Written answers
Tuesday, 8 July 2014
- Disabled Drivers and Passengers Scheme
158. To ask the Minister for Finance if there are any allowances available for old age pensioners who suffer from reduced mobility due to COPD to enable them to continue to drive a vehicle to... - Tobacco Seizures
159. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide an update on the successful Garda operations in terms of the seizures of smuggled tobacco products over the past 12 months. [29350/14] - Property Taxation Exemptions
160. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on extending local property tax exemptions to include households where high level care is provided; and if he will make a statement on the matter.... - Sporting Events
161. To ask the Minister for Finance the changes that will be needed in the tax code here if an application is considered to host football matches for the UEFA Euro 2020 Championships; and if he... - Tax Credits
162. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on extending the home renovation incentive scheme to privately rented dwellings in such a manner that landlords benefitting from the incentive would... - Freedom of Information Data
164. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will outline in tabular form for each year from 2009 to date in 2014 the total number of FOI requests received by his Department; the total refused;... - Departmental Staff Career Breaks
165. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide in tabular form the number of staff in his Department currently on a sabbatical and-or career break, broken down by timeframe, that is,... - Departmental Expenditure
166. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide in tabular form, the total photography costs for his Department since coming to office, inclusive of costs incurred from use of the... - Public Relations Contracts Data
167. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will detail, in tabular form, the use of external public relations firms employed by his Department since coming to office; the list of uses of each... - Consultancy Contracts Expenditure
168. To ask the Minister for Finance the total amount spent on external IT consultants by his Department in 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013 and to date in 2014; and if he will make a statement on the... - Appointments to State Boards
170. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide in tabular form the number of appointments to State boards under his Department's remit from March 2011 to date; the number of vacancies on... - Mortgage Protection Policies
171. To ask the Minister for Finance if, under legislation, financial institutions such as banks can waive the requirement for a customer to take out mortgage protection insurance in the event of... - Financial Services Regulation
172. To ask the Minister for Finance the protection that is available to prevent children from undertaking credit card transactions on the internet; and if he will make a statement on the matter.... - Tax Reliefs Application
175. To ask the Minister for Finance the reason a person (details supplied) in County Kerry has been requested by the Revenue Commissioners to pay back €162. [29279/14] - Legislative Process
176. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of Bills his Department has published since March 2011; the number of regulatory impact assessments his Department has published since March 2011;... - Property Taxation Deferrals
177. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide in tabular form on a county basis the total number of households that have sought deferrals on the local property tax; the number that have... - Debt Collection
178. To ask the Minister for Finance if his Department or agencies under its auspices have engaged the services of a debt collection agency in pursuing moneys owed to them; if his Department has... - Bank Codes of Conduct
179. To ask the Minister for Finance the code that was in place before the Central Bank of Ireland consumer protection code came into effect on 1 July 2007; and if he will make a statement on the... - Property Taxation Exemptions
180. To ask the Minister for Finance the circumstances of a house sale where a vendor has claimed an exemption of unfinished housing estate and it is subsequently discovered after the sale that... - NAMA Property Sales
181. To ask the Minister for Finance further to the report in a Sunday newspaper, that the National Asset Management Agency sold a warehouse in Dublin, which is generating €750,000 in rent... - Banking Sector
183. To ask the Minister for Finance further to the recent engagement by Permanent TSB of Morgan Stanley to assist with the disposal of over €2 billion of par value loan portfolios, if he... - Bank Restructuring
187. To ask the Minister for Finance the way his Department monitors Bank of Ireland and Allied Irish Banks in their adherence to the terms of the restructuring decisions for those two banks by... - Banking Sector
190. To ask the Minister for Finance if his Department has undertaken any study into the competitiveness of the retail banking sector here; the way competitiveness has decreased in the past six... - Property Taxation Data
191. To ask the Minister for Finance the total number of local property tax returns filed under bands 1 and 2, that is, property value of €150,000 or less; the number of these returns that... - Tax Credits
192. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will set out in tabular form the annual cost and the number of companies that benefited from the research and development, R and D, tax credit in each... - Ministerial Advisers Remuneration
194. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide the name, position and annual salary awarded to each of his special advisers; if he will provide details of any request made for an... - Departmental Correspondence
