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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Revenue Commissioners: Discussion (15 May 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: Are they all large corporates? Does the fact that they are foreign not necessarily mean they are large or are they all definitely large corporates?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Revenue Commissioners: Discussion (15 May 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: That does not take into account the amount of employment taxes paid by those large corporates, particularly the foreign-owned multinationals. Is there any assessment as to how much employment tax they are paying at present? I saw in one the reports that the combined employment taxes paid by large corporates was €28.9 billion.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Revenue Commissioners: Discussion (15 May 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: Is much default seen in the area of corporation tax? What is the obedience and compliance like in that sphere?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Revenue Commissioners: Discussion (15 May 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: Finally, I wish to ask Mr. Cody about a separate but equally important issue. As he will be aware, there is a concern on the part of farmers in Ireland about the extent to which they are entitled to qualify for a VAT 58 refund in respect of certain farm machinery. Is that an issue on which the Revenue Commissioners have been engaging with farmers or do they view it as that is provided for...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Revenue Commissioners: Discussion (15 May 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: The legislation or the statutory instrument?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Revenue Commissioners: Discussion (15 May 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: Is Mr. Cody saying that because of the VAT directive and how it is transposed into Irish law, it will not be possible to amend the statutory instrument to permit farmers to obtain VAT 58 refunds as we are discussing here?

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces (16 May 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: 22. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence for an update on the training that the Defence Forces have provided to Ukraine; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22032/24]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Capital Expenditure Programme (16 May 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: 23. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if he will report on the levels of capital funding for defence planned over the next two years. [22033/24]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (16 May 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: 218. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of gardaí in each Garda district in each Garda division at the end of April 2024, or the latest date available, in tabular form. [22296/24]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (21 May 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: 6. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on migration, integration and Ukraine will meet next. [21561/24]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Illicit Trade (21 May 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: 86. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will consider increasing fines for tobacco smuggling; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22750/24]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Departmental Reviews (21 May 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: 114. To ask the Minister for Finance when the review of the standard fund threshold will be concluded; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22749/24]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Policy (21 May 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: 137. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his Department has drawn up assessments of the potential impact on Ireland of the withdrawal of the United States from international multilateral organisations, in view of the growing isolationism in the United States; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22848/24]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: White Papers (21 May 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: 138. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade when his Department last published a White Paper on foreign policy; if he plans an update; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22849/24]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: International Protection (21 May 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: 433. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality whether an assessment has been carried out by his Department to determine whether the International Protection Office on Mount Street Lower, Dublin 2, is an appropriate and-or safe place to process applicants for international protection in light of the significant increase in numbers making applications at that office; and...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: International Protection (21 May 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: 434. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality whether immigration officials within her Department are monitoring the transportation of international protection applicants from Northern Ireland to Ireland; whether those transporting the applicants are breaching any immigration laws; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22559/24]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Legal Aid (21 May 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: 442. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if consideration is being given to reassessing the application process for legal aid from the Legal Aid Board in order that account is taken of the current cost of accommodation and/or debts held by the applicant; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22654/24]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (21 May 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: 449. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 506 of 30 April 2024, if she has received the necessary information from the Garda authorities in order to answer the question; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22875/24]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Data (21 May 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: 450. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of persons arrested and charged with begging in a public place within the DMR in the years of 2023 and to date in 2024 in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22876/24]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Meetings (21 May 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: 451. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she has spoken formally with the executive director of Europol to date in 2024; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22877/24]