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Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Commercial Rates Valuation Process (30 Jun 2015)

John McGuinness: 277. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if any working group or other such committee was put in place in respect of the valuation process for wind energy plants. [26174/15]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Commercial Rates Valuation Process (30 Jun 2015)

John McGuinness: 278. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the engagement between his Department, the Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources and the Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government and their counterparts in Northern Ireland and Scotland regarding the valuation process for wind energy plants. [26175/15]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Commercial Rates (30 Jun 2015)

John McGuinness: 279. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will confirm that, assuming the tripling of rates for wind farms now proposed in County Limerick is repeated across Ireland, the total rates bill for wind farms would exceed total support payments received by wind farms by some 50%, supports which have been approved by the European Commission under state aid rules (details...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Commercial Rates (30 Jun 2015)

John McGuinness: 280. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if a comprehensive cost benefit analysis was carried out weighing the risk of a failure to achieve the State's binding targets on renewables by 2020 against the additional revenue to be gained by the increased rates for wind farms. [26177/15]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Commercial Rates (30 Jun 2015)

John McGuinness: 281. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if the Valuations Office or the Government has assessed the potential liability and exposure under European Union law, including under state aid rules, of discrimination against renewable energy plants through affording more favourable treatment to fossil fuel plants, thereby distorting the market. [26178/15]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Commercial Rates Calculations (30 Jun 2015)

John McGuinness: 282. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will confirm that the revaluation method for commercial rates for wind farms as applied in County Limerick, namely revenue and expenditure, is different from the method used for the commercial rates for generating stations using fossil fuels, contractor's method; that this change arose only after the submission of...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Commercial Rates Calculations (30 Jun 2015)

John McGuinness: 283. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide the detailed basis, market information and specific assumptions used in the revaluation of wind farms; if he will recommend that the Government legislate for the application of a 50% state of industry allowance to at least partly offset these disparities (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Commercial Rates Calculations (30 Jun 2015)

John McGuinness: 284. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide the actual basis used to establish the theoretical rent applied to wind farms, and the providence of the quotation. [26181/15]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Commercial Rates Calculations (30 Jun 2015)

John McGuinness: 285. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will confirm that the figure taken for the long-term revenue of a plant has been adjusted to the market price when the renewable energy feed in tariff programme lapses after 15 years. [26182/15]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Milk Quota (30 Jun 2015)

John McGuinness: 335. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of a court judgment and payment due in the case of persons (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will provide a comprehensive outline of his position on the matter. [26360/15]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Residential Institutions Statutory Fund Board (30 Jun 2015)

John McGuinness: 570. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the oversight arrangements in place in her Department relative to the funds being administered by Caranua; if her Department insists on a monthly report on the operations of the organisation; the number employed by Caranua; the cost of administration of Caranua for each year since its establishment; the level of financial assistance granted in...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Inland Fisheries (30 Jun 2015)

John McGuinness: 648. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources his plans to introduce a compensation package for licensed eel fishermen and dealers; if he has had any meetings with representatives of this group of fishermen; if so, if he will outline their concerns and his response; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25687/15]

Public Accounts Committee (25 Jun 2015)

John McGuinness: The committee met in private session until 11.10 a.m.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 Jun 2015)

John McGuinness: No matters arise from the minutes of the last meeting. We will proceed to correspondence from our meeting of 18 June 2015. No. 3A, correspondence from Accounting Officers and their Ministers and correspondence from Ms Niamh O'Donoghue, Secretary General of the Department of Social Protection, which is a follow-up from the Committee of Public Accounts meeting of 28 May 2015, is to be noted...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 Jun 2015)

John McGuinness: How does that €54 million stand in relation to Mr. McCarthy's audit?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 Jun 2015)

John McGuinness: Is there a suggestion that the foundation should be part of the university accounts?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 Jun 2015)

John McGuinness: Who is the Accounting Officer in the university?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 Jun 2015)

John McGuinness: The president of the university, being the Accounting Officer, can appear before the Committee of Public Accounts.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 Jun 2015)

John McGuinness: Is the National University of Ireland to appear before us in relation to other matters?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 Jun 2015)

John McGuinness: Then we can take this up with the HEA first.