Results 1-20 of 435 for "cycle to work"

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Reliefs (18 Apr 2024)

Michael McGrath: I understand the Deputy’s office have confirmed that this Parliamentary Question relates the Cycle to Work Scheme and a proposal to expand the scheme to include a Bike-to-School provision. Section 118(5G) of the Taxes Consolidation Act 1997 (TCA) provides for the Cycle to Work Scheme. This scheme offers an exemption from benefit-in-kind (BIK) where an employer purchases a bicycle...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Active Travel (5 Mar 2024) See 1 other result from this answer

Patrick Costello: 225. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of applications under the cycle-to-work scheme in 2023 and to date in 2024; if he will provide a breakdown between the number of bicycles, pedelecs, e-bikes and e-cargo bikes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10486/24]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Departmental Policies (14 Dec 2023)

Eamon Ryan: ...will be trained in 2023, in line with the target in the National Sustainable Mobility Policy of an additional 5,000 students per annum completing the training. 2023 funding also includes an increased subvention for students in DEIS schools, which will number around 9,000 of the totals trained this year. Thresholds under the Cycle to Work scheme have been increased in recent budgets to...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Rebates (14 Dec 2023)

Michael McGrath: Section 118(5G) of the Taxes Consolidation Act 1997 provides for the Cycle to Work scheme. This scheme, introduced in 2009, offers an exemption from benefit-in-kind (BIK) where an employer purchases a bicycle and/or associated safety equipment for one of their employees (or directors) to use, in whole or in part, to travel to work. The scheme operates on a self-administration basis. Relief is...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Departmental Policies (12 Dec 2023)

Eamon Ryan: ...000 students receiving training under the CycleRight Programme, and it is expected that around 35,000 students will be trained in 2023, in line with the target in the National Sustainable Mobility Policy of an additional 5,000 students per annum completing the training. Thresholds under the Cycle to Work scheme have been increased in recent budgets to allow for the purchase of e-bikes and...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Departmental Policies (6 Dec 2023)

Eamon Ryan: ...students receiving training under the CycleRight Programme, and it is expected that around 35,000 students will be trained in 2023, in line with the target in the National Sustainable Mobility Policy of an additional 5,000 students per annum completing the training. Thresholds under the Cycle to Work scheme have been increased in recent budgets to allow for the purchase of e-bikes and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Citizens' Assembly Report on Biodiversity Loss: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Nov 2023)

...it will not answer all of our carbon emission problems. We will have to keep cars. Perhaps they can be electric but we will have to keep them for certain people. Some people cannot use a bus or cycle to work because it could be so far away. They could be in a rural community that is not connected. There are no trains going to the middle of the countryside unless there is an urban area...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Reliefs (7 Nov 2023)

Michael McGrath: Section 118(5G) of the Taxes Consolidation Act 1997 (TCA) provides for the Cycle to Work scheme. This scheme offers an exemption from benefit-in-kind (BIK) where an employer purchases a bicycle and/or associated safety equipment for one of their employees (or directors) to use, in whole or in part, to travel to work. Associated safety equipment includes helmets, lights, bells, mirrors and...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance (No. 2) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (7 Nov 2023)

Michael McGrath: In response to amendment No. 3, I note that the cycle to work scheme provides that employees can avail of the scheme once in a four-year period, as Deputy Nash said. This period was reduced from five years by the Financial Provisions (Covid-19) (No. 2) Act 2020. The scheme covers the cost of a bicycle, locks, chains and other safety equipment to deter bicycle theft, though I note the figure...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Cycling Policy (26 Oct 2023)

Eamon Ryan: ...commits to “widening the eligibility of the Bike to Work scheme”. The Deputy will be aware that in Budget 2021, my colleague, the then Minister for Finance, increased the thresholds for the Cycle to Work scheme to enable the purchase of e-bikes and more recently the thresholds were increased again in a recent Budget to accommodate the purchase of cargo bikes and e-cargo...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Electric Vehicles (25 Oct 2023)

