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Written Answers — Ministerial Staff: Ministerial Staff (27 Jan 2009)

Mary Harney: The information requested by the Deputy is outlined in the following tables. The total pay for both my Private Office and my Constituency Office includes Employers P.R.S.I. and also P.R.S.A.'s where appropriate. Table 1: Staffing Position at 31 December 2008 Private Office Special Adviser/ Press Officer Private Secretary Personal Assistant Executive Officer Staff Officer Clerical...

Finance (No. 2) Bill 2008: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (17 Dec 2008)

Brian Lenihan Jnr: ...asked some wider questions about pension policy in general. He is seeking flexibility for employees to put pensions into an approved retirement fund, ARF, or a personal retirement savings account, PRSA. This is a wider issue to be dealt with in the context of the Green Paper on pensions.

Financial Resolution No. 13: Stamp Duties (14 Oct 2008)

...on an aggregate basis in that the measure applies across all contributions and qualifying premiums that an individual makes to an occupational pension scheme, a retirement annuity contract or a PRSA in any tax year.

Written Answers — Social Welfare Code: Social Welfare Code (2 Oct 2008)

Mary Hanafin: ..., social insurance contributions, health contributions, trade union subscriptions and additional voluntary contributions (AVC's) made in respect of personal retirement savings accounts (PRSA's) are disregarded. 50% of the balance is assessed as means. Where a person whose has been in receipt of one-parent family payment for 52 consecutive weeks prior to their earnings exceeding the limit...

Written Answers — Teachers' Remuneration: Teachers' Remuneration (9 Jul 2008)

Batt O'Keeffe: ...deducted will be refunded to the Special Needs Assistant or alternatively the Special Needs Assistant may opt to have the contributions paid to her/his Personal Retirement Savings Account (PRSA). This arrangement will be reviewed in the light of the outcome of discussions on the implementation of the Protection of Employees (Part-Time Work) Act 2001. The question of the contributions due...

Written Answers — Tax Code: Tax Code (27 May 2008)

Brian Lenihan Jnr: ...Exemption of investment income and gains of approved Superannuation Funds 1,200 Not available Retirement Annuity Contracts (RACs) 380 2006 data not available Personal Retirement Savings Accounts (PRSAs) 120 71,500 Estimated cost of tax relief on "tax-free" lump sum payments 130 Estimated cost of PRSI and Health Levy relief on employee and employer contributions 220 Not available...

Written Answers — Tax Code: Tax Code (8 May 2008)

Brian Lenihan Jnr: ...that the latest relevant information available is in respect of income tax relief allowed for contributions to Retirement Annuity Contracts (RACs) and Personal Retirement Savings Accounts (PRSAs) for the income tax year 2005. RACs and PRSAs are available to the self-employed and to employees not in occupational pension schemes. The information is set out in tables following this reply...

Seanad: School Staffing (8 May 2008)

Pearse Doherty: ...handwritten or printed pay slips which showed no deductions such as tax, PRSI and so on. In these cases there was also no access to a pension scheme or personal retirement savings accounts, PRSAs. The denial of access to a pension scheme for some school secretaries and caretakers is very worrying and I have found a number of points which I hope the Minister, Deputy Hanafin, will take into...

Seanad: Order of Business (24 Apr 2008)

Pearse Doherty: ...of that blockade immediately. I call for a debate on the issue of a group of employees who are being paid below the minimum wage, a group of employees who do not have access to pensions rights, PRSA, sick leave schemes or promotional opportunities. The rights and entitlements of these people are being abused. Senators may think these employees are being hired by an unscrupulous agency —...

Written Answers — Employment Laws: Employment Laws (2 Apr 2008)

Martin Cullen: ...introduced in the Social Welfare Miscellaneous Provisions Act 2004, to enable Social Welfare Inspectors verify that employers had entered into a contract with a Personal Retirement Savings Account (PRSA) provider in cases where the employer does not operate a pension scheme with retirement benefits for employees. Where in the course of employer inspection work, Social Welfare inspectors...

