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Wed, 1 Jun 2016
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Budget 2016
Pearse Doherty
92. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance the details of the net effect of measures carried over for a year as a result of budget 2016, in tabular form. [13885/16]
Wed, 1 Jun 2016
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Financial Services Regulation
Pearse Doherty
93. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance the savings that would accrue from moving the entire cost of regulation of the financial sector onto the industry, as opposed to the current 50%. [13886/16]
Wed, 1 Jun 2016
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Tax Code
Pearse Doherty
94. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance the cost of dividing the capital gains tax categories into passive and active and applying a 40% rate to the passive tax activity, for example, buying shares, and the following 35% to active engagement, for example, selling on a business. [13888/16]
Wed, 1 Jun 2016
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Tax Code
Pearse Doherty
95. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance the revenue generated by applying certain measures (details supplied). [13889/16]
Wed, 1 Jun 2016
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Tax Code
Pearse Doherty
96. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance how he will operate, when he will apply and the amount he will raise from the proposed tax on sugar sweetened drinks. [13890/16]
Wed, 1 Jun 2016
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Tax Credits
Pearse Doherty
97. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance the cost of increasing the self-employed tax credit to €800; €900; €1,000; €1,100; €1,200; €1,300; €1,400; €1,500 and €1,650 and tapering out the increase in the credit, for example, €800 minus €550 equals €250 for first taper, from income in excess of €80,000, by 5% per €1,000, for gross income between €80,000 and €100,000, and a second taper on the credit value before the increase credit, €550 from income in excess of €100,000, a reduced credit, by 5% per €1,000, for gross income between €100,000 and €120,000. [13891/16]
Wed, 1 Jun 2016
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Water Charges
Pearse Doherty
116. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the net cost and savings in abolishing water charges and the water conservation grant, including its administration costs and its associated impact on the fiscal space. [13892/16]
Wed, 1 Jun 2016
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Motor Tax Rates
Pearse Doherty
117. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the cost of abolishing the punitive excess charge where a vehicle is taxed for less than 12 months, that is, a vehicle being more expensive when charged for six months than for 12 months. [13893/16]
Wed, 1 Jun 2016
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Social Insurance Rates
Pearse Doherty
123. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Social Protection the revenue that would be raised by introducing a new employers’ rate of pay related social insurance of 12.75%, 13.5%, 14.5% and 15.75% on the portion of salary paid in excess of €100,000 per year. [13887/16]
Wed, 1 Jun 2016
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Carer's Allowance Applications
Pearse Doherty
132. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Social Protection when a decision will be made in relation to an application made in February 2016 by a person (details supplied) under the carer's allowance scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13897/16]
Wed, 1 Jun 2016
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Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Payments
Pearse Doherty
196. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine why a person (details supplied) has not received payment under the disadvantaged areas scheme for 2015; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13898/16]
Tue, 31 May 2016
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Legislative Programme
Pearse Doherty
233. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance to list the Finance Bills from the 31st Dáil he intends to reinitiate; and the Bills his Department is working on, with an indicative time scale for the legislative process in each case; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12525/16]
Tue, 31 May 2016
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Stability and Growth Pact
Pearse Doherty
235. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance the minimum percentage improvement that was required to the structural balance for 2015 under the European Union fiscal rules; and the outturn of the 2015 percentage improvement to the structural balance. [12538/16]
Tue, 31 May 2016
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Stability and Growth Pact
Pearse Doherty
236. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance the minimum percentage improvement required to the structural balance for 2016 under the European Union fiscal rules; and the percentage improvement he is forecasting to the structural balance for 2016. [12539/16]
Tue, 31 May 2016
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Stability and Growth Pact
Pearse Doherty
237. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance the minimum percentage improvement required to the structural balance for 2017 under the European Union fiscal rules; and the percentage improvement he is forecasting to the structural balance for 2017. [12540/16]
Tue, 31 May 2016
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Excessive Deficit Procedure Administration
Pearse Doherty
239. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance if, with regard to the recent announcement that Government expenditure in 2015 has been revised up by €1.5 billion, reflecting a reclassification of State transactions with a bank (details supplied) which therefore raises the expenditure benchmark, he can confirm this raises the benchmark; the departmental and corresponding figures he intends to allocate this additional spending power to in 2016 and 2017; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12554/16]
Tue, 31 May 2016
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NAMA Accounts
Pearse Doherty
240. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance the date on which he will make National Asset Management Agency's 2015 management accounts available to the public; and the reason for the delay in their release, given that his Department received the 2015 accounts two months ago. [12628/16]
Tue, 31 May 2016
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Life Insurance Policies
Pearse Doherty
241. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance if, with regard to the correspondence supplied, he and the Central Bank believe a person (details supplied) has been treated fairly by the company; the legal avenues open to customers in such cases; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12739/16]
Tue, 31 May 2016
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Life Insurance Policies
Pearse Doherty
242. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance if the Central Bank is aware that an insurance company (details supplied) has written to at least one customer demanding a significant increase in premium because of a historical mistake made by the company; if it will investigate whether this company has sent similar letters to other customers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12740/16]
Tue, 31 May 2016
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Mortgage Data
Pearse Doherty
244. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 160 of 6 April 2016, if the circa 11% figure given for a bank (details supplied) is a figure for the amount of new mortgage loans that are counted as exceptions under the Central Bank's loan-to-value rules or if they are the figure for exemptions, switchers, negative equity and so on; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12801/16]