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Written Answers — Department of Finance: Insurance Industry (17 Oct 2017)

Paschal Donohoe: Setanta Insurance was placed into liquidation by the Malta Financial Services Authority on 30 April 2014. As it was a Maltese incorporated company, the liquidation is being carried out under Maltese law. As you are aware, the Supreme Court delivered its judgment on 25 May 2017 and overturned the previous decisions of the High Court and the Court of Appeal that the Motor Insurers’...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (17 Oct 2017)

Paschal Donohoe: I propose to take Questions Nos. 132 and 133 together. I am informed by Revenue that Section 127B of the Taxes Consolidation Act 1997 came into effect on 1 January 2011. This section provides for the taxation under Schedule E of employment income arising to any member of a flight crew in circumstances where the duties are exercised on aircraft operated in international traffic and where...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (17 Oct 2017)

Paschal Donohoe: The objectives of the Finance (Tax Appeals) Act 2015 are to reform the tax appeals system with a view to ensuring an enhanced and cost effective appeal mechanism for tax cases. The Act, which was commenced on 21st March 2016, inter alia provides for the establishment of the Tax Appeals Commission (TAC) which was established on the same date. A key feature of the legislation is that...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Credits (17 Oct 2017)

Paschal Donohoe: I have no plans at present to provide a tax credit for individuals in the manner described by the Deputy. More generally, the funding of water services is a matter for the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government.

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Revenue Commissioners Reports (17 Oct 2017)

Paschal Donohoe: I propose to take Questions Nos. 137 and 138 together. I am informed by the Revenue Commissioners that the above mentioned report is now available on their website at www.revenue.ie The published draft was an internal working paper and a preliminary analysis which was compiled in September 2016, following the UK vote in June 2016 to exit the EU. It is clear that such working papers are...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Primary Medical Certificates Provision (17 Oct 2017)

Paschal Donohoe: The provision of a primary medical certificate is based on a professional clinical determination by the Senior Medical Officer for the relevant local Health Service Executive. To qualify for a primary medical certificate an applicant must be permanently and severely disabled within the terms of the Disabled Drivers and Disabled Passengers (Tax Concessions) Regulations 1994. An...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Reliefs Eligibility (17 Oct 2017)

Paschal Donohoe: In the absence of specific information it is difficult to provided a comprehensive reply to the Deputy. Relief in respect of health expenses, granted in accordance with section 469 of the Taxes Consolidation Act 1997, is used to reduce the Irish tax liability of an individual in respect of the year of assessment in which the expenses are incurred. In general, if an individual is tax...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: State Aid (17 Oct 2017)

Paschal Donohoe: The Government profoundly disagrees with the European Commission’s analysis in the Apple State Aid case. An appeal is therefore being brought before the European Courts. Such an appeal takes the form of an application to the General Court of the European Union (GCEU), asking it to annul the Commission’s Final Decision. The Attorney General prepared the legal grounds...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Fiscal Policy (17 Oct 2017)

Paschal Donohoe: The allocation for fiscal space in Budget 2018 was flagged in note 2, table A8 of the Economic and Fiscal Outlook of Budget 2018 book as being unchanged from that which was presented in Summer Economic Statement 2017. In my Budget 2018 speech, I announced that the remaining unallocated fiscal space for 2018 would amount to a little over €500 million in nominal terms, and that...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Yield (17 Oct 2017)

Paschal Donohoe: The Revenue Ready Reckoner ,on page 18) shows the effect of a 0.5% increase in the Stamp Duty rate on non-residential property (€47m). This is multiplied up to €94m for a 1% increase, or €376m for a 4% increase. I am advised by Revenue that the estimated yield for 2018 is based on payments of Stamp Duty on the purchase of non-residential property in 2016 and an...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: State Aid (17 Oct 2017)

Paschal Donohoe: I propose to take Questions Nos. 145 to 148, inclusive, and 153 together. As announced in my Budget speech on 10 October 2017, it is my intention to establish Home Building Finance Ireland (HBFI) to provide funding on market terms to viable residential development projects whose owners are experiencing difficulty in obtaining debt funding.  HBFI will be a stand-alone entity which...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Budget Measures (17 Oct 2017)

Paschal Donohoe: I propose to take Questions Nos. 149 and 152 together. As the Deputy is aware, the impact of Brexit is currently still unfolding. However, what is clear is that Brexit is likely to affect Ireland’s trade patterns and SMEs. To meet the working capital needs of Irish SMEs and to assist them with adapting and innovating in response to the challenges, and opportunities, posed by...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Ireland Strategic Investment Fund Investments (17 Oct 2017)

Paschal Donohoe: The establishment of the Rainy Day Fund, including the proposed transfer of €1.5 billion from the Ireland Strategic Investment Fund (ISIF), will require legislation. In addition, the Summer Economic Statement confirmed the Government’s intention to allocate €500 million per annum to the Rainy Day Fund in 2019 and subsequent years to 2021. This would imply,...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Budget Measures (17 Oct 2017)

Paschal Donohoe: As part of an ongoing process to support entrepreneurship and start-up companies generating employment, I announced on Budget day the introduction of the Key Employee Engagement Programme, a new, SME-focused, share-based remuneration incentive scheme. Under this incentive, gains arising to the employee on the exercise of the share options will be subject to tax when the employee...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Referendum Data (17 Oct 2017)

Paschal Donohoe: The approximate costings for all referendums since 2001 are set out in the table with the exception of the referendums held in 2004 and 2011. Month/​Year ​Referendum ​Approximate Cost ​ ​June 2001 ​Prohibition of Death Penalty €11.1m International Criminal Court   Treaty of Nice March 2002​ Protection of...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Community Sector High Level Forum (17 Oct 2017)

Paschal Donohoe: Meetings of the Community Sector High Level Forum took place on 24 February and more recently 7 April 2017.  The minutes of these meetings await formal approval by the parties to the Forum and will on such approval be publicly available on my Department's website.  Previously approved meeting minutes are publicly available on my Department's website. In considering the...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Criminal Assets Bureau (17 Oct 2017)

Paschal Donohoe: I propose to take Questions Nos. 160 and 161 together. The objectives and functions of the Criminal Assets Bureau are set out in sections 4 and 5 respectively of the Criminal Assets Bureau Act 1996.  In summary, they require the Bureau to: (i) identify and investigate the proceeds of criminal conduct; (ii) take action under the Proceeds of Crime Acts 1996-2016 to deny...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Pension Provisions (17 Oct 2017)

Paschal Donohoe: Cost Neutral Early Retirement (CNER) is a facility which allows qualifying officers who wish to retire up to ten years before preserved (or minimum) retirement age to apply to receive immediate payment of lump sum and pension, as an alternative to preserved benefits. The lump sum and pension are reduced to make them the equivalent, in actuarial terms, of preserved benefits....

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Office of the Ombudsman Data (17 Oct 2017)

Paschal Donohoe: I am advised that in 2016 the Office of the Ombudsman examined 3,110 complaints.  I understand that 79% of these were completed within 3 months and 96% were completed within 12 months. The Office of the Ombudsman sets itself annual case turnaround targets and progress against targets is closely monitored by senior management. The deployment of staff and case handling...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Community Sector High Level Forum (17 Oct 2017)

Paschal Donohoe: I propose to take Questions Nos. 167 to 169, inclusive, together. The Community Sector High Level Forum was reconvened in 2015 to give consideration to a number of issues including the issue to which the Deputy refers. Meetings took place on 24 February and more recently 7 April 2017.  The minutes of these meetings await formal approval by the parties to the Forum and...