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Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Corporation Tax Receipts: Department of Finance and Revenue Commissioners (14 Jun 2017)

Dara Calleary: In the context of that large proportion, has the Department done an exercise on the impact of President Trump's proposed corporation tax changes on that base and on those companies?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Corporation Tax Receipts: Department of Finance and Revenue Commissioners (14 Jun 2017)

Dara Calleary: One of the biggest hits to our corporation tax preparation last year was the decision in the Apple case. Where are we at with that at the moment? Has the money been put into the holding account or are there negotiations under way on that?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Corporation Tax Receipts: Department of Finance and Revenue Commissioners (14 Jun 2017)

Dara Calleary: The money has not been handed over yet?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Corporation Tax Receipts: Department of Finance and Revenue Commissioners (14 Jun 2017)

Dara Calleary: Will it be this year or next year?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Corporation Tax Receipts: Department of Finance and Revenue Commissioners (14 Jun 2017)

Dara Calleary: I would like it if Mr. McCarthy came to another meeting to address the views concerning infrastructure. We are actually reviewing the capital plan.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Corporation Tax Receipts: Department of Finance and Revenue Commissioners (14 Jun 2017)

Dara Calleary: They refer to housing, broadband and other non-luxuries for which we cannot wait. It might be useful for the Acting Chairman to allow this to be thrashed out again in the context of our work on the capital plan.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Corporation Tax Receipts: Department of Finance and Revenue Commissioners (14 Jun 2017)

Dara Calleary: Mr. McCarthy might not have his own Department by 7 p.m.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Corporation Tax Receipts: Department of Finance and Revenue Commissioners (14 Jun 2017)

Dara Calleary: There are many memos coming Mr. McCarthy's way.

Resignation of Taoiseach (13 Jun 2017)

Dara Calleary: When Michael Ring is in Dublin.

Other Questions: Flood Relief Schemes (1 Jun 2017)

Dara Calleary: In the context of flooding, can the Minister confirm if the transfer of the Ministry responsible for flooding from the Minister of State, Deputy Canney, to Deputy Moran will happen?

Other Questions: Information and Communications Technology (1 Jun 2017)

Dara Calleary: With regard to the security breaches that have occurred, what work is being done to ensure that citizens' information is protected to the highest degree possible? Is that a function of each Department or is it a function of the OGCIO? Second, the Minister of State referred to the cloud. How will he ensure, as we move towards cloud storage, that information contained in the cloud will be secure?

Other Questions: Information and Communications Technology (1 Jun 2017)

Dara Calleary: With regard to those models, what importance is being attached to the security of the information? Have there been any major or significant cyber attacks on a Department or on government information in the course of the last 12 months?

Other Questions: Public Private Partnerships (1 Jun 2017)

Dara Calleary: This is probably a continuation of the discussion the Minister had with Deputy Burton. More importantly, it focuses on the 10% rule in public private partnerships. The Minister's colleagues, the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government, Deputy Simon Coveney, and the Minister for Social Protection, Deputy Leo Varadkar, have been promising infrastructure projects like...

Other Questions: Public Private Partnerships (1 Jun 2017)

Dara Calleary: Yes, there is a cost and these moneys must be repaid. We all accept that. However, consider the opportunity costs of not having proceeded with some of the projects that PPPs are currently funding. The costs we repay include maintenance of roads and so forth, so we must do something. I share Deputy Burton's concerns about the Minister's remark on whether we have capacity to deliver and...

Other Questions: Public Private Partnerships (1 Jun 2017)

Dara Calleary: I do not want that outcome either, but I am anxious to see a pathway to deal with the serious infrastructure bottleneck facing our country in so many areas such as housing, roads, ports and airports, which is being discussed at every hearing of the Committee on Budgetary Oversight. We all want the country to develop economically, but our current infrastructure is pulling down our chances of...

Other Questions: Information and Communications Technology (1 Jun 2017)

Dara Calleary: 7. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the progress made under the public service information and communications technology strategy; the amount of money spent on the strategy; the Departments to which it has been rolled out; if he is satisfied that the investment to date in 2017 has represented value for money; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26202/17]

Other Questions: Information and Communications Technology (1 Jun 2017)

Dara Calleary: The number of very serious IT outages, which affected people's information in recent weeks and months, has highlighted the importance of a proper public service technology strategy, particularly given the amount of data and information it controls. I want to discuss with the Minister the progress of the strategy, what the Government is prioritising in terms of investment in the strategy and...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Public Sector Pay (1 Jun 2017)

Dara Calleary: I welcome the confirmation of the figure of €209 million. The Minister quoted from the Public Service Pay Commission report, but it also stated there may be an issue of equality regarding the different pay scales. Our public service is different. When we send two gardaí out on the streets this evening, one of them will be on one pay rate, the other on another one. They are...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Public Sector Pay (1 Jun 2017)

Dara Calleary: I accept that pay is one issue and there are others, and that has been highlighted by the Public Service Pay Commission, but it is the Minister's Department that is effectively the human resources, HR, agent for Government. He and his Department need to take the lead in concentrating on these issues. He needs to pull the HSE in and ask why we are losing the best graduates we have to offer...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Public Sector Pensions Data (1 Jun 2017)

Dara Calleary: 1. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if his Department has compiled data from other European countries on the different ways public sector and civil servant pensions are administered, the amount they pay on average per employee and the rules they have for public pensions and in total; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26201/17]