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Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 7 - Office of Minister for Finance
Chapter 1 - Exchequer Financial Outturn for 2019
Chapter 17 - Ireland Apple Escrow Fund (5 Nov 2020)

Neasa Hourigan: I agree. I have a quick question. In the summer of last year, the European Commission served formal notice on Ireland asking us to implement key anti-tax avoidance rules earlier than the delay we put on it to 2024. It was reported that we would work with the Commission to speed up the implementation of those tax avoidance rules on how companies use interest payments to cut their tax bills....

Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 7 - Office of Minister for Finance
Chapter 1 - Exchequer Financial Outturn for 2019
Chapter 17 - Ireland Apple Escrow Fund (5 Nov 2020)

Neasa Hourigan: I complement Mr. Moran on the clarity of that report. It was very good.

Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 7 - Office of Minister for Finance
Chapter 1 - Exchequer Financial Outturn for 2019
Chapter 17 - Ireland Apple Escrow Fund (5 Nov 2020)

Neasa Hourigan: I wish to talk about credit unions for a moment. We have financial statements from the 13 bodies that the Department has responsibility for from 2018 but we have not had an audited financial statement from the Credit Union Restructuring Board since 2016. Is that board still active or is it being wound up? I will not beat the drum for a system of public banking, as we often do in the Green...

Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 7 - Office of Minister for Finance
Chapter 1 - Exchequer Financial Outturn for 2019
Chapter 17 - Ireland Apple Escrow Fund (5 Nov 2020)

Neasa Hourigan: In this committee and in a number of other committees we have talked a bit about public banking in general and why it is a particular challenge in the Irish context. My question is if there is a review under way of the policy framework around credit unions and if the credit union restructuring board is still active or if it has been wound up.

Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 7 - Office of Minister for Finance
Chapter 1 - Exchequer Financial Outturn for 2019
Chapter 17 - Ireland Apple Escrow Fund (5 Nov 2020)

Neasa Hourigan: We can expect them to be submitted to the-----

Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 7 - Office of Minister for Finance
Chapter 1 - Exchequer Financial Outturn for 2019
Chapter 17 - Ireland Apple Escrow Fund (5 Nov 2020)

Neasa Hourigan: Is there a review of the policy framework around credit unions?

Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 7 - Office of Minister for Finance
Chapter 1 - Exchequer Financial Outturn for 2019
Chapter 17 - Ireland Apple Escrow Fund (5 Nov 2020)

Neasa Hourigan: The credit unions say that they would like to utilise their €18 billion in a more productive way.

Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 7 - Office of Minister for Finance
Chapter 1 - Exchequer Financial Outturn for 2019
Chapter 17 - Ireland Apple Escrow Fund (5 Nov 2020)

Neasa Hourigan: Is there any work being done to allow them to do that?

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Tribunals of Inquiry (10 Nov 2020)

Neasa Hourigan: 159. To ask the Taoiseach the status of the Moriarty tribunal; when it will deliver an updated report; and when it will conclude its work. [34516/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Pensions Reform (10 Nov 2020)

Neasa Hourigan: 521. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to include a civil society gender perspective in the newly established pension commission; her plans to include an organisation (details supplied) on the commission; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35198/20]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Legislative Process (10 Nov 2020)

Neasa Hourigan: 612. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if all the recommendations of the report on the reform of the family law system by the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Justice and Equality have been implemented; if not, the recommendations that are outstanding; when they will be implemented; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34898/20]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Legislative Programme (10 Nov 2020)

Neasa Hourigan: 613. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the timeline for the implementation of the family courts Bill; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34899/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (10 Nov 2020)

Neasa Hourigan: 669. To ask the Minister for Health if holistic therapy is considered an essential therapy in relation to level 5 Covid-19 restrictions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34638/20]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Departmental Expenditure (11 Nov 2020)

Neasa Hourigan: 29. To ask the Taoiseach the cost of renting office space, including for public bodies, from a company (details supplied) in 2019 and to date in 2020, in tabular form. [35619/20]

Written Answers — Department of Trade, Enterprise and Employment: Departmental Expenditure (11 Nov 2020)

Neasa Hourigan: 36. To ask the Minister for Trade, Enterprise and Employment the cost of renting office space, including for public bodies, from a company (details supplied) in 2019 and to date in 2020, in tabular form. [35608/20]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Departmental Expenditure (11 Nov 2020)

Neasa Hourigan: 41. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the cost of renting office space, including for public bodies, from a company (details supplied) in 2019 and to date in 2020, in tabular form. [35609/20]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Departmental Expenditure (11 Nov 2020)

Neasa Hourigan: 56. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the cost of renting office space, including for public bodies, from a company (details supplied) in 2019 and to date in 2020, in tabular form. [35621/20]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Departmental Expenditure (11 Nov 2020)

Neasa Hourigan: 72. To ask the Minister for Finance the cost of renting office space, including for public bodies, from a company (details supplied) in 2019 and to date in 2020, in tabular form. [35610/20]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Properties (11 Nov 2020)

Neasa Hourigan: 79. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the cost of renting, leasing and hiring office space for each Department, including public bodies, in each of the years 2016 to 2019 and to date in 2020, in tabular form. [35598/20]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Expenditure (11 Nov 2020)

Neasa Hourigan: 80. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the cost of renting office space, including for public bodies, from a company (details supplied) in 2019 and to date in 2020, in tabular form. [35616/20]