Written answers

Tuesday, 17 June 2014

  • Corporation Tax Regime
    137. To ask the Minister for Finance the position regarding the corporation tax rate here; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25225/14]
  • Vehicle Registration
    139. To ask the Minister for Finance the reason cars that have been imported from the North have an extra digit put on the car number plate when it is re-registered; and if he will make a...
  • National Debt
    140. To ask the Minister for Finance the progress he and his officials are making with the EU regarding dealing with Ireland's debt; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25779/14]
  • National Pensions Reserve Fund Plans
    141. To ask the Minister for Finance if a strategic process for the National Pensions Reserve Fund has been put in place to become part of a funding mechanism for Enterprise Ireland; and if he...
  • Small and Medium Enterprises Supports
    142. To ask the Minister for Finance the package of measures that were announced in budget 2014 which were specifically targeted at supporting start ups and growing small businesses; if all of...
  • VAT Rate Application
    143. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will ensure that any consideration of proposals to apply the VAT rate on 23% to herbal teas, vitamins and health supplements are roundly rejected and...
  • Property Taxation Yield
    144. To ask the Minister for Finance the amount raised through the local property tax in County Kerry in 2013 and to date in 2014; and the amount expected to be raised for the remainder of 2014....
  • VAT Rate Application
    145. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide an update in relation to consideration by the Revenue Commissioners of a submission made by representatives of the health food industry...
  • Pensions Levy
    146. To ask the Minister for Finance the rationale behind the pension levy; the purpose for which the levy will be utilised; if he will consider information (details supplied); and if he will...
  • Tax Credits
    147. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will reverse the changes made to the single parent tax credit, which have seriously eroded living standards of responsible single fathers in particular...
  • Insurance Industry Regulation
    148. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 42 of 4 June 2014 his views on whether there is a discrepancy in his statement that notice did not advise that it would...
  • National Debt
    150. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide a breakdown of general government debt in 2013 and 2014; of the national debt profile in the same period for all gross debt incurred by the...
  • Tax Reliefs Availability
    151. To ask the Minister for Finance to outline his plans to introduce tax relief on child care costs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25409/14]
  • VAT Exemptions
    152. To ask the Minister for Finance to set out the position regarding VAT payments in respect of a property (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25411/14]
  • Tax Compliance
    153. To ask the Minister for Finance to outline his views on whether the Revenue Commissioners should be paying the same attention to hospital consultants and medical professionals as it does to...
  • Tax Data
    154. To ask the Minister for Finance to detail the total amount of savings in respect of which DIRT tax was paid in each of the past six years to date in 2014; and if he will make a statement on...
  • Household Savings Rate
    155. To ask the Minister for Finance to set out the extent to which the level of personal savings held by the various financial institutions here has fluctuated annually in the past six years to...
  • Home Repossession Rate
    156. To ask the Minister for Finance the extent to which the various lending institutions have repossessed family homes on an annual basis in each of the past five years to date; and if he will...
  • Charities Regulation
    158. To ask the Minister for Finance if the proposed merger of Self Help Africa and Gorta and the new constitution, as agreed at the AGMs, will be approved by the Revenue Commissioners; and if he...
  • IBRC Liquidation
    159. To ask the Minister for Finance to detail the dates on which the sale of each commercial loan book at Irish Bank Resolution Corporation was agreed; and the dates on which the companies to...
  • Capital Programme Expenditure
    162. To ask the Minister for Finance to detail the total amount of capital spending on construction projects carried out by his Department and by bodies operating under the responsibility of his...
  • Pensions Levy Yield
    164. To ask the Minister for Finance to detail the total income to the State from the private pension levy in each year of operation to date, including the estimated value for the current year;...
  • Industrial Relations
    165. To ask the Minister for Finance to outline the number of cases before the Labour Court, Equality Tribunal, CPSA and EAT involving civil servants taking cases against his Department; and if...
  • European Stability Mechanism
    167. To ask the Minister for Finance to outline the national measures required to implement the political agreement on the ESM direct recapitalisation instrument; and if he will make a statement...
  • NAMA Portfolio
    168. To ask the Minister for Finance to set out the number of housing estates currently in National Asset Management Agency control in County Galway; the number of said estates that are...
  • Banking Sector Remuneration
    170. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide in tabular form for each of Bank of Ireland, Allied Irish Banks, Permanent TSB, National Treasury Management Agency and the National Asset...
  • Departmental Staff Expenses
    173. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide in tabular form the total amount spent per annum in 2011 to 2013, inclusive, and to date in 2014 on staff subsistence payments and staff...
