Department of Finance
FOI Requests — 1,809 records (page 33 of 37)
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This should include correspondence between the bank CEOs and the office of the Minister for Finance.
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I would like to submit an FOI request regarding SIPO’s Second Legislative Review of the Regulation of Lobbying Act (2015), which was submitted to the Department in 2019. As such, I would like to request all correspondence between SIPO and the Department regarding the recommendations outlined therein. The time period I am requesting is from 01/05/2019 to 01/02/2020. Specifically I am looking for: • Minutes of meetings • Notes • Emails • Letters
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1. E-submissions to the Minister for Decision in relation to the following matter in Budget 2021: - A technical amendment to the CGT legislation to address an avoidance issue brought to the Minister's attention, and referred to in Minister Donohoe's Budget 2021 speech 2. Submissions from industry on this matter since 1 September 2020 to date
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E-submissions sent to the Minister for Finance for decision for Budget 2021 measures, specifically in the following areas: - Tobacco products - VRT and Motor tax - Betting taxes
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- Carbon taxes - Vat reduction for hospitality sector
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All records, correspondence and any other relevant documents relating to the identification of the Teachta Dála who made Declaration of Gift under section 483 of the Taxes Consolidation Act 1997 this year, to the sum of €8,847.28 (amounts in words also), Eight Thousand, Eight hundred and Forty Seven Euro and Twenty Eight cents, to be applied for any purpose for or towards the cost of which public moneys are provided. I also request all records, correspondence and any other relevant documents relating to where the money provided by aforementioned Teachta Dála as a Declaration of Gift under section 483 of the Taxes Consolidation Act 1997, is spent or distributed.
- Received —Decided —Handled outside of FOIDepartment of Finance
a list of public relations agencies engaged by the Department since June 27th 2020 to now, the fees payable, contract duration and purpose of engagement. In the alternative, I would like to request a copy of all contracts signed between the Department and public relations agencies / external advisors from the 27th June 2020 to the present date.
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Copies of any correspondence (emails, letters, texts, submissions etc) between Minister Paschal Donohoe and Revenue Commissioners chairman Niall Cody since August 1st, 2020 relating to the State’s preparations for Brexit coming into effect from January 1st, 2021.
- Received —Decided —Handled outside of FOIDepartment of Finance
Please can you provide all records relating to the costs spent on providing equipment such as computers, desks, chairs and other items in order to facilitate government employees from your Department who have been working from home since the Covid-19 pandemic began. The timeframe for this request is: March 2020 until November 2020. Please provide records with the names of each item (such as “chair”, or “desk”) and how much each item cost. Please can you also provide all records relating to the costs spent on providing equipment such as computers, desks, chairs and other items in order to facilitate your Department's Minister working from home since the Covid-19 pandemic began in March 2020 until November 2020. Please provide records with the names of each item (such as “chair”, or “desk”), how much each item cost and who each item was for (example: “Taoiseach”, or “Enterprise Minister”). Limiting the request to records for new purchases orders to facilitate government employees from your Department who have been working from home, and exclude any associated records of equipment purchased as a replacement of existing inventory due to scheduled upgrade / end of life cycle / malfunction, & exclude any associated records of equipment on loan from existing inventory or resources of the Department.
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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. 1. 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. 2. 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. 3. 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. 4. I would like all emails sent or received with employees or representatives of Apple,Inc.
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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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Any materials (correspondence or otherwise) relating to meetings with your department and Amazon Web Services over the past 3 years. These materials may include emails, WhatsApp messages, Twitter direct messages, texts, notes, minutes, powerpoint presentations, memos, letters, reports, etc This includes ministers, ministers of state, senior officials and others subject to FOI request.
