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Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances (Supplementary)
Vote 17 - Public Appointments Service (Supplementary) (30 Nov 2017)

Joan Burton: I wish to ask the Minister about superannuation and retired allowances. My question relates to the restoration of the reductions that people took as a consequence of the economic collapse. People, especially retired people, are extremely confused about how the restoration may affect them. People may have retired at different times and, as a consequence, the rules are different. I am...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances (Supplementary)
Vote 17 - Public Appointments Service (Supplementary) (30 Nov 2017)

Joan Burton: Totally.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances (Supplementary)
Vote 17 - Public Appointments Service (Supplementary) (30 Nov 2017)

Joan Burton: I thank the Minister.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances (Supplementary)
Vote 17 - Public Appointments Service (Supplementary) (30 Nov 2017)

Joan Burton: Will the pre-1995 people continue to pay the universal social charge, the payment of which is a quibble for a number of them?

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances (Supplementary)
Vote 17 - Public Appointments Service (Supplementary) (30 Nov 2017)

Joan Burton: How many of them are there approximately? They seem to get less beneficial treatment than others once they have reached the pension age of 66.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances (Supplementary)
Vote 17 - Public Appointments Service (Supplementary) (30 Nov 2017)

Joan Burton: Yes.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances (Supplementary)
Vote 17 - Public Appointments Service (Supplementary) (30 Nov 2017)

Joan Burton: Does the Minister foresee them receiving the same treatment as other people? When they reach 66 will their USC contributions come to an end, for instance?

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Corporation Tax Regime (30 Nov 2017)

Joan Burton: 23. To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to remarks by a bank (details supplied) that it would pay no corporation tax as a result of accumulated tax losses; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50719/17]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Strategic Banking Corporation of Ireland Funding (30 Nov 2017)

Joan Burton: 22. To ask the Minister for Finance the amount of funding being provided by the Strategic Banking Corporation of Ireland; his plans to review the aims of the Strategic Banking Corporation of Ireland; if he has satisfied himself that the lending policies of this Government-funded institution are appropriate; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50720/17]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: State Aid Investigations (30 Nov 2017)

Joan Burton: 25. To ask the Minister for Finance if a company (details supplied) provided some or all of the fines levied by the EU Commission; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50717/17]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: EU Budget Contribution (30 Nov 2017)

Joan Burton: 26. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated likely higher contributions to the EU in view of the forecast increase in GNP over the next ten years; if he has studied the impact of our increased financial contribution to the EU; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50716/17]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tracker Mortgage Examination Data (30 Nov 2017)

Joan Burton: 51. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated number of accounts affected by the tracker mortgage scandal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50718/17]

Topical Issue Debate: National Cultural Institutions (29 Nov 2017)

Joan Burton: Having listened to the poor Minister of State who was asked to deliver that script, I know why the senior Minister did not come in. It is a disgrace. We are proud of our culture in this country. It is an insult to the musicians who work in the two orchestras that the Minister responsible for culture was unable to grace this Chamber for the debate. I mean no disrespect to the Minister of...

Topical Issue Debate: National Cultural Institutions (29 Nov 2017)

Joan Burton: We are not talking about the Irish Chamber Orchestra but the RTÉ orchestras.

Topical Issue Debate: National Cultural Institutions (29 Nov 2017)

Joan Burton: The Taoiseach does not agree with the Minister of State. He has told me that he wants to see the orchestras being retained.

Topical Issue Debate: National Cultural Institutions (29 Nov 2017)

Joan Burton: Does that mean that the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht has no interest in the orchestras in RTÉ?

Topical Issue Debate: National Cultural Institutions (29 Nov 2017)

Joan Burton: As her ministerial title indicates, the Minister, Deputy Heather Humphreys, is responsible for culture.

Topical Issue Debate: National Cultural Institutions (29 Nov 2017)

Joan Burton: I had not heard that the Minister was not going to appear in the Chamber. I am disappointed that she is not present as she is the Minister with responsibility for culture and this matter was very much directed at her. I will wait to hear what the Minister of State, Deputy Paul Kehoe, has to say on her behalf, but this is most unsatisfactory. With no disrespect to him, had I been advised of...

Topical Issue Debate: National Cultural Institutions (29 Nov 2017)

Joan Burton: They always contacted the Deputies involved.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Climate Change Policy (29 Nov 2017)

Joan Burton: That is a pity.