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Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Forms (6 Nov 2018)

Paschal Donohoe: I am informed that the Deputy’s Question relates specifically to situations where managers of some community based schemes feel they should be able to engage with Revenue on behalf of employees in certain circumstances. I am assured that while Revenue actively encourages taxpayers to use its online services as the quickest, easiest and most convenient way to manage their tax...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Property Tax Data (6 Nov 2018)

Paschal Donohoe: I propose to take Questions Nos. 212 to 214, inclusive, together. Regarding Question 45676, the Finance (Local Property Tax) Act 2012 (as amended) provides for a deferral or partial deferral (50%) of LPT where certain specified circumstances exist. These circumstances include ‘Income Level’, ‘Hardship’, ‘Personal Insolvency’ and ‘Personal...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (6 Nov 2018)

Paschal Donohoe: Council Directive 2007/74/EC and Council Directive 2007/74/EC and the European Communities (Tax Exemption for Certain Non-Commercial Goods Imported in the Personal Luggage of Travellers from Third Countries) Regulations 2008 (Statutory Instrument 480 of 2008), provide the legislative basis for the exemption from value added tax and excise duty on goods imported by persons travelling to and...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (6 Nov 2018)

Paschal Donohoe: The Single Person Child Carer Credit (SPCCC) of €1,650 per annum is given where a person has a “qualifying child” resident with him or her for the whole or greater part of the year of assessment and the other conditions of the relief are also satisfied. Only one credit is available is respect of any qualifying child, and an individual who is a primary claimant in...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Official Development Assistance (6 Nov 2018)

Paschal Donohoe: The table below relates to funding provided by my Department which is returned as Official Development Assistance (ODA). As you will be aware Ireland, as a member of the Organisation of Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) Development Assistance Committee (DAC), must report, on an annual basis, a detailed statistical analysis of total Official Development Assistance (ODA). This...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Official Development Assistance (6 Nov 2018)

Paschal Donohoe: I am advised by Revenue that, while it does not contribute financially to official development assistance, Revenue does regularly respond to requests for its officers to provide direct technical assistance to tax authorities in both developing and developed countries. In the last number of years Revenue has organised workshops for visiting tax officials from Oman, Namibia, Moldova, Croatia,...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Ministerial Meetings (6 Nov 2018)

Paschal Donohoe: I met my Dutch counterpart, Minister Wopke Hoekstra, in the margins of the Eurogroup and ECOFIN Council meetings in Brussels, on 6 November. We both also attended a meeting of the Nordic-Baltic plus Ireland and The Netherlands group of Finance Ministers in Brussels on 5 November.

Written Answers — Department of Finance: North-South Implementation Bodies (6 Nov 2018)

Paschal Donohoe: My Department does not have responsibility for any North-South Bodies, and consequently, did not allocate funding to any of them in 2019.

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Commissions of Investigation Data (6 Nov 2018)

Paschal Donohoe: I am not the specified Minister in respect of any Commissions of Investigation conducted during the course of 2018, nor am I directly responsible for any ongoing Tribunals of Inquiry. Therefore I have not incurred any costs in carrying out any such Commissions of Investigation or State Inquiries during 2018. However, my Department has been asked to provide information to the Commission...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Pensions Data (6 Nov 2018)

Paschal Donohoe: I have direct responsibility for Vote 12: Superannuation and Retired allowances which reflects the pension costs in respect of retired Civil Service employees only and therefore I can only reply on this basis. The total audited gross expenditure on Vote 12 in 2017 amounted to €535.5 million. This includes regular pension payments, lump sum costs, death gratuities etc.

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Garda Stations (6 Nov 2018)

Paschal Donohoe: The former Garda Station on Mary Street, County Limerick is owned by the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform. The Commissioners of Public Works in Ireland, acting on behalf of the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform are currently in negotiations with Limerick City and County Council regarding an exchange of lands for two State owned properties in Limerick. One of the...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Commissions of Investigation Data (6 Nov 2018)

Paschal Donohoe: My Department has not had any expenditure in this regard in 2018.

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: State Properties Data (6 Nov 2018)

Paschal Donohoe: I propose to take Questions Nos. 225 and 228 together. The Office of Public Works (OPW) manages a diverse property portfolio on behalf of the State, primarily ranging from office accommodation, Garda stations, heritage properties and visitors centres. As part of an internal system of information sharing, the OPW highlights all properties, including land, that it considers surplus to its...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Legislative Measures (6 Nov 2018)

Paschal Donohoe: I refer the Deputy to my reply PQ 35053/18 on the 24th of July 2018.

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Legislative Measures (6 Nov 2018)

Paschal Donohoe: The Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Act 2010 (as amended) imposed a reduction on public service pensions (the PSPR) which exceed specified values; pensions below those values are exempt from PSPR. The PSPR imposition on affected pensioners has been considerably eased, and will be further eased, by legislative changes in recent years, which have already had the following...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Meetings (6 Nov 2018)

Paschal Donohoe: I have not had any meetings with the organisations in question. The Office of the Government Chief Information Officer, which is a Division of my Department, has not met with the Irish Infrastructure Fund. Officials from the OGCIO did meet enet on nine occasions during that time to discuss network operational issues. This was because OGCIO is responsible for Government Networks and enet...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Consultations (6 Nov 2018)

Paschal Donohoe: I propose to take Questions Nos. 230 and 231 together. In response to the Deputy’s questions, the table below details the consultations undertaken by my Department since its establishment in 2011: Year Title of Consultation 2011 Regulation of Lobbying Bill Comprehensive Review of Expenditure 2012 None 2013 Review of Public Works Contracts 2014 Comprehensive Review of...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Procurement Regulations (6 Nov 2018)

Paschal Donohoe: Public Procurement is governed by EU and National rules. The aim of these rules is to promote an open, competitive and non-discriminatory public procurement regime which delivers transparency and value for money outcomes. As Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform I have responsibility for the formulation of policy, dissemination of best practice and guidance in public procurement....

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Contracts (6 Nov 2018)

Paschal Donohoe: In response to the Deputy’s question, I can confirm that the only work carried out within my Department’s remit by the company in question is for the Office of Public Works (OPW) as set out below. This company was contracted by the OPW on two projects. The first contractual payments for these projects were: - Phoenix Park Gate Lodge, Garda HQ, Dublin 8 - December 2006; and -...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Reports (6 Nov 2018)

Paschal Donohoe: The Office of Public Works, in consultation with the Revenue Commissioners, the Department of Agrilculture, Food and the Marine, the Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport, the Department of Health, and the Health Service Executive, has completed the initial scoping exercise to ascertain the requirements for all the State bodies in Rosslare Harbour. The detailed action plan is being...