Results 161-180 of 2,771 for speaker:Colm Brophy

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (24 Oct 2024)

Colm Brophy: 128. To ask the Minister for Finance the cost of increasing the capital acquisitions tax group A threshold to €500,000, €550,000 and €600,000. [43734/24]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (24 Oct 2024)

Colm Brophy: 129. To ask the Minister for Finance the cost of increasing the capital acquisitions tax group B threshold to €50,000, €60,000, €70,000 and (iv) €75,000. [43735/24]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (24 Oct 2024)

Colm Brophy: 130. To ask the Minister for Finance the cost of increasing the capital acquisitions tax group C threshold to €30,000, €40,000 and €50,000. [43736/24]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Reliefs (24 Oct 2024)

Colm Brophy: 131. To ask the Minister for Finance the current annual cost of the help to buy scheme, based on the latest data available. [43737/24]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Reliefs (24 Oct 2024)

Colm Brophy: 132. To ask the Minister for Finance the additional cost to the State of increasing the help to buy scheme limit from €30,000 to €40,000, based on an average claim of €25,000 per year and €30,000 per year, and 8,000 approvals per year. [43738/24]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Reliefs (24 Oct 2024)

Colm Brophy: 133. To ask the Minister for Finance the additional cost to the State of increasing the help to buy scheme limit from €30,000 to €40,000, based on an average claim of €25,000 per year and €30,000 per year, and 9,000 approvals per year [43739/24]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Reliefs (24 Oct 2024)

Colm Brophy: 134. To ask the Minister for Finance the additional cost to the State of increasing the help to buy scheme limit from €30,000 to €40,000 and increasing the price limit to €550,000, based on an average claim of €30,000, and 8,000 approvals per year. [43740/24]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Reliefs (24 Oct 2024)

Colm Brophy: 135. To ask the Minister for Finance the additional cost to the State of increasing the help to buy scheme limit from €30,000 to €40,000 and increasing the price limit to €550,000, based on an average claim of €30,000, and 9,000 approvals per year. [43741/24]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Reliefs (24 Oct 2024)

Colm Brophy: 136. To ask the Minister for Finance the cost of increasing the exemption limit of €14,000 to €16,000, €18,000 and €20,000 under the rent-a-room tax relief scheme, based on no increase in take-up compared to 2023 levels. [43743/24]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Reliefs (24 Oct 2024)

Colm Brophy: 137. To ask the Minister for Finance the cost of increasing the exemption limit of €14,000 to €16,000, €18,000 and €20,000 under the rent-a-room tax relief scheme, based on a 10% increase in take-up compared to 2023 levels. [43744/24]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Yield (24 Oct 2024)

Colm Brophy: 138. To ask the Minister for Finance the revenue generated by increasing the domestic tax on e-cigarettes to all e-liquids at a rate of an extra 50c per ml of e-liquid per year, reaching €3 per year by 2030. [43745/24]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Yield (24 Oct 2024)

Colm Brophy: 139. To ask the Minister for Finance the revenue generated by increasing the excise duty on cigarettes by 50c each year from 2026 to 2030. [43746/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (24 Oct 2024)

Colm Brophy: 213. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the cost to the State of extending the first home scheme to first time buyers of second hand properties, based on the same criteria applying to the existing scheme, the same average equity stake and on the basis that 4,000, 5,000, 6,000 and 7,000 homes per year (new and second hand) would be approved under the scheme in each...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Citizens' Attitude to Democracy and the Rule of Law: TASC (23 Oct 2024)

Colm Brophy: On behalf of the committee, I welcome Dr. Shana Cohen and Mr. Tiarnán McDonough of TASC Ireland, the think-tank for action of social change. Today's discussion will be on citizens' attitudes to democracy and the rule of law. I thank them both for joining us today in one of our final meetings as a committee. Before their opening statement, I will go through the note on privilege....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Citizens' Attitude to Democracy and the Rule of Law: TASC (23 Oct 2024)

Colm Brophy: I thank Dr. Cohen. I call Senator Keogan.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Citizens' Attitude to Democracy and the Rule of Law: TASC (23 Oct 2024)

Colm Brophy: I thank Mr. McDonough. I will move on to Deputy Harkin.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Citizens' Attitude to Democracy and the Rule of Law: TASC (23 Oct 2024)

Colm Brophy: We have covered so much and it has been a very discursive type of meeting. There are a few areas I would like to speak about but I will not go on at great length because we all could and I am very conscious of time. There are a couple of areas which I think are important. I really have a problem with this notion that the use of the term "far right" is a throwaway thing. It is not. There...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Citizens' Attitude to Democracy and the Rule of Law: TASC (23 Oct 2024)

Colm Brophy: I invite our witnesses to make a final contribution.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Citizens' Attitude to Democracy and the Rule of Law: TASC (23 Oct 2024)

Colm Brophy: I thank our witnesses for their contributions and I also thank all members who participated today. As this is our last meeting, I also want to thank all of those who have participated at meetings throughout this committee's term. I also thank the secretariat and support staff for enabling us, as elected representatives, to work very well on this committee during this Dáil. We are not...