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Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Yield (11 Apr 2024)

Pearse Doherty: 107. To ask the Minister for Finance the nominal value of VAT collected with respect to petrol and diesel in each of the years 2017 to 2023, respectively.; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15936/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Tax Credits (11 Apr 2024)

Pearse Doherty: 164. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of individuals who have contacted the community welfare office on account of the fact that they could not receive the mortgage interest tax credit due to having insufficient income and income tax credits; the number of such individuals that have received a payment as a result; the total value of such payments...

Future Ireland Fund and Infrastructure, Climate and Nature Fund Bill 2024: Second Stage (10 Apr 2024)

Pearse Doherty: This Bill, as the Minister outlined, provides for the establishment of two funds, namely the future Ireland fund and the infrastructure, climate and nature fund. It is fair to say these funds were first proposed in the context of two trends: future costs likely to incurred by the State and the growth of corporation tax receipts in recent years. The Minister reflected on this fact on budget...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Defective Building Materials (10 Apr 2024)

Pearse Doherty: To be clear, what the banks are proposing here is 0% loans to those with affected homes. They are going to provide this to non-bank customers - people who do not have accounts, borrowings or mortgages with them. This is for everybody. The easiest way for this to happen is actually for the Department itself to do it. Instead of having to go through the bank, the Department should provide...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Defective Building Materials (10 Apr 2024)

Pearse Doherty: -----and we cannot even get over that hurdle.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Defective Building Materials (10 Apr 2024)

Pearse Doherty: I will finish on this point.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Defective Building Materials (10 Apr 2024)

Pearse Doherty: Months ago I pleaded with the Minister and asked him to inject momentum into this issue. Unfortunately, I do not see that from him.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Tax Reliefs (10 Apr 2024)

Pearse Doherty: 8. To ask the Minister for Finance if he is concerned that the benefit-in-kind exemption for employer contributions to PRSAs, legislated through section 22 of Finance Act 2022, is facilitating aggressive tax planning; if his Department received recommendations from an organisation (details supplied) in June 2022 warning that such a risk would materialise; and if he will make a statement on...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Tax Reliefs (10 Apr 2024)

Pearse Doherty: This is in relation to the benefit-in-kind, BIK, exemption for employer contributions to PRSA legislation that was introduced in the Finance Act 2022. It appears to me that this is facilitating aggressive tax planning. It also appears to me that the Department was warned this was happening, probably on more than one occasion. It was also warned prior to its introduction that it would or...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Tax Reliefs (10 Apr 2024)

Pearse Doherty: This is a massive tax loophole that was created by his predecessor as Minister, Deputy Donohoe. It remains in our tax code despite it being pointed out to Ministers. Limiting the amount that can be contributed to a pension with full tax relief in a single year is crucial to ensure equity in our tax system, to control revenue and to prevent abuse. The changes made by the Minister, Deputy...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Tax Reliefs (10 Apr 2024)

Pearse Doherty: Does the Minister accept this represents a radical departure from pension policy and creates a significant loophole in our tax code?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Tax Reliefs (10 Apr 2024)

Pearse Doherty: The Minister claims this was done on the recommendation of the interdepartmental group on pensions and tax reform but it is a clear misunderstanding of the reading of the group's recommendation, which was to abolish the differential treatment of the PRSA for funding purposes compared to occupational schemes. That was not done. Occupational schemes are benefit-limited. The changes made to...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Defective Building Materials (10 Apr 2024)

Pearse Doherty: 7. To ask the Minister for Finance for an update regarding the issue of mortgageability as it relates to homeowners affected by defective concrete blocks, including his Department's engagement with the Department of Finance and the proposal of bridging finance products by the banking sector under the enhanced defective concrete block scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Defective Building Materials (10 Apr 2024)

Pearse Doherty: I raise again the serious, pressing and critical issue of homeowners affected by the defective concrete block crisis in my own county and elsewhere. The Minister and his Department are centrally involved with this and have responsibility for key issues, including the issue of future mortgageability of remediated homes. I ask the Minister again to update the Dáil on his engagement with...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Defective Building Materials (10 Apr 2024)

Pearse Doherty: This is only one part of the problem. As I said, this scheme was introduced and announced by the Government in November 2021. It is now 2024 and there are 1,300 people coming up to Inishowen to say it is not working for them. We had people telling us that they were demolishing their homes and it would cost them €100,000 out of their own pocket to rebuild them because the scheme is...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Mortgage Interest Rates (10 Apr 2024)

Pearse Doherty: In budget 2024, the Minister introduced this tax credit and that was, as I said, after sustained calls from Sinn Féin for the introduction of mortgage interest relief for households that had seen their mortgage rates spiral, but there are serious problems with the tax credit, as I told him at the time. I have raised the fact that 138,000 mortgage holders who have their seen their...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Mortgage Interest Rates (10 Apr 2024)

Pearse Doherty: People are claiming. That woman whose mortgage costs have increased by €5,000 cannot get it. She has been refused because the Minister made a balls of the design of this legislation.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Mortgage Interest Rates (10 Apr 2024)

Pearse Doherty: With respect, the Minister made a mess of it. That is the reality. A total of €125 million was allocated to this. Only €14 million has been drawn down so far, or about 11%. The Minister stated 14,000 people have claimed the credit. We are in the month of April. There are 707,000 mortgages and only 14,000 people have claimed the credit. It is clear the tax credit is not...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Mortgage Interest Rates (10 Apr 2024)

Pearse Doherty: Not true.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: International Sanctions (10 Apr 2024)

Pearse Doherty: 2. To ask the Minister for Finance if he has engaged or will engage with fellow members of Economic and Financial Affairs Council, ECOFIN, to secure financial and economic sanctions against the State of Israel in response to flagrant violations of international law committed by the State of Israel in Gaza and the occupied territories of Palestine; and if he will make a statement on the...