Written answers

Tuesday, 21 May 2013

Photo of Pearse DohertyPearse Doherty (Donegal South West, Sinn Fein)
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215. To ask the Minister for Finance the cost to the Exchequer in the latest tax year for which full data is available of flat rate expenses for agricultural advisors employed by Teagasc; the numbers who availed of the relief; and if he will set out the rationale for this flat rate expense. [24157/13]

Photo of Pearse DohertyPearse Doherty (Donegal South West, Sinn Fein)
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216. To ask the Minister for Finance the cost to the Exchequer in the latest tax year for which full data is available of flat rate expenses for archaeologists; the numbers who availed of the relief; and the rationale for this flat rate expense. [24158/13]

Photo of Pearse DohertyPearse Doherty (Donegal South West, Sinn Fein)
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217. To ask the Minister for Finance the cost to the Exchequer in the latest tax year for which full data is available of flat rate expenses for airline cabin crews; the numbers who availed of the relief; and the rationale for this flat rate expense. [24159/13]

Photo of Pearse DohertyPearse Doherty (Donegal South West, Sinn Fein)
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218. To ask the Minister for Finance the cost to the Exchequer in the latest tax year for which full data is available of flat rate expenses for bar trade employees; the numbers who availed of the relief; and the rationale for this flat rate expense. [24160/13]

Photo of Pearse DohertyPearse Doherty (Donegal South West, Sinn Fein)
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219. To ask the Minister for Finance the cost to the Exchequer in the latest tax year for which full data is available of flat rate expenses for trades people and professionals working in the building industry; the numbers who availed of the relief; and the rationale for this flat rate expense. [24161/13]

Photo of Pearse DohertyPearse Doherty (Donegal South West, Sinn Fein)
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220. To ask the Minister for Finance the cost to the Exchequer in the latest tax year for which full data is available of flat rate expenses for bus, rail and road operatives; the numbers who availed of the relief; and the rationale for this flat rate expense. [24162/13]

Photo of Pearse DohertyPearse Doherty (Donegal South West, Sinn Fein)
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221. To ask the Minister for Finance the cost to the Exchequer in the latest tax year for which full data is available of flat rate expenses for cardiac technicians; the numbers who availed of the relief and the rationale for this flat rate expense; and the reason it is paid differently for men and women. [24163/13]

Photo of Pearse DohertyPearse Doherty (Donegal South West, Sinn Fein)
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222. To ask the Minister for Finance the cost to the Exchequer in the latest tax year for which full data is available of flat rate expenses for carpentry and joinery tradespeople; the numbers who availed of the relief; and the rationale for this flat rate expense. [24164/13]

Photo of Pearse DohertyPearse Doherty (Donegal South West, Sinn Fein)
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223. To ask the Minister for Finance the cost to the Exchequer in the latest tax year for which full data is available of flat rate expenses for architectural technologists and assistants, clerks of work, engineering technicians for archaeologists, parks rangers and constables employed for the Office of Public Works, engineers and surveyors; the numbers who availed of the relief; and the rationale for this flat rate expense. [24165/13]

Photo of Pearse DohertyPearse Doherty (Donegal South West, Sinn Fein)
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224. To ask the Minister for Finance the cost to the Exchequer in the latest tax year for which full data is available of flat rate expenses for clergymen in the Church of Ireland; the numbers who availed of the relief; and the rationale for this flat rate expense. [24166/13]

Photo of Pearse DohertyPearse Doherty (Donegal South West, Sinn Fein)
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225. To ask the Minister for Finance the cost to the Exchequer in the latest tax year for which full data is available of flat rate expenses for hospital consultants; the numbers who availed of the relief; and the rationale for this flat rate expense. [24167/13]

Photo of Pearse DohertyPearse Doherty (Donegal South West, Sinn Fein)
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226. To ask the Minister for Finance the cost to the Exchequer in the latest tax year for which full data is available of flat rate expenses for cosmetologists; the numbers who availed of the relief; and the rationale for this flat rate expense. [24168/13]

Photo of Pearse DohertyPearse Doherty (Donegal South West, Sinn Fein)
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227. To ask the Minister for Finance the cost to the Exchequer in the latest tax year for which full data is available of flat rate expenses for dentists in employment; the numbers who availed of the relief; and the rationale for this flat rate expense. [24169/13]

Photo of Pearse DohertyPearse Doherty (Donegal South West, Sinn Fein)
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228. To ask the Minister for Finance the cost to the Exchequer in the latest tax year for which full data is available of flat rate expenses for dockers; the numbers who availed of the relief; and the rationale for this flat rate expense. [24170/13]

Photo of Pearse DohertyPearse Doherty (Donegal South West, Sinn Fein)
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229. To ask the Minister for Finance the cost to the Exchequer in the latest tax year for which full data is available of flat rate expenses for hospital doctors; the numbers who availed of the relief; and the rationale for this flat rate expense. [24171/13]

Photo of Pearse DohertyPearse Doherty (Donegal South West, Sinn Fein)
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230. To ask the Minister for Finance the cost to the Exchequer in the latest tax year for which full data is available of flat rate expenses for draughtsmen; the numbers who availed of the relief; and the rationale for this flat rate expense. [24172/13]

