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Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Appeals Commission (8 Nov 2017)

Joan Burton: 101. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of appeals heard by the Tax Appeals Commission in each month since its formation, by tax head, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47311/17]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Garda Station Closures (8 Nov 2017)

Joan Burton: 106. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the estimated cost of reopening a Garda station (details supplied) in Dublin 18; if plans for these refurbishments have been finalised; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47238/17]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Flood Prevention Measures (8 Nov 2017)

Joan Burton: 107. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the contingencies in place to deal with increased water levels in rivers and waterways; the extra measures that have been established to deal with the upcoming winter months; the amount dedicated towards these contingencies; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47239/17]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Brexit Issues (8 Nov 2017)

Joan Burton: 108. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the degree to which his Department has noted negative or positive impacts from Brexit; the steps required to address such issues; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47240/17]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: State Properties Data (8 Nov 2017)

Joan Burton: 109. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the progress made in the implementation of the property asset management delivery plan; if a database has been compiled detailing all property owned by the State and local authorities; the number of properties that are classified as vacant; his plans for these vacant properties; if these properties are suitable for residential...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Flood Prevention Measures (8 Nov 2017)

Joan Burton: 110. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the additional financial measures he will employ in 2018 to develop flood defences across the State; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47242/17]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Brexit Issues (8 Nov 2017)

Joan Burton: 111. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the steps he will take to ensure that spending priorities are sufficiently focused in view of the threat to the economy of Brexit; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47243/17]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Labour Court Recommendations (8 Nov 2017)

Joan Burton: 112. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the progress on his Department’s discussions with the Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection regarding the implementation of Labour Court recommendation, LRC 19293, regarding the rights of community employment scheme supervisors; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47244/17]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Station Refurbishment (8 Nov 2017)

Joan Burton: 130. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to set out the estimated cost of reopening a Garda station (details supplied) in Dublin 1; if plans for these refurbishments have been finalised; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47238/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Services for People with Disabilities (8 Nov 2017)

Joan Burton: 141. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the length of the waiting times for school age team services and the lack of staffing in this area; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47216/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (8 Nov 2017)

Joan Burton: 220. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to make provision for affordable housing for young persons in employment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47245/17]

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2017: Committee Stage (7 Nov 2017)

Joan Burton: My question concerns the Minister's ambitions to bring the PRSI and USC systems together to some extent. When the ESRI first produced papers on the USC back before the crash, it was intended that it would become contributory, that is, a universal social contribution. When it was brought in by the then Fianna Fáil-Green Party Government during the first years of the collapse, however,...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2017: Committee Stage (7 Nov 2017)

Joan Burton: Life patterns have changed considerably and we now have many people studying or training until the age of 22 or up to 28 perhaps. We also have people who might take one college course but who then go on to retrain, as primary teachers perhaps. This, again, means that these people may enter the workforce relatively late in life. There are others who go abroad for a period and then come...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2017: Committee Stage (7 Nov 2017)

Joan Burton: I strongly advise caution on the Minister's proposal to have the working group receive submissions from workers and employers who are actually in the system, rather than having those people represented within the group. I will tell the Minister why. In 1992, in a previous Government, I was a Minister of State at the then Department of Social Welfare. At that point, it was on the menu to...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2017: Committee Stage (7 Nov 2017)

Joan Burton: I find the Minister's approach to the issue rather disappointing because the previous Government, of which I was a member, had an achievable ambition, as he knows, to achieve equalisation in a three-year period. It is now November and I am sure the Minister's officials are having a close look at the self-employed tax returns. To go back to a point I made earlier, it is important to...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2017: Committee Stage (7 Nov 2017)

Joan Burton: The Minister's commitment to publishing the report is welcome. I hope he will pass on that thought to his colleague, the Minister for Employment and Social Protection. The Revenue Commissioners know there is a significant loss to the Exchequer through what is happening with bogus self-employment. Much of that may be contained in the report whenever it is published. Essentially, we are...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2017: Committee Stage (7 Nov 2017)

Joan Burton: There is a very easy answer to that. There is an enormous surge in the number of self-employed, in particular at lower levels of pay. That is evident from statistics. Many people are in their third or fourth year of self employment. As the Minister knows, the pattern for the self employed is that by the third year and once the start-up costs and so on of whatever it is they are doing have...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2017: Committee Stage (7 Nov 2017)

Joan Burton: I accept the Minister'sbona fides and commitment to the issue and that is very good to hear. If for some unknown reason the report is further delayed, would the Minister assist members by publishing the submissions that were made to the report? Submissions were made by various interested parties with views on the issue. Perhaps the Minister could arrange with his Cabinet colleagues to have...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2017: Committee Stage (7 Nov 2017)

Joan Burton: There is a great deal of confusion and uncertainty. I am sure people are approaching the Minister as well as every other Member as to whether they should have been put on a tracker mortgage. People may have negotiated a tracker mortgage and at a certain point the bank indicated that the tracker option which had been part of the deal was no longer available. Will there be a better public...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Brexit Documents (7 Nov 2017)

Joan Burton: Everybody on this side of the House is anxious to co-operate with the Government and provide as much assistance as possible to achieve the best possible outcome for the island of Ireland. This is not a party political football. The chairman of the Revenue Commissioners raised a number of points which are presumably being worked on. I want to call them to the Taoiseach's attention. One...