Ceisteanna Parlaiminte

Help-To-Buy Scheme

Michael Healy-Rae

317. Deputy Michael Healy-Rae asked the Minister for Finance if the help-to-buy scheme will be extended to first-time buyers buying a second-hand property or home (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20149/20]

State Claims Agency

Catherine Murphy

318. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Finance the legal cases the State Claims Agency is currently handling on behalf of each Department; the stage they are at; the nature of the claim; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20122/20]

Covid-19 Pandemic Supports

Matt Carthy

319. Deputy Matt Carthy asked the Minister for Finance the estimated amount Ireland will contribute in total to the EU Covid-19 response recovery fund announced by the European Council; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20261/20]

Covid-19 Pandemic Supports

Matt Carthy

320. Deputy Matt Carthy asked the Minister for Finance the estimated amount Ireland will receive from EU Covid-19 response recovery fund announced by the European Council; the amount that will be comprised of grants and loans, respectively; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20262/20]

EU Funding

Matt Carthy

321. Deputy Matt Carthy asked the Minister for Finance the estimated amount Ireland will contribute to the next EU multi-annual financial framework based on the agreement reached at the European Council; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20263/20]

EU Funding

Matt Carthy

322. Deputy Matt Carthy asked the Minister for Finance the estimated amount Ireland will receive across all programmes from the next EU multi-annual financial framework; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20264/20]

EU Funding

Matt Carthy

323. Deputy Matt Carthy asked the Minister for Finance the estimated amount Ireland will receive from each programme line of the next EU multi-annual financial framework as agreed by European Council in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20265/20]

Value Added Tax

Louise O'Reilly

324. Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Finance the estimated cost of reducing the VAT for the tourism and hospitality sector from 13.5% to 9% for a full year based on VAT intake for the first six months of 2020. [20387/20]

Value Added Tax

Louise O'Reilly

325. Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Finance the VAT collected from the 13.5% VAT levied on the tourism and hospitality sector in the first six months of 2020. [20388/20]

Insurance Costs

Louise O'Reilly

326. Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Finance if there will be legislation brought forward to reduce insurance costs for businesses in view of the crippling cost of business insurance [20397/20]

Covid-19 Pandemic Supports

Pearse Doherty

327. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance the number of individual earners who do not qualify for the stay and spend initiative on the grounds that they have neither income tax nor USC liabilities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20407/20]

Covid-19 Pandemic Supports

Pearse Doherty

328. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance the number of individual earners who have neither USC nor income tax liabilities (details supplied).
Details; in similar format to that given in Tables 3 and 4 of Income Tax Strategy Group – 19/03 Paper, published July 2019 [20408/20]

Covid-19 Pandemic Supports

Pearse Doherty

329. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance the deadlines by which qualifying expenditure must be submitted to the Revenue Commissioners using the mobile app under the stay and spend initiative for a tax credit to be received by a person in 2021 and 2022, respectively; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20410/20]

Covid-19 Pandemic Supports

Pearse Doherty

330. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance the company awarded the public contract to develop the mobile app for the purposes of the stay and spend initiative; the cost of same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20411/20]

House Prices

Catherine Murphy

331. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Finance if he will provide details of the decision on the setting of the cut-off points to the expanded help to buy scheme; if he will consider setting a date that is better suited with the dates on which the State introduced work and travel restrictions in view of the numbers of persons affected by the pandemic in a financial sense; and his plans to review the scheme (details supplied). [20447/20]

Covid-19 Pandemic Supports

Ged Nash

332. Deputy Ged Nash asked the Minister for Finance his plans to set a maximum duration for individual companies availing of the proposed employment wage subsidy scheme; if a review and compliance audit will be included; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20472/20]

Covid-19 Pandemic Supports

Ged Nash

333. Deputy Ged Nash asked the Minister for Finance his plans for a broader compliance and auditing of the proposed employment wage subsidy scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20473/20]

Covid-19 Pandemic Supports

Ged Nash

334. Deputy Ged Nash asked the Minister for Finance his plans to protect the employment wage subsidy scheme from significant waste and abuse of funds in view of the warning from his officials regarding the temporary wage subsidy scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20474/20]

