Written answers

Tuesday, 6 November 2018

  • Ireland Strategic Investment Fund Investments
    161. To ask the Minister for Finance the amount of the €335 million received from the sale of the stake in Aer Lingus and placed into a connectivity fund which has been invested by the...
  • VAT Exemptions
    162. To ask the Minister for Finance if he has given consideration to exempting counselling and psychotherapy services from VAT in circumstances in which the practitioner is a registered...
  • Tax Reliefs Application
    163. To ask the Minister for Finance the way in which a person who qualifies as a disabled driver and has a modified car can apply for a diesel refund; and if he will make a statement on the...
  • Property Tax Data
    164. To ask the Minister for Finance the amount of funding which has been paid in property tax since its introduction in counties Sligo and Leitrim; the number of households paying; the...
  • Strategic Banking Corporation of Ireland
    165. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of guarantees and risk-sharing facilities the Strategic Banking Corporation of Ireland has provided in the past two years to date to enhance small...
  • Tax Yield
    166. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated cost of increasing the point at which a single worker pays the higher rate of income tax by amount and year (details supplied) with prorate...
  • Tax Reliefs Data
    170. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated cost of increasing the capital acquisitions tax group A tax-free threshold by €10,000, €20,000 and €30,000, respectively,...
  • Budget 2019
    171. To ask the Minister for Finance the factors that underline the year-on-year change in the equity and loan transactions listed in table A1 of the economic and fiscal outlook in Budget 2019....
  • Irish Real Estate Fund
    172. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will report on the review of retirement funds; the way in which budget 2019 increases in the State pension may impact on pensioners with an approved...
  • Budget 2019
    174. To ask the Minister for Finance if there were changes made to the tax system in budget 2019 that would provide additional tax credits for stay-at-home parents; and if he will make a...
  • Ministerial Meetings
    175. To ask the Minister for Finance if he, his Departmental officials and or his ministerial predecessors have met companies and an organisation (details supplied) and-or its representatives in...
  • Tax Collection
    176. To ask the Minister for Finance if the Revenue Commissioners have considered the effects of PAYE modernisation on small businesses here; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44805/18]
  • Tax Code
    177. To ask the Minister for Finance the position regarding inheritance tax thresholds in cases in which a niece or nephew is inheriting following Budget 2019; and if he will make a statement on...
  • Tax Exemptions
    178. To ask the Minister for Finance if a brother-in-law or sister-in-law rents his or her lands to a brother-in-law or sister-in-law, if he or she can avail of the land leasing exemption; and if...
  • VAT Rate Application
    179. To ask the Minister for Finance the way in which the annual rent of a mobile home is affected by the changes to VAT made in budget 2019; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44819/18]
  • Departmental Consultations
    180. To ask the Minister for Finance the location of the submissions made in the consultations undertaken by his Department in each of the past ten years in tabular form; and if he will make a...
  • Tax Exemptions
    182. To ask the Minister for Finance the reason national lottery games are exempt from betting tax; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44939/18]
  • Mortgage Interest Relief Application
    183. To ask the Minister for Finance the changes made to mortgage interest relief for homeowners in budget 2019; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44958/18]
  • Tax Data
    184. To ask the Minister for Finance the cost of increasing to amounts (details supplied), the standard rate income tax cut off point for a single point; the estimated cost of an equivalent...
  • Revenue Commissioners Reports
    186. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 203 of 23 October 2018, if he will clarify the nature of the deliberative process mentioned; when this process began;...
  • Brexit Issues
    187. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on the recent publication from the Parliamentary Budget Office (details supplied); the reason such sensitivity analysis has not been provided; and...
  • Banking Sector
    188. To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to the interim accounts of a bank (details supplied) for 2018 that allocated €411 million from the incurred but not...
  • Tax Data
    189. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of employees that avail of childcare as a benefit-in-kind from their employer. [45109/18]
  • Insurance Industry Regulation
    190. To ask the Minister for Finance the measures he is taking to address the practice in the motor insurance industry of unfairly charging excessive premiums for returning emigrants regardless...
  • Tax Data
    191. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of recipients of the home carer's tax credit in each of the past three years by dependant type; the number in the past three years by those...
  • Insurance Industry
    192. To ask the Minister for Finance the position with regard to insurance companies taking into account a person's previous criminal conviction when deciding to offer home or car insurance; and...
  • Departmental Contracts
    194. To ask the Minister for Finance if a company (details supplied) has undertaken work within his Department's remit to build or renovate projects over the past ten years; if so, the project...
  • Revenue Commissioners
    195. To ask the Minister for Finance if the Revenue Commissioners will consider introducing a freephone telephone number; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45247/18]
  • Tax Code
    196. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will reconsider the proposed 100% increase in turnover tax for the bookmaker and or betting industry; if detailed research has been conducted into the...
  • Banking Sector
    197. To ask the Minister for Finance the date on which the Central Bank's attention was drawn to the fact that the accounting standard IAS39 was flawed in that it allowed banks to delay the...
  • Financial Services Regulation
    198. To ask the Minister for Finance the rules that apply with regard to an Irish citizen who spends part of their time here and part of their time abroad outside the European Union wishing to...
  • Credit Union Lending
    199. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will report on the necessary easing of Central Bank restrictions on the operation of credit unions and on a role for the credit unions to provide...
  • Insurance Fraud
    200. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will address a matter (details supplied) regarding bogus insurance claims; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45404/18]
  • Small and Medium Enterprises Supports
    201. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans in place or the actions he has taken to help support SMEs to embrace card acceptance; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45406/18]
  • National Payments Plan Implementation
    204. To ask the Minister for Finance the actions delivered upon in the National Payments Plan 2013; when the steering committee last met; the measures put in place to ensure the continued...
  • Mortgage Applications Approvals
    206. To ask the Minister for Finance if a distinction is made between the different risk profile of the mortgage, for example, a low loan to value mortgage as opposed to a high loan to value...
  • Departmental Meetings
    207. To ask the Minister for Finance the details of engagements, meetings or correspondence that each Minister of State in his Department has had with a person (details supplied) in the past...
  • Tax Forms
    211. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 88 of 25 October 2018, if he will examine options in which line managers of persons who do not use the Internet are...
  • Property Tax Data
    212. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of persons who availed of the partial and full deferral of LPT liability since LPT was introduced on properties an annual basis to date; the amount...
  • Tax Code
    215. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on the possibility of reintroducing tax-free shopping following Brexit. [45690/18]
  • Official Development Assistance
    217. To ask the Minister for Finance the amount which will be spent on official development assistance in 2018; the recipients of this ODA; and the amount each recipient will receive. [45771/18]
  • Ministerial Meetings
    219. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans for a formal engagement with his Dutch counterpart; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45835/18]
  • North-South Implementation Bodies
    220. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will report on the allocation in 2019 to North-South bodies in his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45897/18]
  • Commissions of Investigation Data
    221. To ask the Minister for Finance the amount his Department has spent in 2018 on carrying out commissions of investigation and State inquiries as recommended by the independent review...

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