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Written Answers — Department of Finance: VAT Rate Application (7 Mar 2019)

Pearse Doherty: 75. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 22 of 28 February 2019, if a service charge presented on the bill but voluntary in nature and intended for the staff only would attract VAT; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11301/19]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (7 Mar 2019)

Pearse Doherty: 76. To ask the Minister for Finance if he has examined the disparity between the tax wedge between a PAYE worker and a self-employed person following the near completion of equalisation of tax credits by which the tax wedge related to a PAYE worker earning €40,000 is €4,080 less than that of a self-employed person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fishery Harbour Centres (7 Mar 2019)

Pearse Doherty: 186. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the details of revenue-generating activities at Killybegs Harbour, County Donegal, in 2018 and to date in 2019; the income accrued from each of these activities during the period including from the fees and payments paid by each of the individual harbour users, customers and partners in exchange for harbour services and use of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: National Children's Hospital: Discussion with Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (7 Mar 2019)

Pearse Doherty: I welcome the witnesses to the committee. It is important to say the committee wrote to Mr. Watt three times in February asking him to attend. We welcome his attendance but we also asked specifically for Mr. Paul Quinn to come before the committee. Will Mr. Watt inform the committee why he is not here and why he has not accompanied some of the other officials, given that he was the only...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: National Children's Hospital: Discussion with Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (7 Mar 2019)

Pearse Doherty: I appreciate that. Does Mr. Watt believe the Oireachtas committee has the right to question a senior official within the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform if it makes such a request?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: National Children's Hospital: Discussion with Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (7 Mar 2019)

Pearse Doherty: We appreciate that Mr. Watt is here but it was our collective judgment call as elected members of an Oireachtas committee dealing with finance that Mr. Paul Quinn, the chief procurement officer in the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform, the line Department of this committee, should appear before us. That is why on three separate occasions we asked that he present before us. Mr....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: National Children's Hospital: Discussion with Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (7 Mar 2019)

Pearse Doherty: Given the current cost of the national children's hospital, does Mr. Watt believe it is value for money?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: National Children's Hospital: Discussion with Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (7 Mar 2019)

Pearse Doherty: We all want a national children's hospital. We all want the best facilities, particularly for our children. I have had reasons to attend Temple Street and Crumlin hospitals and I am aware of the condition of those facilities. I do not accept that it is not possible to put a value on the new facility. It is one of the central roles of the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform to do...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: National Children's Hospital: Discussion with Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (7 Mar 2019)

Pearse Doherty: The board adopted the fast-track two-stage tender procurement model. Did the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform have a role in authorising or signing off on that model?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: National Children's Hospital: Discussion with Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (7 Mar 2019)

Pearse Doherty: Does that committee have to consider whether an approach is the appropriate type of approach before it approves such derogations?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: National Children's Hospital: Discussion with Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (7 Mar 2019)

Pearse Doherty: It approved the derogation.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: National Children's Hospital: Discussion with Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (7 Mar 2019)

Pearse Doherty: The committee would have to be satisfied that a particular approach is the best course of action.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: National Children's Hospital: Discussion with Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (7 Mar 2019)

Pearse Doherty: This falls within the remit of the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: National Children's Hospital: Discussion with Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (7 Mar 2019)

Pearse Doherty: Does that come under the remit of the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: National Children's Hospital: Discussion with Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (7 Mar 2019)

Pearse Doherty: Is it only public servants on the forum?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: National Children's Hospital: Discussion with Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (7 Mar 2019)

Pearse Doherty: Would Mr. Watt accept that the approval of that derogation is one of the reasons we are seeing such massive overruns in the national children's hospital?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: National Children's Hospital: Discussion with Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (7 Mar 2019)

Pearse Doherty: Is that not what the two-stage project is about?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: National Children's Hospital: Discussion with Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (7 Mar 2019)

Pearse Doherty: Is it not what the body under the remit of the Department sanctioned?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: National Children's Hospital: Discussion with Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (7 Mar 2019)

Pearse Doherty: When the Government contracts committee for construction met it was aware that that was the model that was being followed, that there would have been significant public moneys spent on the preliminary works and that at a later stage, there would be a second piece of work, which, in theory, the Government could opt out of but, in practice, the developer had the Government over a barrel.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: National Children's Hospital: Discussion with Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (7 Mar 2019)

Pearse Doherty: What due diligence does the committee undertake in terms of the bill of quantities because the bill of quantities was not just a bit out?