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Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Test (11 Jul 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: 179. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will list the various reasons a person can fail the practical driving test; and if he will outline the number of candidates who failed on each of the various grounds, in each county in 2022, in tabular form. [34259/23]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (11 Jul 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: 206. To ask the Minister for Finance what lobbying has been documented on the file pertaining to the setup and development and implementation of the residential zoned land tax. [34200/23]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (11 Jul 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: 210. To ask the Minister for Finance how many planning authority/local authority officials raised concerns with his Department in relation to the implementation and execution of the residential zoned land tax. [34211/23]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (11 Jul 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: 207. To ask the Minister for Finance what influence, if any, his Department or the Revenue Commissioners have on the adoption of the broad-brush approach used to creating, mapping and implementing the residential zoned land tax. [34203/23]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (11 Jul 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: 208. To ask the Minister for Finance what consideration was given to the impact of residential zoned land tax liabilities on working farm incomes and the impact of this tax on the income of farming families, many of whom are operating on the knife-edge of viability. [34208/23]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (11 Jul 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: 209. To ask the Minister for Finance the input from the Minister of Agriculture, Food and the Marine in the formation of the residential zoned land tax and the criteria for exclusion, given that there is no exclusion for working farmland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34209/23]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (11 Jul 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: 211. To ask the Minister for Finance if his Department has given any consideration to rescinding and reconsidering the residential zoned land tax in its current format until the multitude of problems associated with its scoping and implementation have been resolved. [34212/23]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Industrial Disputes (11 Jul 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: 247. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will intervene in the ongoing dispute between workers (details supplied); and if he will end the practice of State contracts being given to companies which refuse to recognise trade union membership. [33458/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (11 Jul 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: 297. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she is aware of the controversy surrounding the Leaving Certificate Maths Paper 1, with one school principal complaining in the "strongest terms" about the difficulty level of the paper; if she will address this issue and if she has a plan for these students going forward (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Raidió Teilifís Éireann (11 Jul 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: 320. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she has been alerted to any instances where RTÉ may have been compromised editorially by financial transactions or barter accounts. [34262/23]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Raidió Teilifís Éireann (11 Jul 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: 321. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if the investigation into matters in RTÉ will seek to determine if RTÉ has been compromised editorially by financial transactions or barter accounts. [34263/23]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Raidió Teilifís Éireann (11 Jul 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: 322. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she is aware of any commercial arrangement RTÉ had with any other car manufacturer other than a company (details supplied) which resulted in payments to a barter account, and or an increase in salary for any RTÉ employee or board member. [34264/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (11 Jul 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: 324. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government in relation to the scoping maps for the residential zoned land tax, what is the total area of land, in hectares, currently scoped to which the residential zoned land tax may apply; and if a breakdown can be provided by these areas, by planning authority area. [34195/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (11 Jul 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: 325. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government what percentage of the lands, nationally the residential zoned land tax ‘scoped lands’ occupies. [34196/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (11 Jul 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: 326. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government what percentage of the lands, by local authority/ planning authority area, the residential zoned land tax scoped lands occupies. [34197/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (11 Jul 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: 327. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the reason the ‘Housing Lands Availability Survey (HLAS) was not updated to accommodate the most recent residential lands identified. [34202/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (11 Jul 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: 328. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to what degree it can be demonstrated that the ‘broad-brush’ approach of the residential zoned land tax scoping maps is going to contribute to the provision of additional housing, over and above that which would or could be achieved by a more forensic and detailed approach, (along the lines of the...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (11 Jul 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: 329. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government how many submissions have been received from landowners since the publication of the scoping maps in relation to the residential zoned land tax; if a breakdown on this figure can be provided per planning authority area; how many submissions, if any, were deemed invalid, as having been received outside the notified timeframe;...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (11 Jul 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: 330. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to explain the reason the scoping of the residential zoned land tax extended to the smallest towns and villages, where demand for housing is not prevalent, nor likely to exist in the near future, unlike the housing requirements necessitated by the spatial strategy utilised in the National Planning Framework that promotes the...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (11 Jul 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: 331. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government what percentage of lands ‘scoped-in’ on the residential zoned land tax-draft map are currently in active use by farmers, for farming, and not lying fallow. [34207/23]