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Written Answers — Department of Finance: Property Tax Review (25 Oct 2018)

Tommy Broughan: 54. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans for household property tax; when the review group's report will be available; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44142/18]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Financial Services Sector (25 Oct 2018)

Tommy Broughan: 49. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will report on the study being carried out by a company (details supplied) into pay across the financial sector; his views on performance related salaries in banks and other financial institutions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44141/18]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Departmental Schemes (25 Oct 2018)

Tommy Broughan: 55. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of companies and employees that availed of the key employee engagement programme to date in 2018; the impact he expects to result from his proposed changes to the scheme in 2019; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44144/18]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Corporation Tax (25 Oct 2018)

Tommy Broughan: 56. To ask the Minister for Finance if the application of accounting rules known as the International Financial Reporting Standard 15 provided a one-off boost to profits and therefore a windfall effect to corporation taxes payable by information technology and pharmaceutical companies in 2018 which will not reoccur after 2018; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43979/18]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Data (25 Oct 2018)

Tommy Broughan: 82. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on the report on tax expenditures of October 2018; the key components and estimated total cost of tax expenditures as a percentage of total voted expenditure and of GNI in 2017; the likely costs in 2018; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43863/18]

Sale of Illicit Goods Bill 2017: Second Stage [Private Members] (24 Oct 2018)

Tommy Broughan: I am delighted to contribute to the debate. The illicit trade in cigarettes alcohol and solid fuel is reported to have cost the Exchequer up to €2.5 billion between 2010 and 2015. Of course, exact figures are difficult to come by but this is probably a conservative estimate. The problem became so acute that a group known as Retailers Against Smugglers, RAS, was established and is...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Health Services Funding (24 Oct 2018)

Tommy Broughan: Is this me again?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Health Services Funding (24 Oct 2018)

Tommy Broughan: Does the Acting Chairman refer to Question No. 78?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Health Services Funding (24 Oct 2018)

Tommy Broughan: No other Deputies are present.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Expenditure (24 Oct 2018)

Tommy Broughan: 78. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will report on his departmental spending profiles up to the end of September 2018 in gross voted capital expenditure under Budget 2018; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43864/18]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Expenditure (24 Oct 2018)

Tommy Broughan: I wish to ask the Minister about the gross Votes. Several Deputies noted that spending was under profile, particularly the Votes for housing and environment. That was certainly evident in the last report the Minister gave us. It seems incongruous that capital expenditure is running under profile in areas like housing and health. I welcome the size of the capital budget and that we are...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Expenditure (24 Oct 2018)

Tommy Broughan: I am particularly interested in the overall profile across the Government. I thought a key part of Deputy Donohoe's remit as Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform was to keep track of what is happening in those areas. My constituents are amazed that there is capital funding in different Departments which is not utilised, whether it relates to housing, communications or whatever. I...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Expenditure (24 Oct 2018)

Tommy Broughan: The Minister's staff asked me-----

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Health Services Funding (24 Oct 2018)

Tommy Broughan: 72. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will report on his Department's invigilation of the relationship between Vote 38 and the HSE budget; the efforts being made to provide all necessary expenditures for primary and acute healthcare in view of repeated annual underforecasting of health expenditures; his views on the need for annual Supplementary Estimates; and if he...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Health Services Funding (24 Oct 2018)

Tommy Broughan: Early this year, following an interesting briefing from Fr. Seán Healy and Social Justice Ireland, the Committee on Budgetary Oversight identified the possibility of a serious discrepancy between voted health expenditure and what the HSE's national service plan was trying to achieve. That has turned out to be the case, with Supplementary Estimates required for the Departments of Health...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Health Services Funding (24 Oct 2018)

Tommy Broughan: The Considine report identified these problems ten years ago, but nothing has happened.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Health Services Funding (24 Oct 2018)

Tommy Broughan: I disagreed with the Taoiseach. Reverting to our discussion about consultants, many of them have told me that they would be prepared to pay a higher personal tax rate if it was hypothecated to health spending. While we need more resources, the nub of the issue is that the Minister is not accounting to the House, as per his remit, for the difference between the national service plan and Vote...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Health Services Funding (24 Oct 2018)

Tommy Broughan: I would.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Health Services Funding (24 Oct 2018)

Tommy Broughan: I want the Minister to be honest.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Health Services Funding (24 Oct 2018)

Tommy Broughan: I do not want it both ways; I want it one way.