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Written Answers — Department of Finance: Departmental Data (14 Jul 2022)

Pearse Doherty: 307. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 177 of 21 June 2022, if the revenue generated with respect to a 40% rate of capital gains tax on individual incomes in excess of €500,000, including income from gains, was calculated on the basis of the farm restructuring relief, revised entrepreneur relief and retirement relief applying to the applicable income...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Departmental Data (14 Jul 2022)

Pearse Doherty: 308. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated additional yield that could be generated in 2023 if the bailed-out banks had applied to them a 25% and 50% limit respectively on the losses that could be carried forward in a year and a five year absolute limit in which the losses could be utilised. [39475/22]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Departmental Data (14 Jul 2022)

Pearse Doherty: 310. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated annual revenue from applying a charge on the size of the assets of all qualifying Section 110 companies, at a rate of 0.001%, 0.01% and 0.1% in tabular form. [39529/22]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Departmental Data (14 Jul 2022)

Pearse Doherty: 311. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated annual revenue raised from implementing a new tax on company share buy backs at a rate of 0.5%, 1%, 3% and 5% in tabular form. [39530/22]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Pay (14 Jul 2022)

Pearse Doherty: 313. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if the cost of a new public sector pay deal, subject to the outcome of current public sector pay talks, will be funded through the €400 million of the €2.7 billion budget package to be allocated in 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39459/22]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Pay (14 Jul 2022)

Pearse Doherty: 314. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if payment of the Christmas bonus is factored into the 2022 expenditure ceiling as set out in the Summer Economic Statement; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39460/22]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Summer Economic Statement (14 Jul 2022)

Pearse Doherty: 315. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the expenditure allocated to demographics under the Summer Economic Statement, disaggregated by Department. [39462/22]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Funding (14 Jul 2022)

Pearse Doherty: 319. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the level of funding remaining and unallocated in the Covid-19 contingency reserve for 2022; the amount that has been allocated by policy measure and Department; the amount that has been allocated for the expenditure relating to Ukrainian refugees; and a monthly profile of that expenditure relating to Ukrainian refugees. [38929/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (14 Jul 2022)

Pearse Doherty: 536. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when an increase on a disability allowance payment will be applied for a person (details supplied) in County Donegal; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38967/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (14 Jul 2022)

Pearse Doherty: 588. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated total cost of providing a once-off €10, €50 and €100 payment to recipients of each social welfare payment, disaggregated by social welfare payment type, provided in tabular form. [39552/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Data (14 Jul 2022)

Pearse Doherty: 589. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the total number of social welfare recipients by social welfare type in 2019; and the projected number of social welfare recipients by social welfare type in 2022, disaggregated by social welfare type and provided in tabular form. [39553/22]

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Summer Economic Statement 2022: Discussion (14 Jul 2022)

Pearse Doherty: Cuirím fáilte roimh an Aire os comhair an choiste. Economic statements are produced every year and every year we are told by the Minister the way this is going to be and then rabbits are pulled out of the hat on budget day, which we have been promised will not happen. Is the budget strategy that has been outlined in the summer economic statement going to be the one that is...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Summer Economic Statement 2022: Discussion (14 Jul 2022)

Pearse Doherty: Was the budget strategy that was delivered for the last two years the same as the one outlined in the summer economic statements in terms of numbers and expenditure?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Summer Economic Statement 2022: Discussion (14 Jul 2022)

Pearse Doherty: That is fine if the Minister is saying that that is what will be delivered on budget day. On the existing levels of service, ELS, costs, the Irish Fiscal Advisory Council has been critical of the amounts that have been identified in the stability programme update, SPU, and again in the summer economic statement. IFAC has said that they are not realistic given the levels of inflation that we...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Summer Economic Statement 2022: Discussion (14 Jul 2022)

Pearse Doherty: So there will be no savings this year.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Summer Economic Statement 2022: Discussion (14 Jul 2022)

Pearse Doherty: Is it likely that ELS may have to dip into the unallocated €2.7 billion at this stage? I ask even though I know that it is early.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Summer Economic Statement 2022: Discussion (14 Jul 2022)

Pearse Doherty: That is fair enough. I just wanted to get the ministerial assessment and that of the Department as to where we are at this point in time, and that is a wee bit at odds with the stance of IFAC. Obviously we will know better as we get closer to budget day. I wish to pick up on the point made about a new public pay deal. We know that under the existing ELS the existing pay deals and...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Summer Economic Statement 2022: Discussion (14 Jul 2022)

Pearse Doherty: I understand. We know it is likely that a pay deal will be struck. Will the Minister give us an indication of how much of the pie will be taken up by the pay deal? Is it not the case that the rejected pay deal on offer had a total value of €1.1 billion? Was this not the overall package on offer? The 2023 figure was less than that because some of the increments were later in the...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Summer Economic Statement 2022: Discussion (14 Jul 2022)

Pearse Doherty: I am not asking the Minister to do so.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Summer Economic Statement 2022: Discussion (14 Jul 2022)

Pearse Doherty: I am not asking the Minister to do that.