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Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Caiteachas Ranna (9 May 2018)

Paschal Donohoe: One of the objectives relating to the sale of the National Lottery licence for a 20 year period was to generate significant up-front proceeds for the State. Proceeds of €405m from the sale were used to fund a range of expenditure projects and served to reduce the need for any further tax increases at that time. The allocation of funding from subheads which are part-funded from the...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Roads Maintenance Funding (9 May 2018)

Paschal Donohoe: As recently outlined by the Minister for Transport, Tourism (PQ 17344/18) the improvement and maintenance of regional and local roads is the statutory responsibility of local authorities, in accordance with the provisions of Section 13 of the Roads Act 1993. Works on those roads are funded from the Council's own resources supplemented by State road grants.  The initial selection and...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Capital Expenditure Programme (9 May 2018)

Paschal Donohoe: I propose to take Questions Nos. 102 to 104, inclusive, together. The purpose of capital investment undertaken by my Department and the Office of Government Procurement (OGP) is to deliver greater effectiveness and efficiency across the Civil and Public Service.  The nature of many of the reform initiatives set out in ambitious reform plans, such as Our Public Service 2020 and the Public...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: State Claims Agency (8 May 2018)

Paschal Donohoe: The State Claims Agency (SCA) has a statutory remit to manage personal injury claims, including claims in respect of clinical negligence, on behalf of Delegated State Authorities (DSAs) including the Health Service Executive. The SCA’s claims management objective is, while acting in the best interest of taxpayers in matters of personal injury and property damage litigation, to act...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: State Claims Agency (8 May 2018)

Paschal Donohoe: The State Claims Agency (SCA) have advised me that it settles very few claims subject to a confidentiality agreement. For the purposes of clarity the SCA also advise that a claim refers to notification of intention to seek compensation for personal injury and/or property damage where it is alleged the State was negligent. The application may be in the form of a letter of claim, an...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Budget Measures (8 May 2018)

Paschal Donohoe: I am assuming the Deputy is referring to Budget 2018 measures.  The carryover cost in 2019 of tax measures introduced in Budget 2018 is estimated to be of the order of €14 million. It is important to point out that the exact impact of carryover will be reviewed as part of the normal Budgetary process, as there are several moving parts to be considered, such as economic growth,...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Budget 2018 (8 May 2018)

Paschal Donohoe: As part of the preparations for Budget 2018, it was estimated that the Exchequer yield from non-indexation of the income tax system would be of the order of €0.6 billion on a full year basis. It is important to point out that the calculation of non-indexation of the income tax system for 2018 was prepared on the basis of the following technical assumptions: 1. The projected increase...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Excise Duties (8 May 2018)

Paschal Donohoe: I am advised by Revenue that an increase in excise duty on diesel of five cents per litre will increase the price by 6.15 cent per litre when VAT is included. The estimated yield from an increase of 6.15 cent per litre is estimated at €166 million in a full year. The additional cost to the diesel rebate scheme to offset such an increase for commercial transport is estimated at...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: VAT Yield (8 May 2018)

Paschal Donohoe: I propose to take Questions Nos. 114 and 115 together. I am informed by The Revenue Commissioners that the Ready Reckoner, available at (page 26), shows the impact of increases in VAT rates, including the 9% rate. As shown in the Ready Reckoner, the yield from the restoration of the VAT rate from 9% to 13.5% across all goods and services is likely to be in the region of €520m for...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Community Employment Schemes Administration (8 May 2018)

Paschal Donohoe: Payments made to participants in Community Employment Schemes are not liable to the Universal Social Charge.  These payments are treated as social welfare payments and are therefore exempt from the Universal Social Charge under section 531 AM of the Taxes Consolidation Act 1997.

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Universal Social Charge Data (8 May 2018)

Paschal Donohoe: I am advised by Revenue that net receipts for the Universal Social Charge (USC) in 2017 were €3,131 million for PAYE and €577 million for non-PAYE. Net receipts for USC in 2018 to-date are €1,073 million for PAYE and €42 million for non-PAYE.

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Motor Insurance (8 May 2018)

Paschal Donohoe: As Minister for Finance, I am responsible for the development of the legal framework governing financial regulation. Neither I nor the Central Bank of Ireland has the power to direct insurance companies on the pricing or provision of insurance products. Indeed, the EU framework for insurance expressly prohibits Member States from adopting such rules. The provision of insurance cover and...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (8 May 2018)

Paschal Donohoe: Sugar Sweetened Drinks Tax is provided for by Chapter 2 of Part 1 of the Finance Act 2017. The tax commenced on 1 May 2018 and applies to first supplies in the State of sugar sweetened drinks. Sugar sweetened drinks are water and juice based drinks, in ready to consume or concentrated form, that contain added sugar and have a total sugar content of 5 grams or more per 100 millilitres in...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Vehicle Registration (8 May 2018)

Paschal Donohoe: I am advised by the Revenue Commissioners that section 132(1), Finance Act, 1992 provided for the introduction, from 1 January 1993, of “a duty of excise, to be called vehicle registration tax”.  VRT is a tax on the registration of a vehicle and is not a tax on the importation of a vehicle.  Section 132(1) also specifies that the tax “shall be charged, levied...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Consultancy Contracts Expenditure (8 May 2018)

Paschal Donohoe: No invoices were received by my Department, however please see the following response from state agencies under my remit relating to Diskshred Ltd. or Asset Management Ireland in the years 2011 to 2018. Of the seventeen bodies under the aegis of my Department, I am informed that fifteen have not availed of the services of the companies, Diskshred Ltd or Asset Management Ireland since...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: State Claims Agency Data (8 May 2018)

Paschal Donohoe: In response to the Deputy's question the State Claims Agency (SCA) have supplied the following table regarding active claims, broken down by Incident/Hazard Category recorded on the National Incident Management System (NIMS) as of 4 May 2018. The SCA advise that they do not record the county in which a claimant is located in a reportable manner on the NIMS. The table and the report excludes...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (8 May 2018)

Paschal Donohoe: I am advised by Revenue that the tax position of the person in question has been examined and is correct. Revenue has also confirmed that it has already been in direct contact with the person in regard to the issue, which seems to relate to payroll processing by their employer.

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (8 May 2018)

Paschal Donohoe: I am advised by Revenue that the person had an underpayment of Universal Social Charge for 2016. The underpayment arose because Revenue was not informed of the change in his employment circumstances. This resulted in his tax credits for the year being applied at previous years' rates which were below the USC threshold. Revenue originally advised the person that the shortfall would be...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Stamp Duty (8 May 2018)

Paschal Donohoe: As I have outlined in a number of PQ replies recently, the measure legislated for in section 68 of Finance Act 2017 will allow a farmer to claim relief from stamp duty where he or she sells and purchases land for the purposes of consolidating an existing farm holding has been introduced, subject to a commencement order after a full consideration of any administrative or EU state-aid...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Foreign Earnings Deduction (8 May 2018)

Paschal Donohoe: The Foreign Earnings Deduction applies to taxpayers who work abroad during a tax year and one of the conditions of receiving the deduction is that the taxpayer must work in a relevant state, of which there are 30 eligible states. All of these 30 relevant states are non EEA states. I am advised by Revenue that given the number of variable factors involved, for example, the extra uptake...