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Written Answers — Departmental Expenditure: Departmental Expenditure (5 Feb 2009)

Brian Lenihan Jnr: My Department currently has accounts with two taxi firms in Dublin. The amount of money paid out on these accounts in 2007 was €76,960 and in 2008 was €54,950. Procedures are in place for the use of taxis, which are to be used only where it is demonstrably necessary for business purposes.

Written Answers — Departmental Expenditure: Departmental Expenditure (5 Feb 2009)

Brian Lenihan Jnr: My Department has made use of an external storage company for some of its storage requirements since 2000.The items stored in this facility include pension files, accounts information and a small number of Departmental files. The cost per month for storage will vary from month to month as it is based on the number of boxes in storage during the month. The charge per cubic meter of space...

Written Answers — Tax Code: Tax Code (5 Feb 2009)

Brian Lenihan Jnr: Full details of the car parking levy are made available by the Office of the Revenue Commissioners on their website, however I would point out that an employee will be liable to the levy where: he or she has an entitlement to use a parking space for the parking of a vehicle covered by the levy (this would include a company car); the parking space is provided directly or indirectly by the...

Written Answers — Tax Code: Tax Code (5 Feb 2009)

Brian Lenihan Jnr: The general position is that non-governmental pensions and other similar remuneration paid in consideration of past employment to a resident of a country with which we have a double taxation agreement would be taxable in that country only. If the Deputy wishes to provide further details on an individual case, I will arrange for my officials to examine the matter.

Written Answers — Tax Code: Tax Code (5 Feb 2009)

Brian Lenihan Jnr: The position is that there is an exemption from the income levy for any person who is aged 65 years or over whose income for a year does not exceed €20,000. Where the individual is married and the joint income of the couple for the year is less than €40,000, then a joint exemption of up to €40,000 applies. In addition, an exemption from the income levy also applies for persons who are...

Written Answers — Tax Code: Tax Code (5 Feb 2009)

Brian Lenihan Jnr: I have been advised by the Revenue Commissioners that a P21 for 2007 was processed on 23 January 2009. As it appears that this review was not received by the taxpayer a review was again initiated on 2 February 2009. Due to the number of reviews being carried out at present there is a delay of a few days in processing and a P21 will issue shortly. In relation to the year 2008 I have been...

Written Answers — Tax Code: Tax Code (5 Feb 2009)

Brian Lenihan Jnr: I have been advised by the Revenue Commissioners that it is the responsibility of the Employer to issue Form P45 on cessation of an employment. On 3rd February 2009, Revenue issued to the taxpayer details of pay, tax deducted etc from the Form P35, which was submitted by the employer for the year 2008.

Written Answers — National Lottery: National Lottery (5 Feb 2009)

Brian Lenihan Jnr: The total allocation for sport in the subheads part-funded by the National Lottery in the Vote for the Department of Arts, Sport and Tourism in 2009 is €109.026m. The National Lottery contribution to the funding of all subheads (including sports subheads) part-funded from the Lottery amounted to €265m or 56.8% of the allocations in those subheads in 2008. The 2009 contribution will be...

Written Answers — Tax Code: Tax Code (5 Feb 2009)

Brian Lenihan Jnr: I am informed by the Revenue Commissioners that the relevant information available on the cost to the Exchequer of each of the property based tax reliefs is based on personal income tax returns filed by non-PAYE taxpayers and corporation tax returns filed by companies for the years 2005 and 2006, the latest years for which this information is available. These are as set out in the following...

Written Answers — Tax Code: Tax Code (5 Feb 2009)

Brian Lenihan Jnr: I propose to take Questions Nos. 99 and 104 together. As part of the work on the Green Paper on Pensions, a review was carried out into the current regime of tax incentives for supplementary pension provision. This was done with a view to developing more comprehensive and reliable estimates of the cost of reliefs in this area. Arising from the review, the following revised and up-to-date...

Written Answers — Banking Sector Remuneration: Banking Sector Remuneration (5 Feb 2009)

Brian Lenihan Jnr: Under the provisions of Section 20 of the Anglo Irish Bank Corporation Act 2009, I as Minister for Finance or my nominee appointed under the Act, may with the consent of the Central Bank appoint directors, other officers and employees to Anglo Irish Bank. Any such appointees shall hold office for such duration and upon such terms and conditions as I or my nominee may determine. My functions...

Written Answers — National Debt: National Debt (5 Feb 2009)

Brian Lenihan Jnr: The National Treasury Management Agency have advised me that the expected cost of financing the national debt in 2009 is estimated at €4,500 million, which represents an increase of €2,401 million on that for 2008. The reasons for this increase are: the costs of funding the now larger Exchequer deficits for 2008 and 2009; higher interest rates on Government bonds; and timing differences...

Written Answers — Pension Provisions: Pension Provisions (5 Feb 2009)

Brian Lenihan Jnr: As Minister for Finance I have statutory responsibility for civil service pensions. Statutory responsibility for public service pension schemes outside the civil service rests with relevant Ministers in other Departments as appropriate. My colleague, the Minister for Social and Family Affairs is responsible for the PRSI categories of specific groups of public servants and for the aggregate...

Written Answers — Banking Sector Remuneration: Banking Sector Remuneration (5 Feb 2009)

Brian Lenihan Jnr: The salaries, bonuses and pension arrangements for the Chairman, Chief Executive, non-executive and executive Directors of Anglo Irish Bank for the years 2006 and 2007 are available in Anglo Irish Bank's Annual Reports, which are available on the bank's website. I expect the Annual Report for 2008 to be posted on the website before the end of this month. As I announced on 20th January in my...

Stabilisation of the Public Finances: Motion (Resumed) (5 Feb 2009)

Brian Lenihan Jnr: I am working through each of the issues in turn. Regarding Ministers of State, the Taoiseach made it clear in the House yesterday that everybody has to work in the current crisis, including Ministers of State. They will have to work in this crisis but he has no immediate proposals for a reduction in their numbers. The Government takes the view that Ministers of State are necessary to...

Stabilisation of the Public Finances: Motion (Resumed) (5 Feb 2009)

Brian Lenihan Jnr: As regards the pension levy, tax relief clearly applies at the marginal rate. It is a pension levy and not a levy on any other type of income. It applies to all gross income, including the various expenses that Deputy Burton referred to, though in advance of the legislation I will not particularise it in any individual context. In principle, it applies to all gross income. As regards the...

Stabilisation of the Public Finances: Motion (Resumed) (5 Feb 2009)

Brian Lenihan Jnr: First of all, no public servant is paid less than the minimum wage, as I am sure the Deputy understands. There are public servants who work part-time, but they are not paid less than the minimum wage.

Stabilisation of the Public Finances: Motion (Resumed) (5 Feb 2009)

Brian Lenihan Jnr: The minimum wage is based on an hourly calculation on the assumption of full-time work. It is important to put this point on the record of the House. No public servant is paid less than the minimum wage.

Stabilisation of the Public Finances: Motion (Resumed) (5 Feb 2009)

Brian Lenihan Jnr: If a public servant is engaged in part-time employment for a part-time income, the levy may apply to that income.

Stabilisation of the Public Finances: Motion (Resumed) (5 Feb 2009)

Brian Lenihan Jnr: As regards the question on job creation and retention, I did not get an opportunity to reply to Deputy Bruton when he raised that point earlier. If we want to create jobs in this country the first item we must address is to give ourselves credibility in terms of our public finances. Of course the Government will make a stream of decisions on job retention and creation, and has been doing so...