Department of Finance
FOI Requests — 1,809 records (page 14 of 37)
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Copies of all representations made to the Minister of Finance Paschal Donohoe by the company myLotto24.
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1) a list of meetings or written correspondence since 1 January 2012 between staff or ministers of the Department of Finance and private parties (private individuals, companies, non-governmental organisations or other private bodies) in which a potential Ireland/Ghana double taxation treaty
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was discussed, or the negotiation of this treaty were discussed. I understand that the *content* of these meetings or correspondence, and in particular any content relating to discussions between the governments of Ghana and Ireland, is likely to be exempted from release on grounds of protecting Ireland's international relations. I am therefore only seeking a list of the meetings and correspondence. For each item, I would be grateful to receive the date of the meeting or correspondence, the job title(s) of the Department of Finance staff involved, and the job titles and organisational name of the private parties involved. 2) The date at which negotiations for the Ireland/Ghana double taxation agreement commenced.
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Correspondence between the Department of Finance and banking institutions concerning the Irish Banking Culture Board since December 2017.
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All monies paid by the Department of Finance to groups including all ENGO's for the years 2016/2017 and also to the Environmental Protection Agency for the same years.
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1. All records relating to potential threats to the exchequer's tax take or enhanced tax competition from the UK arising from Brexit 2. From January 2017 to date
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1. A copy of any referrals by civil servants from Kilkenny county council to the OAB below the grade of “designated positions”, to include the entire file on each case where applicable. 2. A copy of any referrals to the OAB by Serving or former Civil servants of Kilkenny county council holding or having held “designated positions”, to include the entire file on each case where applicable, including any internal OAB correspondence, reports, draft reports, memorandums and draft memorandums where relevant. (Note: above is refined request as per requester's email dated 25th July 2018 to FOI office)
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A letter sent by Linked Finance to the Department of Finance concerning support and policy for crowdfunding in Ireland, sent between 01 Sep 2017 to 03 Jan 2018. I am aware that the company sent this letter to the department as it was filed in a return on the lobbying register -https://www.lobbying.ie/return/22587/linked-finance-ltd
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• A record of all correspondence, letters, emails, briefing documents and phone calls to and from the Minister’s office with RTÉ. • A record of all correspondence, letters, emails, briefing documents and phone calls to and from the Minister of States’ offices with RTÉ. • A record of briefing documents prepared for the Minister and ministers about RTÉ's financial position, the current Television Licence system, RTÉ’s five year strategy and broadcast
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issues/market. • Minutes and notes from meetings members of the Department, including but not limited to the Ministers and Advisors, had with RTÉ representatives.
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A list of EU fines paid & unpaid by the Department of Finance from 1998 - 2017
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A breakdown for years 2014-date of the monetary sanctions that Ireland had received and paid for failure to implement EU directives into national law
- Received —Decided —Part-GrantedDepartment of Finance
Any correspondence/emails/letters/minutes of meetings between the Minister for Finance and the Minister for Rural and Community Development Michael Ring from 01 January 2018 to present in relation to the report on local public banking.
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All correspondence to and from the department [concerning the effect of the Help To Buy incentive on house prices] between January 2016 and the present day.
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A copy of all records, including but not limited to correspondence, emails and meeting minutes between 2016 and 2018 that relate to a possible visitor tax for tourists travelling to Ireland.
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Any correspondence between either the Minister and/or Sec Gen of the department and any of Permanent TSB, Ulster Bank, KBC Bank Ireland, AIB, and Bank of Ireland in relation to the sale or potential sale of non-performing loans to private equity funds or their regulated agents in Ireland (a.k.a. vulture funds). I would like to make this request for any records from February 1 2018 to the present day (15/08/2018).
- Received —Decided —Handled outside of FOIDepartment of Finance
1) A full list of sections and or parts of all legislation brought forward by the Department in each of the past 4 years to date in 2018 that have yet to be commenced in tabular form. To assist you further I'm only seeking legislation that has been signed into law.
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All correspondence over the period January 2018 to July 2018 between Richard Pym, the chairman of AIB, and Paschal Donohoe, the Minister for Finance, in relation to bank bonuses.
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1. A copy of the letter/ briefings / memos relating to the correspondence and meetings between Daniela Marilungo in Bank of America and the Minister of State; as outlined in the following lobbying return: https://www.lobbying.ie/return/27451/bank-of-america
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I would like to request all records and details held in the department in relation to the cost of preparing and publishing the department’s annual reports. These to include, but not be limited to, the following:
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• The specific cost paid for the compilation and presentation of the official report of the Department for the most recent calendar year? • Copies of records relating to the costs of reports published for the past three consecutive years if applicable; 2017, 2016 and 2015? • Additional and separately the costs for the publication of the reports in Irish? • If the report was prepared out-of-house, who secured the contract for this project? • Was the contract tendered if yes to above? • Copies of records relating to any other costs associated with publications?
