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Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon - Annual Accounts 2011 (7 Nov 2013)

Eoghan Murphy: Each is operating in different markets.

Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon - Annual Accounts 2011 (7 Nov 2013)

Eoghan Murphy: The other area I wanted to touch on briefly was the pension issue. Has that been discussed?

Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon - Annual Accounts 2011 (7 Nov 2013)

Eoghan Murphy: Can we request a copy of the report to the Department on how the board managed the pension liability? The witnesses' statement indicated that the board submitted an independent report to the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine outlining a number of options to resolve the deficit in the pension scheme. Would it be possible to get a copy of that report?

Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon - Annual Accounts 2011 (7 Nov 2013)

Eoghan Murphy: The witnesses' statement indicates that €3.337 million of the increased contingent liability is as a result of changes in actuarial assumptions on risks associated with the scheme. Was that discussed?

Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon - Annual Accounts 2011 (7 Nov 2013)

Eoghan Murphy: What were those risks or what was the change?

Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon - Annual Accounts 2011 (7 Nov 2013)

Eoghan Murphy: Okay. I apologise for going into this now when it has been discussed.

Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon - Annual Accounts 2011 (7 Nov 2013)

Eoghan Murphy: Thank you, Chairman.

Finance (No. 2) Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (7 Nov 2013)

Eoghan Murphy: I welcome the Bill and most of the measures contained therein. I was someone who advocated before the budget a greater correction than €2.5 billion and I still hold that view. It is not about wanting austerity. When one asks what is austerity in the current climate, it is a balanced budget. It is responsible budgeting, and that is what we are trying to move towards. Commentators...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Nov 2013)

Eoghan Murphy: Deputy Simon Harris is correct in regard to the need to follow local government expenditure, but I thought we had already addressed this issue. We met in private session at one stage because we attempted to see a change in the legislation, but that change was not forthcoming. The idea was that we would either do our work as a sub-committee investigating local spending or that there would be...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Nov 2013)

Eoghan Murphy: Was a new practice not meant to be implemented on foot of the dialogue between the Comptroller and Auditor General and the local government auditor?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Nov 2013)

Eoghan Murphy: Effectively, Deputy Sean Fleming’s proposal is that if information requested from a Secretary General is not presented within ten days, he or she will be back before the committee in three weeks.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Nov 2013)

Eoghan Murphy: That is fair.

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: City Bikes Scheme (7 Nov 2013)

Eoghan Murphy: 21. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide an update on the extension of the city bikes schemes to other cities outside Dublin. [46969/13]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: The Gathering Initiatives (7 Nov 2013)

Eoghan Murphy: 28. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the work his Department and the agencies under his aegis are carrying out in relation to building on the legacy of The Gathering. [46968/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (5 Nov 2013)

Eoghan Murphy: 134. To ask the Minister for Finance the reason a self-employed person pays more income tax than a PAYE earner when the Government is trying to incentivise entrepreneurial activity. [46000/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (5 Nov 2013)

Eoghan Murphy: 135. To ask the Minister for Finance if he is considering making a distinction in the capital gains tax regime to incentivise entrepreneurial activity by way of returns to investors versus returns from investment in non-productive speculative activity. [46001/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (5 Nov 2013)

Eoghan Murphy: 137. To ask the Minister for Finance the way planned changes to the capital gains tax regime for 2014 in terms of entrepreneurial relief are to be monitored over the course of 2014 in terms of their effectiveness. [46003/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (5 Nov 2013)

Eoghan Murphy: 136. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on whether that the EIIS is too complicated and if he will provide an update on the changes that are planned to improve take-up of this scheme in 2014 and the way their effectiveness is to be measured throughout the year. [46002/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (5 Nov 2013)

Eoghan Murphy: 138. To ask the Minister for Finance if he has considered adapting the EIIS to make it more competitive similar to the EIS scheme in the UK. [46004/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Budget Measures (5 Nov 2013)

Eoghan Murphy: 178. To ask the Minister for Finance if his Department conducts modelling to forecast the way potential increases in a person's disposable income might be distributed within the economy in the present climate; for example if €4 billion was to be realised in the wider economy by way of abolition of the USC, the way this might impact upon the economy in terms of the percentage going into...