Results 101-120 of 14,466 for speaker:Pearse Doherty in 'Written Answers'

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Avoidance (21 Feb 2024)

Pearse Doherty: 64. To ask the Minister for Finance if he or his Department have received any correspondence from the Revenue Commissioners or any other body regarding section 22 of the Finance Act 2022 and the opportunity it creates for aggressive tax planning; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8341/24]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (21 Feb 2024)

Pearse Doherty: 65. To ask the Minister for Finance to outline the application of relevant contracts tax as it applies to subcontractors from the North which operate in the South; how the charge is deducted and payments refunded; if the Revenue Commissioners apply CIS on behalf of HM Revenue and Customs with respect to subcontractors from the North which operate in the South; and with respect to both, how...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Financial Services (20 Feb 2024)

Pearse Doherty: 210. To ask the Minister for Finance if he is aware that loan owners (vulture funds) are not subject to the provisions of the Consumer Protection (Regulation of Credit Servicing Firms) Act 2018 where they confer legal title of the loan to the credit servicing firms but retain beneficial ownership; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7563/24]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Financial Services (20 Feb 2024)

Pearse Doherty: 211. To ask the Minister for Finance if he is aware that loan owners (vulture funds) are not required to be regulated when they maintain beneficial ownership of a loan but have conferred legal title of the loan to the credit servicing firms; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7564/24]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Financial Services (20 Feb 2024)

Pearse Doherty: 212. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of complaints made against loan owners to the FSPO which were not investigated on the grounds of the conduct occurring prior to January 2019, with respect to complaints in each of the years 2013 to 2023 [7565/24]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Financial Services (20 Feb 2024)

Pearse Doherty: 213. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of complaints made against credit servicing firms to the FSPO which were not investigated on the grounds that the conduct complained of was with respect to “maintenance of control over key decisions” and, as such, the appropriate entity was the loan owner and not the credit servicing firm, with the conduct occurring prior to...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Financial Services (20 Feb 2024)

Pearse Doherty: 214. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of complaints made against credit servicing firms to the FSPO which were not investigated on the grounds of the conduct occurring prior to 8 July 2015, with respect to complaints in each of the years 2013 to 2023. [7567/24]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Flood Relief Schemes (20 Feb 2024)

Pearse Doherty: 227. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he plans to address the issue with flooding in Castlefinn, County Donegal, along the N15; if the solution to the problem presented to his Department by this Deputy at the Oireachtas finance committee recently will be considered; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7405/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (20 Feb 2024)

Pearse Doherty: 595. To ask the Minister for Health if he is aware that the community neurorehabilitation team in CHO1 is operating with less than a third of the minimum recommended staffing; his plans to address this understaffing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7865/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Aids and Appliances (20 Feb 2024)

Pearse Doherty: 616. To ask the Minister for Health when a person in County Donegal (details supplied) can expect to receive a replacement hearing aid from the HSE; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7998/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Vacant Properties (15 Feb 2024)

Pearse Doherty: 78. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he is aware of the situation with respect to six houses in Annagry, County Donegal, lying vacant; if he and his Department have plans to address their vacancy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6962/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Defective Building Materials (15 Feb 2024)

Pearse Doherty: 137. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government for an update regarding the issue of mortgageability as it relates to homeowners impacted by defective concrete blocks and the defective concrete block redress scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6963/24]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Vehicle Registration Tax (15 Feb 2024)

Pearse Doherty: 180. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 352 of 17 January 2024, regarding the decision by the Tax Appeal Commissioners that the Revenue Commissioners had been applying the wrong test for normal residence in VRT cases with the Revenue Commissioners confirming that the same test had been applied in similar cases; how many persons have had the wrong test for...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Exemptions (15 Feb 2024)

Pearse Doherty: 183. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated cost, through tax revenue foregone, of the BIK exemption for employer contributions for PRSAs which was introduced through section 22 of the Finance Act 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7396/24]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Exemptions (15 Feb 2024)

Pearse Doherty: 184. To ask the Minister for Finance if, with respect to Committee Stage of the Finance Act 2022, with regard to what was then section 18 of the Finance Bill 2018 regarding the removal of benefit-in-kind charge from employer contributions to PRSAs and PEPPs, his views and response regarding queries made by this Deputy that this provision of the legislation would provide an opportunity for...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Exemptions (15 Feb 2024)

Pearse Doherty: 185. To ask the Minister for Finance the maximum amount, in nominal terms, that a company or proprietary director can fund a single PRSA through an employer contribution in a single year with full tax deductibility; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7399/24]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Exemptions (15 Feb 2024)

Pearse Doherty: 186. To ask the Minister for Finance if he is satisfied that the recommendation of the Report of the Interdepartmental Pensions Reform and Taxation Group of 2020, that “the differential treatment of the PRSA for funding purposes should be abolished, employer contributions should not be subject to BIK”, was implemented in whole or in part; his views on whether the manner in which...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Exemptions (15 Feb 2024)

Pearse Doherty: 187. To ask the Minister for Finance if he or his Department have received any correspondence from the Revenue Commissioners or any other body regarding section 22 of the Finance Act 2022 in relation to the opportunity it creates for aggressive tax planning; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7402/24]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Exemptions (15 Feb 2024)

Pearse Doherty: 188. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on the appropriateness of a company or proprietary director withdrawing up to €2.15 million from a company in a single year through an employer contribution to a PRSA, and availing of full tax deductibility, including corporation tax relief; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7404/24]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Flood Relief Schemes (15 Feb 2024)

Pearse Doherty: 189. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if flood relief plans or river drainage works are planned to deal with the repeated flooding of the area between Ballyshannon and Belleek, County Donegal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7400/24]