Covid-19 Pandemic Supports

Ged Nash

335. Deputy Ged Nash asked the Minister for Finance his plans for training or job transfer measures as part of the employment wage subsidy scheme as is included in the German scheme; his plans to ensure eligibility to the scheme is conditional on the production of agreed training and reskilling plans of each employee to improve the comparatively low rate of in-work training and increase productivity here; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20475/20]

Covid-19 Pandemic Supports

Ged Nash

336. Deputy Ged Nash asked the Minister for Finance his plans to protect existing workers from displacement or loss of income from the employment wage subsidy scheme; his plans to exclude temporary agency workers, those holding a work contract with another employer and trainees from the new scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20476/20]

Covid-19 Pandemic Supports

Ged Nash

337. Deputy Ged Nash asked the Minister for Finance his plans to ensure compulsory and conditional top-ups to the full amount of an employee's pre-existing wage for those employers availing of the employment wage subsidy scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20477/20]

Covid-19 Pandemic Supports

Ged Nash

338. Deputy Ged Nash asked the Minister for Finance his plans to make access to the employment wage subsidy scheme conditional on respect for workers' rights such as no outstanding or unimplemented WRC adjudications of Labour Court recommendations, compliance with an ERO if applicable and commitment to collective bargaining and-or collective agreements; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20478/20]

Mortgage Lending

Ged Nash

339. Deputy Ged Nash asked the Minister for Finance the steps he will take to help retain lines of credit for mortgages to persons who will be availing of the employment wage subsidy scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20479/20]

Covid-19 Pandemic Supports

Ged Nash

340. Deputy Ged Nash asked the Minister for Finance the measures that are being put in place to ensure employees in firms availing of the employment wage subsidy scheme are protected from economic dismissal; if employers availing of the scheme will be obliged to inform workers' representatives and Revenue in the case of a planned dismissal; if they will lose the wage subsidy for such workers during the agreed notice period; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20480/20]

Covid-19 Pandemic Supports

Ged Nash

341. Deputy Ged Nash asked the Minister for Finance his plans for a clawback mechanism in cases in which an employer availing of the employment wage subsidy scheme makes over 20% of staff redundant when using the scheme in circumstances in which the redundancies were not agreed with a recognised trade union; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20481/20]

Covid-19 Pandemic Supports

Ged Nash

342. Deputy Ged Nash asked the Minister for Finance if he received advice from his officials regarding the distributional impact of the stay and spend incentive; if persons in the lower tax bracket or higher income tax bracket are more likely to avail of the scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20482/20]

Covid-19 Pandemic Supports

Ged Nash

343. Deputy Ged Nash asked the Minister for Finance his plans to attach eligibility conditions pertaining to employment rights and conditions for employers availing of the stay and spend incentive; his plans for a sectorial oversight mechanism with the involvement of recognised trade unions to ensure the effective implementation of this policy with respect to workers’ rights; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20483/20]

Covid-19 Pandemic Supports

Ged Nash

344. Deputy Ged Nash asked the Minister for Finance the status of his discussion with the Tánaiste and Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation regarding the proposed eligibility criteria for the stay and spend incentive; his plans to end the effective employer veto of joint labour committees for the hospitality sector to ensure workers in businesses benefiting from the scheme are protected and fairly remunerated; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20484/20]

Tax Reliefs

Ged Nash

345. Deputy Ged Nash asked the Minister for Finance his plans for an enhanced corporate tax loss relief to provide additional liquidity supports for businesses; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20485/20]

Tax Reliefs

Ged Nash

346. Deputy Ged Nash asked the Minister for Finance his plans for an income tax relief for self-employed persons to provide liquidity; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20486/20]

Covid-19 Pandemic Supports

Ged Nash

347. Deputy Ged Nash asked the Minister for Finance if he will provide details relating to the issue of liability for income tax on employees availing of the temporary wage subsidy scheme; the way in which the liability for tax owed will be treated; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20487/20]

Covid-19 Pandemic Supports

Ged Nash

348. Deputy Ged Nash asked the Minister for Finance if he will provide details relating to the issue of liability for income tax on employees availing of the pandemic unemployment payment; the way in which the liability for tax owed will be treated; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20488/20]

