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Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Estimates for Public Services 2017 (Revised): Discussion (17 Jan 2017)

Joan Burton: It is not the Minister or me and certainly not some other people in this room but, based on reading the newspapers-----

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Estimates for Public Services 2017 (Revised): Discussion (17 Jan 2017)

Joan Burton: One could base it on reading the newspapers. If the Department is going to outsource, I must bring it to the Minister's attention that what is happening with outsourcing is a drift down to minimum wage employment and relatively poor conditions of employment. The Department of Social Protection, in which I worked, has a huge amount of employment distributed throughout the country. There are...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Estimates for Public Services 2017 (Revised): Discussion (17 Jan 2017)

Joan Burton: I have a brief supplementary question. To refer again to the urban-rural situation, there are a couple of reports in the Irish Independent today that a house restoration grant is to be made available for young couples in rural towns and villages. In the areas the Minister and I represent, the cheapest option for many young couples in terms of getting their first house will be a second-hand...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Estimates for Public Services 2017 (Revised): Discussion (17 Jan 2017)

Joan Burton: Very briefly on that, the Minister is being rather short-sighted, and I am a little surprised. In urban areas, in big cities and towns, investors are beating local young people to purchasing second-hand houses. If the Minister is now going to provide a set of cash incentives, which he has more or less confirmed, to people buying second-hand homes, "doer-uppers", in rural areas, with which I...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Estimates for Public Services 2017 (Revised): Discussion (17 Jan 2017)

Joan Burton: What I do not understand is why the Minister would consciously discriminate against young people in cities and big towns.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Estimates for Public Services 2017 (Revised): Discussion (17 Jan 2017)

Joan Burton: The Minister said there will be an announcement.

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Brexit Issues (17 Jan 2017)

Joan Burton: 56. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide a report on his recent meeting in Dublin with the British Chancellor of the Exchequer, Mr Philip Hammond. [1647/17]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Common Consolidated Corporate Tax Base Proposals (17 Jan 2017)

Joan Burton: 60. To ask the Minister for Finance the contact he has had with the European Commissioner for Economic and Financial Affairs, Taxation and Customs, Pierre Moscovici, regarding the common consolidated corporate tax base since December 2016. [39709/16]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Financial Services Regulation (17 Jan 2017)

Joan Burton: 293. To ask the Minister for Finance the proposals he is currently considering to ensure mortgage holders, tenants and SMEs that have loans or credit from non-bank lenders or vulture funds are fully protected; if he is considering extending the provisions of the Consumer Protection (Regulation of Credit Servicing Firms) Act 2015 in this regard; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Avoidance (17 Jan 2017)

Joan Burton: 66. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide an update on his Department's work with the Revenue Commissioners in tackling the tax evasion uncovered in the Panama Papers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1648/17]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: State Aid Investigations (17 Jan 2017)

Joan Burton: 68. To ask the Minister for Finance the contact he has had with fellow EU colleagues regarding a tax case (details supplied). [39936/16]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Mortgage Lending (17 Jan 2017)

Joan Burton: 85. To ask the Minister for Finance if his Department has had discussions with the Central Bank regarding mortgage deposit requirements for prospective first-time buyers seeking to purchase their home who cannot save a sufficient deposit due to rising residential rent costs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1649/17]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Mortgage Lending (17 Jan 2017)

Joan Burton: 298. To ask the Minister for Finance the status of the ongoing review of the Central Bank mortgage lending limits as specified in the programme for Government; the role of his Department in the review process; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1673/17]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Common Consolidated Corporate Tax Base Proposals (17 Jan 2017)

Joan Burton: 91. To ask the Minister for Finance the contact he has had with the Commissioner for Economic and Financial Affairs, Taxation and Customs, Mr. Pierre Moscovici, regarding the common consolidated corporate tax base since December 2016. [1717/17]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Departmental Staff Remuneration (17 Jan 2017)

Joan Burton: 103. To ask the Taoiseach if any of his special advisers, personal assistants or personal secretaries and other unestablished civil servants, whose contracts were coterminous with his holding the office of Taoiseach, that ceased employment on 6 May 2016 on the election of a new Government, were afforded two weeks' pay in lieu of notice. [1622/17]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Strength (17 Jan 2017)

Joan Burton: 112. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of gardaí allocated to the Lucan district; the number of community gardaí assigned to that district; the number of new recruits assigned to the district; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41068/16]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Strength (17 Jan 2017)

Joan Burton: 113. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of gardaí allocated to the Clondalkin Garda district; the number of community gardaí assigned to that district; the number of new recruits assigned to Dublin; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41069/16]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Fuel Laundering (17 Jan 2017)

Joan Burton: 304. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to increase enforcement and sanctions for fuel laundering, in view of the programme for Government commitment and the estimates in the British Irish Parliamentary Assembly report on cross-Border crime of the loss to the Exchequer by fuel fraud to be in the range of €140 to €260 million per year; if he has met his Northern Irish...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Collection (17 Jan 2017)

Joan Burton: 313. To ask the Minister for Finance the details of his Department's work in examining the taxation regime pertaining to the rent of properties under a company (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1651/17]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Corporation Tax Regime (17 Jan 2017)

Joan Burton: 308. To ask the Minister for Finance when he expects the European Commission to make a final report on the tax affairs of a company (details supplied) here; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1683/17]