Written answers

Thursday, 20 December 2012

  • Property Taxation
    To ask the Minister for Finance if persons acting in the capacity of executors of wills will be included in the list of persons allowed to defer payment of the property tax, save where the...
  • Household Charge
    To ask the Minister for Finance if he will indicate in the Budget 2013 documentation where account has been taken of the discontinuance of the household charge revenue in 2013 which was estimated...
  • Banking Sector Regulation
    To ask the Minister for Finance the controls that exist in the Irish Bank Resolution Corporation to prevent employees, their spouses, family and associates from benefitting from confidential...
  • Disposal of Assets
    To ask the Minister for Finance the protocols and practices taken by the Irish Bank Resolution Corporation to ensure that assets disposed of by IBRC itself, or its borrowers under the auspices of...
  • Property Taxation
    To ask the Minister for Finance with regard to the property tax, the reason that no exemptionor concession was given to persons who paid large amounts of stamp duty in recent years; and if he...
  • Pension Provisions
    To ask the Minister for Finance if he will bring forward his decision announced in his recent budget speech in respect of the maximum allowable pension fund, to a point in 2013 as opposed to...
  • Financial Services Regulation
    To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide a detailed account of the way private monetary transactions between accounts that is bank transfers, in the State are monitored by the Revenue...
  • State Bodies
    To ask the Minister for Finance the number of cases from 2008 to date in which the State Claims Agency was successful, but costs were awarded to the plaintiff; if he will indicate the total of...
  • Revenue Commissioners Investigations
    To ask the Minister for Finance if he will allocate additional resources to the Revenue Commissioners in 2013 to tackle the black economy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57437/12]
  • Fuel Rebate Scheme
    To ask the Minister for Finance if the auto-diesel excise duty rebate relief will be extended to private coach operators; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57461/12]
  • Pension Provisions
    To ask the Minister for Finance if legislative proposals furnished to him by this Deputy in relation to imposing a super levy on bailed out bankers/former politicians/civil servants will be...
  • Universal Social Charge
    To ask the Minister for Finance if he will quantify the amount of money that could be raised by persons paying Class S PRSI, if they were liable to the 3% universal social charge on income in...
  • Property Valuations
    To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide a county breakdown of properties nationwide valued at less than €100,000; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57524/12]
  • Budget Submissions
    To ask the Minister for Finance the reason the VFI proposals to introduce a €250 million lid levy was not adopted in Budget 2013; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57545/12]
  • Tax Code
    To ask the Minister for Finance the reason the €120 million proposal to place a 1c levy on SMS and MMS was not adopted in Budget 2013; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57546/12]
  • Property Taxation
    To ask the Minister for Finance the way property tax rates proposed in this jurisdiction compare with rates in Northern Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57548/12]
  • Alcohol Pricing
    To ask the Minister for Finance in view of the deliberations in Budget 2013, if he will quantify the amount of potential lost revenue to the State by the selling of alcohol in supermarket outlets...
  • Mortgage Debt
    To ask the Minister for Finance the number of regulated financial institutions that have sold all or part of their mortgage loan books in the past three years; the protection that mortgage...
  • Mortgage Interest Relief
    To ask the Minister for Finance the number of mortgage customers whose mortgage interest relief has been stopped in 2012 due to arrears or non payment in respect of their mortgage; the guidelines...
  • Credit Unions Regulation
    To ask the Minister for Finance if lending restrictions have been applied to a credit union (details supplied) by the Central Bank of Ireland [57593/12]
  • Exceptional Liquidity Assistance
    To ask the Minister for Finance if an indicative timetable has been agreed with the European Central Bank in respect of ELA lending made by the Central Bank of Ireland to Irish Bank Resolution...
  • Universal Social Charge
    To ask the Minister for Finance if he will outline the situation whereby public servants receive arrears as salary paid to them in 2012 which relate to 2010 and 2011; the level at which the...
  • Tax Collection
    To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No.4 of 6 December 2012 in which he estimated a total revenue of €395 million from the taxation of child benefit, the rate...
  • Tax Code
    To ask the Minister for Finance the cost to the Exchequer of allowing unmarried couples for joint assessment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57610/12]
  • Mortgage Arrears
    To ask the Minister for Finance his views on the level of arrears across the buy-to-let mortgage book; the Government's strategy for dealing with the problem; and if he will make a statement on...
  • Promissory Notes
    To ask the Minister for Finance if, in the absence of an agreement with the European Central Bank to restructure the liability, it is his intention to pay the €3.1 billion due to the Irish...
  • Banking Sector Redundancies
    To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide details of the number of AIB employees who have applied to avail of the voluntary redundancy scheme; the estimated total cost of the voluntary...
  • Banking Sector Remuneration
    To ask the Minister for Finance when he expects to have the Mercer Report on remuneration levels within the covered institutions to hand; when he expects to make decisions in respect of same and...
  • Fiscal Policy
    To ask the Minister for Finance the anticipated adjustment in Budget 2014; if he will confirm the split between taxation and expenditure measures; and if he will confirm the amount of the...
  • Additional Voluntary Contributions
    To ask the Minister for Finance further to his projection that allowing pre-retirement access to funded additional voluntary contributions will yield €100 in 2013, if he will confirm the...
  • Pension Provisions
    To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide a detailed statement of the basis of the estimated yield in 2014 of €250 million from proposed changes to the maximum allowable pension...
  • Universal Social Charge
    To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated number of pensioners that will be affected by the increase in the universal social charge for persons aged 70 years of age and over earning...
  • Alcohol Sales
    To ask the Minister for Finance the budget measures that specifically affect the off licence alcohol trade. [57621/12]
  • Carbon Tax
    To ask the Minister for Finance the impact of the extension of carbon tax to solid fuels on the price of smokeless coal and non-smokeless coal; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
  • Exchequer Deficit
    To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide details of the Exchequer borrowing requirement in 2013 and 2014 taking into account cash on hand, projected Exchequer deficits and the maturity...
  • Property Taxation
    To ask the Minister for Finance the number of residential properties that he estimates will be liable for the local property tax; if this number is consistent with the number of properties that...
  • Credit Availability
    To ask the Minister for Finance the amount of new lending approved and drawn down, as opposed to renewals or bundling of existing credit facilities by each of AIB and Bank of Ireland in 2012; and...
  • Mortgage Interest Relief
    To ask the Minister for Finance his estimate of the amount of tax foregone through the application of mortgage interest relief to landlords; if he will provide a breakdown of this amount between...

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