Written answers
Tuesday, 29 April 2025
- Land Issues
550. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 64 of 19 February 2025, to clarify whether it was intended that Part 22A (Residential Zoned Land Tax) Taxes... - Tax Collection
551. To ask the Minister for Finance when a review of the inheritance tax threshold will be initiated to include those persons deceased who do not have children and wish to leave their estate to... - Departmental Reviews
552. To ask the Minister for Finance to review as a matter of priority the taxation system, given the pressure that will be brought to bear by the USA tariffs (details supplied); and if he will... - Departmental Inquiries
553. To ask the Minister for Finance if assistance, financial or otherwise is available for a family in County Kerry (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18670/25] - Departmental Data
554. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide a list of equity funds the Irish Strategic Investment Fund has invested in; the number of these which have invested in private and... - Inflation Rate
555. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will consider increasing the €115,000 annual earnings cap for pension contribution tax relief in line with inflation and wage growth since its... - Departmental Inquiries
559. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide an update on the work of the interdepartmental government working group established to examine recommendations from a report (details... - Tax Collection
561. To ask the Minister for Finance the current threshold rates for PAYE tax; if there are plans to raise the lower threshold; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18781/25] - Insurance Coverage
563. To ask the Minister for Finance the work his Department is doing to publish a new action plan for insurance reform, as included in the Programme for Government; and if he will make a... - Tax Collection
564. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will consider introducing a waiver to gift and inheritance tax incurred in circumstances where someone dies while owning a home with their partner, to... - Tax Exemptions
565. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will consider increasing the exemption for CGT on the sale of shares from €1,270; the cost to the exchequer of such a change; if an evaluation of... - Housing Schemes
566. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will extend the help-to-buy schemes to first-time buyers for second-hand homes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18928/25] - Tax Reliefs
567. To ask the Minister for Finance to reinstate the home renovation incentive tax relief (details supplied). [18957/25] - Revenue Commissioners
569. To ask the Minister for Finance the analysis his Department has undertaken since the enactment of the Finance Act, 2024 to close the tax loopholes relating to pension contributions, as... - Trade Data
570. To ask the Minister for Finance the value of all exports to the United States, by subcategories of firms (details supplied); the details of sub-sectors that are most exposed in the... - Eurozone Issues
571. To ask the Minister for Finance the steps he is taking to ensure that savings deposit interest rates increase to at least the eurozone average; and if he will make a statement on the matter.... - Mortgage Interest Rates
572. To ask the Minister for Finance the steps he is taking to bring down the costs of mortgage interest rates for homeowners and first-time buyers in the Irish market; and if he will make a... - Departmental Inquiries
573. To ask the Minister for Finance the steps he is taking to ensure that high savings deposits in Ireland are being adequately utilised to generate capital investment in the domestic economy;... - Climate Action Plan
574. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on the public and private financial resources required and available to support his Department’s plans to meet Ireland’s climate... - Tax Collection
575. To ask the Minister for Finance the amount of revenue collected in Meath in each of the past five years from local property tax, in tabular form. [19108/25] - Departmental Data
577. To ask the Minister for Finance the details of all services, grants, loans and payments available to individuals or households funded by his Department and agencies under his remit; the... - Tax Collection
578. To ask the Minister for Finance the rationale for the hierarchy in the thresholds in relation to the tax-free threshold for capital acquisition tax and the treatment of childless individuals... - Pension Provisions
579. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to make joining a private pension scheme more advantageous to the ordinary worker and that relief is not only on PAYE but also on PRSI and USC for... - Revenue Commissioners
580. To ask the Minister for Finance if the Revenue Commissioners have carried out, or have plans to carry out a study into the increase of the small gifts exemption; and the estimated costs and... - Tax Credits
581. To ask the Minister for Finance if the Revenue Commissioners will allow taxpayers with children in their care to use all their spouses’ tax-free allowance if their spouse does not... - Departmental Contracts
582. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of contracts currently held by his Department with a company (details supplied); the details of contracts currently held by the Department with the... - Revenue Commissioners
583. To ask the Minister for Finance the legal status of postmasters as employees that was recently confirmed by both the scope section and the social welfare appeals office in an individual case... - Departmental Data
584. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide a detailed schedule for each Ireland strategic investment fund-loan to Higher Education Authority-funded higher education institutions,... - Tax Reliefs
