Written answers

Thursday, 7 November 2024

  • Primary Medical Certificates
    43. To ask the Minister for Finance for an update on changes to a scheme (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45514/24]
  • Employment Rights
    44. To ask the Minister for Finance if he is aware the new Revenue Commissioners rulings following a Supreme Court ruling on the boundary between self-employment and employee status appears to...
  • Primary Medical Certificates
    45. To ask the Minister for Finance when the report on the proposed changes to the criteria for the primary medical certificate will be published; if his Department has seen the report; and if he...
  • Insurance Industry
    46. To ask the Minister for Finance the short- to medium-term plans by Government to ensure reductions in premiums for insurance products, particularly public liability insurance; and if he will...
  • Banking Sector
    48. To ask the Minister for Finance for an update on his engagement with the Banking and Payments Federation and his Department with respect to the defective concrete blocks redress scheme; and...
  • Small and Medium Enterprises
    50. To ask the Minister for Finance the taxation measures that will be introduced in 2025 to ease the pressures on small and medium enterprises; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
  • Departmental Reports
    53. To ask the Minister for Finance if he has studied the recent report from his Department on the difficulty of securing funding for multi-unit developments, and if there are implications for...
  • Tax Data
    54. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 200 of 7 March 2024, the number of vacant homes tax (VHT) returns received by the Revenue Commissioners, by each local...
  • Economic Policy
    55. To ask the Minister for Finance to indicate the extent to which this country’s economy continues on a stable footing, notwithstanding any potential threat; and if he will make a...
  • Departmental Priorities
    56. To ask the Minister for Finance to outline his proposals to address the important issues now arising and likely to present a challenge in the future to family households and the...
  • Tax Data
    57. To ask the Minister for Finance to outline the engagement that the Revenue Commissioners has with the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, to identify vacant properties that...
  • Transport Policy
    58. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on the increase in the sale of diesel-powered cars; the fiscal and tax policies he intends to pursue to reduce the number of diesel-powered cars on...
  • Tax Reliefs
    59. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will reintroduce tax relief on trade union subscriptions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45592/24]
  • Tax Exemptions
    60. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will exempt payments made to farmers under the Climate Action Performance Payment from the Universal Social Charge and PRSI; and if he will make a...
  • Housing Schemes
    62. To ask the Minister for Finance if an existing property, which is derelict can qualify for the help-to-buy scheme. [45607/24]
  • State Bodies
    64. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of vacant WTE posts, by job title, currently at the Financial Service and Pensions Ombudsman; and the estimated timeframe in which each of the...
  • Tax Data
    65. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of residential units and the number of persons subject to the 10% rate of stamp duty with respect to the acquisition of certain residential property...
  • Departmental Correspondence
    66. To ask the Minister for Finance if he has considered proposals submitted to him by a person (details supplied); if he has considered the implications that these proposals would have for tax...
  • Regulatory Bodies
    67. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 232 of 15 October 2024, when he became aware that the Central Bank was or was to become, the ‘home’ country...
  • Middle East
    71. To ask the Minister for Finance further to the ruling of the International Court of Justice that Israel’s occupation of Palestine is illegal and that there is a duty upon states to ban...
  • Tax Code
    72. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated cost of reducing the VAT rate from 13.5% to 11% and 9% respectively for food and catering services, as well as all entertainment and hairdressing...
  • Tax Data
    74. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 88 and 89 of 16 October 2024, if he accepts that estimating the cost of increasing the standard fund threshold using...
  • Banking Sector
    75. To ask the Minister for Finance whether consideration might be given to a change in the way investment funds interact with consumers with particular reference to those funds who have bought...
  • Small and Medium Enterprises
    77. To ask the Minister for Finance the extent to which credit remains available to small and medium-sized enterprises, with particular challenges being faced by these enterprises currently; and...
  • Inflation Rate
    78. To ask the Minister for Finance the extent to which measures introduced in this jurisdiction to combat such issues as inflation, here and-or throughout the eurozone, are being successful; and...
  • House Prices
    79. To ask the Minister for Finance the extent to which house price inflation here is likely to affect economic performance in the future; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46043/24]
  • Brexit Issues
    80. To ask the Minister for Finance the ongoing effect of Brexit on the economic performance in this jurisdiction as well as in other EU member states; and if he will make a statement on the...
  • Financial Services
    81. To ask the Minister for Finance the degree to which he and his Department continue to monitor the activities of investment funds here, with particular reference to the need to ensure that...
  • Tax Code
    84. To ask the Minister for Finance whether he remains satisfied that the taxation system in this country is sufficiently broadly based to avoid dependency on any one sector to such an extent...
  • Fiscal Policy
    85. To ask the Minister for Finance the degree to which he and his Department can influence and co-ordinate fiscal matters in such a way as to support and encourage growth and development...
  • Foreign Direct Investment
    88. To ask the Minister for Finance the extent to which he remains satisfied that revised European taxation rules will apply in such a way to not dissuade foreign direct investment here. [36709/24]
  • Tax Reliefs
    89. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of applications for the help-to-buy scheme in County Cork since its inception; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37035/24]
  • Economic Sanctions
    90. To ask the Minister for Finance in light of the historic Advisory Opinion of the International Court of Justice in July that Israel's continued presence in the occupied Palestinian territory...
  • Tax Code
    91. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will reconsider the decision of not reducing the VAT rate to 9% for bars, restaurants and cafés that are struggling in the east Cork area; and if he...
  • Tax Reliefs
    92. To ask the Minister for Finance if the help-to-buy scheme can be expanded to include all homes and not just new-build properties; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42865/24]
  • Departmental Schemes
    93. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 82 of 2 October 2024, his recommendations for people currently being disadvantaged by the disabled drivers and passengers...

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