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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: European Union-Related Matters: Discussion with Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (12 Jun 2018)

Michael McGrath: The first country specific recommendation includes a reference to using windfall gains to accelerate the reduction of the general government debt ratio. Could the Minister give his view on Ireland's current general government debt ratio? What is the appropriate measure of it? Does he believe it to be on a sustainable path? Apart from improvements in our annual budgetary position, does the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: European Union-Related Matters: Discussion with Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (12 Jun 2018)

Michael McGrath: Is that debt-to-GDP?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: European Union-Related Matters: Discussion with Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (12 Jun 2018)

Michael McGrath: There have been media reports speculating that the Minister is considering a further share sale in AIB, which is relevant to the question of windfall gains and reducing the general government debt ratio. Is that under consideration?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: European Union-Related Matters: Discussion with Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (12 Jun 2018)

Michael McGrath: Demographic-related costs are an important issue for the Committee on Budgetary Oversight in respect of expenditure profiles. Is the Minister satisfied that the estimates he is working with or commitments in the area of old age pension provision and health and education provisions, taking into account the demographic profile and projections that we are working to, are comprehensive and have...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: European Union-Related Matters: Discussion with Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (12 Jun 2018)

Michael McGrath: I thank the Minister.

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Improvement Schemes (12 Jun 2018)

Michael McGrath: 52. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the funding that will be made available to allow the construction of the Carrigaline western relief road, County Cork, to proceed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24338/18]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Services (12 Jun 2018)

Michael McGrath: 95. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of plans made by Bus Éireann to the NTA to improve bus services (details supplied) in County Cork. [24339/18]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: EU Data (12 Jun 2018)

Michael McGrath: 129. To ask the Taoiseach the EU fines paid in each of the years 2015 to 2017, in tabular form. [25736/18]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: EU Data (12 Jun 2018)

Michael McGrath: 148. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the EU fines paid in each of the years 2015 to 2017, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25730/18]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: EU Data (12 Jun 2018)

Michael McGrath: 188. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the EU fines paid in each of the years 2015 to 2017, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25733/18]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Stamp Duty (12 Jun 2018)

Michael McGrath: 225. To ask the Minister for Finance the position on the application of a reduced rate of stamp duty on certain farm consolidation transactions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24971/18]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Insurance Industry Regulation (12 Jun 2018)

Michael McGrath: 199. To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to situations in which insurance companies are pursuing claimants or plaintiffs for their High Court and-or Court of Appeal costs even when the claim is successful; if the Central Bank has a regulatory role in the pursuit of legal costs by insurance companies; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24358/18]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Central Bank of Ireland Investigations (12 Jun 2018)

Michael McGrath: 204. To ask the Minister for Finance the status of the Central Bank's investigation into an agency (details supplied); if the investigation has been completed; if not, when it will be completed; if so, the outcomes of same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24540/18]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Sovereign Debt (12 Jun 2018)

Michael McGrath: 205. To ask the Minister for Finance the effect the political issues in Italy have had on Irish sovereign bond yields; if a risk analysis has been undertaken by his Department on financial issues arising from the political environment in Italy; the way in which Ireland is exposed to a potential financial crisis in Italy; if this has been discussed at the recent Economic and Financial Affairs...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Professional Fees (12 Jun 2018)

Michael McGrath: 211. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 180 of 29 May 2018, the annual tax cost of the tax relief on professional membership fees before the changes made in 2011; the annual tax cost of the relief on professional membership fees after 2011; the amount of a tax revenue saving that resulted from the 2011 changes; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Help-To-Buy Scheme Eligibility (12 Jun 2018)

Michael McGrath: 214. To ask the Minister for Finance the definition of "first-time buyer" used by the Central Bank and the Revenue Commissioners, respectively. [24791/18]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Help-To-Buy Scheme Eligibility (12 Jun 2018)

Michael McGrath: 215. To ask the Minister for Finance the reason the Central Bank deems a returning emigrant who never owned a residential property here but did abroad for a period as a non-first-time buyer; his views on whether this classification is unfair; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24792/18]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Financial Services and Pensions Ombudsman Remit (12 Jun 2018)

Michael McGrath: 219. To ask the Minister for Finance if the Financial Services and Pensions Ombudsman is permitted to receive and consider complaints from persons that are of the view they were mis-sold payment protection insurance prior to the six year limit prior to July 2007, that is, the scope covered by the Central Bank's review and prior to 2002 since the enactment of the Financial Services and...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Yield (12 Jun 2018)

Michael McGrath: 220. To ask the Minister for Finance the amount of income tax paid by persons aged over 65 years of age in each of the years 2015 to 2017; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24873/18]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Yield (12 Jun 2018)

Michael McGrath: 221. To ask the Minister for Finance the amount of income tax paid in respect of occupational and other non-social protection pensions in each of the years 2015 to 2017; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24874/18]