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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Disability Allowance Data (12 Jun 2018)

Michael McGrath: 1250. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will address a matter raised in correspondence (details supplied) regarding disability allowance; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25138/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Domiciliary Care Allowance Applications (12 Jun 2018)

Michael McGrath: 1261. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if an application to backdate a domiciliary care allowance to the date of birth for a child by a person (details supplied) in County Cork will be considered. [25472/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: EU Data (12 Jun 2018)

Michael McGrath: 1273. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the European Union, EU, fines paid in each of the years 2015 to 2017, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25732/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Mortgage Lending (12 Jun 2018)

Michael McGrath: 1309. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if persons whose credit history indicates some missed loan repayments in the past can still qualify under the Rebuilding Ireland home loan scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24984/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: An Bord Pleanála (12 Jun 2018)

Michael McGrath: 1327. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the rules that govern the exclusion of certain members of An Bord Pleanála from participating in decision-making at board level on the grounds of conflict of interest or possible conflict of interest; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25605/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Fines Data (12 Jun 2018)

Michael McGrath: 1331. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the EU fines paid in each of the years 2015 to 2017, inclusive, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25735/18]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: EU Data (12 Jun 2018)

Michael McGrath: 1354. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the EU fines paid in each of the years 2015 to 2017, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25729/18]

Questions on Promised Legislation (31 May 2018)

Michael McGrath: This really was an appalling decision by An Bord Pleanála. It shows a complete disregard for the views of the local community and the inspector. I want to raise two issues in that context. One is the decision of the then Minister, Phil Hogan, in 2011 to abolish the incineration levy which the previous Minister, John Gormley, had introduced. Will the Government reconsider that issue? ...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Markets in Financial Instruments Bill 2018: Committee Stage (31 May 2018)

Michael McGrath: What the Minister of State has said is significant. On a separate occasion I will ask the committee to write to the Ombudsman to look for data on the number of cases that have come before him that are in this category where the alleged mis-selling, for example, would have occurred prior to 2002 and where he has opted not to use the discretion to avail of the powers this Oireachtas gave to...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Markets in Financial Instruments Bill 2018: Committee Stage (31 May 2018)

Michael McGrath: Yes.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Markets in Financial Instruments Bill 2018: Committee Stage (31 May 2018)

Michael McGrath: Yes.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Markets in Financial Instruments Bill 2018: Committee Stage (31 May 2018)

Michael McGrath: I am wondering if the Department, which has a close working relationship with the ombudsman, has received feedback from him. It has only been in place for a few months but is the Department clear on the interpretation that is being put on the provision by the ombudsman, what his understanding is and why he may be less willing to use it?

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Markets in Financial Instruments Bill 2018: Committee Stage (31 May 2018)

Michael McGrath: We will look for that.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Markets in Financial Instruments Bill 2018: Committee Stage (31 May 2018)

Michael McGrath: For clarity, we will be in scope to bring amendments forward on Report Stage on this issue. It has been well discussed. Some months ago I went onto the website of the office of the ombudsman as I had a query from a constituent. There was no information there about the change in the law, no clarity on the change to the six year rule and the discoverability clause that we introduced. I...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Pension Provisions (31 May 2018)

Michael McGrath: 63. To ask the Minister for Finance his Department's role in relation to A Roadmap for Pensions Reform 2018-2023; his views on the tax relief on pension contributions at the marginal rate; his further views on the retention of the tax relief at the marginal rate; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24109/18]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Pension Provisions (31 May 2018)

Michael McGrath: 69. To ask the Minister for Finance the membership of the working group set up by his Department to examine the tax relief on pension contributions; the terms of reference of the working group; if the working group will assess the tax position on pensions in its entirety including taxation upon extraction by pensioners; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24226/18]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Strategic Banking Corporation of Ireland (31 May 2018)

Michael McGrath: 64. To ask the Minister for Finance the mechanism used by the Strategic Banking Corporation of Ireland to obtain the services of an intermediary in order to provide finance for businesses; his views on whether the SBCI is distorting the market for finance; his further views on whether there are state aid issues in relation to SBCI's use of intermediaries and specifically the use of one...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Central Bank of Ireland Reports (31 May 2018)

Michael McGrath: 65. To ask the Minister for Finance the differences in reporting between the legal owner and the beneficial owner in terms of the mortgage arrears statistics published by the Central Bank when mortgage accounts are incorporated in a securitisation model; if, for example the legal owner is a regulated entity and the beneficial owner is not a regulated entity, the areas of the Central Bank's...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Mortgage Data (31 May 2018)

Michael McGrath: 66. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of Irish mortgages incorporated in a securitisation model; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24188/18]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Mortgage Book Sales (31 May 2018)

Michael McGrath: 67. To ask the Minister for Finance if the mortgage loans sold by a bank (details supplied) were sold using a securitisation model; if legal title moved to an unregulated loan owner; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24189/18]