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Minutes, briefings and notes taken by hand or electronic regarding meetings between Department officials, the Minister and any or all Irish banks in which Corporation Tax and/or exemption of tax due by Banks here was discussed and/ or briefings offered on. The scope of this request is from 1 January 2017 to 28 August 2018.
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“All correspondence relating to the intra-departmental working group on virtual currencies and blockchain technology between Department of Finance officials that partake in the working group. The working group was first proposed in the department's March 2018 discussion paper. Seeking records from the period of the 1 March 2018, to 22 August 2018 inclusive.”
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All briefing notes, reports and correspondence to and/or from the Secretary General of the department, the department's Assistant Secretaries or the Minister of Finance relating to the Sugar Sweetened Drinks Tax for the period 30 April 2018 to 20 August 2018 inclusive.
- Received —Decided —Part-GrantedDepartment of Finance
I wish to request, under the Freedom of Information Act, access to all correspondence in 2018 between Big Picture Communications / Lottoland and Minister Michael D'Arcy. Details of correspondence is referred to in the following lobbying return: https://www.lobbying.ie/return/30158/big-picture-communications-ltd
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Copies of all documents/correspondence (i.e. documents/correspondence between 1st June 2016 to date) between your Department (Department of Finance) and the following: - Department of Public Expenditure and Reform - The Revenue Commissioners - The Civil Service Arbitration Board Regarding a claim considered by and the Civil Service Arbitration Board on the 8th February 2017 the content of which referred to the integration of the Staff Officer Grade with the Executive Officer Grade and the findings given by that Board on the 24th February 2017.
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The correspondence should in particular include any clarification sought pre or post 24th February 2017 by Department of Finance with the DPER re the APTH portion of the Boards findings.
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Can you provide me copies of all communications between ESB and Government Departments or between one Government Department and any other Government Department related to the application or non-application of ‘A’ stamps versus ‘D’ stamps to employees of ESB who were in the employ of ESB prior to 6th April 1995?
- Received —Decided —Part-GrantedDepartment of Finance
I am issuing a FOI request in relation to the introduction of relief from withholding tax on royalties. Certain measures were introduced as follows: Section 55 Finance Act 2010 provided that withholding tax was not to apply to royalties paid by a company in the course of a trade or business to a company resident in a treaty country. Later in 2010 a statement of practice was issued by Revenue entitled "Corporation Tax Statement of Practice SP - CT 01/10 Treatment of Certain Patent Royalties Paid to Companies Resident Outside the State”. This provided for no withholding tax on patent royalties in certain circumstances. I would like to request information (letters, emails, records of internal and external communications, minutes of internal and external meetings, phone calls, submissions, memos and briefing papers to ministers) relating to the following: 1. the reasons behind the introduction of the measures outlined above, including where those measures were considered in tandem; 2. any representations made to the Department of Finance and/or Revenue relating to the desirability or otherwise of introducing the measures outlined above by any of the following: any semi-state entity such as the IDA, groups, associations, private individuals, professional services firms or corporate entities; 3. any consideration of the representations at 2 above by the Department of Finance
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(including the Tax Strategy Group) and/or Revenue.
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- correspondence between Hibernia REIT and the department in relation to the taxation of REITs. - briefing notes, minutes of meetings, powerpoint presentations, follow up emails all arising from meeting between Hibernia REIT and Gary Tobin and Des Carville. - Internal correspondence re: the correspondence following this meeting.
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• All modelling work carried out by or in the possession of the department regarding the resiliency of businesses to Covid-19 public health restrictions and/or levels of the government's framework for restrictive measures as set out in the Resilience and Recovery 2020-2021: Plan for Living with COVID-19. The records sought include all documents, spreadsheets, correspondence, underlying data, data visualisations (charts, graphs etc) containing or otherwise related to the modelling work.
- Received —Decided —Part-GrantedDepartment of Finance
All submissions received (full submissions, not just the list of submissions) from lobbying organisations relating to the Public Health (Alcohol) Bill/ Act in 2017 and 2018. Please see table specifying such instances attached.
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A copy of all documents, submissions, memos, minutes, briefing documents, and any subsequent correspondence and/or internal departmental communications, related to the following lobbying return: https://www.lobbying.ie/return/64993/murray
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The last 15 emails sent by the Minister for this Department, including emails they were responding to, from the time of receipt of this FOI
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I wish to request, under the Freedom of Information Act, copies of all records, including correspondence, representations received from third parties, notes, minutes, emails and text messages relating the approval of Metamo credit unions to offer loans under the Covid- 19 Credit Guarantee Scheme. The request covers the period from July 1, 2020, to date.
