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Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Public Service Performance Report 2022 (28 Jun 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Right.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Public Service Performance Report 2022 (28 Jun 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am just picking this out as an instance but affordable housing, for example, is not included as a metric, which is an important one. Nor is the subdivision of social housing and now we also have cost rental and affordable purchase. If we take that as an example, we could definitely do with a little more detail in that regard. These issues are my hobby-horses, but I am quite interested...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Public Service Performance Report 2022 (28 Jun 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Maybe tax expenditures is a more general issue. I am just looking at it now. Do tax expenditures get covered?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Public Service Performance Report 2022 (28 Jun 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Perhaps it is something that might be for the committee to consider. We have been discussing tax expenditures generally and we have looked at some of them specifically. We have characterised them to some extent as a shadow budget, in that they are directed towards certain policy objectives but they are treated differently from direct expenditures. We have questioned them and suggested...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Public Service Performance Report 2022 (28 Jun 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Yes.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Public Service Performance Report 2022 (28 Jun 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Yes, I get that and we do not want to have it so dense with detail, fine print and what not that it becomes unreadable. I definitely think tax expenditure is a significant area. In the case of film, for example, the biggest source of funding is not direct expenditure through Screen Ireland; the biggest expenditure is a tax break. There may be other instances of this. I am sure there are....

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Public Service Performance Report 2022 (28 Jun 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I thank the Cathaoirleach Gníomhach.

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Broadband Infrastructure (27 Jun 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 121. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment to report on the plans to install fibre optics in the Foxrock area; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30837/23]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Yield (27 Jun 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 209. To ask the Minister for Finance the full-year revenue that would be generated by increasing the corporate tax rate to 20% and 25%; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30992/23]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Yield (27 Jun 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 210. To ask the Minister for Finance the full-year revenue that would be generated by imposing a minimum effective corporate tax rate of 15% on pre-tax gross trading profits before deductions, reliefs and allowances and assuming no behavioural change; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30993/23]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Trade Data (27 Jun 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 211. To ask the Minister for Finance the latest available figures for total pre-tax gross corporate trading profits for 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30994/23]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Yield (27 Jun 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 212. To ask the Minister for Finance the full-year revenue that would be generated by imposing a financial transaction tax of 0.1% on shares and securities and 0.01% on derivatives; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30995/23]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Yield (27 Jun 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 213. To ask the Minister for Finance the full-year revenue that would be generated disallowing historic losses (losses forward) as tax deductions for banks and insurance companies; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30996/23]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Yield (27 Jun 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 214. To ask the Minister for Finance the full-year revenue that would be generated by introducing a 4% levy on profits of pharmaceutical companies and private health companies; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30997/23]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Yield (27 Jun 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 215. To ask the Minister for Finance the full-year revenue that would be generated by abolishing the SARP; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30998/23]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Yield (27 Jun 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 216. To ask the Minister for Finance the full-year revenue that would be generated by establishing four new income tax bands of 50% on earnings between €100,000 and €150,000; 55% on earnings between €150,000 and €200,000; 60% on earnings between €200,000 and €275,000; 65% on earnings between over €275,000; and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Data (27 Jun 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 217. To ask the Minister for Finance how many property owners are paying LPT on one property; two properties; three properties; four properties; between five and ten; between ten and 20; between 20 and 50, between 50 and 100, and 100 or more, excluding local authorities and AHDs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31003/23]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Data (27 Jun 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 218. To ask the Minister for Finance the full-year cost of abolishing the LPT and introducing a tax on NPPRs as follows: Single NPPR - €1,000; ten or less NPPRs - €1,500 per property; 11 or more NPPRs - €2,500 per property; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31004/23]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Yield (27 Jun 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 219. To ask the Minister for Finance to provide a full-year estimate of the revenue that would be generated by introducing a levy of 33% on commercial aviation fuel; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31005/23]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Yield (27 Jun 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 220. To ask the Minister for Finance to provide a full-year estimate of the revenue that would be generated if Ireland imposed the European Commission’s proposed tax on aviation fuel in Budget 2023; where that tax will be imposed on all flights, including executive and corporate flights; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31006/23]