Covid-19 Pandemic Supports

Ged Nash

349. Deputy Ged Nash asked the Minister for Finance the number of employers that have returned payments made by the Revenue Commissioners under the temporary wage subsidy scheme since its inception; the amount in cash terms that has been returned to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20489/20]

Covid-19 Pandemic Supports

Ged Nash

350. Deputy Ged Nash asked the Minister for Finance the number of compliance inspections for the temporary wage subsidy scheme; the number of Departmental staff who have been assigned to compliance duties; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20490/20]

Departmental Data

Ged Nash

351. Deputy Ged Nash asked the Minister for Finance when the databank of his Department was last updated (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20491/20]

Mortgage Lending

Ged Nash

352. Deputy Ged Nash asked the Minister for Finance the steps he has taken with the banking sector to ensure that it is retaining lines of credit for mortgages to persons (details supplied) who are on the temporary wage subsidy scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20492/20]

Covid-19 Pandemic Supports

Gary Gannon

353. Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to employees and employers being impacted by the temporary wage subsidy scheme (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20531/20]

Help-To-Buy Scheme

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin

354. Deputy Aodhán Ó Ríordáin asked the Minister for Finance the number of applications for the help-to-buy scheme for quarters 1 and 2 in 2020; the number of applications approved in the same period; the estimated annual number of recipients of the scheme in 2020 and 2021; the estimated median payment under the scheme; and the estimated expenditure per year. [20544/20]

Departmental Staff

Catherine Murphy

355. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Finance if he will provide a schedule of advisers, special advisers and seconded civil servants currently working in his Department appointed and-or recruited and-or in an acting capacity; the roles and responsibilities attributed to each; and the salary scale for the role in tabular form. [20619/20]

Help-To-Buy Scheme

Catherine Murphy

356. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Finance the number of recipients of the help-to-buy scheme in 2020; the median payment under the scheme; and the expenditure to date. [20631/20]

Covid-19 Pandemic Supports

Pearse Doherty

357. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance the way in which tax liability outstanding for payments received through the temporary wage subsidy scheme will be collected in cases in which the liability exceeds the value of unused tax credits for 2020; if that outstanding liability is to be collected against future tax credits; if so, the time period; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20745/20]

Tax Data

Pearse Doherty

358. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance the estimated number of persons that have benefitted from guidelines issued by the Revenue Commissioners under which the 183-day rule for tax residence has been relaxed in cases in which the person is prevented from leaving the State due to force majeure circumstances in the context of Covid-19; the estimated cost of the guidelines in comparison to if they had not been issued; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20746/20]

Tax Data

Pearse Doherty

359. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance the number of persons availing of the special assignee relief programme in 2019, disaggregated by salary in intervals of €10,000; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20747/20]

Tax Data

Pearse Doherty

360. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance if persons availing of the special assignee relief programme will be removed from the programme if found to be travelling to countries in contravention of the Covid-19 general travel advisory in operation by the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20748/20]

Departmental Expenditure

Bríd Smith

361. Deputy Bríd Smith asked the Minister for Finance the payments for services or goods by his Department to a company (details supplied) since 2015. [20776/20]

House Prices

Pearse Doherty

362. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance if an impact assessment has been undertaken with respect to the recent amendments to the help to buy scheme; if the level of support available to first-time buyers will be increased to the lesser of €30,000 or 10% of the purchase price, in particular with regard to the impact of the changes on house prices; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20841/20]

Legislative Measures

Pearse Doherty

363. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance the estimated cost of measures implemented in sections 10 and 11 of the Financial Provisions (Covid-19) (No.2) Bill 2020. [20842/20]

Legislative Measures

Pearse Doherty

364. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance the estimated quantum of tax rebate due to sole traders or members of partnerships, disaggregated by intervals of €1,000, under the provisions of Section 10 of the Financial Provisions (Covid-19) (No.2) Bill 2020. [20843/20]

Insurance Coverage

Brendan Smith

365. Deputy Brendan Smith asked the Minister for Finance the outcome of the most recent discussions with insurance companies in relation to the need to honour claims for business interruption; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20872/20]

Illicit Trade

Brendan Smith

366. Deputy Brendan Smith asked the Minister for Finance his plans to implement additional measures to counteract cross-Border smuggling and illegal trade in products such as fuel, tobacco and alcohol; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20873/20]