358. Deputy Shay Brennan asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance the current value of the Future Ireland Fund; and the current value of the Infrastructure, Climate and Nature Fund. [73497/26]
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359. Deputy Donna McGettigan asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance if he will review the help-to-buy scheme rules for returning emigrants to take into account taxes paid in the State before applicants emigrated. [73493/26]
360. Deputy Shay Brennan asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance the total value of the income tax and USC changes in budgets 2021 to 2027, inclusive. [73573/26]
361. Deputy Darren O'Rourke asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance if there is a standard, predictable approach to calculating VRT for vehicles taken in from the North of Ireland; the criteria that apply; and if this approach is consistent between makes, models and engine types and sizes. [73571/26]
362. Deputy Micheál Carrigy asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance if consideration will be given to including secondhand properties as part of the help-to-buy scheme. [73570/26]
363. Deputy Micheál Carrigy asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance for an update on the progress of the personal investment account, which is scheduled to open in July 2027. [73568/26]
364. Deputy Denise Mitchell asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance the number of productions that have availed of the scéal uplift scheme since its introduction; and whether the Government is considering any additional measures to encourage film production and employment in regional areas outside Dublin. [73616/26]
365. Deputy Cathal Crowe asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance if he will review the eligibility criteria for the help-to-buy incentive scheme to accommodate returning Irish citizens who do not meet the full four-year tax look-back window; and if he will consider expanding the window to account for a broader historical Irish tax record or, alternatively, factoring in verified future Irish income tax commitments…
366. Deputy Grace Boland asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance whether, in the context of the carbon tax measures announced in Budget 2027, consideration was given to extending to liquefied petroleum gas (LPG), the treatment applied to natural gas and kerosene; and whether representations have been received regarding the tax treatment of LPG users. [73567/26]
367. Deputy Pa Daly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance the VAT that has been earned on gas and electricity bills, broken down by fuel type on bills for large energy users only in each month since January 2024, in tabular form. [73668/26]
368. Deputy Pa Daly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance the VAT that has been earned on gas and electricity bills ,broken down by fuel type on non-domestic bills only in each month since January 2024, in tabular form. [73667/26]
369. Deputy Pa Daly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance the VAT that has been earned on gas and electricity bills, broken down by fuel type on domestic bills only in each month since January 2024, in tabular form. [73666/26]
370. Deputy Pa Daly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance the breakdown of the VAT earned on electricity and gas bills, by fuel type and by type of customer in each month since January 2024, in tabular form. [73665/26]
371. Deputy Pa Daly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance the amount of revenue that has been earned through the VAT on electricity, in each of the years 2015 to date; the amount of revenue that has been earned through the VAT on gas, in each of the years 2015 to date; the amount of revenue that has been earned through the VAT on electricity on domestic bills only, in each of the years 2015 to date; and the amo…
372. Deputy Pa Daly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance the estimated revenue foregone if the VAT rate for electricity was set at 0%, in each of the years 2020 to date; the estimated revenue foregone if the VAT rate for gas was set at 0%, in each of the years 2020 to date; the estimated revenue foregone if the VAT rate for electricity was set at 0% for domestic customers only, in each of the years 2020 to dat…
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]
380. Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance whether an impact assessment was carried out prior to the reduction of the farmer VAT flat-rate addition from 4.8% to 4.5%; and if that assessment examined the effect on livestock marts, non-VAT-registered farmers and livestock trading patterns. [73712/26]
381. Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance whether the Government was advised prior to budget 2026 that reducing the farmer VAT flat-rate addition below the livestock VAT rate would leave non-VAT-registered farmers financially better off selling livestock outside mart channels in certain circumstances; and. if such advice was received, when it was received. [73719/26]
382. Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance to provide the methodology, calculations, datasets and assumptions used in determining the reduction of the farmer VAT flat-rate addition to 4.5%. [73715/26]