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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Sector in Ireland (Resumed): Ulster Bank (5 Oct 2017)

Michael McGrath: Is that the bank's policy or is it the regulatory position?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Sector in Ireland (Resumed): Ulster Bank (5 Oct 2017)

Michael McGrath: Yes, but is the policy that the property being mortgaged must be in the Six Counties?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Sector in Ireland (Resumed): Ulster Bank (5 Oct 2017)

Michael McGrath: Yes, in the North.

Leaders' Questions (4 Oct 2017)

Michael McGrath: There is a coalition on the way.

Leaders' Questions (4 Oct 2017)

Michael McGrath: This is a love-in.

Leaders' Questions (4 Oct 2017)

Michael McGrath: Nobody ever claimed that.

Topical Issue Debate: School Accommodation Provision (3 Oct 2017)

Michael McGrath: I thank the Minister for his reply. He acknowledges in it that we are looking at another school year in 2018 and 2019 where the school will be in temporary accommodation. That will be the sixth year in some children's primary school lives in this school in temporary accommodation. I do not know how long it takes to purchase a site after the price has been agreed but will the Minister...

Topical Issue Debate: School Accommodation Provision (3 Oct 2017)

Michael McGrath: I am glad the Minister is here to take this debate. The school in question is Rochestown Educate Together national school in Rochestown, County Cork. It is a fabulous school and under the leadership of Alan Sheehan and his team, the staff are doing a wonderful job in incredibly difficult circumstances. This school opened in 2013 and now had 208 pupils but is across a split campus. One...

Order of Business (3 Oct 2017)

Michael McGrath: The Ceann Comhairle can take his pick.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Taxation Agreements: Motions (3 Oct 2017)

Michael McGrath: I understand that the United Kingdom has a much more extensive network of double taxation agreements in place. It has agreements with approximately 130 countries while we are at 73. Can the Minister of State put this in context for us? Can he explain if there are historical reasons the UK has a much more extensive network than us?

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Taxation Agreements: Motions (3 Oct 2017)

Michael McGrath: A bigger economic footprint.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Taxation Agreements: Motions (3 Oct 2017)

Michael McGrath: The Minister of State also mentioned in his remarks that Ireland has concluded negotiations with the Netherlands. Is that the renegotiation of an existing treaty?

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Taxation Agreements: Motions (3 Oct 2017)

Michael McGrath: It was just a matter of bringing that up to date, then. Do similar issues apply to DTAs that we have agreed with other EU countries? Are we also in the process of updating these?

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Taxation Agreements: Motions (3 Oct 2017)

Michael McGrath: Do we have agreements with all of the EU countries?

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Taxation Agreements: Motions (3 Oct 2017)

Michael McGrath: What are the top countries that Ireland is targeting? The Minister of State has mentioned South Africa.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Taxation Agreements: Motions (3 Oct 2017)

Michael McGrath: What are the countries we do significant trade with but without an agreement? Where are the obvious gaps? I mean countries with which we do a lot of trade without the benefit of a double taxation agreement.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Taxation Agreements: Motions (3 Oct 2017)

Michael McGrath: Do we have agreements in South America?

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Taxation Agreements: Motions (3 Oct 2017)

Michael McGrath: In terms of Brexit, we have an agreement with the UK that is neutral in terms of its membership or not of the European Union. Is there potential for Brexit to create issues?

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Financial Services Regulation (3 Oct 2017)

Michael McGrath: 103. To ask the Minister for Finance the detail of the Central Bank inquiry into a building society (details supplied) currently under way; the work that has been done to date; the costs incurred to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41281/17]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Help-To-Buy Scheme Assessment (3 Oct 2017)

Michael McGrath: 104. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will address a query raised in correspondence by a person (details supplied) in County Cork regarding the help-to-buy scheme. [41315/17]