254. Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance the estimated annual impact on revenue of restoring the full 5% regional uplift, as it was previously constituted, for the Section 481 tax credit for film; the estimated annual impact on revenue of establishing a 5% uplift to the Section 481 tax credit for films produced in Gaeltacht areas and/or in the Irish language; the estimated revenue whi…
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255. Deputy Pádraig Rice asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance to respond to reports that consultants on public only consultant contracts (POCC) are being routinely gifted fees for the delivery of babies of private patients in the Rotunda Maternity Hospital (details supplied); if this practice will be investigated given the issues surrounding the taxation of these gifts; to clarify matters related to tax treatm…
256. Deputy Cormac Devlin asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance for an update on plans to reform and enhance Ireland’s regulatory framework for Retail Investor Alternative Investment Funds (AIFs); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46749/26]
257. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance the number of properties which have been liable for the vacant property tax in each taxable year since its introduction and to date in 2026; and the total amount raised in each tax year it has been operational and to date in 2026. [46776/26]
44. Deputy Robert O'Donoghue asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance in view of the planned transfer of responsibility for the collection of the derelict sites levies to the Revenue Commissioners, whether monies collected in respect of sites located within the Fingal County Council area will be returned directly to Fingal County Council; if not, the reason for same; whether consideration has been given to ringfen…
45. Deputy Erin McGreehan asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance the steps that will be taken to conclude the Tobacco Taxation Directive file during the Irish Presidency; the resources in situ to work on this file; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45988/26]
46. Deputy Robert O'Donoghue asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance given the fact that residential zoned land tax liabilities of €24.1 million were declared in respect of lands within the Fingal County Council area in 2025 and a further €20.5 million in 2026 to date; whether any portion of the revenues collected from these lands is returned directly to the local authority; Fingal County Council; if not, the rea…
47. Deputy Robert O'Donoghue asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance in view of the fact that residential zoned land tax liabilities of €24.1 million were declared in respect of lands within the Fingal County Council area in 2025, of which €7.9 million was collected and €16.1 million remained unpaid, and that liabilities of €20.5 million were declared in 2026 to date, of which €6.6 million was collected and €13.9…
48. Deputy Joe Cooney asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance the amount of cigarettes and tobacco products seized by the Revenue Commissioners personnel at Shannon Airport in each of the first five months of 2026, in tabular form. [46061/26]
49. Deputy Robert O'Donoghue asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance the alternative funding mechanisms that are proposed to compensate local authorities for this loss of revenue arising from the transfer of derelict sites levy collection over to the Revenue Commissioners; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46073/26]
50. Deputy Robert O'Donoghue asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance in view of the planned transfer of responsibility for the collection of derelict sites levies to the Revenue Commissioners, whether monies collected in respect of sites located within the Fingal County Council area will be returned directly to Fingal County Council; if not, the reason for same; whether consideration has been given to ringfencing…
51. Deputy Séamus McGrath asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance to increase the €400 tax free allowance to householders who generate renewable energy and supply it to the grid. [46101/26]
52. Deputy Maeve O'Connell asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance if his Department will consider increasing the rent-a-room tax allowance in line with inflation. [46117/26]
53. Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 456 of 26 May 2026, his views that each of the Revenue Commissioner's Illegal Tobacco Products Surveys since 2019 demonstrate a clear correlation between continued tobacco product tax increases and an increase in demand for smuggled tobacco products and non-Irish duty paid tobacco products; and if he will make a s…
54. Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance if, as part of ongoing risk assessments, his Department has factored the risk of increasing revenue losses as a result of increases in non-duty paid and illegal tobacco products in circulation in Ireland; and if the risk assessment process has assessed the economic logic of continuing excise increases. [46133/26]
55. Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance his Department's policy when a tax increase is no longer resulting in increased Exchequer receipts; whether there is a point at which a tax is considered to have reached the limits of its effectiveness; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46134/26]
56. Deputy Emer Currie asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance for an update on any assessment his Department has undertaken of the need to modernise the section 110 SPV regime to ensure that Ireland has a tax-neutral SPV that meets the requirements of international investment fund manager. [46254/26]
344. Deputy Thomas Gould asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance the areas the Living Cities Initiative applies to; and whether this will be extended. [45788/26]
345. Deputy Niamh Smyth asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance the status of the change of law for inheritance tax at 33% for a person (details supplied); and if he can provide an update on this matter. [44975/26]
346. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 486 of 26 May 2026, if his Department is aware of the number of accounts affected by the issue raised; if his Department is aware of the value rendered inaccessible in such accounts; and if his Department is aware of the number of prize bond holders that have died in the past five years with funds being released …
347. Deputy Eoin Hayes asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance the total revenue yield from residential zoned land tax (RZLT); the estimated revenue yield of an increase in the RZLT rate to 5% of the land's annual value in a full year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45056/26]
348. Deputy Eoin Hayes asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance the total tax expenditure on the research and development tax credit in the most recent available year; the number of corporations that received the credit as a cash refund; of those, the number of corporations that had no corporation tax liability; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45057/26]
349. Deputy Eoin Hayes asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance the total tax expenditure on the Special Assignee Relief Programme in the most recent available year; the total number of individuals currently availing of the relief; the breakdown of these beneficiaries, by income range; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45058/26]
350. Deputy Eoin Hayes asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance the number of qualifying PAYE and self-employed individuals who did not fully utilise their personal tax credit, and employee tax credit/earned income credit (as applicable) in the most recent available tax year; the total value of these unused credits; the average amount of unused credit per individual; and if he will make a statement on the matter. …
351. Deputy Albert Dolan asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance whether for procurement spend, a purchase order can be raised within his Department's financial management systems without reference to a contract, framework agreement, procurement process or other authorising arrangement; if so, the circumstances in which this may occur; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45164/26]