Written answers

Thursday, 29 January 2026

  • Primary Medical Certificates
    211. To ask the Minister for Finance if the qualifying criteria for a primary medical certificate can be urgently reviewed as it is extremely prohibitive in many deserving cases; and if he will...
  • Tax Exemptions
    212. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will consider raising the personal exemption on capital gains tax from the existing €1,270 per annum; and if he will make a statement on the...
  • Tax Data
    213. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will abolish income tax levied on carer’s allowance and carer’s benefit; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7086/26]
  • Departmental Data
    215. To ask the Minister for Finance whether, under Irish law, a financial institution may satisfy its anti-money laundering and know your customer obligations by relying on the name of an...
  • Central Bank of Ireland
    216. To ask the Minister for Finance whether the Central Bank of Ireland permits regulated financial institutions to accept funds or open accounts where the ultimate beneficial owner has not been...
  • Financial Services
    217. To ask the Minister for Finance whether reliance on third parties, including accountants, solicitors, or other professional intermediaries, to satisfy anti-money laundering and know your...
  • Banking Sector
    218. To ask the Minister for Finance whether investment funds, including so-called vulture funds, are subject to the same anti-money laundering and know your customer verification standards as...
  • Central Bank of Ireland
    219. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of supervisory inspections, enforcement actions, or remedial directions relating to failures in anti-money laundering or know your customer...
  • Financial Services
    220. To ask the Minister for Finance whether his Department has assessed the reputational or regulatory risk to the State arising from any practices that could be perceived internationally as...
  • Central Bank of Ireland
    221. To ask the Minister for Finance whether his Department has been made aware, through engagement with the Central Bank of Ireland, of any pattern of confidential High Court settlements entered...
  • Departmental Communications
    225. To ask the Minister for Finance the total number of complaints received by the Financial Services and Pensions Ombudsman in each of the years 2021 to 2025, inclusive; the number and...
  • Departmental Regulations
    226. To ask the Minister for Finance whether his Department has conducted, commissioned, or reviewed any analysis of the decision-making thresholds, screening criteria, or admissibility standards...
  • Tax Data
    228. To ask the Minister for Finance to clarify in relation to table 5 (details supplied) how the use of deferred tax assets are treated in the statistics; if the approximately €0.5...
  • Revenue Commissioners
    229. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 331 and 332 of 22 January 2026, the number of people claiming non-dom status that are both resident in Ireland and...
  • Departmental Data
    230. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated share of the €1.24 trillion in assets now held in Irish special purpose entities/section 110 companies; the breakdown, by value and...
  • Central Bank of Ireland
    231. To ask the Minister for Finance to provide an update in relation to the Central Banks engagement with other national competent authorities in Europe to monitor whether exposure to Irish...
  • Departmental Funding
    232. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question 316 of 22 January 2026, the percentage of funds that are still above the 60% leverage threshold; the share with other 70%,...
  • Central Bank of Ireland
    233. To ask the Minister for Finance the tonnage and value of gold held by the Central Bank of Ireland; to provide a schedule of disposal and acquisition of gold over the past 20 years to date in...

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