  • IBRC Liquidation
    174. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of freedom of information requests received by his Department in connection with the liquidation of the Irish Bank Resolution Corporation; the...
  • Departmental Strategies
    175. To ask the Minister for Finance if his Department has carried out any risk assessments into a scenario whereby an inflationary output gap opens in the general eurozone economy to which the...
  • Eurozone Crisis
    176. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on whether the eurozone is an optimal currency area; if there are criteria that make for an optimal currency area that he believes the eurozone is...
  • Budget Submissions
    177. To ask the Minister for Finance if his Department costed the budget proposals for a political party (details supplied) in advance of the 2014 budget in their entirety; if he will provide...
  • Tax Reliefs Cost
    178. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide details in tabular form in salary scales of €5,000 in the range of €25,000 to €100,000 of the impact that changes to...
  • National Debt
    180. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will outline on a schedule the current budget deficit for each year from 1987 to 2013; if he will outline by schedule the Exchequer borrowing...
  • Hidden Economy Monitoring Group Issues
    181. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 178 and 179 of 10 June 2014, the number of visits to building sites carried out by officials of the Revenue...
  • Banking Sector Redundancies
    183. To ask the Minister for Finance if AIB is planning to reduce its non-finance staff; and the way it is planning to do so. [25922/14]
  • Insurance Industry Regulation
    184. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide any financial assistance to those who lost their insurance premiums following the recent collapse of Setanta Insurance; and if he will make...
  • Tax Code
    185. To ask the Minister for Finance the transfer pricing standard the Revenue Commissioners is adhering to when considering transfer pricing arrangements being engaged in by multinational...
  • Mortgage Interest Rates
    186. To ask the Minister for Finance the reason a recent announcement of a 0.15% reduction in ECB interest rates will not be passed on to mortgage holders on variable interest rate. [25973/14]
  • Tax Reliefs Cost
    187. To ask the Minister for Finance the yield that would be achieved in 2015 from standard rating pension tax relief, taking into account other changes to pension tax relief in recent years; and...
  • Tax Collection
    189. To ask the Minister for Finance the approximate number of inheritance cases that resulted in a capital acquisitions tax liability in each year from 2010 to 2013; and if he will make a...
  • Tax Code
    191. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will address concerns in relation to the bulk purchase option (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25983/14]
  • Tax Residency Issues
    193. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 61 of 13 March 2014, if the Revenue Commissioners have been advised by any company that it is or will be affected by the...
  • Mortgage Arrears Report Implementation
    194. To ask the Minister for Finance the position regarding the frequency of phone calls from a financial institution to a customer regarding mortgage arrears; if he considers 16 phone calls in...
  • Tax Code
    195. To ask the Minister for Finance the way the Revenue Commissioners determine the status of an employee versus a sole trader working on contract in an agency licensed by the aviation...
  • NAMA Loans Sale
    196. To ask the Minister for Finance further to the recent announcement by the National Asset Management Agency of its decision to sell its entire portfolio of loans linked to Northern Irish...
  • NAMA Staff Resignations
    200. To ask the Minister for Finance the restrictions that apply to the future employment of a person (details supplied) who resigned from their position the National Asset Management Agency,...
  • Mortgage Applications Numbers
    201. To ask the Minister for Finance further to the recent publication of statistics by the Council of Mortgage Lenders for Northern Ireland which showed that 2,400 new mortgages for residential...
  • IBRC Liquidation
    202. To ask the Minister for Finance the purpose of his recent instruction to the special liquidators of the Irish Bank Resolution Corporation to produce a progress report; and the reason the...
  • NAMA Operations
    203. To ask the Minister for Finance if he or anyone in his Department has received a pitch from KPMG to assist with an accelerated wind-down of the National Asset Management Agency; and if he...
  • Mortgage Arrears Proposals
    204. To ask the Minister for Finance if he is concerned at the disparity in treatment of mortgage arrears by Permanent TSB and Allied Irish Banks, on one hand, and Bank of Ireland, on the other,...
  • Banking Sector
    205. To ask the Minister for Finance when a decision on the restructuring of Permanent TSB is expected from the European Commission; the reason there have been delays to previously predicted...
  • NAMA Portfolio Value
    206. To ask the Minister for Finance in view of recent commercial real estate transactions in Dublin city centre, where per square foot capital prices of €900 have been achieved, if he is...
  • IBRC Liquidation
    207. To ask the Minister for Finance the cost of the progress report recently produced by the special liquidators of the Irish Bank Resolution Corporation. [26070/14]
  • Child Care Costs
    209. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to improve the taxation arrangements regarding child care, such as exempting child care costs from tax liability when such a service is provided by...

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