Written Answers — Tax Code: Tax Code (2 Apr 2008) See 1 other result from this answer

James Bannon: Question 171: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance the reason a person (details supplied) in County Longford was not granted tax relief on a contribution to a PRSA which has been refused on a technicality, as the contribution was made before the deadline but the building society was unable to provide a receipt as their printer was broken, resulting in same not being submitted to the...

Written Answers — Defence Forces Retirement Scheme: Defence Forces Retirement Scheme (29 Nov 2007) See 1 other result from this answer

Richard Bruton: Question 48: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance if Army officers are eligible to pay AVC's or pay into PRSA's; the reason these options do not apply; and when he expects to introduce the SPEARS system. [31810/07]

Written Answers — Consultancy Contracts: Consultancy Contracts (22 Nov 2007)

Martin Cullen: ...figures exclude additional voluntary contribution only schemes, death benefit only schemes, frozen schemes and schemes in wind-up. The Board is also responsible for supervising the activities of 10 PRSA providers in relation to approximately one hundred and twenty thousand individual PRSA contracts, with current PRSA assets under management in excess of one billion euro. Given that...

Economic Regulation. (21 Nov 2007)

Joan Burton: ...also includes the prices charged for the purchase of financial investment products sold by insurance companies. Again, we have some of the highest prices in Europe. When somebody goes to buy a PRSA or some other kind of financial insurance investment product, the cost of the purchase of those services is extraordinarily high in this country and seems to be entirely outside the regulation...

Written Answers — Pension Provisions: Pension Provisions (14 Nov 2007)

Róisín Shortall: ...the tax reduction in respect of three full-time single employees in their thirties, with the same PRSI class, the same health levy, the same basic tax credits making the same contribution to their PRSA of €5,000 a year, where none makes other pension contribution or receives further pension benefit, but where one earns €34,000, one €54,000, and one €154,000; the maximum possible...

Seanad: Pension Provision: Motion (Resumed) (14 Nov 2007) See 2 other results from this debate

Martin Cullen: ...campaign and the introduction of personal retirement savings accounts. More than 1 million people now have a personal or occupational pension with about 120,000 of these contributing to a PRSA. I am somewhat disappointed in this figure and we need to review its structure to encourage more people into the system. Despite these major improvements, there are serious concerns for the...

Seanad: Pension Provision: Motion (14 Nov 2007) See 1 other result from this debate

Fiona O'Malley: ...of offering tax reliefs, the State would add €1 to a pension fund for every €2 contributed by the individual. The rules for contribution limits would be broadly similar to those applying to PRSAs at present. We witnessed an extraordinary and massive uptake of SSIAs by people of all levels of income and this was for a scheme that offered a return of one additional euro for every €4...

Written Answers — Tax Code: Tax Code (25 Oct 2007)

Brian Cowen: ...that the only relevant information available is in respect of income tax relief allowed for contributions to Retirement Annuity Contracts (RACs) and Personal Retirement Savings Accounts (PRSAs) for the income tax year 2004. RACs and PRSAs are available to the self-employed and to employees not in occupational pension schemes. A distribution by contribution ranges of the number of cases,...

Written Answers — Ministerial Staff: Ministerial Staff (24 Apr 2007)

Mary Hanafin: ...by the Deputy in relation to staff in my office is as follows: Name Date of Appointment Salary Special Adviser Averil Power — Appointed 29th September 2004 €87,202 pa, with Employer PRSA of 11% Personal Assistant Carl Gibney — Appointed 29th September, 2004 €51,352 pa Press Officer Geraldine Butler, HEO on APO Higher Duties — Appointed 8th November 2004 €66,377 pa Each of...

Seanad: Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2007: Second Stage (27 Mar 2007)

Batt O'Keeffe: ...from €12,697.38 to €25,000 for an indictable offence. It provides that fines imposed under the Act shall not be paid out of the resources of the scheme, trust RAC, or out of the assets of any PRSA, as the case may be. Part 3 of Schedule 2 provides for a number of miscellaneous amendments which are mainly technical in nature, including the insertion of two new sections into the...