585. To ask the Minister for Finance to investigate whether the tax relief on employing a home carer can be applied if the person paying for the carer resides in the UK, (details supplied); and... - Revenue Commissioners
587. To ask the Minister for Finance to examine the case for a simplified statement of liability process from Revenue (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19865/25] - Tax Data
588. To ask the Minister for Finance if beauty services will benefit from VAT reduction measures; the basis upon which such decisions were made; and if he will make a statement on the matter.... - Illicit Trade
589. To ask the Minister for Finance the weight, value and type of illicit substances detected by officials from the Revenue Commissioners and State and private airports and ports of entry in the... - Departmental Schemes
590. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will consider extending the scheme that is in place for women impacted by the CervicalCheck scandal to those affected by narcolepsy settlements which... - Departmental Staff
591. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide a breakdown, by Department or office, of the percentage of employees who have disclosed a disability for the past ten years, in tabular... - Housing Schemes
592. To ask the Minister for Finance if he is planning to review the current loan to value rules for the various State supports for first-time buyers, to address cases similar to that of a single... - Departmental Schemes
593. To ask the Minister for Finance if he plans to make any changes to the disabled drivers and disabled passengers scheme, to expand eligibility and modernise the scheme; if the eligibility... - Tax Reliefs
595. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will consider applying a reduced VAT rate to hydrotreated vegetable oil biofuel when used for agricultural purposes, in recognition of the need to... - Information and Communications Technology
596. To ask the Minister for Finance if all IT systems used by his Department can utilise the síneadh fada; where this is not the case, to provide the list of systems which do not accept or... - EU Directives
597. To ask the Minister for Finance to provide a list of all EU directives which are awaiting transposition in his Department; the date on which transposition is due; and the reasons for any... - Departmental Contracts
598. To ask the Minister for Finance whether an external company is contracted to provide cleaning services to his Department building; and if so, the name of the company and the value of the... - Departmental Inquiries
600. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 58 of 9 April 2025, if ISIF risk profile and investment parameters include any consideration as to whether a company... - Customs and Excise
602. To ask the Minister for Finance to clarify the reasons behind the Office of Public Works’ refusal to install customs dog kennels, and what steps are being taken to address the lack of... - Departmental Data
603. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of cases that are unresolved for over one year in the Financial Services and Pensions Ombudsman; if he believes more resources are needed to... - Pension Provisions
604. To ask the Minister for Finance if he plans to make any changes to the personal tax system applied to the State pension where a PAYE worker has continued in paid employment after reaching... - Tax Reliefs
605. To ask the Minister for Finance the tax relief claimed for advertising and marketing by a sector (details supplied) in 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2023; and if he will make a statement on the... - Departmental Schemes
606. To ask the Minister for Finance if a person (details supplied) is eligible for the help-to-buy scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20830/25] - Departmental Inquiries
607. To ask the Minister for Finance if he or his predecessor have spoken formally with their Japanese counterpart since January 2024. [20913/25] - Departmental Policies
609. To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to proposals in Spain in relation to taxation on real estate bought by non-EU residents; if any research has been carried out... - Climate Action Plan
610. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on the merits on financially incentivising the use of HVO fuel instead of diesel to support achieving Ireland’s climate emission targets; and... - Tax Data
611. To ask the Minister for Finance the total income tax receipts accounted for by case V income, by rental income, in each of the past five years; and if he will make a statement on the matter.... - Tax Reliefs
613. To ask the Minister for Finance the total cost from CGT entrepreneurs relief; the number of persons who claimed relief in each of the past five years; and if he will make a statement on the... - Tax Data
614. To ask the Minister for Finance the total receipts from deposit interest retention tax in each of the past five years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21105/25] - Departmental Data
615. To ask the Minister for Finance the total value of funds held in Irish household deposit accounts, in each of the past five years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21106/25] - Revenue Commissioners
616. To ask the Minister for Finance the total number of individual scans by Revenue Commissioners mobile scanners and backscatter van in 2024; and if he will make a statement on the matter.... - Tax Data
617. To ask the Minister for Finance the total receipts from exit tax on domestic funds over the past eight years, including any breakdown of the type of funds being taxed; and if he will make a...
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