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Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Properties (2 Dec 2015)

Michael McGrath: 134. To ask the Minister for Health his commitment to maintaining health administration services in a town (details supplied) in County Meath. [43167/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Properties (2 Dec 2015)

Michael McGrath: 135. To ask the Minister for Health the departments of the Health Service Executive administration health business services that will relocate from a town (details supplied) in County Meath; the reason; the level of staff consultation that has or will take place; the criteria that have been used in the selection process; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43168/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Properties (2 Dec 2015)

Michael McGrath: 136. To ask the Minister for Health if the Health Service Executive has considered replacement posts or a replacement unit for the staff, where it has been proposed to relocate an administrative unit of the executive from a town (details supplied) in County Meath; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43169/15]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Forthcoming ECOFIN Council: Minister for Finance (1 Dec 2015)

Michael McGrath: I welcome the Minister and his officials. It is good to have an update on the November ECOFIN and an overview of the agenda for the meeting next week. The Minister referred to the European deposit insurance scheme as the final piece of the banking union jigsaw, its function being to ensure savings are equally protected in all member states. Will he clarify where that scheme stands today?...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Forthcoming ECOFIN Council: Minister for Finance (1 Dec 2015)

Michael McGrath: When is it expected to be in place across the European Union?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Forthcoming ECOFIN Council: Minister for Finance (1 Dec 2015)

Michael McGrath: I thank the Minister for outlining the transitional arrangements. He referred in his opening statement to last-resort bridge financing in the context of the Single Resolution Fund. The Minister stated, "Ireland's credit line will be an amount of €1.815 billion and represents 3.3% of the overall credit lines of participating member states". Will he clarify whether that is money we...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Forthcoming ECOFIN Council: Minister for Finance (1 Dec 2015)

Michael McGrath: The Minister has made clear on several occasions that the Government's position on a financial transaction tax, FTT, is that we will not seek to prevent other countries from participating but we do not propose that Ireland participate at this stage. It is a position we support. The Minister said there will be a state of play discussion on the FTT at the ECOFIN meeting. How many countries...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Forthcoming ECOFIN Council: Minister for Finance (1 Dec 2015)

Michael McGrath: Are 11 countries involved?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Forthcoming ECOFIN Council: Minister for Finance (1 Dec 2015)

Michael McGrath: In regard to the Common Consolidated Corporate Tax Base, CCCTB, which has been around a long time, the Minister states: "Ministers will be provided with an update by the Luxembourg Presidency on the current state of play of this dossier. We have yet to see the exact details of the re-launched CCCTB proposal." Is there an emerging shape to those proposals? Are they materially different from...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Forthcoming ECOFIN Council: Minister for Finance (1 Dec 2015)

Michael McGrath: I refer to the relationship between BEPS and CCCTB. Some of the original proposals from CCCTB involve a redistribution of where profits would be taxable and that the redistribution among countries would be based on their market share in that country, the employee headcount, where the turnover was generated, so it would strike me as a potential threat to Ireland, given that we are boxing well...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Deployment (1 Dec 2015)

Michael McGrath: 67. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of gardaí and Garda Síochána stations in the Togher district in the Cork city Garda division on 1 November 2010 and on 1 November 2015; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42412/15]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Operations (1 Dec 2015)

Michael McGrath: 109. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the additional resources that will be made available to An Garda Síochána in the Togher district in the Cork city Garda Síochána division under Operation Thor; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42411/15]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (1 Dec 2015)

Michael McGrath: 193. To ask the Minister for Finance the tax arrangements that apply in the scenario outlined in correspondence (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42349/15]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Collection (1 Dec 2015)

Michael McGrath: 194. To ask the Minister for Finance the approach and steps taken by the Revenue Commissioners in pursuing a person for outstanding taxes where the person's business has failed and the person concerned is now dependent on basic social protection; how such a matter is finalised; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42451/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Services for People with Disabilities (1 Dec 2015)

Michael McGrath: 393. To ask the Minister for Health the Health Service Executive's policy regarding paying the transport costs of a person with a disability who is attending adult day services with various service providers in Cork city and county; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42330/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (1 Dec 2015)

Michael McGrath: 394. To ask the Minister for Health if he will arrange for the Health Service Executive to address a matter raised in correspondence (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42332/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes Support Scheme Eligibility (1 Dec 2015)

Michael McGrath: 402. To ask the Minister for Health where an applicant has a joint bank account with a niece or nephew, if the full balance or half the balance will be taken into account in the assessment of financial means under the nursing home support scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42449/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Care Professionals (1 Dec 2015)

Michael McGrath: 426. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to prescribe the title of physical therapist as a variant of the specified title of physiotherapist after an appropriate lead-in time; if he is aware that this proposal has been recommended by the State Regulator and the Physiotherapists Registration Board and that it is also supported by the Irish Society of Chartered Physiotherapists; and if he...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Help Service Appeals (1 Dec 2015)

Michael McGrath: 466. To ask the Minister for Health when a decision on an appeal under the home care package scheme by a person (details supplied) in County Cork will be made. [42942/15]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Emergency Works Scheme Eligibility (1 Dec 2015)

Michael McGrath: 494. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will revisit her decision to refuse funding for essential emergency works to a national school (details supplied) in Cork city; the appropriate funding scheme for such works; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42315/15]