Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 19 June 2018
149. Deputy Shane Cassells asked the Minister for Finance the number of public consultations held by his Department or by a State agency under the remit of his Department; the number of replies received per consultation; and the cost of each consultation in each of the years 2011 to 2017 and to date in 2018, in tabular form. [26461/18]
Amharc ar fhreagraMy Department has carried out 56 public consultations since 2011, and a table providing the details is set out below. The majority of the consultations did not incur an explicit cost as part of the work carried out by staff in my Department in relation to public consultations. Such work forms part of the Department’s regular staff costs and is not itemised separately.
Three consultations are ongoing on a Review of Local Property Tax, The Possible Introduction of a Vacant Property Tax and on The Feasibility of an Insurance Claim-by-Claim Register, therefore I am not in a position to provide all of the information requested on these consultations at present.
The Employment and Investment Incentive (EII) and Start Up for Entrepreneurs (SURE) schemes are currently the subject of a comprehensive independent review which is being carried out by Indecon International Economic Consultants. The work involves detailed econometric modelling, as well as an enhanced public consultation process involving reviewing submissions from a wide range of stakeholders and contact with key organisations, as well as a detailed survey-based consultation programme with firms who have been assisted as part of the review. The total review is budgeted to cost around €75k. It is difficult to assess the proportion of the overall review cost that will be attributable to the public consultation process at this time, though Indecon have indicated they expect it to be around 15% of the total.
Regarding the 17 bodies under the aegis of my Department, 5 have conducted a total of 78 public consultations, details of which are set out in a separate table. As in my Department, an explicit cost was not incurred for a number of consultations as work carried out in these bodies in relation to public consultations forms part of the normal course of business for the bodies and is therefore accounted for within their overall operational budgets.
Department of Finance – Bodies under the Aegis
Public Consultations 2011 – 2018 (completed)
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Body |
Number of public consultations in each of the years 2011 to 2017 and to date in 2018 |
Number of replies received per consultation in each of the years 2011 to 2017 and to date in 2018 |
Cost of each consultation in each of the years 2011 to 2017 and to date in 2018 |
|
Comptroller &Auditor General |
2017 |
Irish Language Scheme - 2 |
€687.93 |
|
Central Bank |
2011 - 2018 = 70 |
The Central Bank has indicated that it is not in a position to provide the number of submissions on each of the 70 consultations. Each of these consultations are public and all submissions are published on the Central Bank website |
Nil. |
|
Investor Compensation Company Limited |
2012 2015 |
Funding Arrangements of the ICCL - 19 Funding Arrangements of the ICCL - 3 |
Circa €7,500 (to print and post the Consultation Paper to the investment firms in the Investor Compensation Scheme). Circa €2,100 (postage alerting the investment firms in the Investor Compensation Scheme to the electronic publication of the Consultation Paper on the ICCL’s website); |
|
Office of the Revenue Commissioners |
2014 2016 |
Statement of Strategy - 10 Third Irish Language Scheme - 27 PAYE Modernisation - 77 Statement of Strategy - 15 |
Nil €15,478 €30,370 Nil |
|
Tax Appeals Commission |
2017 |
Rules & Procedures of the Tax Appeals Commission - 12 |
€4,447.05 (Advertisement placed in 3 national newspapers). |
Department of Finance - Public Consultations 2011 – 2018 (completed)
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Number of public consultations in each of the years 2011 to 2017 and to date in 2018 |
Number of replies received per consultation in each of the years 2011 to 2017 and to date in 2018 |
Cost of each consultation in each of the years 2011 to 2017 and to date in 2018 |
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2011 |
Commission on Credit Unions - 144 Public Consultation To inform the Report of the Commission Credit Unions - 120 Legacy Property Based Reliefs - 743 |
Nil |
|
2012 |
VRT and Motor Tax - 34 Central Bank (Supervision and Enforcement) Bill 2011 - 7 National Discretions SEPA - 11 General Scheme of Credit Union Bill - 20 Donations to Approved Bodies - 61 Film Relief – 20 Tax Implications of Appointing a Receiver – 11 Tax Residence Rules - 8 |
Nil |
|
2013 |
Proposed changes to Pay & File date - 86 Remuneration discretions in the Capital Requirements Regulation and Directive (CRD IV) - 2 Member State discretions in the Capital Requirements Regulation and Directive (CRD IV) – 1 Receiverships: Follow up -5 Review of Research and Development Tax Credits - 23 |
Nil |
|
2014 |
IBFD Spillover Analysis - Possible Effects of the Irish Tax System on Developing Economies – 94 * OECD Base Erosion and Profit Shifting Project in an Irish Context - 25 Second Irish Language Scheme - 6 Transposition of the Bank Recovery and Resolution Directive - 1 Member State discretions available in the transposition of the 2014 Mortgage Credit Directive - 9 European Markets Infrastructure Regulation (EMIR) - 11 Investor Compensation Act Regulations – 1 Certain Discretionary Measures in the Solvency II Directive - 3 Stabilisation Levy Consultation - 33 Agri-taxation - 46 Employment and Investment Incentive & Seed Capital Scheme - 19 Special Assignee Relief Programme - 13 Foreign Earnings Deduction - 9 |
* The consultation on IBFD Spillover was carried out by my Department and submissions were provided to external consultants commissioned to undertake the Spillover Analysis costing €94,678.00. Nil for all others in 2014. |
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2015 |
Review of the Local Property Tax 2015 - 51 Tax treatment of expenses of travel and subsistence for employees and office holders - 52 Knowledge Development Box Consultation - 34 Amalgamation of the Offices of the Financial Services Ombudsman and the Pension Ombudsman - 25 Transposition of the Deposit Guarantee Scheme Directive - 21 Joint Public Consultation Department of Finance/Central Bank of Ireland on Funding the Cost of Financial Regulation - 25 Consultation on national discretions - Multilateral Interchange Fee Regulation - 20 Consultation on national discretions – EU Payment Accounts Directive - 8 Capital Markets Union - Commission Green Paper – 9 |
€7,181.56 Nil for all others in 2015. |
|
2016 - 7 |
The use of intermediary-type structures and self-employment arrangements: implications for social insurance and tax revenues - 24 Double Taxation Treaty with the United States of America - 19 The Financial Institutions - 7 National Discretions – EU Revised Payment Services Directive - 14 Market in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID) II - 14 4th Anti-Money Laundering Directive - 21 Taxation of Share Based Remuneration - 33 |
Nil |
|
2017 |
Sugar Tax - 30 Betting Tax - 13 Review of Ireland’s Corporation Tax Code - 16 Review of Stamp Duty on Shares - 12 Third Irish Language Scheme - 0 Potential Regulation of Crowdfunding - 9 Transposition of EU Directive 2016/97 on Insurance Distribution (IDD) - 3 Tax and Fiscal Treatment of Landlords – 69 |
Nil |
|
2018 |
Review of Corporation Tax Code - 22 General Scheme of the Central Bank (National Claims Information Database) Bill - 6 Agri-Taxation - 17 |
Nil |
