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Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement: Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (8 Oct 2020)

Pearse Doherty: It also includes the 900 discretionary-----

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement: Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (8 Oct 2020)

Pearse Doherty: The Minister mentioned the recovery fund to other members of the committee. Is the recovery fund in excess of the €9 billion Covid-related expenditure or is the recovery fund part of the €9 billion Covid-related expenditure?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement: Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (8 Oct 2020)

Pearse Doherty: The known Covid expenditure is the €9 billion package, although some of that is unknown in a way.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement: Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (8 Oct 2020)

Pearse Doherty: I understand that is impossible to predict with lockdowns and further restrictions where jobs will be at and what is supposed to be required, but my core question is whether the recovery fund package is in excess of the €9 billion. The Minister was always the person who talked about us not having surprises on budget day, yet he will give us all a surprise in just four days' time. In...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement: Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (8 Oct 2020)

Pearse Doherty: It appears from what the Minister is saying that he is still going to pull the bunny out of the hat next Tuesday, despite everything he said for the past ten years. It is not the way to do budgets. I acknowledge that there are moving parts but he has a sense of the quantum at this stage. That is usually published in the summer economic statement, which he and the Minister for Finance have...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement: Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (8 Oct 2020)

Pearse Doherty: Is it €10 billion or €1 billion?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement: Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (8 Oct 2020)

Pearse Doherty: It is not about parties; it is about the Oireachtas committee that is tasked with scrutinising the budgetary process. Collectively as a committee - I am not referring to Sinn Féin, the Green Party, Fianna Fáil or Fine Gael - we do not have a clue about the budgetary parameters the Minister is considering for announcement on Tuesday. We do not know whether there will be €6...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement: Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (8 Oct 2020)

Pearse Doherty: Perhaps the clerk could help us by notifying all the committee members that they should read the Sunday newspapers because the Minister is not going to give us any parameters here, which he should do. The parameters will probably be given to the media before the Select Committee on Budgetary Oversight.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement: Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (8 Oct 2020)

Pearse Doherty: We learnt about the overall figure, €12 billion, from the media.

Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment: Motion [Private Members] (7 Oct 2020)

Pearse Doherty: Covid-19 has been an earthquake for our economy and the epicentre of that earthquake has been among those in low-paid employment, predominantly in the retail, tourism and hospitality sectors. The repercussions for them and their families have been enormous. The introduction of the PUP was a lifeline for these workers and their families when it was introduced back in March. However, it also...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Wage Subsidy Scheme (7 Oct 2020)

Pearse Doherty: 68. To ask the Minister for Finance the cost of amending the employment wage subsidy scheme to the end of December 2020, 1 January to 31 March 2021 and 1 April to end of December 2021 (details supplied). [29211/20]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Wage Subsidy Scheme (7 Oct 2020)

Pearse Doherty: 69. To ask the Minister for Finance if the subsidies payable under the employment wage subsidy scheme can be made payable two weeks or one week in arrears, as opposed to one month in arrears as is the case at present; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29217/20]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Wage Subsidy Scheme (7 Oct 2020)

Pearse Doherty: 70. To ask the Minister for Finance the additional weekly or monthly staffing costs at the Office of the Revenue Commissioner that would result from making subsidies payable under the employment wage subsidy scheme two weeks or one week in arrears, as opposed to one month in arrears as is the case at present. [29218/20]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (7 Oct 2020)

Pearse Doherty: 71. To ask the Minister for Finance if payments made through pandemic unemployment payment can be taxable by law in view of the fact that it was introduced under section 202 of the Social Welfare Consolidation Act 2005 which as an urgent needs payment is not liable for tax as clarified by section 13 of Finance Act 2018; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29219/20]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Data (6 Oct 2020)

Pearse Doherty: 302. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide statistical information and costings (details supplied) in tabular form. [28667/20]

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Revised Estimates for Public Services 2020
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance (Revised)
Vote 8 - Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General (Revised)
Vote 9 - Office of the Revenue Commissioners (Revised)
Vote 10 - Tax Appeals Commission (Revised) (6 Oct 2020)

Pearse Doherty: Gabhaim buíochas leis an Aire Stáit fá choinne teacht isteach leis na Meastacháin a phlé. Tá cúpla ceist sciobtha agam ó thaobh na Breatimeachta de. In terms of Brexit, it was mentioned that there are 330 staff, although the Minister of State is not sure whether they have all been recruited. There is a difference between the amount of resources the...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Revised Estimates for Public Services 2020
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance (Revised)
Vote 8 - Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General (Revised)
Vote 9 - Office of the Revenue Commissioners (Revised)
Vote 10 - Tax Appeals Commission (Revised) (6 Oct 2020)

Pearse Doherty: This information is from the Minister of State's own statement. I do not think those figures are in the Estimates.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Revised Estimates for Public Services 2020
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance (Revised)
Vote 8 - Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General (Revised)
Vote 9 - Office of the Revenue Commissioners (Revised)
Vote 10 - Tax Appeals Commission (Revised) (6 Oct 2020)

Pearse Doherty: I always believed that, in dealing with the Estimates, what Revenue sought in additional staff was usually granted. I may be wrong but in the context of Brexit, I am surprised the Revenue Commissioners were not allocated what they required.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Revised Estimates for Public Services 2020
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance (Revised)
Vote 8 - Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General (Revised)
Vote 9 - Office of the Revenue Commissioners (Revised)
Vote 10 - Tax Appeals Commission (Revised) (6 Oct 2020)

Pearse Doherty: I take it from what the Minister of State is saying that €11 million was allocated for pay, which is what was requested. That was delivered in full so all the staff complement was agreed to. There was a further €7 million in non-pay costs, a portion of which was spent on Brexit preparations at the ports.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Revised Estimates for Public Services 2020
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance (Revised)
Vote 8 - Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General (Revised)
Vote 9 - Office of the Revenue Commissioners (Revised)
Vote 10 - Tax Appeals Commission (Revised) (6 Oct 2020)

Pearse Doherty: What level of costs did those four component parts make up? Do we know how much those four things, namely, the two ports, the airport and the scanner, cost?