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Written Answers — Department of Finance: Departmental Expenditure (4 Dec 2019)

Paschal Donohoe: The amount my Department incurred in respect of photography costs from March 2011 to 2018 and to date in 2019 is set out in the table below. All costs were paid from my Department's voted allocation. There is no specific policy regarding the booking of photographers but the ordinary rules per the public financial procedures apply to such expenditure. Year Supplier ...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Freedom of Information Data (4 Dec 2019)

Paschal Donohoe: As the Deputy may be aware, cause for the denial or release of records under FOI is not always based on a single exemption. Multiple exemptions may well be applied to an individual FOI, each bearing equal validity. I can advise the Deputy that while my Department captures data on the number of requests granted, part granted and refused, my Department does not track statistics on these by...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Programme for Government Implementation (4 Dec 2019)

Paschal Donohoe: In recent years, a range of reforms have been implemented with a view to enhancing Ireland’s budgetary framework. These reforms aim to increase transparency around the budgetary process and facilitate stronger dialogue on key elements of the Budget and on what is being achieved with public funds. Central to this is a ‘whole-of-year’ budgetary framework. Rather than...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Consultation Process (4 Dec 2019)

Paschal Donohoe: The details of the public consultations held by my Department in 2018 and 2019 are set out in the following table. Year Public Consultation Dates Location 2018 Valuing Greenhouse Gas Emissions in the Public Spending Code 6th November 2018 – 14thDecember 2018 Nationwide Department of Public...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Legislative Process (4 Dec 2019)

Paschal Donohoe: My Department currently has one Bill, the Public Sector Standards Bill 2015, awaiting Committee Stage. This Bill had been scheduled for recommencement of Committee Stage in the Dáil on 3 December 2019. However, this has been postponed by the Joint Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach. The Committee informed me on 25 November 2019 that it will be in touch...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Expenditure (4 Dec 2019)

Paschal Donohoe: The information requested by the Deputy is set out in the following table. The engagement of any such service providers by my Department is done in line with procurement policy, with every effort made to minimise costs. My Department does not have a formal policy in relation to engaging photography services, as the majority of such requirements are met internally by the staff of its Press...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Freedom of Information Data (4 Dec 2019)

Paschal Donohoe: The table below sets out the number of Freedom of Information requests received by my Department from 2016 to date. The following table includes information on the number of requests that were refused, the number of requests that were partially granted, the number of appeals (Internal Reviews), the number of such appeals upheld and the number of appeals whereby the decision to release...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Pensions Reform (3 Dec 2019)

Paschal Donohoe: The Deputy may be aware that the Government published A Roadmap for Pensions Reform 2018 – 2023 in February 2018, which contains in Strand 3, “Improving Governance and Regulation”, a plan for a broad review of the utilisation and regulation of the ARF option. This review has been conducted by the Interdepartmental Pensions Reform and Taxation Group (IDPRTG), which is...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Central Bank of Ireland Supervision (3 Dec 2019)

Paschal Donohoe: Within the remit of the Central Bank of Ireland’s (the Central Bank) responsibilities for safeguarding stability and protecting consumers, its approach to mortgage arrears resolution is focused on ensuring the fair treatment of borrowers through a strong consumer protection framework and ensuring that regulated entities have appropriate arrears resolution strategies and operations in...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Vehicle Registration (3 Dec 2019)

Paschal Donohoe: To register an imported used car, a person must produce the ‘foreign registration certificate’ or ‘certificate of de-registration’ as issued by the relevant registration authority in the ‘exporting’ State. The procedures for registering an imported used car and the documents required are clearly set out on Revenue’s website at and the NCTS...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Data (3 Dec 2019)

Paschal Donohoe: I am advised by Revenue that prior to 2018, tax returns did not identify Flat Rate Expenses (FREs) separately from other expense items. Therefore, the detailed breakdown of claimants sought by the Deputy is not available at this time. For 2017 the estimated total number of taxpayer units who availed of FRE allowances was 606,570 with gross claims of €163 million equating to a tax cost...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Exchequer Revenue (3 Dec 2019)

Paschal Donohoe: My Department's latest forecasts, contained inBudget 2020 Economic & Fiscal Outlook, project Exchequer revenue and expenditure over the years 2020 to 2024 inclusive. Budget 2020 was underpinned by the assumption of a disorderly Brexit. As such, due to the operation of automatic stabilisers, the impact of Brexit contingency expenditure and other factors, the Exchequer is projected to...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (3 Dec 2019)

Paschal Donohoe: Over the past 18 months, Revenue has been conducting a comprehensive review of the administratively based Flat Rate Expenses (FRE) regime. Revenue has advised me that the purpose of the FRE review, which involved engagement with relevant representative bodies, is to ensure that the expenses granted to each employment category remain justified and appropriate to modern day employments and...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Financial Services Regulation (3 Dec 2019)

Paschal Donohoe: I am advised by the Central Bank that OHA (UK) LLP is an Alternative Investment Fund Manager authorised by the Financial Conduct Authority in the UK providing services & activities in Ireland on a cross-border basis in accordance with the provisions of the European Union (Alternative Investment Fund Managers) Regulations 2013. As an authorised Alternative Investment Fund Manager, OHA...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Departmental Reports (3 Dec 2019)

Paschal Donohoe: The Deputy will find the information requested in relation to external consultant reports commissioned by my Department in each of the years March 2011 to 2018 and to date in 2019 in the table attached in the following link. ">Response

Written Answers — Department of Finance: VAT Payments (3 Dec 2019)

Paschal Donohoe: I propose to take Questions Nos. 128 to 130, inclusive, and 145 together. I have previously outlined the rationale for the changes I have made to the VAT Retail Export Scheme in the Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union (Consequential Provisions) Act 2019(the Brexit Act). This scheme enables visitors that are resident outside the EU to benefit from VAT relief on goods...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Exchequer Returns (3 Dec 2019)

Paschal Donohoe: I propose to take Questions Nos. 131, 132, 134 and 135 together. The Government decided in September that Budget 2020would be based on the assumption of a disorderly Brexit at end-October. Given the information available at the time this was the safest and most appropriate option to take. Since I published Budget 2020, the risk of the UK departing the EU this year without a deal has been...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Fiscal Data (3 Dec 2019)

Paschal Donohoe: As the Deputy is aware the Department of Finance's macro-economic and fiscal projections currently cover the period to 2024. These set out that general government gross fixed capital formation will be c.2.5 per cent of GDP. Using the more appropriate measure of the Irish economy, this is equivalent to an average of 4.4 per cent of modified GNI (GNI*). The nominal amounts equivalent to 3 per...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: General Government Debt (3 Dec 2019)

Paschal Donohoe: My Department's latest forecasts, published in Budget 2020 Economic & Fiscal Outlook, project the cost of general government borrowing in each of the years 2020 to 2024. These costs are outlined in nominal terms in table 12 and the average interest rate is given in table 14. Forecasts for 2025 are not yet available. I have set out both in the following link for your convenience. ...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Banking Sector (3 Dec 2019)

Paschal Donohoe: As the Deputy is aware, my Department in conjunction with the Department of Rural and Community Development, issued a report on Local Public Banking in Ireland last year. The report concluded that there is not a compelling case for the State to establish a new local public banking system based on the German Sparkassen model in Ireland. However, a commitment was given in the report that...