Parliamentary questions

42. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No.54 of 14 May 2025, to clarify that his Department nor the central Bank of Ireland is aware or collects the data in relation to the number of legal titles held by credit servicing firms in relation to Irish property; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26365/25]

328. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance to outline all information in relation to people applying for tax relief on electricity related to running health equipment, including a list of eligible medical equipment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25206/25]

329. Deputy Colm Burke asked the Minister for Finance the extent to which the experience of the taxation of e-cigarettes in other jurisdictions have informed thinking around the proposed e-liquids tax; what jurisdictions were examined, and how his officials arrive at the figure of €500 per litre; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25229/25]

330. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Finance if he is aware of the fact that sports insurance firms are not paying for upfront medical costs (details supplied); and if he will instruct his Department to investigate this matter and reform the sports insurance system to ensure these situations do not happen. [25256/25]

331. Deputy Roderic O'Gorman asked the Minister for Finance the number of persons who have declared profits to the Revenue Commissions from cryptocurrency investments, in each of the past five years; to indicate the amount of capital gains tax and capital acquisitions tax paid on such investments, in each of the past five years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25271/25]

332. Deputy Alan Kelly asked the Minister for Finance the estimated revenue that would be generated by introducing a second home tax charge of €750. [25346/25]

333. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance the pay and any other benefits, including any loyalty payments, bonuses or other benefit-in-kind, of each chief executive of State-semi-State body or other public body, under the aegis of his Department, for each year since 2020, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25375/25]

334. Deputy Michael Healy-Rae asked the Minister for Finance if changes will be made to the help to buy grant (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25475/25]

335. Deputy Thomas Gould asked the Minister for Finance for an update on the Finance (Provision of Access to Cash Infrastructure) Bill 2024; and whether he will consider expanding the role of post offices in the implementation of this legislation. [25507/25]

336. Deputy Ruth Coppinger asked the Minister for Finance if he will expand eligibility for the disabled drivers and passengers scheme to include people living with scoliosis and recipients of corrective spinal fusion surgery who have been left with permanent impairments; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25573/25]

337. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance to confirm that the fiscal and economic outlook published on budget day will be the new medium-term fiscal and structural plan; to outline the circumstances in which the Government can deviate from the mid-term planning over the five years it is potentially in place for; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25654/25]

338. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance to confirm that no additional tariffs over what was already in place by the end of March this year were assumed in the baseline economic projections contained in the Annual Progress Report; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25655/25]

339. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance to outline the impact on the Exchequer and general Government balance if money were to be drawn down and spent from either of the Future Ireland Fund or the Nature Climate and Infrastructure Fund in 2026; how with the transfers to and from these funds by treated by the mid-term planning; do these funds provide greater flexibility under the …

340. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance to provide additional information on the €-3,050 million in accruals in year 2025 in the Annex 3 of the Annual Progress Report outline the driver of the €5.7 billion swing from 2024 to 2025 and the substantial change from the information outlined in the Fiscal and Economic Outlook published in Oct 2024; and if he will make a statement on th…

341. Deputy John Brady asked the Minister for Finance whether he intends to extend the help-to-buy scheme to first-time buyers purchasing second-hand properties; if he will provide a timeline for this; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25719/25]

342. Deputy Mairéad Farrell asked the Minister for Finance the manner by which the Revenue Commissioners calculate tax forgone for those tax expenditures identified (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25817/25]

343. Deputy Mairéad Farrell asked the Minister for Finance the different tax regimes notified to the EU Code of Conduct Group between 1998 and 2023, by year of notification and whether the tax regime was deemed to be harmful, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25818/25]

344. Deputy James Geoghegan asked the Minister for Finance if he will consider reviewing the current rate of tax on managed funds; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25822/25]

345. Deputy Mark Ward asked the Minister for Finance his views regarding vehicle registration tax and its relationship with EU trade law; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25841/25]

346. Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Finance the estimated first year and full year cost of increasing the home carer tax credit to €2,000. [25922/25]

347. Deputy Pádraig Rice asked the Minister for Finance the annual increases in the retail price of the most popular price category MPPC for a 20-pack of cigarettes since 2014; the portion of the increase related to taxes; the portion of the increase due to price rises by the tobacco industry, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25939/25]

348. Deputy Pádraig Rice asked the Minister for Finance the estimated revenue that would be raised from a taxation measure (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25940/25]

349. Deputy Pádraig Rice asked the Minister for Finance the number of persons successfully prosecuted for tobacco and or cigarette smuggling in 2023, 2024 and to date in 2025, in tabular form. [25941/25]

350. Deputy Pádraig Rice asked the Minister for Finance the resources he is allocating to the Revenue Commissioners for new or improved enforcement actions to combat illicit tobacco smuggling; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25942/25]

207. Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Finance if he will outline the number of agencies or quangos established by his Department in each of the past ten years and the cost to the State of funding each one. [24933/25]