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Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (20 Mar 2018)

Pat Deering: 589. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will have cancelled surgery in St. Vincent's University Hospital rescheduled. [12519/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Contracts (20 Mar 2018)

Pat Deering: 609. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding general practitioners charging a person (details supplied) for blood tests. [12581/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Tax Code (20 Mar 2018)

Pat Deering: 1055. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to introduce an incentive, tax or other, for persons to downsize their homes (details supplied). [12662/18]

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 8: Central Government Funding of Local Authorities
Local Government Fund Financial Statement 2016
Special Report No. 97 of the Comptroller and Auditor General on the Administration and Collection of Motor Taxes (8 Mar 2018)

Pat Deering: I welcome the witnesses and compliment them on the work in the past week. I want to focus on the local property tax and how it is distributed to local government. I welcome Mr. John McCarthy's repeated reference to fairness and that a review of the distribution process would proceed. Will he describe how the model for the distribution of local property tax was developed in the first place?

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 8: Central Government Funding of Local Authorities
Local Government Fund Financial Statement 2016
Special Report No. 97 of the Comptroller and Auditor General on the Administration and Collection of Motor Taxes (8 Mar 2018)

Pat Deering: Yes. How was the model for the distribution of funding developed?

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 8: Central Government Funding of Local Authorities
Local Government Fund Financial Statement 2016
Special Report No. 97 of the Comptroller and Auditor General on the Administration and Collection of Motor Taxes (8 Mar 2018)

Pat Deering: I am not sure Mr. McCarthy is getting my question. I want to know exactly what model is used to distribute the money. I will give an example. I am from Carlow. The argument is made time and time again that Carlow is treated very unfairly. Carlow has a budget of €49 million and a population of 56,000. By comparison, Monaghan has a population of approximately 57,000 or 58,000....

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 8: Central Government Funding of Local Authorities
Local Government Fund Financial Statement 2016
Special Report No. 97 of the Comptroller and Auditor General on the Administration and Collection of Motor Taxes (8 Mar 2018)

Pat Deering: However, it is obvious that they are worse off.

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 8: Central Government Funding of Local Authorities
Local Government Fund Financial Statement 2016
Special Report No. 97 of the Comptroller and Auditor General on the Administration and Collection of Motor Taxes (8 Mar 2018)

Pat Deering: Mr. McCarthy also mentioned earlier that his Department is reviewing the system of distribution. In order to make it fairer and more transparent, which I think everybody has mentioned previously, what models are being considered? The officials are probably limited as to what they can tell us but I am sure indicate the models that are being investigated.

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 8: Central Government Funding of Local Authorities
Local Government Fund Financial Statement 2016
Special Report No. 97 of the Comptroller and Auditor General on the Administration and Collection of Motor Taxes (8 Mar 2018)

Pat Deering: Regarding the commercial rates, the biggest mistake was made in 1977 - over 40 years ago now - when domestic rates were abolished. That was a political decision, I suppose, and local authorities have never recovered. It is important that there is a broader based way of getting funding. As regards commercial rates, I do not mean to be parochial but, for example, the biggest employer in...

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 8: Central Government Funding of Local Authorities
Local Government Fund Financial Statement 2016
Special Report No. 97 of the Comptroller and Auditor General on the Administration and Collection of Motor Taxes (8 Mar 2018)

Pat Deering: In the context of roads, a number of different schemes were in place a couple of years ago for which local authorities, in conjunction with the Department, were responsible. There was the local improvement scheme, LIS, and the community involvement scheme, CIS, for example, which had to do with local third-party roads. Would they have been coming out of the main budget initially?

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 8: Central Government Funding of Local Authorities
Local Government Fund Financial Statement 2016
Special Report No. 97 of the Comptroller and Auditor General on the Administration and Collection of Motor Taxes (8 Mar 2018)

Pat Deering: Did the funding come out of their budgets initially prior to 2018? Was there provision made that a percentage could be taken out of their budgets?

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 8: Central Government Funding of Local Authorities
Local Government Fund Financial Statement 2016
Special Report No. 97 of the Comptroller and Auditor General on the Administration and Collection of Motor Taxes (8 Mar 2018)

Pat Deering: Was there initially a budget for those schemes coming out of the main roads allocation budget?

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals Status (8 Mar 2018)

Pat Deering: 548. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a person (details supplied) can expect a decision regarding their survivor's pension appeal. [10888/18]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Business of Joint Committee (6 Mar 2018)

Pat Deering: We are in public session. I remind members to make sure that their mobile phones are turned off. I propose that we go into private session to deal with some housekeeping matters before returning to public session.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Business of Joint Committee (6 Mar 2018)

Pat Deering: I remind members to ensure their mobile phones are turned off completely. I propose we go into private session to deal with some housekeeping matters before commencing in public session. Is that agreed? Agreed.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Climate Change Issues specific to Agriculture, Food and the Marine Sectors: Discussion (Resumed) (6 Mar 2018)

Pat Deering: We are in public session. I remind members, those in the Public Gallery and witnesses to make sure that their mobile phones are completely turned off as the signal affects the communications systems here. We are here to discuss climate change issues specific to agriculture, food and the marine. I welcome, from the Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, Dr. Matthew Crowe, director of the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Climate Change Issues specific to Agriculture, Food and the Marine Sectors: Discussion (Resumed) (6 Mar 2018)

Pat Deering: Thank you, Dr. Crowe. Mr. Coghlan and Ms Gumbo are sharing time. I invite Mr. Coghlan to make his presentation.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Climate Change Issues specific to Agriculture, Food and the Marine Sectors: Discussion (Resumed) (6 Mar 2018)

Pat Deering: I now call Mr. Ewing who is co-ordinator for the Environmental Pillar.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Climate Change Issues specific to Agriculture, Food and the Marine Sectors: Discussion (Resumed) (6 Mar 2018)

Pat Deering: I am sure Mr. Ewing will be an adequate substitute.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Climate Change Issues specific to Agriculture, Food and the Marine Sectors: Discussion (Resumed) (6 Mar 2018)

Pat Deering: Our final speaker to make a presentation is Dr. Heffernan from the Marine Institute.