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Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 37 – Employment Affairs and Social Protection
Chapter 4 – Control over Welfare Payments (12 Nov 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: The overpayment is flagged in the report of the Comptroller and Auditor General, so I think it is important to go into it.

Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 37 – Employment Affairs and Social Protection
Chapter 4 – Control over Welfare Payments (12 Nov 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: One has to interrogate it. One could not possibly not ask the question about overpayments. I refer now to scheme-specific risks. There is a good report about the review and the different schemes. When we inevitably turn to the review of the pandemic unemployment payment and how that has worked, that is an unusual payment in that it is simply put out on a blanket basis and of necessity....

Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 37 – Employment Affairs and Social Protection
Chapter 4 – Control over Welfare Payments (12 Nov 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: Of course.

Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 37 – Employment Affairs and Social Protection
Chapter 4 – Control over Welfare Payments (12 Nov 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: Of necessity, in fairness, and I do not think anybody would criticise that. It is about the follow-up and review. When will the Department be publishing anything on this?

Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 37 – Employment Affairs and Social Protection
Chapter 4 – Control over Welfare Payments (12 Nov 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I thank Mr. McKeon for his engagement.

Confidence in Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Motion (10 Nov 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I am here to state confidence in the Tánaiste and express confidence in the Government and all of the Ministers working hard to recover our country and society during this dreadful pandemic. It is preposterous that this Parliament is spending its time today on this political stunt by Sinn Féin instead of on the major issues of the day. The Tánaiste made himself immediately...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Telecommunications Infrastructure (10 Nov 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: 117. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the steps he will take to ensure the provision of high-speed broadband connection in an area (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35133/20]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Grant Payments (10 Nov 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: 230. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of persons that applied for the SEAI grant for solar photovoltaic panels in 2019; the number that received the grant in 2019; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35289/20]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child and Family Agency (10 Nov 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: 557. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if he will provide all information in the possession of Tusla that is relevant to a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35225/20]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Traveller Community (10 Nov 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: 558. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the status of the work to plan for and oversee the development, publication and implementation as appropriate to date for the national Traveller health action plan and the Traveller education strategy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35226/20]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Traveller Accommodation (10 Nov 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: 559. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the status of the interaction with the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage; the steps being taken to ensure the implementation of the report of the Expert Review Group on Traveller Accommodation, prepared by an independent expert group on behalf of the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage; and if he will...

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)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I thank the representatives for meeting with the committee today and for all the work they have been doing during this extraordinary financial crisis as well as health crisis. Can we just go back to the Apple account? Obviously, it is such a substantial amount of money in management, and it is so important for everybody. The decision is now being appealed to the European Court of Justice...

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)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I appreciate that, but if, in technical terms, the case goes against us, our contention-----

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)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: Does the third-party country operation interact with that in any way? Is the Department sure about that or is it contested in any 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)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: Regarding the decision on the escrow account, why an escrow account? I appreciate the difficulty of finding somewhere to put something of that nature on deposit in a negative interest rate environment, but can Mr. Moran tell us about the decision making to move to an escrow account and the implications?

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)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: It is clear already that there are losses of that nature. It is €37 million in 2019 and €16 million in the half-year period. It is already losing money as a consequence of the negative interest rate environment. Other than that, the State would be liable at the end of whatever the period is for additional money in circumstances where the case goes the way the State would like...

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)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: The money is not there to be taken.

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)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: There are no rainbows in international corporate tax policy and if there are, there are certainly no pots of gold at the end of them.

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)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: If we lose, however, there is a massive implication for other companies that had operated in Ireland in the 1990s and early 2000s which may then face, or anticipate facing, similar tax liabilities. What is the implication in terms of retrospective certainty in that instance?

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)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: That is a concern that has grown about this amount of money, the certainty about it and the read across other companies. It is complex. Unquestionably, international corporate tax policy and international corporate tax law are incredibly complex and difficult. On the idea that there is a fund we are simply not availing of, not only are we not availing of it but to get to a position where...