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Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Funding (31 Jan 2019)

Paschal Donohoe: This type of funding request is not a matter for my Department. As the Deputy may be aware, Local Enterprise Offices are the first stop shop for business supports. I would also refer the Deputy to the online guide 'Supporting SMEs'. There are over 170 different Government supports for Irish start-ups and small business and this guide helps such businesses navigate the range of available...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (30 Jan 2019)

Paschal Donohoe: In the interest of----

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (30 Jan 2019)

Paschal Donohoe: In the interests of clarity, the report I published yesterday indicates that more jobs will be created in our economy in the future. However, it also acknowledges that significantly fewer jobs will be created. In fact, it states that 55,000 fewer jobs will be created if we end up with a no-deal scenario. Given that some people called on the Government to be clear in the context of what it...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (30 Jan 2019)

Paschal Donohoe: -----which we have done. Like the Minister for Health, Deputy Harris, I strongly believe that if we had not made the decision, we would not have a national children's hospital available for a number of years to come. Those who would suffer on foot of that would be children.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (30 Jan 2019)

Paschal Donohoe: I acknowledged last week that I understand this issue is a cause of concern for people in the sector. The decision in this regard was made the Revenue Commissioners, who are responsible for deciding how VAT law is implemented. The Revenue Commissioners were concerned that a growing number of decisions that were not credible were being made in respect of how VAT was being applied. They made...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (30 Jan 2019)

Paschal Donohoe: Deputy Buckley has actually summed up the difficulty the Government faces very well because he listed every other member of our public service that has a concern, a difficulty or even a grievance in respect of pay. What every one of those groups will ask the Government, if we move in the way that some Deputies want, is what will it do for them and what will it do to respond to their needs?...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (30 Jan 2019)

Paschal Donohoe: -----we face into the very risk that Deputy Buckley described. The Government has engaged on this issue through the Public Service Pay Commission. We have been in the Workplace Relations Commission and the Labour Court and we have done that because of our respect for the professionalism and the ability of our nurses and the work they do every day and also because of the need that we alone...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Insurance Data (30 Jan 2019)

Paschal Donohoe: At the outset, it is important to note that as Minister for Finance, I am responsible for the development of the legal framework governing financial regulation. My Department does not collect the type of information being sought by the Deputy. In addition, it should be noted that the Central Bank of Ireland does not systematically record any information on retentions or partial settlement...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: VAT Rate Application (30 Jan 2019)

Paschal Donohoe: I propose to take Questions Nos. 86, 87 and 90 together. The standard rate of VAT applies to food supplements. However, a Revenue Commissioners concession allowed the zero rate to be applied to certain types of vitamins, minerals and fish oils. Revenue has since decided to remove this concession with effect from 1 March 2019 so that all food supplements will be charged at the standard...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Data (30 Jan 2019)

Paschal Donohoe: I propose to take Questions Nos. 88 and 89 together. Section 949AG of the Taxes Consolidation Act 1997 (which was inserted by the Finance (Tax Appeals) Act 2015) was identified by Revenue and the Tax Appeals Commission ("TAC") as being interpreted, in a small number of instances, as applying in all situations and as conferring the right on appellants to require the TAC to require disclosure...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Financial Services Regulation (30 Jan 2019)

Paschal Donohoe: Provision 6.12 of the Central Bank Consumer Protection Code states that, where a regulated entity offers an incentive to a personal consumer on an existing mortgage (and, following an addendum to the Code which came into effect on 1 January 2019, now also in respect of a new mortgage), the regulated entity must provide the personal consumer, on paper or on another durable medium, with the...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Financial Services Regulation (30 Jan 2019)

Paschal Donohoe: I propose to take Questions Nos. 92 and 97 together. The revised Payment Services Directive (PSD2) opens the EU payments market to regulated entities offering consumer or business-oriented payment services based on access to payment accounts. It requires account servicing payment service providers (normally banks) to grant access to payment accounts to these regulated third party providers,...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Brexit Issues (30 Jan 2019)

Paschal Donohoe: On 8 February last year the European Commission issued a notice to stakeholders on the “Withdrawal of the United Kingdom and EU rules in the field of Banking and Payment Services”. The notice stated that, subject to any transitional arrangement that may be contained in a possible withdrawal agreement, as of the withdrawal date the EU rules in the field of payment services...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Credit Card Interest Rates (30 Jan 2019)

Paschal Donohoe: The Central Bank issues statistical information on cred and debit cards every quarter. The last release, which relates to November 2018 may be found at . The Central Bank has advised that the total value in November 2018 of: - Convenience and extended credit card debt was €1,652,381,000 - Outstanding interest-bearing extended credit card debt was €1,077,775,000 - Convenience...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Banking Operations (30 Jan 2019)

Paschal Donohoe: The Payment Accounts Directive, transposed in September 2016 by the European Union (Payment Accounts) Regulations 2016 (S.I. No. 482 of 2016), contains a right to open a payment account with basic features with a credit institution. This right extends to any person who is legally resident in the European Union, regardless of whether he or she has a fixed address. A payment account with...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Brexit Issues (30 Jan 2019)

Paschal Donohoe: I am informed by Revenue that their preparations do not include any plans for infrastructure at the border and this is in line with the Government’s position that there will be no hard border on the island of Ireland. Revenue Chairman, Niall Cody, set out this position clearly when he and Revenue officials appeared before the Joint Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform,...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Departmental Staff Data (30 Jan 2019)

Paschal Donohoe: I can advise the Deputy that the Department of Finance does not directly procure any major public infrastructure projects. The Deputy may wish to note that there are currently three staff working in the procurement section of the Department of Finance and all staff within this area have undertaken accredited training in public procurement. The Department’s Compliance Officer also...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Revenue Commissioners Enforcement Activity (30 Jan 2019)

Paschal Donohoe: I am advised by Revenue that it always aims to match its intervention options to the compliance behavior exhibited by the taxpayer. The intervention options range from light touch Aspect Queries through to Investigations for cases of suspected serious tax and duty evasion. Full details of Revenue’s suite of compliance interventions are set out in Chapter 2 of the Code of Practice for...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Mortgage Data (30 Jan 2019)

Paschal Donohoe: Data provided by the Central Bank of Ireland indicates that switching (defined as loans issued by one lender to refinance an existing mortgage with another lender) of credit institution PDH mortgages for each year since 2003 (data is not readily available prior to that point and the data also includes a certain estimation for the period prior to 2010) is as set out in the table. As the...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Reports (30 Jan 2019)

Paschal Donohoe: Section 3(6) of the Public Service Superannuation (Age of Retirement) Act 2018 provides that I as Minister shall, within three months of the passing of the Act, prepare and lay before the Oireachtas a report on the public servants who were forced to retire between 6 December 2017 and the commencement of the Act, due to reaching the age of 65 years, and on potential remedies to assist this...