Schedule D is based on personal income tax returns filed to date by non-PAYE taxpayers for the year 2008, the latest year for which this information is...

Written Answers — Social Partnership: Social Partnership (13 May 2010)

Brian Lenihan Jnr: The negotiation of the draft Public Service Pay Agreement was facilitated by Kieran Mulvey and Kevin Foley, drawing on the resources of the Labour Relations Commission. Costs incurred by the Labour Relations Commission are a matter for the Commission itself and I have no operational role in the matter.

Written Answers — Credit Union Movement: Credit Union Movement (13 May 2010)

Brian Lenihan Jnr: The Deputy will be aware that in February this year I announced the establishment of an Expert Group on Mortgage Arrears and Personal Debt, under the Chairmanship of Mr. Hugh Cooney, an insolvency accountant with KPMG. The membership of the Expert Group is as follows: Mr. Matthew Elderfield Financial Regulator Dr. David Duffy ESRI Mr. Pat Farrell Irish Banking Federation (IBF) Mr. Tom...

Written Answers — Departmental Staff: Departmental Staff (13 May 2010)

Brian Lenihan Jnr: My salary cost, taking into account both my salary as Minister and a T.D., is €191,417 per annum. There are two officers of my Department who are in the category referred to by the Deputy. The Secretary General of my Department is paid €228,466. The Secretary General, Public Service Management and Development is paid €215,590. In relation to agencies under the aegis of my Department,...

Written Answers — National Pensions Reserve Fund: National Pensions Reserve Fund (13 May 2010)

Brian Lenihan Jnr: The Pension Funds of the following Bodies listed in Schedule 1 of the Financial Measures (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2009 were transferred to the National Pensions Reserve Fund (NPRF) on 31 December 2009 : University of Dublin Trinity College; National University of Ireland, Maynooth; Forfás (Industrial Development Authority Superannuation Fund and Irish Goods Council Pension Fund);...