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• Email correspondence from or to Minister of State for Public Procurement, Open Government and eGovernment Patrick O'Donovan concerning Safetynet Primary Care, during the dates 20 June 2017 – 27 June 2020 • Minutes of all meetings involving Minister of State for Public Procurement, Open Government and eGovernment Patrick O'Donovan and Safetynet Primary Care, during the dates 20 June 2017 – 27 June 2020 • Copies of any reports/submissions/memos or other such review documents prepared on foot of these meetings involving Minister of State for Public Procurement, Open Government and eGovernment Patrick O'Donovan and Safetynet Primary Care, during the dates 20 June 2017 – 27 June 2020
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"All correspondence, in either electronic or paper form exchanged between the Department of Finance and Public Expenditure and Reform (including the various Department Ministers) and Scouting Ireland/local agencies/Ray O'Halloran/ Limerick City Build and Limerick City Council from 2015 to present regarding Operation Lelievlet. I wish to advise that this request includes but is not limited to any written notes, meeting notes, written agreements or meeting minutes. I am also looking for all documents held by the department regarding Operation Lelievlet"
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“Any such documents and records relating to the ownership and creation of National Asset Management Agency (NAMA) and National Asset Loan Management (NALM) and communications relative to its ownership and restricting the timeframe of this request to April 1, 2009 - June 30, 2010 AND April 1, 2011 - Sept 30, 2012”
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All government records (emails, briefings, meeting minutes, reports etc) relating to lobbying undertaken by Managed Funds to the Minister for Finance, and/or his officials or Ministers of State, in the period 1st September 2016 to 31st December 2016.
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All government records (emails, briefings, meeting minutes, reports etc) relating to lobbying undertaken by any individual or body to the Minister for Finance, and/or his officials or Ministers of State, from 1st January 2012 to 31st December 2012 regarding the introduction of REITs to Ireland.
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- Internal correspondence between Department of Finance officials on the establishment of a Garda Insurance Fraud Unit from 1 August 2018 to 31 May 2019 - Briefings prepared for meetings of any Oireachtas Committee by Department of Finance officials insofar as that briefing refers to any aspect of a Garda Insurance Fraud Unit, from 1 August 2018 to 31 May 2019. - Correspondence (if any) between the Department of Finance and Department of Justice in relation to the establishment of a Garda Insurance Fraud Unit, from 1 August 2018 to 31 May 2019.
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For the period 1 August 2018 to 13 August 2019 to include: - Copies of all correspondence sent and/or received between the Department and the European Commission on all of the matters referred to within the TSG Paper 19/09 - Minutes of all meetings held where these issues were referred to including meetings held with the European Commission and internal meetings within the Department that discussed these issues - Briefing Notes made of any nature where these issues were referred to, (notes of telephone conversations that discussed these issues) even if the note is only for file purposes and all records sent and/or received by the Minister and/or any Special advisors in respect of these issues - Copies of all texts sent and/or received where these issues were referred to
- Received —Decided —Part-GrantedDepartment of Finance
Could I request the following FOI's that have already been granted or part-granted by your department : FOI 16-342 access to all correspondence / lobbying received by the Department since the start of April 2016 in relation to Section 110 companies, Qualifying Investor Alternative Investment Funds and Irish Collective Asset-management Vehicles. Please include specifically any lobbying against the introduction of a levy on these type of funds used by international investors to reduce tax bills on Irish property. 16-384 Records of all lobbying and representations - including letters, emails, records and minutes of meetings and phone calls, submissions etc – on sections 21 and 22 of the 2016 Finance Bill.https://assets.gov.ie/5324/311218100432-40735d7452f1453c85502ab4cd5e0116.pdf 18-116 All documents, records, correspondence, meetings (minutes), emails, phone memos in relation to communications between Matheson Solicitors firm and the Minister for Finance, his General Secretary and Assistant General Secretary at Department of Finance in relation to - (b) s.110 Special Purpose Vehicles under the Taxes Consolidation Act 1997 - from Jan 1st 2012 to the present. (c) all taxation matters (including those relating to investment funds, changes to Finance Bills, the national Budgets )- from January 1st 2015 to the present. 19-130 Journalist - copies of any submissions made to the Minister for Finance in 2015, 2016, and 2017 relating to use of special purpose vehicles. Part-Granted.
- Received —Decided —Part-GrantedDepartment of Finance
copies of any records relating or referring to the possibility of extending a tax relief scheme for sports people to GAA players. This request to cover the period 1 January 2019 to date of receipt of this request
- Received —Decided —RefusedDepartment of Finance
I wish to request, under the Freedom of Information Act, access to copies of all submissions made in the 2019 public consultation on the SARP scheme.
