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Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 9: Office of the Revenue Commissioners
Chapter 17: Revenue's Progress in Tackling Tobacco Smuggling
Chapter 18: Management of High Wealth Individuals' Tax Liabilities
Chapter 19: Corporation Tax Losses (15 Nov 2018)

Shane Cassells: Therefore, the destruction of this is possibly going to cost close to €1 million.

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 9: Office of the Revenue Commissioners
Chapter 17: Revenue's Progress in Tackling Tobacco Smuggling
Chapter 18: Management of High Wealth Individuals' Tax Liabilities
Chapter 19: Corporation Tax Losses (15 Nov 2018)

Shane Cassells: If it had sunk.

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 9: Office of the Revenue Commissioners
Chapter 17: Revenue's Progress in Tackling Tobacco Smuggling
Chapter 18: Management of High Wealth Individuals' Tax Liabilities
Chapter 19: Corporation Tax Losses (15 Nov 2018)

Shane Cassells: On the broader issue in this chapter, because it is, as Mr. Gilligan rightly said, an internationally-backed scenario, as can be seen from where this ship was registered, Mr. Cody said in his opening statement that tobacco taxation is a key policy instrument. When he looks at the map in figure 17.1, which deals with the cost of cigarettes throughout the continent, it is €5 a pack in...

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 9: Office of the Revenue Commissioners
Chapter 17: Revenue's Progress in Tackling Tobacco Smuggling
Chapter 18: Management of High Wealth Individuals' Tax Liabilities
Chapter 19: Corporation Tax Losses (15 Nov 2018)

Shane Cassells: Mr. Cody said there had been much commentary in the media on a reference in the Comptroller and Auditor General's report to the 83 high wealth individuals with a taxable income less than the average wage in 2015. In his opening remarks he also spoke about how people could plan their wages and so forth. In the case of the 83 high wealth individuals with a taxable income less than the...

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 9: Office of the Revenue Commissioners
Chapter 17: Revenue's Progress in Tackling Tobacco Smuggling
Chapter 18: Management of High Wealth Individuals' Tax Liabilities
Chapter 19: Corporation Tax Losses (15 Nov 2018)

Shane Cassells: I saw it. It was indicated that they did not have a high enough income in their own right, but does Mr. Cody believe there was a motivation behind this?

Local Government Bill 2018: Second Stage (Resumed) (14 Nov 2018)

Shane Cassells: I will share time with a number of my colleagues. I thank the Minister of State for the detail provided this evening. I am pleased to speak on the Bill and its implications. Any document that has at its heart the issue of boundaries will elicit much passion, interest and debate. Debates about boundaries in this country, whether they are international, as we see at present, or county...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Boundaries Review (14 Nov 2018)

Shane Cassells: 100. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when the statutory instrument giving effect to the recommendations in the reports of the local electoral area boundary committees will be made; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47166/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Meetings (14 Nov 2018)

Shane Cassells: 133. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if supports will be provided to county councils to enable them to provide for webcasting of local authority meetings in circumstances in which such facilities do not exist in order to allow persons to view important proceedings on budgetary, planning, zoning and development plan matters to ensure full transparency in same....

Housing Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2018: Second Stage [Private Members] (13 Nov 2018)

Shane Cassells: I am sharing time with Deputies Butler and Murphy O'Mahony.

Housing Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2018: Second Stage [Private Members] (13 Nov 2018)

Shane Cassells: I thank Deputy Healy for bringing forward this Bill. It facilitates the debate which allows us to continue to focus on the housing crisis and the need for a range of measures across the State and the support agencies to tackle it. An emergency exists in the housing area as agreed by the House when it passed a Private Members’ motion declaring a housing emergency. However, the...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (8 Nov 2018)

Shane Cassells: It is Dublin and Dún Laoghaire today and a couple of weeks ago a significant number of education and training board accounts were presented on a particular slide, with the same recurring theme of poor controls. I noted a number of recurring cases. It was not once-off and it was across the board and a cultural occurrence. After five years, what is the opinion of the Comptroller and...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (8 Nov 2018)

Shane Cassells: The chief executive officers are telling the ETB boards of directors that they have problems. They are telling the Comptroller and Auditor General that they have problems and the Comptroller and Auditor General's reports tell us that as well. Who will eventually grapple with the problem of what is happening? These are major organisations in the delivery of education throughout our country....

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (8 Nov 2018)

Shane Cassells: One might have thought the so-called merger of all these would have led to better scenarios rather than worse.

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Childcare Services Staff (7 Nov 2018)

Shane Cassells: 36. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her views on whether there is a staffing crisis in the early years sector; the steps she is taking to combat same; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45932/18]

Water Services: Motion [Private Members] (6 Nov 2018)

Shane Cassells: I am delighted to contribute to the debate. I pay tribute to the Rural Independent Group for bringing forward these proposals. They are well thought out and touch on a number of important issues, including Irish Water not addressing the problems of wastewater in our housing estates, which heretofore would have been assisted by the county councils. If one speaks to any county councillor or...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Information and Communications Technology (6 Nov 2018)

Shane Cassells: 1054. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if system testing was carried out on the new information technology system for illness benefit; if so, the person or body that carried out the system testing; the reason the recent issues with the new system were not identified during the testing; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44961/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Information and Communications Technology (6 Nov 2018)

Shane Cassells: 1055. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a back-up system or alternative plan was in place for the changeover to the new information technology system for illness benefit in case of potential difficulties arising; if so, the reason it was not able to alleviate the issues which occurred with the new system; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44962/18]

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 Oct 2018)

Shane Cassells: Deputy O'Connell is right. The Ombudsman was before the Committee on Public Petitions to discuss the report into additional charges in the nursing home sector and the Minister of State, Deputy Jim Daly, also appeared before the committee in recent weeks. There are detailed reports on it. The private sector is beyond the scope of investigations by the Houses of the Oireachtas but it is...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 Oct 2018)

Shane Cassells: On the point Deputy O'Connell raised, the Ombudsman made a report on what is charged beyond what is paid for by the State.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 Oct 2018)

Shane Cassells: I endorse what the Chairman said but I would write to Ms Maguire, as chairperson, in the strongest possible terms. Like the Chairman, I do not mind if the CCMA sends in one representative, be it the chairperson or someone else, or if individual CEOs come in. We can bring in the 40 or so CEOs and get deck chairs but I have consistently said that they have a statutory responsibility to this...