Written answers

Tuesday, 8 July 2025

  • Tax Code
    313. To ask the Minister for Finance to outline, given the difficulties with getting school bus drivers, the reason those willing to drive the school bus and who may have a small pension face a...
  • Departmental Expenditure
    314. To ask the Minister for Finance his Department’s expenditure on hairstyling, make-up, personal grooming and general cosmetic expenses, in each of the years 2015 to 2025, in tabular...
  • Departmental Advertising
    316. To ask the Minister for Finance his expenditure on advertising, detailing the objective, duration, media platforms, advertising agency or agencies and cost of each advertising campaign, in...
  • Departmental Expenditure
    317. To ask the Minister for Finance his Department's expenditure on media training in each of the years 2015 to 2025; the firms contracted to provide training; and the position or grade of those...
  • Revenue Commissioners
    319. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 289 of 17 June 2025, if the Revenue Commissioners is under inquiry or investigation in relation to its destruction of...
  • Tax Code
    320. To ask the Minister for Finance the reason married couples can share their tax reliefs and allowances between them but cohabiting couples are taxed as single individuals; and if he will make...
  • Summer Economic Statement
    321. To ask the Minister for Finance the date his Department plans to publish the summer economic statement; the way in which it plans to account for any proximate announcements regarding EU-US...
  • National Economic Dialogue
    322. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will report on the national economic dialogue. [35902/25]
  • Tax Yield
    323. To ask the Minister for Finance the amount collected in 2023 and 2024 from the vacant homes tax. [37187/25]
  • Tax Reliefs
    324. To ask the Minister for Finance to provide the cost to the exchequer of the help to buy scheme in each of the years since its creation in 2016 in tabular form, and; an estimation of the cost...
  • Departmental Expenditure
    325. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of purchase orders processed by his Department in 2023 that were not included in the published reports of purchase orders over €20,000; the...
  • Tax Yield
    326. To ask the Minister for Finance the amount raised from stamp duty on shares in each of the past ten years, in tabular form. [37256/25]
  • Illicit Trade
    327. To ask the Minister for Finance if he is confident in the methodology behind the Revenue Commissioners ready reckoner, which estimates the fiscal impact of changes to tobacco excise; if he...
  • Tax Code
    328. To ask the Minister for Finance if he would amend the rules governing the residential zoned land tax to exclude the period where an active planning application or appeal is underway on a...
  • Primary Medical Certificates
    329. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will increase the tax reliefs allowable with the primary medical certificate in line with current vehicle values; and if he will make a statement on the...
  • Tax Exemptions
    330. To ask the Minister for Finance whether the social welfare payments announced in the cost of living package in the previous year are exempt from tax; and if he will make a statement on the...
  • Tax Rebates
    331. To ask the Minister for Finance the value of the overcompensation provided as a result of the inclusion of poultry broiler sector within the VAT flat-rate addition scheme; and if he will...
  • Banking Sector
    332. To ask the Minister for Finance to clarify the level of engagement his Department has with the Bank of International Settlements; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37381/25]
  • Tax Data
    333. To ask the Minister for Finance the amount of money raised through windfall tax receipts used for current expenditure between the years 2020 to date in 2025, by year, in tabular form; and if...
  • Tax Code
    334. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will address the anomaly that exists in regard to inheritance tax in respect of childless couples (details supplied) and bring an end to this very...
  • Tax Data
    335. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of companies (details supplied) in Ireland have failed to file their annual return by two years or more, as of 3 July 2025, in tabular form; and if...
  • Tax Reliefs
    338. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will consider raising the price cap of the help-to-buy scheme given the continuing increases house price inflation; and if he will make a statement on...

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