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Pearse Doherty Written 20 May 2025 · to Finance
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]
Michael Healy-Rae Written 20 May 2025 · to Finance
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]
Thomas Gould Written 20 May 2025 · to Finance
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]
Ruth Coppinger Written 20 May 2025 · to Finance
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]
Pearse Doherty Written 20 May 2025 · to Finance
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]
Pearse Doherty Written 20 May 2025 · to Finance
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]
Pearse Doherty Written 20 May 2025 · to Finance
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 mid-term planning th…
Pearse Doherty Written 20 May 2025 · to Finance
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 the matter. [25657/25]
John Brady Written 20 May 2025 · to Finance
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]
Mairéad Farrell Written 20 May 2025 · to Finance
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]
Mairéad Farrell Written 20 May 2025 · to Finance
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]
James Geoghegan Written 20 May 2025 · to Finance
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]
Mark Ward Written 20 May 2025 · to Finance
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]
Louise O'Reilly Written 20 May 2025 · to Finance
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]
Pádraig Rice Written 20 May 2025 · to Finance
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]
Pádraig Rice Written 20 May 2025 · to Finance
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]
Pádraig Rice Written 20 May 2025 · to Finance
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]
Pádraig Rice Written 20 May 2025 · to Finance
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]
John McGuinness Written 15 May 2025 · to Finance
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]
Catherine Ardagh Written 15 May 2025 · to Finance
208. Deputy Catherine Ardagh asked the Minister for Finance if he will review the requirement for State agencies and public bodies to pay residential zoned land tax, in light of concerns that the imposition of these tariffs on publicly owned lands, particularly those designated for long-term or strategic community and public service use, is having an adverse impact on the financial capacity of those agencies to deliv…
Natasha Newsome Drennan Written 15 May 2025 · to Finance
209. Deputy Natasha Newsome Drennan asked the Minister for Finance if he will consider the introduction of an instalment payment option for those making payments to Revenue for payments such as vehicle registration tax; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25069/25]
Liam Quaide Written 14 May 2025 · to Finance
37. Deputy Liam Quaide asked the Minister for Finance the estimated number of real estate investment trusts in Ireland; the rate of effective corporation tax paid by such entities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24518/25]
Liam Quaide Written 14 May 2025 · to Finance
38. Deputy Liam Quaide asked the Minister for Finance the number of applicants to the help-to-buy scheme who were required to pay the payment back to the Revenue Commissioners as they did not live in the property for at least five years after buying or building it, in each of the years 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024, respectively. [24521/25]
Louise O'Reilly Written 14 May 2025 · to Finance
39. Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Finance the estimated yearly revenue which would be raised in the event of levies (details supplied), in tabular form. [24528/25]
Louise O'Reilly Written 14 May 2025 · to Finance
40. Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Finance the estimated yearly revenue that would be raised in the event of VAT increases (details supplied) and for this information to be provided in tabular form. [24529/25]