195. To ask the Minister for Finance if his Department, agencies under his control or any staff received requests, proposals or submissions on the need for a mortgage indemnity scheme in... - Central Bank of Ireland IT Operations
196. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide in a spreadsheet format the value in euro and punt of each individual transaction of punt to euro exchange at the Cental Bank of Ireland in... - Central Bank of Ireland
197. To ask the Minister for Finance the losses the Central Bank of Ireland has made on the exchange of punts to euro since 2002 taking into account the original provision of €60 million... - Tax Credits
198. To ask the Minister for Finance when the advisory group on tax and social welfare will publish its report on increasing the incentives for persons to return to work; and if he will make a... - Tax Code
200. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide a list for each year since 1997 the applicable stamp duty rate on non-residential property; and if he will make a statement on the matter.... - Budget 2014
201. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will confirm that on current projections Ireland will have a primary budget surplus this year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29635/14] - Structural Budget Balance
203. To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to the ESRI Bergin and Fitzgerald note on the structural balance for Ireland; the definition his Department uses for defining... - Central Bank of Ireland
204. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to regulate pay day lenders here; if companies (details supplied) were to begin to offer such loans here, the regulations by which they would be... - European Stability Programmes
205. To ask the Minister for Finance if the EU Commission will be carrying out an alert mechanism report under macroeconomic imbalances procedure now that Ireland has exited the bailout... - Dark Pool Trading
206. To ask the Minister for Finance if dark pool trading, private forums for trading securities that is not openly available to the public, regulated here; and if so by whom; the number of... - Bank Branch Closures
207. To ask the Minister for Finance his views regarding the announcement by Ulster Bank of the closure of a further ten branches here; his plans to meet senior executives in Ulster Bank or Royal... - Credit Availability
208. To ask the Minister for Finance the loan amount the Strategic Banking Corporation of Ireland, SBCI, has advanced to Irish small and medium-sized enterprises; the amount of funding the SBCI... - VAT Rebates
209. To ask the Minister for Finance if VAT remains refundable on the installation of pendent alarm systems; and if he will consider extending this to include the cost of the annual monitoring... - Tax Code
210. To ask the Minister for Finance the amount raised by the close company surcharge, and the professional close company surcharge for the years 2007 to 2013 and the estimate for 2014; and if he... - Fuel Rebate Scheme
214. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to provide for a new fuel grant scheme for disabled drivers which will have the same levels of support as the current excise relief scheme. [29793/14] - Revenue Commissioners Investigations
215. To ask the Minister for Finance the reason a person (details supplied) in County Louth who regularly imports goods through Dublin Port, was selected for a random stripping examination by... - Property Taxation Collection
216. To ask the Minister for Finance the position regarding local property tax in respect of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 9; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29830/14] - Tax Code
217. To ask the Minister for Finance the information sources his Department has utilised in any study prepared to assess the utility and implications of adopting a wealth tax; if he will share... - Mortgage Interest Rates
218. To ask the Minister for Finance the action he will take to ensure that predominantly State-owned banks pass on recent interest rate reductions to their customers who are on variable rate... - European Banking Sector
219. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will outline the Irish arrangements and permanent delegation to the European Banking Authority based in London; and if he will make a statement on the... - Financial Instruments
220. To ask the Minister for Finance if the practice of crowdfunding and peer-to-peer lending can be incorporated legislation in view of the recently issued consumer notice on crowdfunding,... - World Bank Policy
221. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will outline Ireland's operational relationship with the World Bank; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29896/14] - Tax Reliefs Application
222. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on calls to make private health insurance payments fully income tax deductible in budget 2015; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29900/14] - Universal Social Charge Exemptions
223. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will reduce the universal social charge for retired persons in budget 2015; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29902/14] - Tax Code
224. To ask the Minister for Finance the tax concessions available in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29903/14] - House Purchase Schemes
226. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to introduce a scheme to make provisions for first-time buyers to buy homes and who are unable to buy homes due to the large deposit needed; if this...
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