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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Community Welfare Services (14 Jul 2022)

Pearse Doherty: 88. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she has considered the effect of the additional workload, arising from the introduction of the additional needs payment, for community welfare officers; and if she has considered employing additional staff at already short-staffed centres. [34903/22]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Community Welfare Services (14 Jul 2022)

Pearse Doherty: The additional needs payment was one of the Government's ways of dealing with the cost-of-living crisis. We know it is not the panacea that has been suggested. However, the problem is that it does little to help those struggling. Furthermore, it has resulted in an increase in the workload for already overworked community welfare officers, CWOs. Does the Minister have any plans to employ...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Community Welfare Services (14 Jul 2022)

Pearse Doherty: My office has been contacted by people who work at the front line in the administration of these payments and they tell me they are at breaking point because of the understaffing, not just recently but for some time, and the demands that have been placed on them. It is not helped by Ministers telling everybody who cannot afford to put petrol in their car to run to the community welfare...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Test (14 Jul 2022)

Pearse Doherty: 233. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when a person (details supplied) from County Donegal can expect a test date for a driving test; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38902/22]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Departmental Data (14 Jul 2022)

Pearse Doherty: 295. To ask the Minister for Finance the tax expenditures and reliefs which are to expire by 31 December 2022; the estimated cost of extending each from 1 January to 31 December 2023; if the cost of extending each to 31 December 2023 is factored into the base for next year as provided in the Summer Economic Statement; and the cost of each in tabular form. [39433/22]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Departmental Data (14 Jul 2022)

Pearse Doherty: 296. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated cost of extending the reduced rate of USC for medical card holders to 31 December 2023; and if the cost of same is factored into the base for 2023 as provided in the Summer Economic Statement. [39434/22]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Departmental Data (14 Jul 2022)

Pearse Doherty: 297. To ask the Minister for Finance the projected number of persons subject to USC in 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39435/22]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Departmental Data (14 Jul 2022)

Pearse Doherty: 298. To ask the Minister for Finance the total value of unclaimed tax, through Revenue for overpaid tax; the number of persons to whom this applies; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39436/22]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Departmental Data (14 Jul 2022)

Pearse Doherty: 299. To ask the Minister for Finance if the revenue generated by the bank levy is factored into the base of 2023 revenue in the Summer Economic Statement. [39461/22]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Departmental Data (14 Jul 2022)

Pearse Doherty: 300. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated cost of increasing personal, PAYE and earned Income tax credits by €5, €10 and at a rate of 2%, disaggregated by tax credit type. [39464/22]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Departmental Data (14 Jul 2022)

Pearse Doherty: 301. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated cost to the Exchequer of increasing the threshold at which the 2% rate of USC applies from €21,295 to €23,322 and €25,350, respectively. [39465/22]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Departmental Data (14 Jul 2022)

Pearse Doherty: 302. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated cost to the Exchequer of reducing the 2% rate of USC to 1% and simultaneously increasing the threshold at which this 1% rate would be applied from €21,295 to €23,322 and €25,350, respectively. [39466/22]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Departmental Data (14 Jul 2022)

Pearse Doherty: 303. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated revenue that would be raised to the end-December 2022 by introducing a 3% income tax surcharge, levied through USC, on individual incomes on the portion of income in excess of €140,000, effective from 27 September 2022. [39467/22]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Departmental Data (14 Jul 2022)

Pearse Doherty: 304. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated revenue that would be raised to end-December 2022 by tapering personal, PAYE and Earned Income tax credits at a rate of 2.5% per €1,000 for individual incomes between €100,000 and €140,000, effective from 27 September 2022. [39468/22]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Departmental Data (14 Jul 2022)

Pearse Doherty: 305. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated rate of charge necessary with respect to the bank levy to produce an annual yield of €150 million in 2022 and 2023 respectively. [39472/22]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Departmental Data (14 Jul 2022)

Pearse Doherty: 306. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated revenue to be raised to end-December 2022 by introducing a 40% rate of capital gains tax on the portion of individual income, including income generated by gains, in excess of €500,000, effective from 27 September 2022. [39473/22]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Departmental Data (14 Jul 2022)

Pearse Doherty: 307. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 177 of 21 June 2022, if the revenue generated with respect to a 40% rate of capital gains tax on individual incomes in excess of €500,000, including income from gains, was calculated on the basis of the farm restructuring relief, revised entrepreneur relief and retirement relief applying to the applicable income...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Departmental Data (14 Jul 2022)

Pearse Doherty: 308. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated additional yield that could be generated in 2023 if the bailed-out banks had applied to them a 25% and 50% limit respectively on the losses that could be carried forward in a year and a five year absolute limit in which the losses could be utilised. [39475/22]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Departmental Data (14 Jul 2022)

Pearse Doherty: 310. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated annual revenue from applying a charge on the size of the assets of all qualifying Section 110 companies, at a rate of 0.001%, 0.01% and 0.1% in tabular form. [39529/22]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Departmental Data (14 Jul 2022)

Pearse Doherty: 311. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated annual revenue raised from implementing a new tax on company share buy backs at a rate of 0.5%, 1%, 3% and 5% in tabular form. [39530/22]