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Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Tax Expenditures in Budget 2024: Department of Finance (29 Nov 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: They are taxed on the residential properties here.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Tax Expenditures in Budget 2024: Department of Finance (29 Nov 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: They will. Are they passing less tax than people who are resident here?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Tax Expenditures in Budget 2024: Department of Finance (29 Nov 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Is the full cost per year €160 million?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Tax Expenditures in Budget 2024: Department of Finance (29 Nov 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: That is based on the number of residential properties registered with the RTB.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Tax Expenditures in Budget 2024: Department of Finance (29 Nov 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Is Ms Costello expecting an increase in registrations with the RTB from this?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Tax Expenditures in Budget 2024: Department of Finance (29 Nov 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: When you are doing your figures and anticipating the cost, are you taking into account an increase?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Tax Expenditures in Budget 2024: Department of Finance (29 Nov 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Grand. On the online form to register with the RTB and the criteria for assessing the tax breaks for landlords, do the required fields mean that you or I could not submit the claim without a valid RTB number attached? If it is not a required field, then would you leave it blank and submit the claim regardless? That would likely require an audit to catch it, so you could just continue on....

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Tax Expenditures in Budget 2024: Department of Finance (29 Nov 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: On the mortgage interest relief for those with a mortgage of above €80,000, how much extra would it have cost if it had been available to those with a mortgage of less than €80,000 in the balance?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Tax Expenditures in Budget 2024: Department of Finance (29 Nov 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: So €22 million would have covered all those people who are parenting on their own and people with lower mortgages who are struggling. It seems a small amount of money to be able to capture some of the people who are most marginalised and having real difficulty with trying to pay their mortgages.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Tax Expenditures in Budget 2024: Department of Finance (29 Nov 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I think that is very unfortunate but I know you are not making the decisions. You are just implementing them.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Tax Expenditures in Budget 2024: Department of Finance (29 Nov 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: How will the clawback work in practice where a landlord attempts to leave the market? What does actively marketing mean in practice? How will that be monitored and enforced?

Written Answers — Department of Finance: National Treasury Management Agency (29 Nov 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 46. To ask the Minister for Finance the role the National Development Finance Agency has in protecting public procurement in large capital projects from bid-rigging and any ongoing review of large capital projects; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52366/23]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Caiteachas Gaeilge agus Gaeltachta (29 Nov 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 53. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform an bhfuil sé sásta bualadh le toscaireacht ón earnáil Gaeilge agus Gaeltachta maidir leis an bPlean Fáis, plean infheistíochta atá seolta ag Conradh na Gaeilge agus a bhfuil tacaíocht aige ó bhreis is 130 grúpa fud fad na tíre, chun caiteachas don earnáil a phlé i...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Trade Agreements (29 Nov 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 56. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment further to Parliamentary Question No. 44 of 23 November 2023, if there is no formal mechanism for a member state to call for the European Commission to review or trigger human rights clauses in trade agreements with third countries; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52664/23]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Civil Service (28 Nov 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 35. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he plans to legislate to bring senior civil servants under the standard disciplinary measures of the civil service; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52370/23]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Civil Service (28 Nov 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: There is currently legislation to amend the Civil Service Regulation Acts. This was initiated in 2018 and is only now being brought to the committee. This legislation, if it is ever progressed by government, does not address the issue of accountability of most senior civil servants. Does this Government have plans to legislate to bring senior civil servants under the standard disciplinary...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Civil Service (28 Nov 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: As things currently stand, Ministers are limited in their ability to hold Secretaries General to account. The Civil Service Regulation Amendment Act 2005 expanded the remit of the disciplinary process, bringing secretaries general somewhat under the umbrella of the process. However, the extent to which they are under the remit is limited because the legislation sets the Government rather...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Civil Service (28 Nov 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: The elements not available to the Minister in respect of the Secretary General are the lower rate of remuneration, the reduction to the lower grade and suspension without pay. The final level of sanction, as the Minister of State has said, is dismissal, which is a matter for government. The finance committee was informed by the Department of public expenditure and reform that, despite the...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Flood Risk Management (28 Nov 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 34. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform to provide an update on the flood relief scheme for Crossmolina, County Mayo; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52367/23]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Flood Risk Management (28 Nov 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: This question relates to flooding in Crossmolina. I know the Minister of State is familiar with the town. I have raised the issue with him a number of times. Will the Minister of State provide an update on the flood relief scheme for Crossmolina? People have seen damage to their homes and lives, just like the businesses in Cork, Galway and other places. They remember the destruction the...