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Written Answers — Department of Finance: Customs and Excise Staff (3 Jul 2018)

Paschal Donohoe: See the following table: Port Number of Staff Dublin Airport 118 Dublin Port 85 Shannon Airport 20 Rosslare Port 25 Cork Port /Airport 20 It should be noted that Revenue is a fully integrated tax and customs administration and that it is not possible to disaggregate resources deployed exclusively at any given time on customs. Enforcement strength in ports and airports is augmented...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Customs and Excise Controls (3 Jul 2018)

Paschal Donohoe: I am advised by Revenue that customs facilities in place at Ireland's ports include container compounds, mobile x-ray scanners, canine units, examination & seizure sheds, secure safes, baggage hall areas, interview rooms and general office administration facilities. The facilities at each location are determined, inter alia, by the nature and volume of traffic through a particular...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Ministerial Meetings (3 Jul 2018)

Paschal Donohoe: The Managing Director of the IMF, Christine Lagarde, visited Dublin on 25-26 June to attend a conference, ‘The Euro at 20’, organised by the IMF together with the Central Bank of Ireland who also hosted the event I met with Ms Lagarde on Monday 25th June during the course of this visit. The meeting did not have a formal agenda. However, in the course of the meeting we...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: VAT Rate Reductions (3 Jul 2018)

Paschal Donohoe: My Department has undertaken an economic review of the 9% VAT rate ahead of this year’s Budget and the report is currently in the finalisation stages. The Revenue Commissioners most recent estimate for reverting the reduced 9% VAT rate back to 13.5% is that it would bring in extra revenue of €527 million. I am also advised by the Revenue Commissioners that an estimate for the...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Reliefs Abolition (3 Jul 2018)

Paschal Donohoe: A review of the appropriate treatment for tax purposes of trade union subscriptions and professional body fees was carried out by my Department in 2016 and included in the 2016 report on tax expenditures published on budget day 2016. The review may be found at the following link: () The review concluded that: "... analysis of the scheme using the principles laid down by the...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Exchequer Deficit (3 Jul 2018)

Paschal Donohoe: The information requested by the Deputy is published by my Department on an annual basis as part the Budget Statistics . It is reproduced in the following table for the Deputy's convenience. 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 Exchequer Balance (€ million) -1,619 -12,714 -24,641 -18,744 -24,918 -14,892 -11,503 -8,189 -64 -1,018 1,910 % of GDP -0.82% -6.77%...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Banking Sector (3 Jul 2018)

Paschal Donohoe: My Department, along with Minister Ring’s Department of Rural and Community Development, are tasked with fulfilling the Programme for a Partnership Government to "thoroughly investigate the German Sparkassen model for the development of local public banks that operate within well-defined regions". Local public banking is where there is public ownership, as opposed to private...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Post Office Network (3 Jul 2018)

Paschal Donohoe: Responsibility for An Post rests with my colleague, Minister Naughton. Accordingly, Minister Naughton and his Department are better placed to provide further information and detail on the financial services provided by the post offices. However, in the context of the report on local public banking that has been prepared by my Department and the Department of Rural and Community Development,...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Financial Services and Pensions Ombudsman Data (3 Jul 2018)

Paschal Donohoe: Firstly, I must point out that the Financial Services and Pensions Ombudsman is independent in the performance of his statutory functions. I have no role in the day to day workings of his office. However, I have been advised by the Ombudsman that where a question of time-limits arises, the Ombudsman gives active consideration to all aspects of Section 51 of the Financial Services and...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Government Expenditure (3 Jul 2018)

Paschal Donohoe: I propose to take Questions Nos. 69 to 73, inclusive, together. The information requested by the Deputy is publicly available (up to 2016) in the Budgetary Statistics annual publication available at) and reproduced for the Deputy’s convenience in the following table. I have provided the requested ratios as a percentage of GDP. However, given the documented issues around GDP,...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Departmental Expenditure (3 Jul 2018)

Paschal Donohoe: In reply to the Deputy's question, my Department has incurred no expenditure on commercial archaeology services in the years 2013 to 2017 and to date in 2018.

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Summer Economic Statement (3 Jul 2018)

Paschal Donohoe: This has been addressed in previous responses to Parliamentary Questions No. 110 and 114 sent to the Deputy. I have reproduced the answers as follows for the Deputy's convenience. The following is a breakdown of ‘pre-committed fiscal space for expenditure’ in Table 3 of the Summer Economic Statement: € billions 2019 2020 2021 Demographics 0.4 0.4 0.5 Public Service...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Insurance Costs (3 Jul 2018)

Paschal Donohoe: Both I and the Government are very conscious of the difficulties that increased insurance costs are having on the business sector. Consequently, following the publication of its Report on the Cost of Motor Insurance in January 2017, the Cost of Insurance Working Group undertook an examination of the Employer Liability and Public Liability insurance sectors in its second phase of work....

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Knowledge Development Box (3 Jul 2018)

Paschal Donohoe: The Knowledge Development Box (KDB) applies for accounting periods commencing on or after 1 January 2016. A claimant company has a period of up to 24 months to make a claim for KDB relief. I am informed by Revenue that a small number of companies (less than 10) with accounting periods ended on or before 31 December 2016 have claimed KDB relief to date. As indicated in Revenue’s...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Capital Expenditure Programme (3 Jul 2018)

Paschal Donohoe: As the Deputy is aware my Department has not prepared any forecasts beyond 2021 and therefore cannot provide ratios of GDP and GNI* for these years. The Deputy provided a proposed capital expenditure plan and has requested this as: per cent of GDP; per cent of GNI*; and additional fiscal space used compared with Table 3 of the 2018 Summer Economic Statement (SES). Nominal GDP and GNI*...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Reliefs Availability (3 Jul 2018)

Paschal Donohoe: With regard to taxation, Section 266A of the Taxes Consolidation Act 1997 provided for a repayment of Deposit Interest Retention Tax (“DIRT”) for first time purchasers in respect of any property, which included the purchase of a second-hand property. This section applied to purchases from 14 October 2014 to 31 December 2017 and provided a repayment of DIRT on savings up to a...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Electric Vehicles (3 Jul 2018)

Paschal Donohoe: The question raised by the Deputy is a matter for response by the Office of Public Works. I understand that the OPW have prepared a co-ordinated reply on the issue.

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Reliefs Data (3 Jul 2018)

Paschal Donohoe: It is assumed that the Deputy is referring to the revised Entrepreneur Relief provided for in Section 597AA of the Taxes Consolidation Act 1997. I am advised by Revenue that the current lifetime limit applicable to this relief is €1 million in chargeable gains. The cost of increasing this limit to the €6.5 million suggested by the Deputy would be approximately €40m...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Reliefs Application (3 Jul 2018)

Paschal Donohoe: I am informed by Revenue that full details on how income tax relief on expenditure incurred on nursing home fees may be claimed were issued to the taxpayer in question on 5 June 2018. The taxpayer subsequently submitted a claim for the relief on 19 June 2018 following a meeting with an official from the Mayo Tax District. The individual’s claim was immediately processed and their...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Fuel Laundering (3 Jul 2018)

Paschal Donohoe: I am aware of reports of incidents involving the illegal dumping of sludge in Co. Louth, and recognise the serious threat that fuel fraud poses to legitimate business, consumers and the Exchequer. I am advised by Revenue that tackling fuel fraud has been one of their priorities over recent years. While it is very disappointing that incidents such as this still occur, I am advised that...