- Received —Decided —Part-GrantedDepartment of Finance
I am seeking the release of the following: any correspondence/emails/ between Minister Donohoe and/or Department of Finance officials and Kevin Johnson of the Credit Union Development Association, the details of which were included on a return made on the lobbying register linked below. If you require any further clarification please contact me on the below numbers. https://www.lobbying.ie/return/52758/credit-union-development-association
- Received —Decided —GrantedDepartment of Finance
I request access to records which are non-personal and which I believe are held by The Department of Finance dated between March 1, 2019 and the date of this letter. My request relates to correspondence with Cairn Homes officials and representatives. I request access to: • A record of correspondence, including but not limited to letters, emails, briefing documents, draft briefing documents, reports, draft reports, memos and text messages between Cairn Homes and Minister Paschal Donohoe. • A record of meetings between Cairn Homes and Minister Paschal Donohoe. This should include correspondence about meetings, meeting notes, draft meeting notes, and similar documents. • A record of correspondence, including but not limited to letters, emails, briefing documents, draft briefing documents, reports, draft reports, memos and text messages between Cairn Homes and the Department’s Special Advisor Ed Brophy.
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• A record of meetings between Cairn Homes and the Department’s Special Advisor Ed Brophy. This should include correspondence about meetings, meeting notes, draft meeting notes, and similar documents. • A record of correspondence, including but not limited to letters, emails, briefing documents, draft briefing documents, reports, draft reports, memos and text messages between Cairn Homes and the Department’s Head of Unit Des Carville. • A record of meetings between Cairn Homes and the Department’s Head of Unit Des Carville. This should include correspondence about meetings, meeting notes, draft meeting notes, and similar documents.
- Received —Decided —GrantedDepartment of Finance
I request access to records which are non-personal and which I believe are held by the Department of Finance dated between March 1, 2019 and the date of this letter. My request relates to correspondence and meetings with Aer Lingus officials and representatives. I request access to: • A record of correspondence, including but not limited to letters, emails, briefing documents, draft briefing documents, reports, draft reports, memos and text messages between Aer Lingus and the offices of the Department’s Special Advisor Ed Brophy about capital investment programmes for Dublin Airport. • A record of meetings between Aer Lingus, the Department’s Special Advisor Ed Brophy about capital investment programmes for Dublin Airport. This should include a record of correspondence about any such meetings, relevant meeting notes, documents, etc.
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Memos, briefings prepared for and minutes circulated before and arising out of the meeting between held between Yannick Glemarec and Minister Paschal O Donohoe on 24 June 2019 as outlined in the minister's diary here. (https://assets.gov.ie/22400/ebd54ffd49124d77b24087c2a52d601e.pdf)
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All of the Department of Finance's internal and external correspondence in relation to the European Investment Bank's Draft Energy Lending Policy and Revised Draft Energy Lending Policy from July 24 2019 to the present.
- Received —Decided —GrantedDepartment of Finance
Direct correspondence to the ministers regarding insurance costs, from insurance companies and insurance industry representative groups in 2019.
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• All correspondence between the Department and the chair of the Oireachtas Climate Action Committee between the period 01 March 2019 and the present day • All correspondence between the Department and the chair of the Climate Change Advisory Council between the period 01 March 2019 and the present day • All correspondence between the Department and the Minister for Communications and Climate Action between the period 01 March 2019 and the present day
- Received —Decided —RefusedDepartment of Finance
I am seeking the following documents: •Cost benefit analysis of the Help-to-Buy scheme. I wish for my request to cover the period from 1/8/2019 - 9/10/2019
- Received —Decided —GrantedDepartment of Finance
- the amount of money spent across your department on hosting Christmas parties between November and December 2018. - the items that were presented by your department to state, semi-state and foreign bodies as Christmas gifts between November and December 2018.'
- Received —Decided —RefusedDepartment of Finance
I wish to request access to the following records/details, including documents, correspondence, emails, memos, briefing documents and minutes of meetings which include: 1) Documents relating to the re-introduction of the Rent Tax Credit from the period 1 January 2019 to 9 October 2019 2) Documents and correspondence between the Department of Finance and the Department of Housing about the re-introduction of the rent tax credit from 1 January 2019 to 9 October 2019 3) Documents and correspondence between Housing Minister Eoghan Murphy and Minister Paschal Donohoe and their officials / advisers about the re-introduction of the rent tax credit from 1 January 2019 to 9 October 2019 (Reference of Rent Tax Credit relates to the credit that was ceased in December 2017) https://www.revenue.ie/en/personal-tax-credits-reliefs-and-exemptions/land-and-property/rent- credit/index.aspx
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- a list of all submissions sent to Minister Paschal Donohoe "for review" with regard to Budget 2020. For avoidance of confusion, these are the final submissions made to the Minister following review by officials or further submissions made with further options. - copies of the above where they relate to the following items: a/ tobacco, b/ alcohol, c/ inheritance tax and capital acquisitions tax, d/ duty on petrol/diesel, e/ carbon tax, f/ free GP care for under 8s, g/ SARP, h/ betting duty.'
