289. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Transport the date of each annual review of pensions in payment carried out by the CIÉ Board under Rule 34 since 2009; whether the actuarial advice obtained for each review costed any increase; the funding position of each scheme as reported at each review; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [73761/26]
291. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Transport to list each statutory instrument amending the CIÉ pension scheme for regular wages staff and the CIÉ superannuation scheme 1951 since 1 January 2008, with the date and purpose of each; if he will provide the text of Rule 34 as in force in 2009; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [73755/26]
373. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance the Revenue Commissioners assessment of the proportion of the illicit cigarette and roll your own tobacco market intercepted through seizures given the estimated Exchequer loss of €648 million on illegal cigarettes and €110 million on illegal roll your own tobacco in 2025; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [73683/26]
374. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance the number of individual cigarette and tobacco seizures made by each frontier management branch in each of the years 2020 to 2025 and to date in 2026; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [73682/26]
375. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance the reasons loose tobacco seizures by the Revenue Commissioners fell from 39,407kg in 2024 and 23,673kg in 2025 to 1,692kg to the end of September 2026; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [73681/26]
376. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance the number of whole-time equivalent Revenue customs officers, detector dogs and items of scanning equipment, including X-ray and backscatter units, assigned to each frontier management branch in each of the years 2020 to 2025 and to date in 2026; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [73680/26]
377. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 70322/26, the reasons cigarette seizures by south FMB fell from 16.1 million in 2024 to 0.8 million in 2025 and 0.7 million to the end of September 2026, and seizures by east-west FMB fell from 33.9 million in 2024 to 6.1 million in 2025; whether these falls reflect changes in staffing, scanning equipment, detect…
378. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance the number of seizures, quantity and value of cigarettes and tobacco seized, and the estimated loss to the Exchequer, at the Port of Cork including Ringaskiddy and Cork Airport, respectively, in each of the years 2020 to 2025 and to date in 2026; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [73678/26]
379. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance the ports, airports and other points of entry covered by each of Revenue's frontier management branches, namely, FMB Dublin Port, FMB Dublin Airport, south-east FMB, south FMB and east-west FMB; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [73676/26]
387. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance the number of help to buy clawback cases raised in each of the years 2022 to 2025 and to date in 2026; the total amount sought; the total amount recovered; the number of those cases in which the claimant had ceased to be resident in the State; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [73828/26]
388. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance the most recent evaluation carried out by or for the Department on the effect of the help to buy scheme on the price of new homes; the date of that evaluation; whether it has been published; whether any evaluation was carried out before the decision to increase the maximum relief to €35,000 in budget 2027; and if he will make a statement on the matte…
389. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance whether, in preparing the budget 2027 increase in the maximum help to buy relief, from €30,000 to €35,000, any consideration was given to a minimum period of tax residence in the State, or a requirement to hold citizenship or long-term residence, as a condition of eligibility; whether this was examined in any tax strategy group paper or other departm…
390. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance whether the Revenue Commissioners or the Department hold, or have at any time compiled, data on the nationality, citizenship or immigration permission of help to buy claimants; if not, whether any data matching with the Department of Social Protection or the immigration service delivery function of the Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migratio…
391. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance the number of help to buy claims approved in each of the years 2022 to 2025 and to date in 2026, and the total value of those claims, broken down by the number of years in the four-year period preceding the year of application in which the claimant, or each claimant, in the case of joint claims, had paid income tax in the State, that is one, two, thr…
395. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance if his Department has examined, at any time since 2016, the introduction of a tax relief or housing support for former residents returning to live and work in the State after a period abroad; if legal advice has been obtained on the compatibility with EU law of such a measure (details supplied); if he will examine such a measure in the context of ski…
396. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance if his Department has assessed the extent to which the limitation of help-to-buy relief to income tax and DIRT paid in the State in the four years preceding the year of application reduces or removes eligibility for former residents who have recently returned to the State after a period of employment abroad; whether any data is held on the number of …
403. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance whether an insurer is required to tell a customer the basis on which their property has been classified as at risk of flooding; whether any process exists for a homeowner with no recorded flood history to have that classification reviewed; and, if not, whether he will consider requiring one. [74058/26]
404. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance whether the remit of the new Flood Insurance Working Group includes examining the practice of insurers declining to offer any home or contents cover, or offering cover with flood excluded, to properties assessed as at risk of flooding; and, if not, whether he will extend the remit to do so. [74054/26]
405. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance whether he is aware that some homeowners and tenants in areas classed as at risk of flooding report being unable to obtain any home or contents insurance, including cover for fire and theft, and not only flood cover; and whether his department or the Central Bank holds data on the number of such refusals. [74053/26]
406. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance whether the Department has assessed the share of new build homes purchased in each of the years 2023 to 2025 by first-time buyers who had been resident in the State for fewer than five years; whether any such analysis has informed the Department's position on the extension and increase of the help to buy scheme; and if he will make a statement on the…
Ken O'Flynn
Written
20 Oct 2026 · to Public Expenditure
418. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation the total amount spent by Public Jobs on advertising consultant posts in publications (details supplied) in each year from 2021 to date in 2026, directly or through any intermediary; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [73887/26]
Ken O'Flynn
Written
20 Oct 2026 · to Public Expenditure
428. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation whether the Woodford and Monksfield estates in Clondalkin are within the area to be protected by the River Camac flood alleviation scheme; and the expected dates for completion of the design stage, planning approval and construction of the scheme. [74048/26]
Ken O'Flynn
Written
20 Oct 2026 · to Public Expenditure
429. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation whether the Office of Public Works flood maps show the Woodford and Monksfield estates, Clondalkin as at risk of flooding from the River Camac; the date those maps were last updated; and whether they take account of any flood defence works carried out nearby. [74047/26]
Ken O'Flynn
Written
20 Oct 2026 · to Public Expenditure
430. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation the proportion of his Department's digital data storage held on State-owned infrastructure, on private infrastructure within the State, and on infrastructure outside the State, in each of the last five years for which figures are available; and the annual expenditure on data storage over that pe…
Ken O'Flynn
Written
20 Oct 2026 · to Public Expenditure
431. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation the total volume of digital data storage, in terabytes or petabytes, held or contracted by his Department and public bodies under its aegis, in each of the last 20 years. [74045/26]