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Written Answers — Department of Finance: Motor Insurance Claims (25 Jun 2019)

Paschal Donohoe: At the outset, it is important to clarify that the main recommendation (recommendation 11) of the Cost of Motor Insurance Report was to establish the National Claims Information Database (NCID) on a legislative basis to facilitate a more in-depth analysis of annual trends in motor insurance claims. This was seen as key to developing an understanding of how claims costs are impacting...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Brexit Preparations (25 Jun 2019)

Paschal Donohoe: I am advised by Revenue that they identify businesses that trade with the UK by analysing the VAT Information Exchange System (VIES) data and that they have now analysed VIES data from 2018. This has identified that approximately 92,000 businesses traded with the UK during this period. On further examination of the data, Revenue have identified that 65,400 of these businesses do not...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Revenue Commissioners Resources (25 Jun 2019)

Paschal Donohoe: I am advised by Revenue that it currently has three mobile x-ray scanners, a ‘backscatter van’ scanner, and a specialist vehicle that contains both x-ray and radiation detection technology. All the scanners are mobile and can be deployed to both frontier and internal operations. The ‘backscatter van’ scanner is Revenue’s most recent acquisition, having...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Ministerial Meetings (25 Jun 2019)

Paschal Donohoe: Bank CEO Date AIB Colin Hunt 19/02/2019 PTSB Jeremy Masding 26/03/2019 BOI Francesca McDonagh 01/04/2019

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (25 Jun 2019)

Paschal Donohoe: Having regard to the Deputy's reference to an "equivalent change for taxpayer units with one partner in work", I have assumed for the purposes of this response that the estimated cost requested is for an increase to the standard rate cut off point for all income tax bands of €14,700, which would bring it to €50,000 for a single person, €59,000 for a married one income...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (25 Jun 2019)

Paschal Donohoe: An inter-departmental working group was established in February 2018 to examine and report on options for the amalgamation of USC and PRSI over the medium-term. The working group completed their work, in line with their terms of reference and their report was submitted to me in late 2018. The Report addresses a range of options for how amalgamation could be achieved, but also has identified...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Central Bank of Ireland Reports (25 Jun 2019)

Paschal Donohoe: I would draw to the Deputy's attention that the analysis published in the Central Bank's Financial Stability Note “Who invests in the Irish commercial real estate market?: An overview of non-bank institutional ownership of Irish CRE” includes available data on Irish-resident institutional investor holdings of residential real estate, as well as commercial real estate. The...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Revenue Documents Issuance (25 Jun 2019)

Paschal Donohoe: I am advised by Revenue that the person concerned is registered for Income Tax as a Self-Assessed taxpayer. Revenue also confirmed that a ‘Notice of Assessment’ for 2018 issued to the person on 14 June 2019. The ‘Notice of Assessment’ is the appropriate statement of income and tax liabilities for Self-Assessed taxpayers while the ‘P21 Balancing...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (25 Jun 2019)

Paschal Donohoe: The new administrative arrangements for PAYE (PAYE Modernisation) commenced on 1 January 2019 and Revenue has advised me that 167,000 employers, including many smaller employers, are successfully reporting pay and deductions details in respect of 2.7m employees via the new format. PAYE Modernisation represents the most significant change to the PAYE system since its introduction more than...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Defence Forces Remuneration (25 Jun 2019)

Paschal Donohoe: The Public Service Pay Commission was established to advise Government on public service remuneration policy. In the current phase, the second phase of the Commission's work, it was tasked by its Terms of Reference to undertake an examination of whether, and to what extent, there are difficulties in recruiting and retaining staff in key areas of the public service identified in its first...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Capital Expenditure Programme (25 Jun 2019)

Paschal Donohoe: The level of ambition set out in the Climate Action Plan will require significant investment across the entire economy. However, much of this investment was already anticipated and provided for through the commitments included in the NDP, which include over €30bn for climate action and sustainable mobility. The Government has agreed that the cumulative Exchequer costs of the...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Capital Expenditure Programme (25 Jun 2019)

Paschal Donohoe: The Government has committed to increasing public capital investment to about 4% of GNI* and then maintaining public investment at this level over the remaining period of the National Development Plan (NDP). The NDP has pledged that €21.8 billion will be invested in the low carbon transition. This includes €7.6 billion in Exchequer funding and €14.2 billion of...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Capital Expenditure Programme (25 Jun 2019)

Paschal Donohoe: While there is no standard taxonomy in place internationally to determine exactly what might qualify as green spending, it is clear that the items contained within Strategic Outcome 8 in the National Development Plan on Transition to a Low-Carbon and Climate-Resilient Society (€21.8 billion) would meet any reasonable definition of green expenditure. For example, Ireland's...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Pay (25 Jun 2019)

Paschal Donohoe: Please see the below Tables. Table 1 provides a full breakdown of costs in relation to the PSSA , on a yearly basis and also by pay band. Table 2 provides a breakdown of costs in relation to the reversal of outstanding FEMPI measures. As the dates by which these payments must be made are not fixed, but dependent on the timeframes outlined in the act and detailed below, it is not possible to...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Community Employment Schemes Supervisors (25 Jun 2019)

Paschal Donohoe: This issue relates to a claim by community employment supervisors and assistant supervisors who have been seeking, through their union representatives, the allocation of Exchequer funding to implement a 2008 Labour Court recommendation relating to the provision of a pension scheme. The matter was the subject of extensive discussion at the Community Sector High Level Forum which was...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Cycle to Work Scheme (26 Jun 2019)

Paschal Donohoe: The Cycle To Work scheme provides an exemption from tax on the first €1,000 of expenditure incurred by an employer in connection with the provision of a bicycle or safety equipment to an employee or director. The bicycle must be for the employee/director’s personal use in undertaking the whole or part of the journey to or from work. Safety equipment includes helmets, lights,...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Central Bank of Ireland (26 Jun 2019)

Paschal Donohoe: As the Deputy is aware, credit unions are regulated and supervised by the Registrar of Credit Unions at the Central Bank who is the independent regulator for credit unions. Within his independent regulatory discretion, the Registrar acts to support the prudential soundness of individual credit unions, to maintain sector stability, and to protect the savings of credit union members. Since...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Small and Medium Enterprises Supports (26 Jun 2019)

Paschal Donohoe: I am advised by Revenue that 10 companies granted qualifying share options under the Key Employee Engagement Programme (KEEP) to employees during 2018 (the first year of the scheme). In relation to the cost of the scheme to date, as no exercises of options have taken place to date, there has been no cost to the Exchequer in this regard. The KEEP legislation provides for an exemption from...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Rebates (26 Jun 2019)

Paschal Donohoe: I am advised by Revenue that the tax rebate to which the Deputy is referring was recently approved and issued to the person’s nominated bank account. It was not possible for Revenue to issue the repayment prior to this time as there were other outstanding issues that required attention by the person.

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Brexit Staff (26 Jun 2019)

Paschal Donohoe: I am informed by Revenue that since the start of 2019, Revenue has appointed over 550 staff from open recruitment and interdepartmental competitions, the majority of these have been assigned to customs roles or to backfill positions from which existing Revenue staff have been assigned to customs duties. As serving staff take up their new Brexit-related roles, Revenue is back-filling the...