Results 901-920 of 33,118 for speaker:Paschal Donohoe

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Rebates (1 Apr 2025)

Paschal Donohoe: The Diesel Rebate Scheme allows qualifying road haulage and passenger transport operators to claim a partial refund on excise duty paid for diesel used in qualifying vehicles. Qualifying businesses must submit rebate claims within 4 months of the end of each quarterly claim period. Once a claim is validated and approved for refund, monies are systematically offset against any customer tax...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Reliefs (1 Apr 2025)

Paschal Donohoe: Section 469 of the Taxes Consolidation Act (TCA) 1997 provides for tax relief where an individual proves that he or she has incurred costs in respect of qualifying health expenses. Only “health expenses” incurred in the provision of “health care”, which has been carried out or advised by (in certain circumstances) a “practitioner”, will qualify for...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Credits (1 Apr 2025)

Paschal Donohoe: Finance Act 2018 introduced a short-term, tapered regional uplift under the section 481 film tax credit for productions being made in areas designated under the State aid regional guidelines (among other criteria). The purpose of the regional uplift was to support the development of new, local pools of talent in areas outside the main production hubs, to support the geographic spread of the...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Fiscal Data (1 Apr 2025)

Paschal Donohoe: The NTMA have informed me that at end-2024, Gross National Debt stood at €232.6bn. After deducting Exchequer cash and other financial assets of €39.6bn, Net National Debt was €193bn at end-2024. Exchequer debt service expenditure was €3.1bn in 2024 and, at the time of Budget 2025 in October 2024, was projected to be €3.2bn in 2025. As contain in the...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Fiscal Data (1 Apr 2025)

Paschal Donohoe: The Exchequer currently has no bilateral loans from other States. As part of the Joint EU-IMF Programme of Financial Support which Ireland entered in late 2010, Ireland borrowed bilaterally from the UK, Sweden, and Denmark. However, each of those bilateral loans has been fully repaid, with those from Sweden and Denmark repaid in late 2017 and the loan from the UK repaid over the period...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Middle East (1 Apr 2025)

Paschal Donohoe: As the Deputy is aware, St Patrick’s Day, and the programmes of engagement that are built around it, presents the Government with a unique opportunity to showcase Ireland and to further deepen links with our counterparts and countries around the world. The main focus of my visit to Germany was to promote Irish trade, tourism and investment and to connect with the German-Irish...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Question Heading for question(s) 334 (1 Apr 2025)

Paschal Donohoe: As Minister for Finance, I have policy responsibility for the development of the legal framework governing financial services regulation, including for the insurance sector. In terms of zoning and mapping for the purposes of assessing the level of risk that an insurer is willing to underwrite in relation to individual properties, please be aware that insurers use their own modelling tools...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Departmental Data (1 Apr 2025)

Paschal Donohoe: To better understand the potential impact of protectionism on the Irish economy, my Department and the ESRI recently published an analytical paper where several scenarios were modelled. The analysis focuses on the impact of tariffs and does not estimate the impact of certain broader protectionist measures, including potential changes to the US tax code. While the latter could have a material...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Housing Policy (1 Apr 2025)

Paschal Donohoe: The Central Bank of Ireland is responsible for regulating and supervising the provision of mortgage and other credit to consumers by regulated financial services providers. In line with this mandate, the Central Bank has adopted macro prudential residential mortgage lending requirements which, with a certain level of flexibility for lenders, sets maximum loan to value (LTV) and loan to income...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Housing Schemes (1 Apr 2025)

Paschal Donohoe: The Help to Buy (HTB) incentive, is a scheme to assist first-time purchasers with the deposit they need to buy or build a new house or apartment. It also has as an aim the encouragement of additional supply of new houses by supporting demand. I am advised by Revenue that the total costs for fully approved Help to Buy (HTB) claims for the years 2017 to 2024, including retrospective cases...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Reliefs (1 Apr 2025)

Paschal Donohoe: I propose to take Questions Nos. 338 and 339 together. Section 482 of the Taxes Consolidation Act 1997 was introduced for the purpose of assisting the preservation of our built heritage, by giving tax relief to the owners or occupiers of significant buildings or gardens on the expenditure incurred by them on the repair, maintenance and restoration of those properties. This scheme applies to...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Reliefs (1 Apr 2025)

Paschal Donohoe: Relief from Capital Gains Tax (´CGT´) is available under sections 598 and 599 of the Taxes Consolidation Act 1997 (´TCA 1997´) to individuals aged 55 years or more on the disposal of qualifying business assets. The relief is commonly referred to as retirement relief, although it is not necessary for the individual to retire to qualify for the relief. Section 599 TCA 1997...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Legislative Measures (1 Apr 2025)

Paschal Donohoe: As the Deputy will be aware, the Department of Finance’s Retail Banking Review was published in November 2022 and contained a number of recommendations. One recommendation was for the Department of Finance to develop access to cash legislation in order to establish a framework to ensure that the future evolution of cash infrastructure in the State will be managed in a fair, orderly,...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht – Questions on Policy or Legislation (27 Mar 2025)

Paschal Donohoe: All I can tell the Deputy is that I am aware the issue is being addressed. He is not the first person I have heard make the point. I know he is aware, as I am, of the need to make sure that whoever is driving a bus with our kids in it is able to do it safely. I know he agrees with that. That is not in doubt. The Road Safety Authority wants to ensure that if we do change the age at which...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht – Questions on Policy or Legislation (27 Mar 2025)

Paschal Donohoe: I thank the Deputy for raising that with me. I am not sure what influence the Department of Transport and the National Transport Authority have on the conduct and level of fees on the toll road that the Deputy referred to.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht – Questions on Policy or Legislation (27 Mar 2025)

Paschal Donohoe: All I can commit to doing is raising that issue with them, which I will do. I know well how important that road is and the fact that it is used more and more to get around parts of Dublin as opposed to beyond Dublin. I will make sure the Minister for Transport is aware of the issue the Deputy raised.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht – Questions on Policy or Legislation (27 Mar 2025)

Paschal Donohoe: I think there is a world of difference between me producing a document that Deputy Farrelly's party published and a report in a newspaper. I produced a document that the Social Democrats published about economic policy and the role of jobs in our economy. Any engagement on the future of health spending and the allocation of the capital budget is taken very seriously by the HSE. It aims to...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht – Questions on Policy or Legislation (27 Mar 2025)

Paschal Donohoe: The Deputy is not frequently a voice for calmness and moderation in this House. I did not notice him being one during the week either.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht – Questions on Policy or Legislation (27 Mar 2025)

Paschal Donohoe: There is no doubt but that the Minister for Justice wants to engage with the Dáil on this issue. He gained Government agreement about the steps that are needed to implement the pact. He will of course come into the Dáil to answer questions on it but the aim of the pact is to reduce processing times for migration applications, which we all know in turn can help to reduce the...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht – Questions on Policy or Legislation (27 Mar 2025)

Paschal Donohoe: I thank Deputy Boland for raising this issue regarding the importance of special education and additional education for those who are beginning their lives in our schools and who need additional support and help. I know the Deputy is aware that we have more than 3,300 special classes available across our country but, out of all those, there are 14 specifically available for children with...