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Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Budgets (18 Jun 2019)

Paschal Donohoe: Managing the delivery of public services within budgetary allocations is a key responsibility of every Department and Minister. My Department is in regular contact with all other Departments and Offices to ensure that expenditure is being managed within the overall fiscal parameters. The drawdown of funds from the Exchequer is reported on each month against expenditure profiles in the...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Central Bank of Ireland Staff (13 Jun 2019)

Paschal Donohoe: The New Zealand State Services Commissioner is carrying out an investigation into the unauthorised access of New Zealand Budget material and the events surrounding it.  The State Services Commissioner, Peter Hughes, has stated that his office will not be making any comment on the matter until his investigation is concluded and all of the facts have been ascertained.  The...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Departmental Legal Costs (13 Jun 2019)

Paschal Donohoe: Ireland has never accepted the Commission’s analysis in the Apple State aid Decision and is challenging the Commission’s decision before the European Courts. Notwithstanding this, the Irish authorities have engaged fully with the Commission throughout the State aid investigation. This involved a significant degree of legal and technical complexity, and additional expertise has...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Credit Ratings (13 Jun 2019)

Paschal Donohoe: The Central Credit Register (CCR) is established by the Central Bank of Ireland under the Credit Reporting Act 2013 (the Act). Under the Act, lenders are obliged to submit specified personal and credit information on loans to the CCR.  Lenders have been submitting information on consumer mortgages since 30 June 2017. As part of the credit information, the Central Bank has advised...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Property Tax Collection (13 Jun 2019)

Paschal Donohoe: Revenue provides a range of payment and phased payment options that allow property owners to meet their Local Property Tax (LPT) obligations in a manner that best suits individual circumstances. One of the available phased payment options is Deduction at Source (DAS) from various payment schemes operated by the Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection (DEASP). These schemes...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Property Tax Collection (13 Jun 2019)

Paschal Donohoe: Section 38 of the Finance (Local Property Tax Act) 2012 (as amended) provides that property owners who fail to meet their LPT obligations will be subject to a tax-geared surcharge when filing an Income Tax (IT), Corporation Tax (CT) or Capital Gains Tax (CGT) return. The surcharge is set at 10% of the appropriate IT, CT, or CGT liability to a maximum of €63,485 and is in addition to...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: NAMA Operations (13 Jun 2019)

Paschal Donohoe: Section 172(3) of the NAMA Act 2009 is a legal provision that, in broad terms, prevents assets held as security for loans acquired by NAMA from being sold back to defaulting debtors, or persons acting on behalf of defaulting debtors. The provision concerns property transactions (as opposed to loan sales) where a default has occurred under the loan secured by that property. ...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (13 Jun 2019)

Paschal Donohoe: I am advised by Revenue that there are insufficient details provided to allow the provision of a definitive reply to the Deputy’s question. I can say that, in general, pensions received by Irish residents from an Irish source are subject to tax under the PAYE system.  However, the taxation of a German-sourced pension received by persons who are resident in the State is...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Banking Sector Remuneration (13 Jun 2019)

Paschal Donohoe: The Deputy will be aware that Government policy on banking remuneration has remained unchanged since the financial crisis. Extensive restrictions are in place and these are not simply confined to a handful of senior bankers whose pay is restricted by the €500,000 pay cap (excluding a standard pension contribution). These affect c.23,000 workers across the three banks in which the...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Insurance Industry Regulation (13 Jun 2019)

Paschal Donohoe: At the outset, it is important to note that while as Minister for Finance, I am responsible for the development of the legal framework governing financial regulation, my Department does not have a role in the regulation of claims harvesting websites in Ireland nor in the collection of data on the number of these websites.  Allegations of companies engaging in such practices were...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tracker Mortgage Examination (13 Jun 2019)

Paschal Donohoe: The Central Bank currently has a number of ongoing enforcement investigations arising out of the tracker mortgage examination.  These investigations are considering all possible angles, including potential individual culpability.  However the Central Bank has advised that it cannot comment further on any possible investigations into individuals without the risk of prejudicing the...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Central Bank of Ireland Staff (13 Jun 2019)

Paschal Donohoe: I am informed by the Central Bank that it currently has 64 open vacancies across the Bank, at varying stages of the recruitment process. A full breakdown of the number of vacancies in each functional area of the Bank is detailed in Table 1. The number of vacancies in each Pillar as a percentage of that Pillar's complement is detailed in Table 2. The current...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Central Bank of Ireland Data (13 Jun 2019)

Paschal Donohoe: The Deputy will be aware that the Central Bank is independent in the performance of its functions. I have been informed by the Bank that it has updated its public register of Credit Servicing Firms to include details of the 37 persons who met the relevant requirements to avail of the transitional arrangements provided for under Section 34FA(1) of the Central Bank Act, 1997 (i.e. each relevant...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Government Expenditure (13 Jun 2019)

Paschal Donohoe: The permitted rate of spending growth, set by the Commission, for 2019 is approximately 7 per cent. As per the 2019 Stability Programme Update, the overall level of general government expenditure this year is projected to be €85.345 million up from €81.985 million in 2018. My officials are preparing the Summer Economic Statement 2019 which forms the next stage of the budgetary...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: European Central Bank (13 Jun 2019)

Paschal Donohoe: The President of the European Central Bank, Prof. Mario Draghi, is due to step down on 31 October this year. The selection process to appoint a candidate to succeed Mr Draghi will open in the coming months when the President of the Eurogroup will invite nominations for the position. Following receipt of nominations the name(s) will be discussed at Eurogroup and agreed at...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Help-To-Buy Scheme Data (13 Jun 2019)

Paschal Donohoe: I am advised by Revenue that persons considering availing of the Help-to-Buy scheme can make a ‘first stage’ application at any time to determine the level of tax relief they may be entitled to if they decide to proceed with the purchase of an eligible property. The number of ‘first stage’ applicants by county is not recorded. The applications only progress to the...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Civil Service Staff Data (13 Jun 2019)

Paschal Donohoe: The number of civil servants, excluding civil service industrials, (on a full-time equivalents or FTE basis)  employed across the Civil Service in each of the years from 2015 to 2018, and in the first quarter of 2019, the most recent quarter returned, is set out in the following table.   Civil Service employees 2015 2016 2017 2018 Q1 2019 Numbers employed (FTE) 35,032 35,851...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Procurement Contracts (13 Jun 2019)

Paschal Donohoe: The Office of Government Procurement (OGP), on behalf of the Minister for Public Expenditure & Reform, carried out a competitive tender process for the establishment of a Framework Agreement for the provision of External Workplace Investigation Services, available to central government departments and other public bodies. This framework went live in March 2015 and expired in March...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Civil Service Accountability (13 Jun 2019)

Paschal Donohoe: The Civil Service Accountability Board has met four times to date; in Q2 and Q3 2015 and Q2 and Q4 2016.  The minutes of the Board’s meetings and the 2016 Annual Report of the Board are available on the website of the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform at .

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Central Bank of Ireland Staff (12 Jun 2019)

Paschal Donohoe: I propose to take Questions Nos. 84 and 85 together. In my answer to PQ 23886/19, I have set out why it would not be appropriate for me or the Government to comment at this time on the investigation by the New Zealand State Services Commissioner into the unauthorised access of New Zealand Budget material and the events surrounding it.    I understand that...