Photo of Pearse DohertyPearse Doherty (Donegal South West, Sinn Fein)
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231. To ask the Minister for Finance the cost to the Exchequer in the latest tax year for which full data is available of flat rate expenses for driving instructors; the numbers who availed of the relief; and the rationale for this flat rate expense. [24173/13]

Photo of Pearse DohertyPearse Doherty (Donegal South West, Sinn Fein)
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232. To ask the Minister for Finance the cost to the Exchequer in the latest tax year for which full data is available of flat rate expenses for engineers employed by semi-State bodies; the numbers who availed of the relief; and the rationale for this flat rate expense. [24174/13]

Photo of Pearse DohertyPearse Doherty (Donegal South West, Sinn Fein)
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233. To ask the Minister for Finance the cost to the Exchequer in the latest tax year for which full data is available of flat rate expenses for engineering industry and electrical industry from 1997/1998; the numbers who availed of the relief; and the rationale for this flat rate expense. [24175/13]

Photo of Pearse DohertyPearse Doherty (Donegal South West, Sinn Fein)
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234. To ask the Minister for Finance the cost to the Exchequer in the latest tax year for which full data is available of flat rate expenses for foresters employed by Coillte; the numbers who availed of the relief; and the rationale for this flat rate expense. [24176/13]

Photo of Pearse DohertyPearse Doherty (Donegal South West, Sinn Fein)
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235. To ask the Minister for Finance the cost to the Exchequer in the latest tax year for which full data is available of flat rate expenses for freelance actors; the numbers who availed of the relief; and the rationale for this flat rate expense. [24177/13]

Photo of Pearse DohertyPearse Doherty (Donegal South West, Sinn Fein)
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236. To ask the Minister for Finance the cost to the Exchequer in the latest tax year for which full data is available of flat rate expenses for grooms in racehorse training; the numbers who availed of the relief; and the rationale for this flat rate expense. [24178/13]

Photo of Pearse DohertyPearse Doherty (Donegal South West, Sinn Fein)
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237. To ask the Minister for Finance the cost to the Exchequer in the latest tax year for which full data is available of flat rate expenses for domestic staff in hospitals whose uniforms are supplied and laundered for free; the numbers who availed of the relief; and the rationale for this flat rate expense. [24179/13]

Photo of Pearse DohertyPearse Doherty (Donegal South West, Sinn Fein)
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238. To ask the Minister for Finance the cost to the Exchequer in the latest tax year for which full data is available of flat rate expenses for hotel industry employees; the numbers who availed of the relief; and the rationale for this flat rate expense. [24180/13]

Photo of Pearse DohertyPearse Doherty (Donegal South West, Sinn Fein)
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239. To ask the Minister for Finance the cost to the Exchequer in the latest tax year for which full data is available of flat rate expenses for journalists; the numbers who availed of the relief; and the rationale for this flat rate expense. [24181/13]

Photo of Pearse DohertyPearse Doherty (Donegal South West, Sinn Fein)
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240. To ask the Minister for Finance the cost to the Exchequer in the latest tax year for which full data is available of flat rate expenses for the individual local authorities employees, parks superintendents, town planners and so on; the numbers who availed of the relief; and the rationale for this flat rate expense. [24182/13]

Photo of Pearse DohertyPearse Doherty (Donegal South West, Sinn Fein)
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241. To ask the Minister for Finance the cost to the Exchequer in the latest tax year for which full data is available of flat rate expenses for workers in the mining industry; the numbers who availed of the relief; and the rationale for this flat rate expense. [24183/13]

Photo of Pearse DohertyPearse Doherty (Donegal South West, Sinn Fein)
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242. To ask the Minister for Finance the cost to the Exchequer in the latest tax year for which full data is available of flat rate expenses for workers in the motor repair and motor assembly trades; the numbers who availed of the relief; and the rationale for this flat rate expense. [24184/13]

Photo of Pearse DohertyPearse Doherty (Donegal South West, Sinn Fein)
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243. To ask the Minister for Finance the cost to the Exchequer in the latest tax year for which full data is available of flat rate expenses for hospital nurses where their uniforms and supplied and laundered for free; the numbers who availed of the relief; and the rationale for this flat rate expense. [24185/13]

Photo of Pearse DohertyPearse Doherty (Donegal South West, Sinn Fein)
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244. To ask the Minister for Finance the cost to the Exchequer in the latest tax year for which full data is available of flat rate expenses for optometrists/dispensing opticians in employment; the numbers who availed of the relief; and the rationale for this flat rate expense. [24186/13]

Photo of Pearse DohertyPearse Doherty (Donegal South West, Sinn Fein)
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245. To ask the Minister for Finance the cost to the Exchequer in the latest tax year for which full data is available of flat rate expenses for dispensing opticians; the numbers who availed of the relief; and the rationale for this flat rate expense. [24187/13]

Photo of Pearse DohertyPearse Doherty (Donegal South West, Sinn Fein)
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246. To ask the Minister for Finance the cost to the Exchequer in the latest tax year for which full data is available of flat rate expenses for panel beaters and sheet metal workers; the numbers who availed of the relief; and the rationale for this flat rate expense. [24188/13]

