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Written Answers — Department of Finance: Mortgage Book Sales (19 Feb 2019)

Paschal Donohoe: As the Deputy may be aware, PTSB transacted two loan sales in 2018 as follows: 1.Project Glas in July; and 2.Project Glenbeigh in November In the case of Project Glas, the portfolio of loans was sold to Start Mortgages. For Project Glenbeigh, PTSB confirmed that Pepper would take over servicing of loans within six months of the transaction being announced. It is important to highlight that...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Property Tax Exemptions (19 Feb 2019)

Paschal Donohoe: The legislation governing the administration of Local Property Tax (LPT) provides for a limited number of exemptions from LPT. There is no specific exemption for properties affected by Mica and there are no plans to introduce such an exemption. LPT operates on a self-assessment basis and it is a matter for the property owner in the first instance to file an LPT Return, if they have not...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Appeals Commission (19 Feb 2019)

Paschal Donohoe: As the Deputy is aware, the independent review of the Tax Appeals Commission (TAC) makes a number of recommendations which I support in full. Progress has been made on implementing these recommendations since the publication of the review on Budget Day last year. Proposed legislation was submitted before Cabinet today (19 February) for approval. This legislation will provide for the...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Exemptions (19 Feb 2019)

Paschal Donohoe: I propose to take Questions Nos. 160 to 162, inclusive, together. The 2006 and 2007 Finance Acts introduced, with effect from 1 January 2007, measures to limit the use of certain tax reliefs and exemptions (known as “specified reliefs”) by high-income individuals who, by means of the cumulative use of various tax incentives, had in previous years the potential to...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: VAT Rate Application (19 Feb 2019)

Paschal Donohoe: Where a retailer is in a situation of net VAT gain as a result of below cost selling, this is not a loss to the Exchequer or an additional benefit to the retailer, it is merely how VAT is charged. VAT is a tax on the value added to a supply, and the collection and recovery of VAT takes place at each stage of the chain of supply from manufacturing to retailer. Under EU and domestic VAT...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Consultancy Contracts Expenditure (19 Feb 2019)

Paschal Donohoe: I can confirm that my Department has had no contracts with a value in excess of €10 million or more between 2016 up to and including today's date.

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Revenue Commissioners Enforcement Activity (19 Feb 2019)

Paschal Donohoe: I propose to take Questions Nos. 165, 167 and 168 together. I am advised by Revenue that cash is seized by them, in accordance with the Criminal Justice Act 1994, as amended by the Proceeds of Crime (Amendment) Act 2005, if it is believed to be from the proceeds of crime. The following tables detail the amounts of cash seized from passengers entering or leaving the State through the...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Banking Sector Recruitment (19 Feb 2019)

Paschal Donohoe: As the Deputy will be aware, a Relationship Framework has been specified that defines the nature of the relationship between the Minister for Finance and AIB. These Frameworks were first published on 30 March 2012 and the latest AIB Relationship Framework can be found at; . On 19 December 2018, under the terms of the framework agreement, AIB submitted a consultation letter to the Minister in...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Pension Provisions (19 Feb 2019)

Paschal Donohoe: The public service pension increase policy that is currently in place in respect of pre-existing public service pension schemes represents a time-limited (expires end-2020), conditions-bound return to the non-statutory, pay-linked method of pension adjustment which prevailed until the onset of the financial emergency. Pay increases agreed as part of the Public Service Stability Agreement...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Properties (19 Feb 2019)

Paschal Donohoe: The Taoiseach hosted some staff and friends for Christmas drinks that evening. There are agreed procedures regarding the use of Stewards Lodge by Taoisigh. No costs were incurred by the Office of Public Works or by the Department of the Taoiseach with regard to the use of Stewards Lodge on the date in question.

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Forensic Science Ireland Laboratory (19 Feb 2019)

Paschal Donohoe: I propose to take Questions Nos. 171 to 173, inclusive, together. The Office of Public Works (OPW) is managing the delivery of the new Forensic Science Laboratory at the Backweston Campus, Co. Kildare. The Deputy should be aware that enabling works for the laboratory commenced in October 2017 and have now been completed. This was at a total cost of €2,849,006, including VAT. ...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: National Children's Hospital Expenditure (19 Feb 2019)

Paschal Donohoe: In my role as Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform I am responsible for setting the overall capital allocations across Departments and for monitoring monthly expenditure at a Departmental level. Responsibility for the management of individual projects rests with the relevant sponsoring Department or Agency. Government has agreed to reallocate €75 million, from within the...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Flood Relief Schemes Funding (19 Feb 2019)

Paschal Donohoe: Construction of the River Mall (Templemore) Flood Relief Scheme is currently ongoing. To date, approximately 35% of the works have been completed, which include 450 m of new channel excavation, 4 field bridges completed at various locations with another bridge substantially complete, and demolition and site clearance of a commercial property on the Richmond Road. Liaison is ongoing with...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: National Lottery Funding Disbursement (19 Feb 2019)

Paschal Donohoe: In accordance the National Lottery Act 2013, the following sectoral areas are funded under the Good Cause provision of the Act: a) sport and recreation; b) national culture and heritage (including the Irish language); c) health of the community; d) youth, welfare and amenities; f) natural environment; The Act also provides that the proceeds may be applied to such other purposes, if any, as...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Budgets (19 Feb 2019)

Paschal Donohoe: My Government colleagues and I have examined all projects and programmes across government in order to meet the funding pressures accruing on the National Children’s Hospital project. This has allowed us to reschedule €75 million from projects such as in the case of the A5 Motorway in Northern Ireland, which is paused due to external issues; and to re-profile the delivery of...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Community Employment Schemes Supervisors (19 Feb 2019)

Paschal Donohoe: As Deputies will be aware this issue relates to a claim by community employment supervisors and assistant supervisors who have been seeking, through their union representatives, the allocation of Exchequer funding to implement a 2008 Labour Court recommendation relating to the provision of a pension scheme. The matter was the subject of discussion at the Community Sector High Level Forum...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Meetings (19 Feb 2019)

Paschal Donohoe: I have taken the Deputy’s question as referring to designated public officials as defined under the Regulation of Lobbying Act, 2015 – in other words, to include both myself as well as designated public officials within my Department. As the Deputy would expect, the National Broadband Plan (NBP) has been the subject of ongoing engagement with the Department of...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Decentralisation Programme (19 Feb 2019)

Paschal Donohoe: As the Deputy will be aware, the Decentralisation Programme announced in December 2003 involved the potential relocation of over 10,000 civil and public service jobs to 53 locations in 25 counties. It was a Government decision in 2011 that the Decentralisation Programme be cancelled in light of the budgetary and staffing outlook at that time. Up to that date, about a third of the target...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: State Pensions (19 Feb 2019)

Paschal Donohoe: Professional added year's schemes, in both the Civil Service and State-Sponsored Bodies, apply to pensionable employees appointed to a professional, technical or specialist post where the essential requirements specified in the competition (e.g. qualifications/experience/minimum entry age) result in all candidates from the competition being over the age of 25 on appointment. 1. Professional...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Nursing Staff Remuneration (19 Feb 2019)

Paschal Donohoe: The indicative estimates of the net additional costs associated with Labour Court Recommendation LCR 21900 are as follows: 2019: €10m - €15m 2020: €30m - €35m These estimates include the cost of the potential movement of staff to the new Enhanced Nursing Practice salary scale and other elements of the Recommendation such as the extension of the...