Written answers

Tuesday, 26 May 2015

  • Living City Initiative
    256. To ask the Minister for Finance if consideration will be given to the extension of the Living Cities Initiative to towns that have a rich heritage of Georgian buildings, which are costly to...
  • Mortgage Arrears Proposals
    257. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide a list of the legislative, including secondary, changes required to implement the policy announcement of 13 May 2015 on mortgage arrears;...
  • Ministerial Responsibilities
    260. To ask the Minister for Finance when a final reply will issue to correspondence (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19835/15]
  • Tax Credits
    261. To ask the Minister for Finance the cost of increasing the standard rate income tax band to €40,000. [19854/15]
  • Exports Data
    265. To ask the Minister for Finance the total value of exports, and this value as a percentage of total exports, that are attributed to the aircraft leasing sector, for each of the past three...
  • Mortgage Arrears Proposals
    266. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 64 of 13 May 2015, and in respect of the 36,256 private dwelling house mortgage accounts classified as restructured...
  • State Banking Sector
    268. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide, in tabular form, the proceeds, by institution, from the disposal of investments in the State supported banks in 2013, 2014 and in 2015 to...
  • Fuel Trader's Licence
    269. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on a matter (details supplied) regarding the licence to sell petrol and diesel; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19989/15]
  • Fiscal Policy
    270. To ask the Minister for Finance if he or his Department has considered Mr. Mario Draghi's comments about being wary of quantitative easing having a negative impact on the distribution of...
  • IBRC Loans
    271. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will report on the incidence of errors on mortgage accounts of the Irish Bank Resolution Corporation resulting in over-charging and under-charging of...
  • Central Bank of Ireland Investigations
    272. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide an update on the Central Bank of Ireland investigation into Custom House Capital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20076/15]
  • IBRC Operations
    273. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 71 and 72 of 13 May 2015, the reason the scope of the transaction review conducted by the special liquidators of the...
  • Credit Union Fund
    274. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide a breakdown of the amount and purpose of public funding that has been required to date by the credit union sector; and if he will make a...
  • Credit Unions Regulation
    275. To ask the Minister for Finance in view of the Registrar of Credit Unions remit to maintain the financial stability and well-being of credit unions, if he will provide details of the...
  • Credit Unions Services
    280. To ask the Minister for Finance in the past five years, the number of credit unions that have been approved for, and declined for, additional services; the number of applications ongoing;...
  • Credit Unions Regulation
    282. To ask the Minister for Finance the impact the proposed legislation contained within Consultation Paper 88 is likely to have on the future income of credit unions; the financial impact...
  • VAT Rate Application
    283. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on a matter (details supplied) regarding value added tax on defibrillators; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20181/15]
  • Tax Data
    284. To ask the Minister for Finance the yield from inheritance tax in each year from 2011 to 2014; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20190/15]
  • Customs and Excise Protocols
    286. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to change the branding of the Customs and Excise from its current format to one that highlights Revenue rather than Customs and Excise; the...
  • Financial Services Ombudsman
    287. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will introduce measures to reduce the costs associated with persons obtaining stenographic records from hearings with the Financial Services Ombudsman;...
  • IBRC Legal Cases
    288. To ask the Minister for Finance the amount of money spent to date by the Irish Bank Resolution Corporation in litigating a case (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
  • IBRC Loans
    289. To ask the Minister for Finance if he is aware of the existence of a verbal agreement between a debtor (details supplied) and the chief executive officer of the Irish Bank Resolution...
  • Mortgage Data
    293. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide a breakdown of the number of residential mortgages currently held by entities not regulated by the Central Bank of Ireland; the protections...
  • Tax Code
    294. To ask the Minister for Finance the threshold for liability for capital gains tax or capital acquisitions tax; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20311/15]
  • Disabled Drivers and Passengers Scheme
    295. To ask the Minister for Finance the circumstances when tax relief is available under the disabled drivers and passengers scheme (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
  • Tax Rebates
    296. To ask the Minister for Finance if a person (details supplied) in County Kildare is due a tax refund; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20370/15]
  • Pension Provisions
    297. To ask the Minister for Finance the position regarding approved retirement funds in respect of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 13; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20386/15]
  • Tax Code
    298. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 282 of 12 May 2015, his further views on tax on rental income (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
  • Ministerial Travel
    299. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide details of all official foreign trips he and Ministers of State in his Department plan to take between now and the end of 2015; if he will...
  • IBRC Operations
    300. To ask the Minister for Finance if the review into transactions at the Irish Bank Resolution Corporation, to be undertaken by KPMG, will include a review of both the Blue Ocean Associates...
  • Official Engagements
    301. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will report on his meeting with the Premier of China, Mr Li Keqiang, and other Chinese officials, on 17 May 2015. [20481/15]
  • Tax Code
    302. To ask the Minister for Finance the rate at which a flat tax on income would be, if all existing tax credits, allowances and reliefs were abolished, with the first €15,000 of earnings...
  • Property Tax
    303. To ask the Minister for Finance the fee paid or payable to a person (details supplied) for his work on the local property tax review. [20623/15]
  • Tax Code
    304. To ask the Minister for Finance the nominal value of the 2% indexation of the income tax system, as referred to in the 2015 stability programme update for the years 2016 to 2020. [20645/15]
  • Fiscal Policy
    305. To ask the Minister for Finance the reference rate and convergence margin for the years 2017 to 2020, when estimating the structural balance in the 2015 stability programme update. [20647/15]
  • Economic Data
    306. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated nominal non-accelerating wage rate of unemployment and the percentage non-accelerating wage rate of unemployment of the labour force used in the...
  • Central Bank of Ireland
    307. To ask the Minister for Finance in view of section 19 of the Central Bank Act 1942, if he will provide details of the selection process which will be undertaken to determine the...
  • Tax Reliefs Cost
    308. To ask the Minister for Finance the expected savings in 2016 from the reduction of the higher rate of tax relief for private occupational pensions to 20%. [20735/15]
  • Tax Code
    311. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated return to the Exchequer from introducing a tax on online gambling of 5%, in view of the changes brought into force by the Betting (Amendment)...
  • Departmental Staff Recruitment
    313. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of public and civil servants who were recruited under the aegis of his Department in 2014; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21108/15]
  • Departmental Staff Redeployment
    314. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of public and civil servants under the aegis of his Department who were seconded abroad or to another Department in 2014; and if he will make a...
  • Departmental Staff Retirements
    315. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of public servants under the aegis of his Department who retired in 2014; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21144/15]

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