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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the Central Bank of Ireland (9 Oct 2024)

Pearse Doherty: Maybe an updated chart for the committee would be helpful.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the Central Bank of Ireland (9 Oct 2024)

Pearse Doherty: I will come to that in a minute. The Governor made that point in his opening statement, in response to questions from Deputy Boyd Barrett and indeed in the letter to the committee. However, I ask him to acknowledge that Israel is promoting these as war bonds. It is really important to understand where this financing goes to and to what efforts. We know that Israel has killed more...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the Central Bank of Ireland (9 Oct 2024)

Pearse Doherty: I welcome what Mr. Makhlouf has said and I would not expect him to say anything else bar to take what I have said in a serious way, which he has acknowledged, and to go back and look at this and look at what is in the regulation and whether there is a way not to have Ireland as a home country selling these war bonds. I have made my point strongly and often in relation to this. I argue that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the Central Bank of Ireland (9 Oct 2024)

Pearse Doherty: But is the directorate gone? I am looking at the structure of the Central Bank of Ireland.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the Central Bank of Ireland (9 Oct 2024)

Pearse Doherty: We have a deputy governor of consumer protection at the minute and we have a director. We have a unit of consumer protection. When whistleblowers came to me about money lending, I knew who to go to. I went to the directorate of consumer protection and I sat down to meet them. When we want to talk about defective blocks we can go to the director of consumer protection. Is it not the case...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the Central Bank of Ireland (9 Oct 2024)

Pearse Doherty: Did the director of banking have no responsibility for consumer protection up until now?

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Data (9 Oct 2024)

Pearse Doherty: 51. To ask the Minister for Finance the first- and full-year cost of the measure to increasing the 2% USC ceiling by €1,622; the number of people that would benefit from this measure; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40525/24]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Data (9 Oct 2024)

Pearse Doherty: 52. To ask the Minister for Finance the first- and full-year cost of reducing the 4% USC rate to 3% each year under 2030; the number of people that would benefit from this measure; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40526/24]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Data (9 Oct 2024)

Pearse Doherty: 53. To ask the Minister for Finance the first- and full-year cost of the increase of €2,000 in the income tax standard rate cut-off point; the number of people that would benefit from this measure; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40527/24]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Data (9 Oct 2024)

Pearse Doherty: 54. To ask the Minister for Finance the first- and full-year cost of the increase of €125 in the personal tax credit; the number of people that would benefit from this measure; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40528/24]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Data (9 Oct 2024)

Pearse Doherty: 55. To ask the Minister for Finance the first- and full-year cost of the increase of €125 in the employee tax credit; the number of people that would benefit from this measure; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40529/24]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Data (9 Oct 2024)

Pearse Doherty: 56. To ask the Minister for Finance the first- and full-year cost of the increase of €125 in the earned income credit; the number of people that would benefit from this measure; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40530/24]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Data (9 Oct 2024)

Pearse Doherty: 57. To ask the Minister for Finance the first- and full-year cost of the increase of €150 in the home carer tax credit; the number of people that would benefit from this measure; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40531/24]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Data (9 Oct 2024)

Pearse Doherty: 58. To ask the Minister for Finance the first- and full-year cost of the increase of €150 in the single person child carer tax credit; the number of people that would benefit from this measure; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40532/24]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Data (9 Oct 2024)

Pearse Doherty: 59. To ask the Minister for Finance the first- and full-year cost of the increase of €300 in the incapacitated child tax credit; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40533/24]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Data (9 Oct 2024)

Pearse Doherty: 60. To ask the Minister for Finance the first- and full-year cost of the increase of €300 in the blind person’s tax credit; the number of people that would benefit from this measure; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40534/24]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Data (9 Oct 2024)

Pearse Doherty: 61. To ask the Minister for Finance the first- and full-year cost of the increase of €60 in the dependent relative tax credit; the number of people that would benefit from this measure; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40535/24]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Data (9 Oct 2024)

Pearse Doherty: 62. To ask the Minister for Finance the first- and full-year revenue of an increase to residential stamp duty to 5% and 6% respectively on properties over €1,000,000, taking account of the announced chances in Budget 2025 in relation to stamp duty; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40536/24]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Data (9 Oct 2024)

Pearse Doherty: 63. To ask the Minister for Finance the first- and full-year cost of the measure to extend mortgage interest tax relief; the number of people that would benefit from this measure; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40540/24]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Data (9 Oct 2024)

Pearse Doherty: 64. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated increase in tax and first- and full-year revenue from the €0.80 increase to the minimum wage; the estimated increase of an additional €0.30 to €13.80; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40541/24]