Results 22,141-22,160 of 36,355 for speaker:Pearse Doherty

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (1 Jun 2016)

Pearse Doherty: 89. To ask the Minister for Finance the revenue that would be generated by reducing the standard fund threshold from €2 million to €1.7 million, to €1.5 million, to €1.3 million and to €1 million. [13882/16]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Revenue Commissioners Resources (1 Jun 2016)

Pearse Doherty: 90. To ask the Minister for Finance the revenue that would be raised by increasing the Revenue Commissioners personnel by 125 qualified persons to target tax evasion and black market activity. [13883/16]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Property Tax (1 Jun 2016)

Pearse Doherty: 91. To ask the Minister for Finance the net cost of abolishing the local property tax. [13884/16]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Budget 2016 (1 Jun 2016)

Pearse Doherty: 92. To ask the Minister for Finance the details of the net effect of measures carried over for a year as a result of budget 2016, in tabular form. [13885/16]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Financial Services Regulation (1 Jun 2016)

Pearse Doherty: 93. To ask the Minister for Finance the savings that would accrue from moving the entire cost of regulation of the financial sector onto the industry, as opposed to the current 50%. [13886/16]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (1 Jun 2016)

Pearse Doherty: 94. To ask the Minister for Finance the cost of dividing the capital gains tax categories into passive and active and applying a 40% rate to the passive tax activity, for example, buying shares, and the following 35% to active engagement, for example, selling on a business. [13888/16]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (1 Jun 2016)

Pearse Doherty: 95. To ask the Minister for Finance the revenue generated by applying certain measures (details supplied). [13889/16]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (1 Jun 2016)

Pearse Doherty: 96. To ask the Minister for Finance how he will operate, when he will apply and the amount he will raise from the proposed tax on sugar sweetened drinks. [13890/16]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Credits (1 Jun 2016)

Pearse Doherty: 97. To ask the Minister for Finance the cost of increasing the self-employed tax credit to €800; €900; €1,000; €1,100; €1,200; €1,300; €1,400; €1,500 and €1,650 and tapering out the increase in the credit, for example, €800 minus €550 equals €250 for first taper, from income in excess of €80,000, by 5%...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Water Charges (1 Jun 2016)

Pearse Doherty: 116. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the net cost and savings in abolishing water charges and the water conservation grant, including its administration costs and its associated impact on the fiscal space. [13892/16]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Motor Tax Rates (1 Jun 2016)

Pearse Doherty: 117. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the cost of abolishing the punitive excess charge where a vehicle is taxed for less than 12 months, that is, a vehicle being more expensive when charged for six months than for 12 months. [13893/16]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Insurance Rates (1 Jun 2016)

Pearse Doherty: 123. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the revenue that would be raised by introducing a new employers’ rate of pay related social insurance of 12.75%, 13.5%, 14.5% and 15.75% on the portion of salary paid in excess of €100,000 per year. [13887/16]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Applications (1 Jun 2016)

Pearse Doherty: 132. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a decision will be made in relation to an application made in February 2016 by a person (details supplied) under the carer's allowance scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13897/16]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Payments (1 Jun 2016)

Pearse Doherty: 196. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine why a person (details supplied) has not received payment under the disadvantaged areas scheme for 2015; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13898/16]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Legislative Programme (31 May 2016)

Pearse Doherty: 233. To ask the Minister for Finance to list the Finance Bills from the 31st Dáil he intends to re-initiate; and the Bills his Department is working on, with an indicative time scale for the legislative process in each case; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12525/16]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Stability and Growth Pact (31 May 2016)

Pearse Doherty: 235. To ask the Minister for Finance the minimum percentage improvement that was required to the structural balance for 2015 under the European Union fiscal rules; and the out-turn of the 2015 percentage improvement to the structural balance. [12538/16]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Stability and Growth Pact (31 May 2016)

Pearse Doherty: 236. To ask the Minister for Finance the minimum percentage improvement required to the structural balance for 2016 under the European Union fiscal rules; and the percentage improvement he is forecasting to the structural balance for 2016. [12539/16]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Stability and Growth Pact (31 May 2016)

Pearse Doherty: 237. To ask the Minister for Finance the minimum percentage improvement required to the structural balance for 2017 under the European Union fiscal rules; and the percentage improvement he is forecasting to the structural balance for 2017. [12540/16]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Excessive Deficit Procedure Administration (31 May 2016)

Pearse Doherty: 239. To ask the Minister for Finance if, with regard to the recent announcement that Government expenditure in 2015 has been revised up by €1.5 billion, reflecting a reclassification of State transactions with a bank (details supplied) which therefore raises the expenditure benchmark, he can confirm this raises the benchmark; the departmental and corresponding figures he...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: NAMA Annual Report and Accounts (31 May 2016)

Pearse Doherty: 240. To ask the Minister for Finance the date on which he will make National Asset Management Agency's 2015 management accounts available to the public; and the reason for the delay in their release, given that his Department received the 2015 accounts two months ago. [12628/16]