Pearse Doherty (Donegal South West, Sinn Fein)
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223. To ask the Minister for Finance if any measures were contained in the budget 2014 document that were not included in the draft that was submitted to the troika; and if so, which measures. [46915/13]

Michael Noonan (Limerick City, Fine Gael)
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I want to be absolutely clear. The Troika did not receive any advance draft of the Budget.

Officials from my Department and the Department of Public Expenditure & Reform did however travel to Brussels to meet with the Troika in advance on the Budget where the broad parameters of Budget 2014 were discussed. As is wholly appropriate, members of the Dáil are the first to view the budgetary measures.

Pearse Doherty (Donegal South West, Sinn Fein)
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225. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will list the measures included in the finance section of budget 2014 and the subsequent Finance Bill that were proposed to him by tax advisers from outside his Department; and if he will provide details of those advisers. [46917/13]

Michael Noonan (Limerick City, Fine Gael)
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Prior to Budget 2014 I received in excess of 500 pre-Budget submissions from many sources. This would have included a variety of organisations, representative groups and individual members of the public. Many of the submissions would also have covered a wide range of issues that would already have been under consideration in the Budget process. Submissions would have been recorded and distributed to relevant officials. Due regard would have been taken of the views expressed in the context of Budget and Finance Bill measures. Where such views accorded with policy intentions, they may have been reflected in measures introduced in the Budget. However, it would not be possible in the time available to identify specific proposals, or parts thereof, which would have been reflected in this way.