Photo of Pearse DohertyPearse Doherty (Donegal South West, Sinn Fein)
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247. To ask the Minister for Finance the cost to the Exchequer in the latest tax year for which full data is available of flat rate expenses for pharmacists; the numbers who availed of the relief; and the rationale for this flat rate expense. [24189/13]

Photo of Pearse DohertyPearse Doherty (Donegal South West, Sinn Fein)
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248. To ask the Minister for Finance the cost to the Exchequer in the latest tax year for which full data is available of flat rate expenses for physiotherapists; the numbers who availed of the relief; and the rationale for this flat rate expense. [24190/13]

Photo of Pearse DohertyPearse Doherty (Donegal South West, Sinn Fein)
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249. To ask the Minister for Finance the cost to the Exchequer in the latest tax year for which full data is available of flat rate expenses for pilots; the numbers who availed of the relief; and the rationale for this flat rate expense. [24191/13]

Photo of Pearse DohertyPearse Doherty (Donegal South West, Sinn Fein)
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250. To ask the Minister for Finance the cost to the Exchequer in the latest tax year for which full data is available of flat rate expenses for plumbing trades; the numbers who availed of the relief; and the rationale for this flat rate expense. [24192/13]

Photo of Pearse DohertyPearse Doherty (Donegal South West, Sinn Fein)
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251. To ask the Minister for Finance the cost to the Exchequer in the latest tax year for which full data is available of flat rate expenses for printing, bookbinding and allied trades; the numbers who availed of the relief; and the rationale for this flat rate expense. [24193/13]

Photo of Pearse DohertyPearse Doherty (Donegal South West, Sinn Fein)
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252. To ask the Minister for Finance the cost to the Exchequer in the latest tax year for which full data is available of flat rate expenses for professional valuers in the Valuation Office; the numbers who availed of the relief; and the rationale for this flat rate expense. [24194/13]

Photo of Pearse DohertyPearse Doherty (Donegal South West, Sinn Fein)
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253. To ask the Minister for Finance the cost to the Exchequer in the latest tax year for which full data is available of flat rate expenses for radiographers; the numbers who availed of the relief; and the rationale for this flat rate expense. [24195/13]

Photo of Pearse DohertyPearse Doherty (Donegal South West, Sinn Fein)
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254. To ask the Minister for Finance the cost to the Exchequer in the latest tax year for which full data is available of flat rate expenses for respiratory and pulmonary function technicians; the numbers who availed of the relief; and the rationale for this flat rate expense. [24196/13]

Photo of Pearse DohertyPearse Doherty (Donegal South West, Sinn Fein)
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255. To ask the Minister for Finance the cost to the Exchequer in the latest tax year for which full data is available of flat rate expenses for members of the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra; the numbers who availed of the relief; and the rationale for this flat rate expense. [24197/13]

Photo of Pearse DohertyPearse Doherty (Donegal South West, Sinn Fein)
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256. To ask the Minister for Finance the cost to the Exchequer in the latest tax year for which full data is available of flat rate expenses for shipping employees, excluding the relief for members of the British merchant navy and British home or coasting trade; the numbers who availed of the relief; and the rationale for this flat rate expense. [24198/13]

Photo of Pearse DohertyPearse Doherty (Donegal South West, Sinn Fein)
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257. To ask the Minister for Finance the cost to the Exchequer in the latest tax year for which full data is available of flat rate expenses for members of the British merchant navy and the British home or coasting trade; the numbers who availed of the relief; and the rationale for this flat rate expense. [24199/13]

Photo of Pearse DohertyPearse Doherty (Donegal South West, Sinn Fein)
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258. To ask the Minister for Finance the cost to the Exchequer in the latest tax year for which full data is available of flat rate expenses for teachers; the numbers who availed of the relief; and the rationale for this flat rate expense. [24200/13]

Photo of Pearse DohertyPearse Doherty (Donegal South West, Sinn Fein)
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259. To ask the Minister for Finance the cost to the Exchequer in the latest tax year for which full data is available of flat rate expenses for veterinary surgeons in employment; the numbers who availed of the relief; and the rationale for this flat rate expense. [24201/13]

Photo of Michael NoonanMichael Noonan (Limerick City, Fine Gael)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 215 to 259, inclusive, together.

In my reply to Question No. 76 of 9 May, I informed the Deputy that the cost to the Exchequer of the tax deduction in respect of expenses (other than expenses of travel and subsistence) incurred by employees for the income tax year 2010, the most recent year for which final information is available, is estimated at €66.5 million. Some 695,000 claimants availed of this relief.

I am informed by the Revenue Commissioners that a breakdown of that estimate by reference to individual categories under the flat rate expenses regime is not readily available and a basis for compiling this information could not be developed without conducting an extensive investigation of Revenue records on a nationwide basis at a cost which would be prohibitive in terms of the resources required .

As regards the basis for granting each flat rate expense mentioned, it was not possible to collate the information required in the time allowed. I will provide the Deputy with the answer in writing shortly.

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