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]
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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]
383. Deputy Emer Currie asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance if his Department has considered amending the future Ireland funds and the infrastructure, climate and nature fund to allow for their use in meeting the costs associated with the preparation for, transition to and implementation of Irish re-unification. [73751/26]
384. Deputy Roderic O'Gorman asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance the measures in budget 2027 which will support single-income families. [73766/26]
385. Deputy Michael Cahill asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance to consider raising the VAT threshold for bed and breakfasts (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [73841/26]
386. Deputy Seán Kyne asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance whether he will review the current VAT registration threshold of €42,500 for persons only supplying services and consider increasing it to €50,000 (details supplied). [73898/26]
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…
392. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance to provide an update on the corporate taxation matters currently under discussion at European Union level, including those being considered by the Economic and Financial Affairs Council, ECOFIN, during Ireland's Presidency of the Council of the European Union; to identify the relevant legislative and non-legislative proposals, including proposals …
393. Deputy Darren O'Rourke asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance if he is aware of the excessive and disproportionate customs charges and administrative fees being imposed on everyday purchases and deliveries, which are adding to the cost-of-living burden on ordinary families; and whether any review or engagement with relevant bodies is planned to address this situation. [73894/26]
394. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance to clarify whether a first-time buyer purchasing a dwelling that was completely demolished due to defective concrete blocks, including the removal of its original foundations, and subsequently reconstructed entirely with new foundations, walls and materials, is eligible for the help to buy scheme; and to outline the way in which Revenue cla…
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 …
397. Deputy Pádraig O'Sullivan asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance whether his Department has assessed Poland's decision to apply an 8% VAT rate to petrol and diesel from 3 October 2026; whether such a measure is compatible with the EU VAT Directive; whether he has sought greater flexibility on fuel VAT at EU level; and the estimated cost to the Exchequer of each one percentage point reduction in VAT on petro…
398. Deputy Aidan Farrelly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance if he will provide a schedule of the number of staff directly attached to him in his advisory and parliamentary teams, by grade, point on the scale and the length of time they have been attached to him. [74485/26]