Results 32,601-32,620 of 33,289 for speaker:Paschal Donohoe

Written Answers — Department of Finance: National Asset Management Agency (21 May 2025)

Paschal Donohoe: As the Deputy will be aware, all NAMA staff are employed by the NTMA and assigned to NAMA under Section 42 of the NAMA Act of 2009. A Resolution Unit will be established and resourced by the NTMA, with responsibility for managing any residual activity of NAMA following its dissolution and any residual activity of IBRC (in Special Liquidation). It is anticipated that the Resolution...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Dormant Accounts Fund (21 May 2025)

Paschal Donohoe: The “Funds Sector 2030: A Framework for Open, Resilient and Developing Markets”, published in October 2024, recommended that industry consider the feasibility and design of a scheme for existing and future dormant funds and funds with uncontactable investors. Such a scheme will incorporate a role for industry in supporting investors to trace unclaimed monies and identifying how...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Vehicle Registration Tax (22 May 2025)

Paschal Donohoe: Section 135 of the Finance Act, 1992 provides that a vehicle which is temporarily brought into the State may be exempted from the requirement to be registered, if the vehicle is brought into the State by a person established outside the State. S.I. No. 60 of 1993, Temporary Exemption from Registration of Vehicles Regulations, 1993, sets out the criteria for eligibility for such exemption,...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Freedom of Information (22 May 2025)

Paschal Donohoe: I am fully cognisant of the statutory obligations that apply under the Freedom of Information Act 2014 and am satisfied that records relating to government or official departmental business are retained in line with the requirements of the Act.

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Renewable Energy Generation (22 May 2025)

Paschal Donohoe: I propose to take Questions Nos. 170 and 171 together. Micro-generation of electricity is the small-scale production of electricity by consumers who generate electricity at their own homes for their own consumption and sell the excess electricity produced to the grid. Section 216D of the Taxes Consolidation Act 1997 provides that profits of up to €400 per year arising to an...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Departmental Schemes (22 May 2025)

Paschal Donohoe: I propose to take Questions Nos. 172 and 173 together. The Deputy should note that my Department and I share concerns that the Disabled Drivers and Disabled Passengers Scheme or DDS is no longer fit-for-purpose and believe it should be replaced with a needs-based, grant-led approach for necessary vehicle adaptations that could serve to improve the functional mobility of the individual. ...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Departmental Staff (22 May 2025)

Paschal Donohoe: I wish to advise the Deputy that my Department launched its Blended Working Policy on 1st July 2022. This policy was developed in line with the parameters of the Civil Service Blended Working Policy Framework. The office remains the principal workplace and blended working arrangements are agreed at a local level in each business unit. A key principle of the policy is that business needs...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Departmental Equipment (22 May 2025)

Paschal Donohoe: I propose to take Questions Nos. 175, 176 and 178 together. ICT services for my department are provided by the Office of the Government Chief Information Officer (OGCIO) under the Department of Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Services, Reform and Digitalisation. As part of this arrangement, my department uses Microsoft Teams as part of the department’s collaboration and...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Departmental Equipment (22 May 2025)

Paschal Donohoe: ICT services for my department are provided by the Office of the Government Chief Information Officer (OGCIO) under the Department of Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Services, Reform and Digitalisation. As part of this arrangement, my department uses appropriate current versions of a range of enterprise cloud services across Infrastructure, Platform and Software as a Service as...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Departmental Contracts (22 May 2025)

Paschal Donohoe: ICT services for my department are provided by the Office of the Government Chief Information Officer (OGCIO) under the Department of Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Services, Reform and Digitalisation. I am advised that the department’s internet service is provided through the Government Networks shared service which is delivered by the OGCIO. As such, my department does...

Restrictive Financial Measures (State of Israel) Bill 2025: Second Stage [Private Members] (27 May 2025)

Paschal Donohoe: Let me begin by emphasising Ireland's absolute respect for international law. Our view is that this is at the core of our foreign policy. I emphasise our track record in what we have done and what we have called for on behalf of the people of Gaza. Let me make the Government's stance really clear. We condemn Israel’s illegal annexation of the occupied Palestinian territories and we...

Restrictive Financial Measures (State of Israel) Bill 2025: Second Stage [Private Members] (27 May 2025)

Paschal Donohoe: For the first time in the State, what this Bill aims to do is to introduce a national sanctions regime. Let us step back and acknowledge the huge suffering that is the cause of this debate but let us look also at how Irish diplomacy has worked. How it has worked is that the sanctions that we have implemented have been ones that have been negotiated, agreed and introduced at EU and UN level.

Restrictive Financial Measures (State of Israel) Bill 2025: Second Stage [Private Members] (27 May 2025)

Paschal Donohoe: They are an important tool to promote the objective of the EU's Common Foreign and Security Policy. Sanctions are stronger and more effective when done collectively. Rather than be seen to do something, it is far better-----

Restrictive Financial Measures (State of Israel) Bill 2025: Second Stage [Private Members] (27 May 2025)

Paschal Donohoe: -----to ensure the outcome is effective. Furthermore, the clear advice that has been provided to me is that it is not about hiding behind the law, it is as a government and a Member of Parliament, being subject to the law.

Restrictive Financial Measures (State of Israel) Bill 2025: Second Stage [Private Members] (27 May 2025)

Paschal Donohoe: The article is very clear that the Bill conflicts with Article 215 of the Treaty of the European Union, which is intended to preclude individual member states from issuing their own restrictive measures, which could undermine the integrity of how the EU conducts its external affairs policies. The reason for that, again, is that the EU has shown its ability to make progress when it acts in a...

Restrictive Financial Measures (State of Israel) Bill 2025: Second Stage [Private Members] (27 May 2025)

Paschal Donohoe: -----and which did not happen in the earlier statements from Sinn Féin-----

Restrictive Financial Measures (State of Israel) Bill 2025: Second Stage [Private Members] (27 May 2025)

Paschal Donohoe: -----is intended to prevent the sale of Israeli bonds throughout the European Union. However, we cannot promote or even propose national legislation that prohibits the sale of something at EU level. Any actions taken by Ireland must recognise the distinction between policy areas at a national level and those at an EU level.

Restrictive Financial Measures (State of Israel) Bill 2025: Second Stage [Private Members] (27 May 2025)

Paschal Donohoe: Even if this Bill were to be enacted, Israeli bonds-----

Restrictive Financial Measures (State of Israel) Bill 2025: Second Stage [Private Members] (27 May 2025)

Paschal Donohoe: -----would still be available to retail investors across the EU and further afield. Let me repeat that: even if this Bill were to be enacted, Israeli bonds would still be available to retail investors across the EU and further afield.

Restrictive Financial Measures (State of Israel) Bill 2025: Second Stage [Private Members] (27 May 2025)

Paschal Donohoe: The Government does not support enacting legislation that is ineffective.