Eamon Ryan: ...is growing and they serve to encourage an even wider demographic of potential cyclists to choose an active mode of transport over the private car. I was pleased to see the thresholds for the Cycle to Work scheme increased by the Minister for Finance in Budget 2021 to include e-bikes and, in Budget 2022, cargo bikes; however it is noted that this scheme is not open to those who are not...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Oct 2023)

Sharon Keogan: I am calling for a debate with the Minister for Transport on an issue about which I have been in touch with him over the past few months. That is the extension of the cycle to work scheme to those with disabilities that affect their movement. Obviously, the scheme does not discriminate explicitly against such people, but rather it is a sin of omission. I was contacted over the summer by...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Exemptions (5 Oct 2023)

Michael McGrath: Section 118(5G) of the Taxes Consolidation Act 1997 provides for the Cycle to Work scheme. This scheme offers an exemption from benefit-in-kind (BIK) where an employer purchases a bicycle and/or associated safety equipment for one of their employees (or directors) to use, in whole or in part, to travel to work. Associated safety equipment includes helmets, lights, bells, mirrors and locks but...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Departmental Policies (29 Jun 2023)

Eamon Ryan: ...funds the delivery of CycleRight training through Cycling Ireland. The 2022 target of 28,000 pupils was exceeded with over 30,000 students receiving training under the CycleRight Programme, and a target of 42,000 students has been set for 2023.Thresholds under the Cycle to Work scheme have been increased in recent budgets to allow for the purchase of e-bikes and cargo bikes or e-bikes. The...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Electric Vehicles (1 Jun 2023)

Eamon Ryan: ...commits to “widening the eligibility of the Bike to Work scheme”. The Deputy will be aware that in Budget 2021, my colleague, the then Minister for Finance, increased the thresholds for the Cycle to Work scheme to enable the purchase of e-bikes and more recently the thresholds were increased again in the most recent Budget to accommodate the purchase of cargo bikes and...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Cycling Policy (23 May 2023) See 1 other result from this answer

Eamon Ryan: ...commits to “widening the eligibility of the Bike to Work scheme”. The Deputy will be aware that in Budget 2021, my colleague, the then Minister for Finance, increased the thresholds for the Cycle to Work scheme to enable the purchase of e-bikes and more recently the thresholds were increased again in the most recent Budget to accommodate the purchase of cargo bikes and cargo...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Reliefs (23 May 2023)

Michael McGrath: Section 118(5G) of the Taxes Consolidation Act 1997 (TCA 1997) provides for the Cycle to Work scheme. This scheme was introduced in 2009 and provides an exemption from benefit-in-kind (BIK) where an employer purchases a bicycle and associated safety equipment for an employee. The scheme operates on a self-administration basis. Relief is automatically available provided the employer is...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Departmental Schemes (18 May 2023)

Michael McGrath: Section 118(5G) of the Taxes Consolidation Act 1997 (TCA 1997) provides for the ‘Cycle to Work’ scheme. This scheme provides an exemption from benefit-in-kind where an employer purchases a new bicycle for an employee or director up to certain limits, and subject to certain conditions being satisfied. Associated safety equipment may also be provided, which is subject to the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (16 May 2023)

Norma Foley: ...confirm to the Deputy that my Department has a number of initiatives in place to encourage and facilitate employees and teachers to use active travel to commute to work. Such initiatives include: Cycle to Work scheme: The Cycle to Work scheme is a tax incentive scheme to encourage staff to cycle to work and is in operation in my Department since 2009. Travel pass scheme: The travel pass...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (3 May 2023) See 1 other result from this answer

Matt Shanahan: 177. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills in relation to the cycle to work scheme, which is a tax incentive to encourage employees to cycle to work, if her Department currently offers this scheme to its employees; if she will confirm the reason a substitute SNA employed by her Department might not be entitled to avail of the scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter....