Results 281-300 of 32,527 for speaker:Paschal Donohoe

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Reliefs (3 Apr 2025)

Paschal Donohoe: The current Disabled Drivers Medical Board of Appeal (DDMBA) was formally appointed in September 2023 and following preparatory work appeal hearings recommenced in the first half of December 2023. It took longer than anticipated to recruit a new Board. In this regard four Expression of Interest campaigns had to be run over 18 months to source the legislatively required five members....

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Fiscal Policy (3 Apr 2025)

Paschal Donohoe: As I have said on many occasions, we very much regret the imposition of any tariffs. Our view is that they are economically destructive and push up costs and prices, hurting all parties involved. However, the reality is that we are now facing into a period of significant disruption to trade due to tariffs that will, unfortunately, directly impact on Irish exports. In anticipation of this...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (3 Apr 2025)

Paschal Donohoe: In recognition of the needs of SMEs in the hospitality sector, the Programme for Government commits to bring forward measures to support SMEs, in particular in the retail and hospitality sectors. It acknowledges the increased cost pressures on these sectors and states that this will entail changes to VAT, PRSI and other measures. As the Deputy will be aware, in making any decision in...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Official Engagements (3 Apr 2025)

Paschal Donohoe: I propose to take Questions Nos. 194 and 195 together. As is traditional practice where possible during Saint Patrick’s Day programmes, I met with my German counterpart, Jörg Kukies, on 13 March during my visit to Frankfurt and Berlin. We discussed our respective economies and current European and global and economic challenges, including in relation to transatlantic...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Financial Services (3 Apr 2025)

Paschal Donohoe: The FSPO provides an independent, fair, impartial, confidential and free service for consumers to resolve complaints against financial service providers and pension providers. Complaints are resolved through either informal mediation, leading to a potential settlement agreed between the parties, or formal investigation and adjudication, leading to a legally binding decision. The majority...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (3 Apr 2025)

Paschal Donohoe: Capital Acquisitions Tax (CAT) is a beneficiary based tax on gifts and inheritances that is payable on the value of the property received. For CAT purposes, the relationship between the person giving a gift or inheritance (i.e. the disponer) and the person who receives it (i.e. the beneficiary) determines the maximum amount, known as the “Group threshold”, below which CAT does...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Human Rights (2 Apr 2025)

Paschal Donohoe: The Central Bank of Ireland (CBI) is the competent authority under the Prospectus Regulation, and is an independent regulator, in relation to the execution of its operational and regulatory functions. My officials have consulted with the CBI and they indicated by way of response that the law is clear on the matter. The CBI has to approve a prospectus for the offer of securities to the...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Local Authorities (2 Apr 2025)

Paschal Donohoe: Budget 2025 included a record €6 billion in capital spending for housing, including direct Exchequer spending, investment by the Land Development Agency and borrowing by the Housing Finance Agency. This level of public spending supports the State’s involvement in every aspect of housing — land purchase, construction, purchasing and funding through a number of channels for...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Disabilities Assessments (2 Apr 2025)

Paschal Donohoe: It is assumed that the Deputy is referring to the appeals process provided by the Disabled Drivers Medical Board of Appeals (DDMBA). The Deputy should note at the outset that the DDMBA operates from the National Rehabilitation Hospital (NRH) in Dún Laoghaire, who provide facilities and secretarial services so that the Board can deliver the appeals process. There are no other dedicated...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: State Bodies (2 Apr 2025)

Paschal Donohoe: Since being appointed to my current role as Minister for Finance I have not had any engagement with either ISIF or with Hackman Capital Partners related to the Greystones Media Campus. My Department's engagement with ISIF has been to seek information in response to queries on the project. ISIF’s involvement as an investor in the project is a commercial matter under its investment...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: State Bodies (2 Apr 2025)

Paschal Donohoe: I propose to take Questions Nos. 92 and 93 together. The NTMA have informed me that as at 31 December 2023 the ISIF’s direct investments in companies on the UN database totalled approximately €4.2 million in 11 companies. It also outlined that the ISIF’s indirect investments include 8 companies totalling approximately €9.4 million. Information regarding...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Insurance Coverage (2 Apr 2025)

Paschal Donohoe: As the Deputy may be aware, the Equal Status Acts 2000-2018 are under the remit of the Minister for Justice. The legislation protects against discrimination on nine specific grounds, including age. However, the legislation also provides that people can be treated differently on any of the grounds (except gender) in relation to the provision of annuities, pensions, insurance policies or any...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tobacco Control Measures (2 Apr 2025)

Paschal Donohoe: I am advised by Revenue that nicotine pouches are not subject to Tobacco Products Tax or any other specific form of taxation. As such, details of their sale in the State are not returned to Revenue. I am also informed by Revenue that traders are not required to separately identify the yield generated from the sale or supply of specific products or services in their periodic VAT returns....

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Court Judgments (2 Apr 2025)

Paschal Donohoe: Revenue are committed to targeting the illicit tobacco trade and implement a range of measures to identify and target the smuggling, supply or sale of illicit tobacco products with a view to disrupting the supply chain, seizing the illicit product and, where possible, prosecuting those involved. Revenue keeps its operational requirements and arrangements regarding the deployment and use of...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Departmental Meetings (2 Apr 2025)

Paschal Donohoe: There has not yet been an opportunity to hold a MinMAC meeting since I took office at the end of January, however I will hold such a meeting during the next quarter.

Written Answers — Department of Finance: State Bodies (2 Apr 2025)

Paschal Donohoe: The UN maintains a database of business enterprises involved in certain specified activities relating to settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPT). At the end of 2023, ISIF’s direct investments in companies on the UN database totalled approximately €4.2 million in 11 companies. ISIF’s indirect investments included 8 companies totalling approximately...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Banking Sector (2 Apr 2025)

Paschal Donohoe: The Government is committed to supporting the delivery of new homes of all tenure types, aiming to deliver 303,000 homes from 2025-2030. This year, over €6 billion will be invested in housing, through the Exchequer, the Land Development Agency and via Housing Finance Agency lending. A report by the Department of Finance published in 2024 estimated that an average of €20...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (2 Apr 2025)

Paschal Donohoe: As the Deputy will be aware, wealth is already taxed in a number of ways in Ireland. These include Capital Gains Tax (CGT), and Capital Acquisitions Tax (CAT). Certain forms of Stamp Duty also act as taxes on wealth in a number of ways, including that charged on the acquisition of the shares, stocks and marketable securities of Irish registered companies, and on the acquisition of property...

Confidence in the Ceann Comhairle: Motion (1 Apr 2025)

Paschal Donohoe: You cannot on one hand stand up and make the case for the value of the rules of this House and at the same time attempt to shout them down.

Confidence in the Ceann Comhairle: Motion (1 Apr 2025)

Paschal Donohoe: You cannot do that. You cannot on one hand talk about the value of the procedures of this House but be involved in heckling those who seek to implement them. You cannot talk about respect for the office of the Ceann Comhairle but at the same time look to abuse her and the way she has performed her functions. Finally, you cannot make the case for the importance of the orderly functioning of...