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1. Number of engineering staff in your organisation who were paid or reimbursed either in part or full their annual membership fees for Engineers Ireland for the years 2018 and 2019. 2. A list of all and any other professional subscriptions or membership fees (broken down by name of institution, and staff grade and number of each separately) either paid or reimbursed, party or fully, during 2018 and 2019. Please provide the data in digital/electronic excel or original digital formatting.
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A copy of meeting minutes and related email correspondence regarding meetings between the dept. and Amazon UK Services Ltd. between Sep 1 2020 and Dec 31 2020. Details of the meetings were outlined on the lobbying register: https://www.lobbying.ie/return/65618/amazon-uk-services-ltd
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Correspondence between the Department of Finance, or the Department of Public Expenditure, Minister Donohoe, or Minister McGrath, and KPMG, on the topic of Ireland's Transfer Pricing Regime between 1st August 2020 and 26th January 2021 Some of the above correspondence is referenced here: https://www.lobbying.ie/return/66512/kpmg
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All correspondence, briefings, press material and any other records relating to the issue of tax havens, Ireland's possible status as a tax haven or a European Parliament resolution on tax havens during the period of 11th January and 26th January 2021
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1 - the minutes of all meetings held by the following working groups working either fully or partly within your department; (a) the Brexit PO Group (b) the Brexit Contact Group (e) the cost of Insurance Working Group 2- any agendas or papers exchanged externally or internally by ministers or departmental officials in preparation for such meetings or any decisions, agendas or papers exchanged in the aftermath of such meetings. The timescale I am interested in is from October 1, 2020 to January 25, 2021
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1 - the minutes of all meetings held by the following working groups working either fully or partly within your department; (c) the Irish Sovereign Green Bond Working Group (d) the Interdepartmental Review Group on the Local Property Tax (f) the Interdepartmental Pensions Reform and Taxation Group
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2- any agendas or papers exchanged externally or internally by ministers or departmental officials in preparation for such meetings or any decisions, agendas or papers exchanged in the aftermath of such meetings. The timescale I am interested in is from October 1, 2020 to January 25, 2021.
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• Any communications between the European Commission and Minister Pascal Donohue on the EU recovery and resilience facility from November 1st 2020 to the end of January 2021. • Any internal briefings prepared for any of the relevant department Ministers on the recovery and resilience fund between July 2020 and January 2021.
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i) all texts, WhatsApp messages, emails and letters to and from the Law Society and the Department of Finance in relation to the introduction of negative interest rates on client accounts. ii) Notes of meetings between the Department of Finance and representatives of the Law Society in relation to negative interest rates being applied to client accounts. iii) Notes of calls between the Department of Finance and representatives of the Law Society in relation to negative interest rates being applied to client accounts. The time period I'm looking for is from November 2020 to the present.
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All submissions logged on the formal eSubmission system sent to or received by the Minister for Finance, Paschal Donohoe on the subject of (a) the Pandemic Unemployment Payment (b) the Employment Wage Subsidy Scheme (c) the Covid Restrictions Support Scheme. The time period in question is November 1, 2020 to February 1, 2021.
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1. All visitor logs for that involved representatives of Apple Inc. or people working on their behalf e.g. lawyers, lobbyists from Jan 1st 2016 to the day this request is received. 2. All calendars for the minister of finance or their immediate staff that involved representatives of Apple Inc. or people working for them e.g. lawyers, lobbyists from Jan 1st 2016 to the day this request is received. 3. Call sheets / notes of calls or any other logs of phone calls for the minister of finance or their immediate staff that involved representatives of Apple or people working for them from Jan 1st 2016 to the day this request is received. 4. Minutes of any meetings with the minister of finance or their immediate staff relating to Apple from Jan 1st 2016 to the day this request is received. 5. I would like all emails sent or received with employees or representatives of Apple, Inc. whose email addresses typically end in @apple.com, @apple-inc.com and @email.apple.com from Jan 1st 2016 to the day this request is received.
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Records relating to the amount spent by government on equipment for staff to work from home between February 2020 and January 2021 with a breakdown of the amount of equipment and cost.
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Purchase orders for 2019 and 2020 in excel file format.
- Received —Decided —Handled outside of FOIDepartment of Finance
- copies of any submissions/briefings/memos prepared for the Secretary General or Minister Donohoe with regard to the restoration of the 23% VAT rate on 1 March. This request to cover the period 1 Jan 2021 to date of receipt of the request.