Parliamentary questions

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 …

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]

184. Deputy Duncan Smith asked the Minister for Finance to outline any plans to make pension bonus payments tax free for individuals who are in receipt of a contributory State pension and a private pension; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4723/25]

185. Deputy Cathal Crowe asked the Minister for Finance if he will consider raising the cap on the help-to-buy scheme to increase the number of eligible applicants; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4837/25]

186. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Finance if he will reduce the excise on HVO. [3974/25]

187. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Finance if he will reduce the taxes on HVO to allow to be used in farming and in home heating. [3975/25]

188. Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Finance the amount of excise duty that was paid on alcohol in each year from 2014 to 2024; and the percentage of this excise duty as a total of the tax taken in by the State in each of those years, by excise duty per year, and as a percentage of the overall tax take, in tabular form. [3990/25]

189. Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Finance the details of all of the Israeli Government bonds held by the Ireland Strategic Investment Fund, ISIF, including the date on which they were issued, the date on which they were acquired by ISIF and their respective international securities identification numbers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4007/25]

190. Deputy John Paul O'Shea asked the Minister for Finance regarding inheritance tax, if the income from solar panels and-or wind turbines is part of the transfer of a family farm to a son or daughter; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4029/25]

191. Deputy Conor D. McGuinness asked the Minister for Finance to publish the ministerial brief he received on commencing his role; and when and by what means it will be published. [4091/25]

192. Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Finance with regard to all investments made under the Ireland strategic investment fund, ISIF, in Israeli Government bonds, the dates the bonds were issued; details of the investments and the dates they were purchased by ISIF; the international security identification number in each case; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4146/25]

193. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Minister for Finance his plans to engage with an organisation (details supplied) in respect of insurance cover for households and areas affected by Storm Éowyn. [4162/25]

194. Deputy Matt Carthy asked the Minister for Finance the current rate of excise duty; the amount of revenue raised, by category, in each month since January 2024 to date, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4170/25]

195. Deputy Michael Cahill asked the Minister for Finance to address the long delay in processing a DD1 application for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4191/25]

196. Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Finance the fines his Department or agencies under the aegis of his Department are paying to the EU for breaches of EU guidance, requirements, regulations, directives or laws. [4211/25]

197. Deputy Mark Wall asked the Minister for Finance the up-to-date position with a VAT repayment from a grant for a person in County Kildare (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4224/25]

198. Deputy Pa Daly asked the Minister for Finance for an update on the Ireland Strategic Investment Fund; if he is aware of investments made in companies that are operating and-or involved in illegal Israeli settlements; to provide a breakdown of these investments; if he intends to divest from these investments; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4240/25]

199. Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Finance in respect of each Bill for which his Department had responsibility and that was initiated in 2024, or that was enacted in 2024, to specify in which House of the Oireachtas the Bill was initiated; the number of ministerial or Government amendments submitted at each legislative Stage of the Bill; if the guillotine was used on the Bill in…

200. Deputy Matt Carthy asked the Minister for Finance the reason his Department seeks to amend the remote-hybrid working arrangements for staff; the evidence that the proposed changes will lead to improved productivity; the source of such evidence; if he intends to revise this proposal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4278/25]