Written answers
Wednesday, 20 November 2013
- Departmental Bodies Data
3. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of quangos operating under the aegis of his Department; the total number of directors sitting on their boards; the aggregate fees incurred by the... - Personal Insolvency Practitioners
10. To ask the Minister for Finance if the recently published guidelines for debt managers may be revised because of reported difficulties now being experienced by professionals advising clients... - VAT Rate Application
13. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will leverage the Finance Bill to ensure maximum activity in the leisure and recreational sector; if he will specifically reference the basket of... - Property Taxation Yield
14. To ask the Minister for Finance the total revenues collected from the local property tax to date broken down by local authority area; the first expected date when sums corresponding to local... - Tax Credits
15. To ask the Minister for Finance if he recognises that the removal of the one-parent tax credit will inflict significant hardship on many separated parents and jeopardise their ability to... - VAT Exemptions
16. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will abolish the 23% VAT rate on fees charged to families by a personal insolvency practitioner; the estimated cost to the Exchequer in the current year... - Property Taxation Administration
17. To ask the Minister for Finance if he regrets rushing through the Local Property Tax Act in view of the problems that have become evident in the legislation. [49197/13] - Credit Unions
18. To ask the Minister for Finance the position regarding the future of credit unions; if he will provide an update on the 100 credit unions portfolios that are being assessed by the Central... - Corporation Tax
19. To ask the Minister for Finance if he intends to ask the corporate sector to make any extra tax contribution to assist economic recovery, particularly in the area of funding, training,... - Economic Growth Rate
20. To ask the Minister for Finance the extent to which he is satisfied that the economy here can grow sufficiently in the coming year to meet or exceed the budgetary targets set in budget 2014;... - VAT Rate Reductions
21. To ask the Minister for Finance in the view of efforts made to make Ireland tobacco free by 2025, if he will consider lowering the VAT rate on items such as nicotine replacement therapies,... - EU-IMF Programme of Support Issues
22. To ask the Minister for Finance the options that are available when Ireland leaves the formal troika programme; and if he will provide an evaluation of each option. [49198/13] - Economic Growth Initiatives
23. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will discuss the upcoming Finance Bill with reference to demand-side economic stimulus measures. [49074/13] - Banking Sector Issues (1 comment)
24. To ask the Minister for Finance the future role he sees for lending institutions here that have closed down their business in the domestic market but have remained open to the corporate or... - IBRC Mortgage Loan Book
26. To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to the concerns of Irish Bank Resolution Corporation, formerly Anglo Irish Bank, mortgage holders regarding plans to dispose of... - Food Securities Regulation
27. To ask the Minister for Finance the steps being taken to regulate food securities trading on the stock market; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49225/13] - Mortgage Arrears Proposals
28. To ask the Minister for Finance the progress being made under the mortgage arrears resolution programme; if he is concerned by the significant rise in home repossession cases before the... - Property Taxation Data
29. To ask the Minister for Finance the role he and his Department have in determining the distribution of the local property tax revenue in 2014; the reason a decision was taken to postpone the... - Credit Unions Restructuring
30. To ask the Minister for Finance the timetable he envisages for restructuring of credit unions in financial difficulty; the way the sector can be supported to ensure it can continue to make a... - Banks Recapitalisation
31. To ask the Minister for Finance if he has drawn to the EU's attention, the fact confirmed in EUROSTAT figures, that the average cost per Irish citizen of the European bank bailout was... - Corporate Tax Regime Issues
33. To ask the Minister for Finance the actions he is taking to ensure the importance of Ireland’s corporation tax policy to the success of the economy is communicated to the European... - Economic Policy
34. To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to the recent comments by Nobel Prize winning economist Joseph Stiglitz that Ireland is facing a lost decade and that austerity... - Credit Unions
35. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will establish an independent investigation into the handling by the Central Bank and the special manager of the situation at Newbridge Credit Union.... - Tax Reliefs Availability
36. To ask the Minister for Finance the levels of consultation he had with the Department of Health in advance of altering the restrictions on tax relief on health insurance; his views that... - Tax Reliefs Cost
37. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will report on the total levels of tax expenditure on all of the tax reliefs granted by the Irish State under the Finance Acts down to 2013. [49228/13] - Tax Code
38. To ask the Minister for Finance the reason a fat and sugar tax was not introduced in the Finance Bill; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49210/13]
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