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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Jul 2014)

Ciarán Lynch: I have been successful in a number of these cases. The legislation is very clear and it is a forensic examination. The error is on one side of the table or another. It is either that the person has not provided sufficient information for whatever reason - there might be a change in family circumstances, somebody has returned to work and the overpayment has been created - or else the person...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Jul 2014)

Ciarán Lynch: I thank Ms O'Sullivan. The reason this meeting is taking place before the summer recess is the budget cycle has been changed, with the budget now being presented in October instead of December. Another significant aspect this year is that, having exited the bailout programme, Ireland, like other member states in the eurozone, has country-specific recommendations. I invite the delegates to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Jul 2014)

Ciarán Lynch: In the context of the fuel poverty strategy, what is the difference between living in a major urban area such as Dublin and living in a rural area?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Jul 2014)

Ciarán Lynch: My next question about the social justice service programme and the corporation tax rate is directed at Ms Murphy. The assumption made in the proposal is that the effective rate is 6%. Is that correct?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Jul 2014)

Ciarán Lynch: They are all Irish-registered companies.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Jul 2014)

Ciarán Lynch: Any company registered here is in a particular zone. The committee has looked extensively at companies that may be engaged in very elaborate tax constructions but Ms Murphy is talking about an effective tax rate for companies that are Irish-registered and liable to the Irish rate of corporation tax.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Jul 2014)

Ciarán Lynch: I refer to the reference in the country-specific recommendations to Ireland continuing to deal with the structural deficit in taxation which happened around the time of the collapse. I refer to water charges and property tax. Social Justice Ireland representatives attended the committee two years ago and engaged in innovative thinking about the property tax. I assume the organisation is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Jul 2014)

Ciarán Lynch: At the time it was modelled on that basis of local services in order that those who had access to schools and bus stops in their locality would pay more than those who lived at a distance from such services. There are advantages and disadvantages to that approach. For example, a person living in a mansion in a remote part of Ireland would pay very little in property tax compared to someone...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Jul 2014)

Ciarán Lynch: That is the same view it held two years ago.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Jul 2014)

Ciarán Lynch: I ask Mr. Harty how Home and Community Care Ireland savings of €69 million could be made.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Jul 2014)

Ciarán Lynch: I ask Mr. Harty to expand on his proposal of a €50,000 ceiling on tax relief. How would it operate?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Jul 2014)

Ciarán Lynch: We will commence today's meeting, which is to discuss pre-budget submissions. I welcome Mr. James Claffey, policy and communications officer, Irish Rural Link, IRL; Ms Michelle Murphy, policy research analyst, Social Justice Ireland, SJI; Mr. Michael Harty, chairman, Home and Community Care Ireland, HCCI; Mr. Robin Hanan, director, European Anti-Poverty Network, Ireland, EAPN; Ms Caroline...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Staffing (16 Jul 2014)

Ciarán Lynch: 78. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason the provision of special needs assistants was reduced for the school year 2014-15 from four to two in a school (details supplied) in County Cork; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31797/14]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Boundaries (16 Jul 2014)

Ciarán Lynch: 165. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the progress that has been made regarding the proposed extension of Cork City boundary; the communication that has taken place between his Department and Cork City and County Councils; if the extension will be completed prior to the next local elections; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31689/14]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion (15 Jul 2014)

Ciarán Lynch: I thank Dr. O'Connor. If there are no supplementary questions, I will bring matters to a conclusion. I thank the witnesses for attending. It has been a constructive and worthwhile discussion on issues of critical importance and will assist the committee during the budgetary cycle when we resume after the recess. We welcome the four organisations' contributions and their engagement with...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion (15 Jul 2014)

Ciarán Lynch: In order to move things to a conclusion, because we are going to conclude at 5 p.m., I will try to put a macro shape on the proceedings. Ms Burke’s reading of the economy might be considered a very optimistic one. As a member of the Government I am not too sure whether I would go out to bat for that, but I hope she is right that we will end up in a neutral position at the end of the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion (15 Jul 2014)

Ciarán Lynch: How does the structural tax base get increased according to the IBEC proposal that came before the committee? Does it contain anything that broadens the structural tax base?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion (15 Jul 2014)

Ciarán Lynch: They have been introduced.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion (15 Jul 2014)

Ciarán Lynch: IBEC is not advocating an increase in property tax or water charges, so what does IBEC advocate in terms of broadening the structural base?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion (15 Jul 2014)

Ciarán Lynch: There is a world of difference between income tax and consumption taxes.