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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...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Mortgage Lending (12 Jun 2019)

Paschal Donohoe: For the purposes of the Central Bank residential mortgage lending rules, a first time buyer is defined as a borrower to whom no housing loan has ever before been advanced. Where the borrower under a housing loan is more than one person and one or more of those persons has previously been advanced a housing loan, none of those persons is a first-time buyer. However, the Central Bank also...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Mortgage Data (12 Jun 2019)

Paschal Donohoe: I have been advised by the Central Bank of Ireland that their quarterly Residential Mortgage Arrears and Repossessions Statistics only includes data on residential mortgages secured on property on Ireland. Loans for commercial purposes would not be included in the statistics.

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Vehicle Registration (12 Jun 2019)

Paschal Donohoe: I am advised by Revenue that contrary to the position as conveyed to the Deputy, the person concerned was not in possession of nor had he applied for an exemption from Vehicle Registration Tax (VRT) when the vehicle concerned was seized by Revenue in February 2017. In June 2017 Revenue wrote to the individual outlining the release terms for the vehicle which included the condition...

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

Paschal Donohoe: I propose to take Questions Nos. 89 and 90 together. As the Deputy will be aware, the Consumer Protection (Regulation of Credit Servicing Firms) Act 2018 was enacted on 24 December 2018 and commenced on 21 January 2019 and amended Part V of the Central Bank Act 1997 to expand the activity of credit servicing to include holding the legal title to credit granted under a credit agreement and...

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

Paschal Donohoe: It was not possible for the Central Bank of Ireland to provide the information sought in the time available and, therefore, I will make arrangements to provide the information to the Deputy in line with Standing Orders.

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Construction Industry (12 Jun 2019)

Paschal Donohoe: My Department has not undertaken analysis of this nature, and I am not aware of any such analysis by either the Central Bank or the National Treasury Management Agency. My Department’s assessments of the principal economic and fiscal risks are set out twice yearly in Stability Programme Update in April and in the Budget Economic and Fiscal Outlook in October each year. It is not...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Staff Recruitment (12 Jun 2019)

Paschal Donohoe: As the Deputy will be aware, the Public Appointments Service (PAS) is an independent, statutory body which provides professional recruitment and selection services to the civil service.   The Temporary Clerical Officer (TCO) competition for 2019 is currently underway and candidates are assigned as and when vacancies are notified to PAS.  The number of positions available to any...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Staff Redeployment (12 Jun 2019)

Paschal Donohoe: I am reading this question as referring to moves under the redeployment scheme. As the Deputy will be aware, the various Public Service Agreements (PSAs) provide for agreed redeployment arrangements to apply in the civil service and in other parts of the public service. Redeployment is primarily a mechanism for the transfer of surplus staff to areas where appropriate vacancies exist....