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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Pensions Reform (10 Nov 2020)

Neasa Hourigan: 521. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to include a civil society gender perspective in the newly established pension commission; her plans to include an organisation (details supplied) on the commission; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35198/20]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Legislative Process (10 Nov 2020)

Neasa Hourigan: 612. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if all the recommendations of the report on the reform of the family law system by the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Justice and Equality have been implemented; if not, the recommendations that are outstanding; when they will be implemented; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34898/20]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Legislative Programme (10 Nov 2020)

Neasa Hourigan: 613. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the timeline for the implementation of the family courts Bill; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34899/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (10 Nov 2020)

Neasa Hourigan: 669. To ask the Minister for Health if holistic therapy is considered an essential therapy in relation to level 5 Covid-19 restrictions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34638/20]

Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 7 - Office of Minister for Finance
Chapter 1 - Exchequer Financial Outturn for 2019
Chapter 17 - Ireland Apple Escrow Fund (5 Nov 2020)

Neasa Hourigan: My particular interest is around Ireland's contribution to the EU budget. For this session, we were sent some briefing notes that included previous recommendations from this committee and responses from the Department of Finance. Recommendation 3 was around annual reporting of all contributions. It is useful to see the report that was put out by the Department in September. I think that...

Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 7 - Office of Minister for Finance
Chapter 1 - Exchequer Financial Outturn for 2019
Chapter 17 - Ireland Apple Escrow Fund (5 Nov 2020)

Neasa Hourigan: I am sorry to cut across Mr. Tobin. The workings of the code of conduct group are interesting because the group deals with the position of member states. When those meetings happen, I am trying to understand the positions of member states which are being put forward both by our own and other governments. Can we have the minutes?

Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 7 - Office of Minister for Finance
Chapter 1 - Exchequer Financial Outturn for 2019
Chapter 17 - Ireland Apple Escrow Fund (5 Nov 2020)

Neasa Hourigan: I want to ask another question before my time is up. Is it possible to get the minutes?

Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 7 - Office of Minister for Finance
Chapter 1 - Exchequer Financial Outturn for 2019
Chapter 17 - Ireland Apple Escrow Fund (5 Nov 2020)

Neasa Hourigan: As people who attend those meetings, I presume the officials in the Department get a copy of the minutes. Could it table them to this group considering the German Bundestag receives those minutes on a regular basis?

Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 7 - Office of Minister for Finance
Chapter 1 - Exchequer Financial Outturn for 2019
Chapter 17 - Ireland Apple Escrow Fund (5 Nov 2020)

Neasa Hourigan: That is great, thank you.

Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 7 - Office of Minister for Finance
Chapter 1 - Exchequer Financial Outturn for 2019
Chapter 17 - Ireland Apple Escrow Fund (5 Nov 2020)

Neasa Hourigan: If they are being tabled to the German Parliament, I do not see that there will be a problem tabling them to the Irish Parliament.

Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 7 - Office of Minister for Finance
Chapter 1 - Exchequer Financial Outturn for 2019
Chapter 17 - Ireland Apple Escrow Fund (5 Nov 2020)

Neasa Hourigan: I agree. I have a quick question. In the summer of last year, the European Commission served formal notice on Ireland asking us to implement key anti-tax avoidance rules earlier than the delay we put on it to 2024. It was reported that we would work with the Commission to speed up the implementation of those tax avoidance rules on how companies use interest payments to cut their tax bills....

Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 7 - Office of Minister for Finance
Chapter 1 - Exchequer Financial Outturn for 2019
Chapter 17 - Ireland Apple Escrow Fund (5 Nov 2020)

Neasa Hourigan: I complement Mr. Moran on the clarity of that report. It was very good.

Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 7 - Office of Minister for Finance
Chapter 1 - Exchequer Financial Outturn for 2019
Chapter 17 - Ireland Apple Escrow Fund (5 Nov 2020)

Neasa Hourigan: I wish to talk about credit unions for a moment. We have financial statements from the 13 bodies that the Department has responsibility for from 2018 but we have not had an audited financial statement from the Credit Union Restructuring Board since 2016. Is that board still active or is it being wound up? I will not beat the drum for a system of public banking, as we often do in the Green...

Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 7 - Office of Minister for Finance
Chapter 1 - Exchequer Financial Outturn for 2019
Chapter 17 - Ireland Apple Escrow Fund (5 Nov 2020)

Neasa Hourigan: In this committee and in a number of other committees we have talked a bit about public banking in general and why it is a particular challenge in the Irish context. My question is if there is a review under way of the policy framework around credit unions and if the credit union restructuring board is still active or if it has been wound up.

Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 7 - Office of Minister for Finance
Chapter 1 - Exchequer Financial Outturn for 2019
Chapter 17 - Ireland Apple Escrow Fund (5 Nov 2020)

Neasa Hourigan: We can expect them to be submitted to the-----

Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 7 - Office of Minister for Finance
Chapter 1 - Exchequer Financial Outturn for 2019
Chapter 17 - Ireland Apple Escrow Fund (5 Nov 2020)

Neasa Hourigan: Is there a review of the policy framework around credit unions?

Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 7 - Office of Minister for Finance
Chapter 1 - Exchequer Financial Outturn for 2019
Chapter 17 - Ireland Apple Escrow Fund (5 Nov 2020)

Neasa Hourigan: The credit unions say that they would like to utilise their €18 billion in a more productive way.

Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 7 - Office of Minister for Finance
Chapter 1 - Exchequer Financial Outturn for 2019
Chapter 17 - Ireland Apple Escrow Fund (5 Nov 2020)

Neasa Hourigan: Is there any work being done to allow them to do that?

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tribunals of Inquiry (5 Nov 2020)

Neasa Hourigan: 105. To ask the Minister for Finance if all recommendations of the Moriarty tribunal have been implemented; the recommendations that are outstanding; when they will be implemented; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34514/20]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Tribunals of Inquiry (5 Nov 2020)

Neasa Hourigan: 129. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if all recommendations of the Moriarty tribunal have been implemented; the recommendations that are outstanding; when they will be implemented; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34513/20]