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Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Credits (26 Apr 2022)

Paschal Donohoe: As the Deputy may be aware, the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage has established an Independent Working Group to examine the issue of defective housing. Officials from my Department participate in this Working Group. The objectives of the group are to identify the scope of relevant significant defects in housing, to evaluate the scale of housing...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Primary Medical Certificates (26 Apr 2022)

Paschal Donohoe: The Disabled Drivers & Disabled Passengers Scheme provides relief from Vehicle Registration Tax and VAT on the purchase and use of an adapted car, as well as an exemption from motor tax and an annual fuel grant. The Scheme is open to severely and permanently disabled persons as a driver or as a passenger and also to certain charitable organisations. In order to qualify for relief, the...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: State Bodies (26 Apr 2022)

Paschal Donohoe: Home Building Finance Ireland was established to increase the supply of new homes for owner-occupiers, renters and social housing by providing funding on commercial terms to housebuilders for commercially viable developments throughout Ireland.  To March 2022, HBFI has approved funding of €1,129m across 81 projects in 20 counties.  This funding will support the building of...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Departmental Staff (26 Apr 2022)

Paschal Donohoe: I wish to advise the Deputy that the salaries and expenses paid to advisers, Ministers and or Ministers of State in the Department of Finance in 2020, 2021 and to date in 2022, were as follows: Minister for Finance Pay Voluntary Surrender Of Pay* Expenses 2020 (from 23 July 2020)** €36,940.35 -€9,929.00 ...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (26 Apr 2022)

Paschal Donohoe: As part of the Government’s response to Covid-19, Budget 2021 brought the VAT rate for Hospitality and Tourism related services and goods down from 13.5% to 9%. This was initially planned for 14 months, from 1 November 2020 to 31 December 2021. This was then extended to 31 August 2022 in recognition of the difficulties facing these sectors. This extension provides support for a further...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Departmental Staff (26 Apr 2022)

Paschal Donohoe: I wish to inform the Deputy that there are currently 16 employees of the Department of Finance on secondment out to another organisation, and 32 employees seconded into the Department from other organisations. Secondment arrangements within the Department of Finance follow the guidelines set out by the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform's Secondment Policy for the Civil Service....

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Fuel Prices (26 Apr 2022)

Paschal Donohoe: I propose to take Questions Nos. 493, 494, 496, 522 and 529 together. Finance Act 1999 provides for the application of excise duty, in the form of Mineral Oil Tax (MOT), to specified mineral oils, such as petrol, diesel, and kerosene, that are used as motor or heating fuels. MOT is comprised of a non-carbon component and a carbon component. The carbon component is proportionate to the carbon...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Departmental Staff (26 Apr 2022)

Paschal Donohoe: I can confirm that my Department does not facilitate internships for students in full or part-time further and higher education. A number of bodies under the aegis of my Department have advised the following: The Central Bank typically takes in forty students annually on its Internship Programme. The programme is usually undertaken by students in their second or penultimate year of...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Departmental Data (26 Apr 2022)

Paschal Donohoe: The official numbers available on the level of gold reserves held in Ireland relate to the amount of gold reserves held by the Central Bank of Ireland. These are as follows; Quarter Q1 2011 Q1 2012 Q1 2013 Q1 2014 Q1 2015 Q1 2016 Q1 2017 Q1 2018 Q1 2019 Q1 2020 Q1 2021 Q1 2022 ...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Departmental Data (26 Apr 2022)

Paschal Donohoe: The NTMA have informed me that the  table below shows the national debt service cost for each year from 2011 to 2021. The figure for 2021 is a provisional outturn as per the end-December 2021 Exchequer Statement. National debt service is a combination of interest together with fees and operating expenses. The years 2011 – 2014 in the table below also include a Sinking Fund...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Departmental Staff (26 Apr 2022)

Paschal Donohoe: I wish to advise the Deputy that secondment arrangements within the Department of Finance follow the guidelines set out by the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform's Secondment Policy for the Civil Service. This was outlined most recently in Circular 27-2021 which sets out the current arrangements for secondments between Civil Service organisations. This Secondment Policy also...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Fuel Prices (26 Apr 2022)

Paschal Donohoe: Ireland’s taxation of fuel is governed by European Union law as set out in Directive 2003/96/EC, commonly known as the Energy Tax Directive (ETD). The ETD prescribes minimum tax rates for fuel with which all Member States must comply. ETD provisions on mineral oils are transposed into national law in Finance Act 1999 (as amended) and this Act provides for the application of excise...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Question Heading for question(s) 501 (26 Apr 2022)

Paschal Donohoe: I propose to take Questions Nos. 501, 505 and 520 together. I wish to highlight, as Minister for Finance, I am precluded from intervening in commercial and operational decisions in any particular bank, even one in which the State has a shareholding. Decisions in this regard, including decisions around a bank's loan offering, are the sole responsibility of the board and management of the banks...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Primary Medical Certificates (26 Apr 2022)

Paschal Donohoe: The Disabled Drivers & Disabled Passengers Scheme provides relief from Vehicle Registration Tax and VAT on the purchase and use of an adapted car, as well as an exemption from motor tax and an annual fuel grant. The Scheme is open to severely and permanently disabled persons as a driver or as a passenger and also to certain charitable organisations. In order to qualify for relief,...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Yield (26 Apr 2022)

Paschal Donohoe: My Department has, in recent years, worked with the Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI), through a Joint Research Programme (JRP) to advance Ireland’s macroeconomic and fiscal analysis of climate change using the ESRI’s I3E model. Through the JRP, significant analysis has been undertaken regarding the economic and environmental impacts of the carbon tax, in...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: National Asset Management Agency (26 Apr 2022)

Paschal Donohoe: By virtue of Sections 99 and 202 of the NAMA Act, NAMA is legally precluded from disclosing confidential debtor information, including specific details relating to secured assets or confidential arrangements reached with debtors. While NAMA is legally constrained from providing detailed responses to the issues set out in the Deputy’s query, NAMA advises that assertions contained...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Revenue Commissioners (26 Apr 2022)

Paschal Donohoe: I am advised by Revenue that all Revenue public offices, excluding ports, airports and trade facilitations stations remain closed to the public until further notice. Revenue continues to provide a full range of online services for taxpayers to manage their tax affairs, which for the most part removes any requirement to access public offices. These services, which include an online...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Insurance Industry (26 Apr 2022)

Paschal Donohoe: In relation to the proposed ‘no-fault’ insurance systems in other jurisdictions, where the State pays compensation and/or the cost of rehabilitation while the public pays for this system through taxes, the Deputy should note that this has previously been examined by the Cost of Insurance Working Group. This concluded that the introduction of such a model into the State would...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Electric Vehicles (26 Apr 2022)

Paschal Donohoe: At the outset, it is important to note that neither I, nor the Central Bank of Ireland, can direct the pricing or provision of insurance products, as this is a commercial matter which individual companies assess on a case-by-case basis. This position is reinforced by the EU Single Market framework for insurance (the Solvency II Directive) which expressly prohibits Member States from doing so....

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Vacant Properties (26 Apr 2022)

Paschal Donohoe: The Government’s strategy ‘Housing For All’ includes an action for my Department to collect data on vacancy with a view to introducing a Vacant Property Tax. The timeframe for delivery on this commitment is the second quarter of 2022.  The Finance (Local Property Tax) (Amendment) Act 2021 enabled Revenue to collect certain information in relation to the...