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Written Answers — Special Savings Incentive Scheme: Special Savings Incentive Scheme (12 Apr 2005)

Brian Cowen: Special savings incentive accounts, SSIAs, will mature between May 2006 and April 2007 depending on when the account was opened. Based on the most recent information available to the Revenue Commissioners, that is, the returns for 2003, the number of SSIAs due to mature in that period is as outlined in the table below. These numbers can be expected to reduce marginally between now and the...

Written Answers — Services for People with Disabilities: Services for People with Disabilities (12 Apr 2005)

Brian Cowen: As part of budget 2005, I announced a special disability multi-annual funding package with a total value of close to €900 million over the years 2006-09. While this package includes guaranteed additional current spending of almost €600 million, it also includes capital spending of €300 million. The bulk of the new funding package will go to the health sector where it will be invested in...

Written Answers — Tax Code: Tax Code (12 Apr 2005)

Brian Cowen: There are no proposals at present to introduce new tax incentives for employers who employ persons with disabilities. Persons returning to employment after being unemployed, including persons in receipt of certain disability payments, can claim the Revenue job assist allowance where certain conditions are satisfied. The Revenue job assist scheme provides an incentive to the long-term...

Written Answers — Disabled Drivers: Disabled Drivers (12 Apr 2005)

Brian Cowen: Significant progress has been made in the reconstitution of the medical board of appeal for the disabled drivers and disabled passengers tax concessions scheme. It is expected that the board will resume its meetings very shortly. I appointed a new chairperson to the board on 14 March 2005 and I understand that a new secretary is being recruited and will be in place shortly. As indicated in my...

Written Answers — Special Savings Incentive Scheme: Special Savings Incentive Scheme (12 Apr 2005)

Brian Cowen: The SSIA scheme introduced by the Government in 2001 contains conditions which each SSIA account holder must comply with when opening, maintaining, ceasing or maturing their accounts. These conditions are contained in Part 38A of the Taxes Consolidation Act 1997 as inserted by section 33 of the Finance Act 2001. One of these conditions is that the subscriptions made to the SSIA by the SSIA...

Written Answers — Tax Code: Tax Code (12 Apr 2005)

Brian Cowen: The disabled drivers and disabled passengers tax concessions scheme is open to people with disabilities who meet the specified criteria and have obtained a primary medical certificate to that effect. The senior area medical officer attached to the relevant local health area is responsible for both the medical assessment and the issue of the medical certificate. The medical criteria for the...

Written Answers — Tax Code: Tax Code (12 Apr 2005)

Brian Cowen: I have been advised by the Revenue Commissioners that the spouse of the person in question changed employment in November 2004. Revenue was not informed and as a result a tax credit certificate was not sent to the new employer. The employer was, therefore, obliged to operate the emergency basis of tax. The liability of the person and his spouse has now been reviewed for 2004 taking into...

Written Answers — Flood Relief: Flood Relief (12 Apr 2005)

Brian Cowen: The Dublin coastal protection study, which is being carried out by Dublin City Council and part funded by OPW, is a study which is examining the causes and impacts of flooding from Portmarnock to Booterstown. A draft report has been received by OPW in the past few weeks and is being considered. OPW met officials from Dublin City Council recently and the council highlighted some of the...

Written Answers — Houses of the Oireachtas: Houses of the Oireachtas (12 Apr 2005)

Brian Cowen: Restoration of Leinster Lawn has been contingent on the completion of the refurbishment of Kildare House for the Houses of the Oireachtas. As this project is nearing completion, consultations with the Houses of the Oireachtas have commenced regarding a landscaping scheme to effect the reinstatement of Leinster Lawn and the scheduling of associated works. Works to the lawn could be carried out...

Written Answers — Decentralisation Programme: Decentralisation Programme (12 Apr 2005)

Brian Cowen: There are no sections of my Department based outside Dublin.

Written Answers — Fairtrade Products: Fairtrade Products (12 Apr 2005)

Brian Cowen: I am aware of the fair trade campaign and its positive objective of raising consumer awareness regarding the purchase of products from less developed countries and in making such products more widely available. Any decision by my Department to use Fairtrade products would have to comply with normal public procurement rules. In regard to the supply of services such as cafeteria services in my...

Written Answers — Decentralisation Programme: Decentralisation Programme (12 Apr 2005)

Brian Cowen: The two reports of the decentralisation implementation group, DIG, dated 31 March 2004 and 30 July 2004 provide detailed accounts of the progress made in implementing the decentralisation programme announced in December 2003. An analysis of the applications registered with the Central Applications Facility by 7 September 2004 has also been published. All of these reports can be accessed at...

Written Answers — Financial Services Regulation: Financial Services Regulation (12 Apr 2005)

Brian Cowen: I propose to take Questions Nos. 369 to 372, inclusive, together. The Consumer Director of the Irish Financial Services Regulatory Authority, the financial regulator, is encouraging people to complain in the first instance to the company from whom they bought the policy if they are concerned about the possibility of having been missold an endowment mortgage. The recently appointed Financial...

Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (12 Apr 2005)

Brian Cowen: I propose to take Questions Nos. 374 and 375 together. The Deputy will appreciate that given its functions, my Department has not awarded grants or other financial assistance to organisations or groups of the type mentioned in any of the past three years.

Written Answers — Tax Code: Tax Code (12 Apr 2005)

Brian Cowen: As I set out in my answer of 30 November 2004, an amount equivalent to the VAT paid on sales of the Band Aid CD and Live Aid DVD is to be paid from the Vote for International Co-operation to the Band Aid Trust. Because the VAT collected from the sale of such goods is accounted for by retailers based on the totality of their sales over a taxable period, it is not possible for the Revenue...

Written Answers — Tax Collection: Tax Collection (12 Apr 2005)

Brian Cowen: I am advised by the Revenue Commissioners that this person's tax affairs are currently dealt with in the Kildare, Meath and Wicklow customer services district in Grattan House, Lower Mount Street, Dublin 2, telephone number 01-6474000, and tax details are held there. A form P21 balancing statement would normally issue to a taxpayer who is subject to PAYE on submission of a return of income....

Written Answers — Departmental Bodies: Departmental Bodies (12 Apr 2005)

Brian Cowen: The following table sets out the fees payable, where appropriate, to the chairperson and directors-members of each statutory board operating under the aegis of my Department. Fees are not paid to civil servants, and normally not to other public servants, as directors-members of such boards. Name of Body Chairperson's fee Director's-Member's fee â'¬ â'¬ ...

Written Answers — Money Laundering: Money Laundering (12 Apr 2005)

Brian Cowen: Irish legislation on money laundering is set out in the Criminal Justice Act 1994, as amended. Primary responsibility for legislation in the area of money laundering rests with the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform. In regard to regulation of the financial sector the role of the Minister for Finance is to bring forward legislative proposals under which the financial regulator, the...

Written Answers — Tax Code: Tax Code (12 Apr 2005)

Brian Cowen: Without commenting on the individual tax affairs of the school concerned, the general position is that the scheme of tax relief for donations to approved bodies is governed by section 848A of the Taxes Consolidation Act 1997. Approved bodies include primary schools where their programmes are approved by the Minister for Education and Science. A voluntary contribution to an approved body...

Written Answers — Tax Code: Tax Code (12 Apr 2005)

Brian Cowen: The original scheme for tax relief on donations made to charities was governed by section 8, Finance Act 1995, and applied only to certain designated Third World charities. The current scheme for tax relief on donations to approved bodies, which includes donations made to charities, is governed by section 848A of the Taxes Consolidation Act 1997. The scheme was introduced in Finance Act 2001...