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Financial Resolutions 2019 - Budget Statement 2019 (9 Oct 2018)

Paschal Donohoe: A new paid parental leave scheme will be introduced in November 2019 to provide two extra weeks' leave to every parent of a child in their first year. I intend to increase that to seven extra weeks over time. To support working families and to ensure that work pays, next March, I will increase the earnings disregard for the one-parent family payment and introduce a maintenance disregard for...

Financial Resolutions 2019 - Budget Statement 2019 (9 Oct 2018)

Paschal Donohoe: The housing needs of over 25,000 of our people will be met this year alone and by the end of 2018, over 70,000 housing solutions will have been delivered under the Rebuilding Ireland programme. Of these, just under 12,000 will be delivered through building, over 5,000 through acquisitions and 3,600 through leasing. A further 49,700 have been delivered through the housing assistance payment...

Financial Resolutions 2019 - Budget Statement 2019 (9 Oct 2018)

Paschal Donohoe: The rate was due to be 100% by 2021 but will now be effective from 1 January 2019. Local Property Tax I announced a review of the local property tax, LPT, earlier this year, together with a broad consultation process. I understand that the recent changes in property values have caused concern about future liabilities, particularly among vulnerable members of our society. I want to restate...

Financial Resolutions 2019 - Budget Statement 2019 (9 Oct 2018)

Paschal Donohoe: I am announcing a further increase of €1.05 billion in health funding for next year. This brings the health budget to €17 billion. Taken together, the additional investment in health in the past two years comes to €2.25 billion or an increase of 15%, the highest point in our history.

Financial Resolutions 2019 - Budget Statement 2019 (9 Oct 2018)

Paschal Donohoe: The allocation I am announcing today will facilitate a range of additional services, including initiatives proposed under Sláintecare. These include a €25 increase in the weekly income threshold for GP visit cards; a 50 cent reduction in prescription charges from €2 to €1.50 for all medical card holders over the age of 70; and a €10 reduction in the monthly...

Financial Resolutions 2019 - Budget Statement 2019 (9 Oct 2018)

Paschal Donohoe: With regard to the 2019 capital envelope for health, €174 million has been provided, bringing the total capital allocation to €670 million for next year. Tobacco I am increasing excise duty on a pack of 20 cigarettes by 50 cent, with a pro rataincrease on other tobacco products. This will bring the price of cigarettes in the most popular price category to €12.70. I am...

Financial Resolutions 2019 - Budget Statement 2019 (9 Oct 2018)

Paschal Donohoe: Today I present my second budget to the House and to the Irish people as Minister for Finance and Public Expenditure and Reform. INTRODUCTION A decade on from the financial and economic crisis that wrought havoc on the lives and aspirations of so many of our citizens, I can report that our economy is again growing strongly and sustainably. A record number of people have jobs and many of our...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Vehicle Registration (9 Oct 2018)

Paschal Donohoe: Vehicles are registered by Revenue under the provisions of the Finance Act 1992, Part II, Chapter IV. Motorcycles, scramblers and other off-road vehicles must be registered if they are designed and constructed for road use and as such have type approval under the EU system of classification for vehicles. Vehicles which are not designed and constructed for road use cannot be registered under...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Farm Household Incomes (9 Oct 2018)

Paschal Donohoe: Decisions on taxation matters, including decisions (if any) in relation to farm income stabilisation measures, are made in the context of the annual Budget process. The Deputy will understand that I cannot give any indications of my plans in advance of the Budget speech later today.

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Compliance (9 Oct 2018)

Paschal Donohoe: I am advised by Revenue that it has recently reviewed the tax affairs of the person in question and is satisfied, based on the information on record, that their rate of tax is correct. Revenue will however make direct contact with the person to determine if their circumstances have changed in any way that could impact on their rate of tax.

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Oireachtas Banking Inquiry (9 Oct 2018)

Paschal Donohoe: I will address the Deputy's question in relation to the progress made on implementing each recommendation of the Banking Inquiry with relevance to my Department by firstly explaining the broader changes that have occurred since the crisis, and then going into detail on the progress on implementing the recommendations of relevance to the Department of Finance. I am pleased to report that the...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Literacy Programmes (9 Oct 2018)

Paschal Donohoe: My Department has no specific financial allocation provided for tackling adult literacy. As part of Public Service Reform, our colleagues in the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform promoted the use of plain English and provided plain English language training courses in 2016, for staff in other Departments. All learning materials undertaken by One Learning, the Civil Service...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Imports and Exports Data (9 Oct 2018)

Paschal Donohoe: I am advised by the Revenue Commissioners that it provides statistical information on the movement of goods into and out of Ireland to the Central Statistics Office (CSO), based on Intrastat returns made by traders. The Revenue Commissioners also carries out follow up queries with traders where requested to do so by the CSO. The CSO is responsible for analysing the data and making the...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Avoidance (9 Oct 2018)

Paschal Donohoe: I propose to take Questions Nos. 52 and 53 together. It is Revenue’s role to ensure compliance with tax legislation and to collect the correct tax due based on taxable income determined in accordance with tax legislation. This requires taxpayers to submit annual tax returns of their income and gains to Revenue. The Deputy will be aware that the findings in the Annual Report by...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Data (9 Oct 2018)

Paschal Donohoe: I am advised by Revenue that the available information in respect of the cost of tax expenditures (credits, allowances and reliefs) is published on Revenue’s statistics webpage at . My Department also publishes its own Report on Tax Expenditures each year, and I expect that the 2018 version will be published with the Budget 2019 documents today at www.gov.ie/budget. I am also advised...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Disabled Drivers and Passengers Scheme (9 Oct 2018)

Paschal Donohoe: As you may be aware, the Disabled Drivers and Disabled Passengers (Tax Concessions) Scheme provides relief from VAT and VRT (up to a certain limit) on the purchase of an adapted car for transport of a person with specific severe and permanent physical disabilities, payment of a fuel grant, and an exemption from Motor Tax. To qualify for the Scheme an applicant must be in possession of a...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Budget 2019 (9 Oct 2018)

Paschal Donohoe: I can advise the Deputy that all else being equal, each €100 million will worsen the structural balance by c. 0.03 percentage points. As I have said previously, this is money that we would have to borrow. With public debt in Ireland among the highest per capita in the developed world the focus must be on decreasing, rather than increasing, our debt level. My Department recently...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: NAMA Operations (9 Oct 2018)

Paschal Donohoe: I am advised that the company to which the Deputy refers was engaged by a receiver to undertake the construction of a residential development over which NAMA holds security. I am advised that the construction of the current phase of development has been completed. I am advised that the development is controlled by a receiver and the construction work on the site is governed by a contract...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Credit Union Services (9 Oct 2018)

Paschal Donohoe: The Government has a clear policy to support the strategic growth and development of credit unions delivering the comprehensive recommendations set out in the Commission on Credit Unions Report and the Credit Union Advisory Committee (CUAC) report in 2016, both of which involved extensive stakeholder engagement. CUAC remains an important adviser to me on strategic issues facing the sector,...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Fuel Laundering (9 Oct 2018)

Paschal Donohoe: I am advised by Revenue that they recognise the serious threat that fuel fraud poses to legitimate business, consumers and the Exchequer and that tackling this criminal activity has been and remains a high priority. The measures implemented by Revenue to tackle the problem of fuel fraud include the introduction of stringent supply chain controls and reporting requirements for fuel...