6 Nov 2013, 14:26
Issues around the property tax deadline and payment options will be on the agenda of the Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform , tomorrow, Thursday, 7th November 2013 when it meets with Revenue Commissioners Chairman Josephine Feehily.
Committee Chairman Ciarán Lynch said: “The Revenue Commissioners announcement that it has extended the paper filing deadline for the property tax by a week, until next Thursday November 14th is a positive and welcome development. There has been much confusion and concern in relation to letters sent to households for next year’s property tax with ambiguity around the various payment options offered and deadline for payment. Tomorrow's meeting with the Chairman of the Revenue Commissioners should allow for the existing concerns and ambiguities to be cleared up in time for the new deadline. It is also a chance for the Committee to discuss the structure, timing and operation of the scheme and raise the issue of Revenue’s customer service on the issue.”
This meeting will start at 3pm on Thursday, 7th November in Committee Room 3, Leinster House 2000.
Following this meeting, officials Officials from the Department of Finance will come before the Committee for scrutiny of Scrutiny of EU legislative proposal: COM(2013)520 – re uniform rules and a uniform procedure for the resolution of credit institutions and certain investment firms in the framework of a Single Resolution Mechanism and a Single Bank Resolution Fund.
Deputy Lynch said: “Under banking union the EU's largest banks would come under the surveillance of a single supervisor, with a common EU resolution fund empowered to step in when banks fail and to rescue or wind up troubled lenders. Tomorrow, we will receive a briefing on the legislative proposals on the framework for the resolution mechanism and resolution fund and members will have an opportunity to raise any issues or concerns they may have.”
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Committee Membership
Deputies
Richard Boyd-Barrett, People Before Profit
Michael Creed, Fine Gael
Pearse Doherty, Sinn Fein
Regina Doherty, Fine Gael
Stephen Donnelly, Independent
Timmy Dooley, Fianna Fáil
Alan Farrell, Fine Gael
Sean Fleming, Fianna Fáil
Simon Harris, Fine Gael
Joe Higgins, Socialist Party
Heather Humphreys, Fine Gael
Kevin Humphreys, Labour Party
Mary Lou McDonald, Sinn Fein
Ciarán Lynch, Labour Party (Chairman)
Michael McGrath, Fianna Fáil
Dara Murphy, Fine Gael
Kieran O’Donnell, Fine Gael
Aodhán O Ríordáin, Labour
Arthur Spring, Labour Party
Brian Stanley, Sinn Féin
Liam Twomey, Fine Gael
Senators
Sean D Barrett
Thomas Byrne
Paul Coghlan
Michael D’Arcy
Aideen Hayden
Tom Sheahan