- Received —Decided —GrantedDepartment of Finance
I am seeking the following documents: A list of e-submissions sent to the Minister for Finance between 10/9/19 – 7/10/19.' Clarified by requester as being for Budget 2020 submissions.
- Received —Decided —Part-GrantedDepartment of Finance
Any and all correspondence between Minister Paschal Donohoe, and the below individuals, in the year 2019 to today’s date.
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Michael O’Leary of Ryanair Willie Walsh of IAG Philip Lane – ex Central Bank governor Gabriel Makhlouf – current Central Bank governor Fiona Muldoon – FBD chief executive
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Copies of any deliberative documents or briefing materials prepared for Minister for Finance Paschal Donohoe on the subject of the Budget 2020 measures to prepare for Brexit.
- Received —Decided —Part-GrantedDepartment of Finance
I wish to request the Working Paper relating to Facebook’s cryptocurrency, Libra, as disclosed to the Irish Times (outlined in article published on by the newspaper on 19 Oct 2019 - Government officials raise concerns about Facebook cryptocurrency - https://www.irishtimes.com/business/technology/government-officials-raise-concerns-about- facebook-cryptocurrency-1.4055621)
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• all briefing documents prepared for the minister in relation to the flat-rate expenses allowance for PAYE workers • all correspondence received from Revenue regarding the flat-rate expenses allowance for PAYE workers - The timeframe should cover the period of August 1, 2019 to October 8, 2019.
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• All correspondence between the Minister for Finance/PER and Fine Gael TDs between the period 01 July 2019 and 31 July 2019, relates to 'Climate Change'
- Received —Decided —TransferredDepartment of Finance
All records related to this entry in the lobbying database: https://www.lobbying.ie/return/50251/amazon-web-services
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All correspondence between Enda O'Coineen and the department in the last 6 months. :https://www.lobbying.ie/return/50257/atlantic-youth-trust Any internal correspondence, memos, presentations, documents generated as a result of the correspondence between Enda O'Coineen and the department.
- Received —Decided —WithdrawnDepartment of Finance
I wish to make a request for a copy of the Central Bank of Irelands current license to do business as a bank and or any historical licenses granted by minister for finance or relevant person of the government of Ireland.
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A list of submissions submitted to the Minister through the e-submission channel. I wish for my request to cover the period from 1/10/2019 – 4/11/2019.
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All correspondence to/from the Department/Ministers and the following politicians between June 14, 2017 and November 4, 2019: • Former Taoiseach Enda Kenny • Former Finance Minister Michael Noonan The correspondence could include letters/emails directly to ministers or the Department Secretary General as well as respresentations made on behalf of constituents.
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- any correspondence between the Dept of Housing and the Dept of Finance on the scheme between January 2019 and Sept 2019. - any correspondence that the Construction Industry Federation may have submitted to the Minister for Housing/Dpt in relation to the Help to Buy Scheme.'
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Email to Minister for Finance, Paschal Donohoe, receipt date 5th November 2019, as follows: "Document required (1) Warrant of Appointment, signed and sealed by President Higgins and yourself."
- Received —Decided —Part-GrantedDepartment of Finance
All correspondence between Andrew McDowell, Vice-president of the European Investment Bank, and the Department of Finance from January 2019 to the present. The search can be limited to the level of Secretary General and the Office of the Minister for Finance.
- Received —Decided —GrantedDepartment of Finance
I am seeking the following e-submissions sent to the Minister for Finance: Number: 00926-19 Possible Stamp Duty measures for Budget 2020 Number: 00739-19 Budget 2020 Income Tax Package I wish for my request to cover the period from 1/1/2019 - 20/11/2019.