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Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 Nov 2017)

Joan Burton: It was published in the newspapers. Time will tell when we see it.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 Nov 2017)

Joan Burton: My final point is this. I am sure that Deputy Peter Burke and a number of other members, Deputy Michael McGrath for instance, know that there are perfectly easy ways of avoiding this situation, firstly by selling a company's underlying shares - an option unavailable, incidentally, to the kind of small family farm holding that Deputy Fitzmaurice mentioned - or secondly through various devices...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 Nov 2017)

Joan Burton: Not that it would be.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 Nov 2017)

Joan Burton: The Minister of State is supposed to be part of an experienced Government and it should be organising the budget-----

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 Nov 2017)

Joan Burton: -----business in a way that the traditional confidentiality-----

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 Nov 2017)

Joan Burton: -----and secrecy about budget matters is maintained.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 Nov 2017)

Joan Burton: That is all I am asking for as a standard.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 Nov 2017)

Joan Burton: May I just reiterate my position briefly?

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 Nov 2017)

Joan Burton: Thank you.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 Nov 2017)

Joan Burton: I am sorry. I did not realise that we were back in public session. I thought that the committee was chewing over and analysing the missing vote on the Dáil side. I believe the Chairman will remember our former colleague from deepest south County Dublin.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 Nov 2017)

Joan Burton: I seek clarification. Before we adjourned, the Minister of State indicated in general terms that he was minded to revert to us with some work on this area and to re-examine the matter. What does that indication mean? It would affect people's responses and attitudes to the proposed amendments on this Stage or Report Stage.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 Nov 2017)

Joan Burton: If I understand the Minister correctly, the decision has already been made and he is indicating it to us.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 Nov 2017)

Joan Burton: Sorry. The Revenue Commissioners.

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Staff Remuneration (9 Nov 2017)

Joan Burton: 21. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of public and civil servants earning the minimum wage and the living wage; his plans to ensure that all public and civil servants earn the living wage; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47235/17]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Contracts Data (9 Nov 2017)

Joan Burton: 30. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of subcontractors that are engaged by State and semi-State agencies in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47234/17]

Ceisteanna - Questions: EU Meetings (8 Nov 2017)

Joan Burton: I thank the Taoiseach for that very important information. It is of such significance that we must get a paper from the Government setting out the context in which it has reached this view. We need to know exactly what we are getting as a country for accepting that, in effect, the Border matter is settled, just to mention one really significant element. This is a short Question Time and we...

Ceisteanna - Questions: EU Meetings (8 Nov 2017)

Joan Burton: If I heard the Taoiseach correctly, he opened by discussing his meeting with Prime Minister Mark Rutte and the invitation to a Nordic group meeting, which is to be welcomed. Did the development of PESCO emerge as a concern for the group, of which a number are, like us, significant neutrals? What issues were of concern? We know that immigration and the portability of social welfare rights...

Ceisteanna - Questions: EU Meetings (8 Nov 2017)

Joan Burton: 9. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his attendance at the European Council on 19 and 20 October 2017. [44690/17]

Ceisteanna - Questions: EU Meetings (8 Nov 2017)

Joan Burton: 10. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his meeting with the President of the European Council on 19 October 2017. [44692/17]

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (8 Nov 2017)

Joan Burton: I am conscious that the resources of the Revenue Commissioners are very limited so, while I agree with a lot of what was suggested by the previous speaker, unless Revenue gets the 500 extra staff it was promised I have no idea how they would be able to do such a report. We had a report on a specific area of corporation tax which was carried out by the academic, Seamus Coffey, and I suggest...