Questions

121. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance to provide the dividend payment received by the State for shares held in AIB, BOI and PTSB for each year that data is available, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5113/25]

122. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 65 of 6 February 2025, to provide additional detail on the contract with a company (details supplied) making specific reference to the substance of the advice received and the impact it had on the decision to sell state assets; the reason there was no cost to the Department given the contract was for a 12-month duration; i…

123. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance to provide additional detail on the most recent sale of State assets for a 5% stake in AIB, making specific reference to the purchase by international institutional investors; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5115/25]

124. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance if companies can make disclosures that are classified as unprompted even after Revenue has requested for a self-review of tax compliance effectively alerting the company to revenues awareness and interest in a specific tax practice; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5116/25]

125. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance if he intends to commission an independent assessment of the impacts of his tax policies on the economies of developing countries, as recommended by the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5155/25]

126. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance if he will bring forward annual estimates of the tax gap, as is done in many other jurisdictions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5157/25]

127. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance to outline the reasons the compliance assurance programme was not run in either 2022 or 2023; if the compliance assurance programme was run in 2024; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5161/25]

128. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance to provide a breakdown of non-resident ownership of Irish Government bonds making a distinction between private and publicly held non-resident ownership, specifying how much is held by other central banks, including the European Central Bank; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5162/25]

129. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance the total amount of Irish Government bonds held by the Central Bank since 2016; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5163/25]

130. Deputy Marie Sherlock asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform when the review of the Civil Service blended working policy framework will commence; the lead department overseeing this review; if the review will be conducted by an external organisation or internal group; the names of all those involved in the review; the timeline for the review; when is it expected …

131. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform the labour costs to date of building the wall on the Hill of Tara. [4932/25]

132. Deputy Pat Buckley asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform to provide free sanitary products in all public buildings under the remit of the OPW; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4947/25]

133. Deputy Aidan Farrelly asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform the annual payment by his Department to the climate action fund scheme, as required by virtue Circular 01/2020 (D/PER), broken down by trip, in each of the past five years and to date in 2025, in tabular form. [4961/25]

134. Deputy Conor Sheehan asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform further to Parliamentary Question No. 312 of 5 February 2025, when the OPW will approve the preliminary business case for the proposed new office building at the Limerick opera site; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4993/25]

135. Deputy John Lahart asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform for an update on the two flood alleviation schemes being undertaken by the OPW in an area (details supplied) and to make a statement on the costs involved the progress of work to date. [5005/25]

136. Deputy James Geoghegan asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform the measures he will take to expedite delivery of project assessments, appraisals, business cases, and other stages of the approval process, as set out in the Programme for Government; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5096/25]

137. Deputy James Geoghegan asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform the measures he will take to streamline and simplify the delivery of flood relief initiatives, as set out in the Programme for Government; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5097/25]

138. Deputy James Geoghegan asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform his plans to simplify planning, procurement and project management approvals for infrastructure projects in Dublin; if he will outline any specific examples of international best practice his Department has identified as potentially useful in the development of reforms to our public services; and if he…

139. Deputy James Geoghegan asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform the various metrics his Department uses to measure the impact that digitalisation will have on public service delivery; the specific areas of public services that his Department have outlined as having the highest potential for digitalisation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5100/25]

140. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform to outline any plans to establish a mechanism for central oversight to monitor the amount of the allocated funding from the carbon tax that is actually being expended on the target schemes and programmes, as highlighted by the C&AG it will not be possible to say how much of the carbon tax will actua…

141. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform if he is concerned that a conflict of interest may exist in relation to the Minister of State for the OPW’s involvement in a High Court case relating to an OPW property in Lissywollen; what steps he will take to address this; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5200/25]

142. Deputy John Lahart asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment when the Companies Registration Office will enact the new Companies (Corporate Governance Enforcement and Regulatory Provisions) Act 2024 with regard to audit exception. [5053/25]

143. Deputy Louis O'Hara asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he is considering a compensation package for businesses affected by storm Éowyn; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4866/25]

144. Deputy Ruth Coppinger asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment to report on his dealings with the European Commission and the European Council regarding the Mercosur Trade Agreement; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4870/25]

145. Deputy Aidan Farrelly asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the total annual payments by his Department to the climate action fund scheme, as required by virtue Circular 01/2020 (D/PER); an annual total of the payments in the past five years and to date in 2025, in tabular form. [4953/25]