Department of Finance
FOI Requests — 1874 requests
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Record(s) minutes or/and correspondence pertaining to the following meetings that took place regarding lobbying activity relating to the following information:- https://www.lobbying.ie/return/14156/irish-association-of-investment-managers
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all correspondence recorded, sent or received by Department officials (emails, memos, meeting minutes , etc. ) that feature any of the following words: "counterparty," "counterparties", and any of the following words: "Anglo Irish Bank", "Merrill", "AIB" Dated between 21st April 2008 and 21st April 2009
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- All briefing notes in relation to the help-to-buy scheme - All external communications received by the department in relation to the help-to-buy scheme - All correspondence between the department and the Department of Housing in relation to the help-to-buy scheme The timeframe should cover the period March 1, 2017 to August 30, 2017
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Any correspondence/emails/minutes of meetings/letters between the Department of Finance and Permanent TSB chief executive Jeremy Masding from 01 June 2017 to present. Any correspondence/emails/minutes of meetings/letters between the Department of Finance and any board member of Permanent TSB from 01 June 2017 to present.
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Revised request on 12/09/2017 to benefit in kind tax for employee parking and the commencement of a parking levy on employees using parking provided by their employers in urban centres. Please can I have any records relating to this issue from September 2014 to the present. The records may include internal and external correspondence, meeting agendas and minutes, and briefing material. benefit in kind tax for employee parking. Please can I have any records relating to this issue from September 2014 to the present. The records may include internal and external correspondence, meeting agendas and minutes, and briefing material.
- RefusedReceived —Decided —Department of Finance
The first-time buyers scheme was an incentive that was developed by Michael Noonan. The scheme allows those buying their first home a VAT rebate of up to €20,000. Under the Freedom of Information Act 2014 I request the following: Any advice on scheme sent by the Housing Agency to the finance minister prior to its publication. Any correspondence between the Department and the Agency, dating back as far as the start of 2014 in relation to the scheme.
- RefusedReceived —Decided —Department of Finance
all email correspondence / any other, between the Department of Finance, NAMA, and the EU Commission Directorate General for Competition, concerning a State Aid complaint regarding the National Asset Management Agency ( NAMA) between Jan 2015 to current day.
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access to minutes of the meeting between Blackrock Investments Management and Ann Nolan as outlined in the following lobbying return: https://www.lobbying.ie/return/20647/blackrock-investment-management-dublin-limited
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to ask if the Department had a tent at this year's National Ploughing Championships and what the costs associated with it were?
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All letters sent to the Minister for Finance that mention the Apple tax legal case, and any briefing memos prepared by the Department on the topic between 1st July 2017 and 26th September 2016
- GrantedReceived —Decided —Department of Finance
a copy of the rules, regulations and relevant circulars and correspondence governing promotions on the basis of seniority and suitability within your Department and relating to the retention or the abolition of promotion on the basis of seniority and suitability within your Department. a copy of any circular, correspondence or instructions issued by the CPSA, the Department of Finance or the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform, or any of their predecessors, to your Department concerning promotions on the basis of seniority and suitability within your Department and the retention or abolition of promotion on seniority and suitability within your Department. state whether your Department currently allows promotion on the basis of seniority and suitability. If your Department does not currently allow promotion on the basis of seniority and suitability please state when your Department abolished it and on what basis it abolished it. Please confirm if your Department was obliged to abolish Seniority and Suitability or whether it took the decision to do so of its own accord. Please provide all relevant documentation concerning this decision. If your Department allows promotion on the basis of seniority and suitability please state whether the promotions for those officers promoted are paid through the 1% PCW allowance or whether they are paid through the normal exchequer funding as per all other promotions. Please note I am not referring to uplifts under the 1% PCW allowance but to promotions on the basis of seniority and suitability outside of the 1% PCW allowance; i.e. paid out of normal exchequer funding.
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Please state whether your Department has ever discussed the abolition of promotion on seniority and suitability with the trade unions and if it has reached and signed an agreement with any of the trade unions in this regard. If it has signed such an agreement, please provide the details of this agreement and the name of the trade union with whom the agreement was signed.
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- records/receipts/invoices of the costs of mobile phones supplied by the Irish State for TDs from 2016-2017, detailing what phone they had, how much it cost and how much their annual phone bill totalled to.
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I would like to request, under Freedom of Information legislation, figures relating to the income of those who have bought a home through the government's help to buy scheme since it was introduced. Can you please outline these figures in sections relating to the number who made less than 50,000, 60,000, 70,000 and 80,000 etc ? If this is not possible, can you please outline the figures in sections that suit the data provided?
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17-239 Records, minutes and/or correspondence regarding lobbying activity relating to:https://www.lobbying.ie/return/12592/irish-funds-industry-association-clg 17-231 - Copies of reports held by the department on the operations of REITs in Ireland - Copies of any submissions made to the department on the introduction and/or operations of REITs by other government departments or third parties - Copies of any submissions made by the department about the introduction of REITs in Ireland - Copies of any diary entries or phone logs relating to Hibernian Reit and/or Kevin Nowlan 1/1/2010 – 4/7/2017
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17-261 All records, correspondence etc related to corporate taxation of the aviation leasing sector, including analysis of the carrying forward of losses by the sector, since august 1 2016 17-265 All emails, reports, briefings and other internal memos within the Department and/or between the Revenue Commissioners from 10 October2016-August 2017, regarding concerns around the R&D tax credit, its suitability and affordability to the state and/or related to concerns regarding the cost and appropriateness of the fact that the R&D tax credit allows companies which do not have sufficient profits to receive a cash refund from revenue related to R&D expenditure
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- a list of all submissions sent to Minister Paschal Donohoe "for review" with regard to Budget 2018. For avoidance of confusion, these are the final submissions made to the Minister following review by officials OR further submissions made with further options. They should all be contained, so far as I can tell, in a folder at the following URL - https://sharepoint.itservices.gov.ie/fin/Applications/Submissions.
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- a copy of the response that issued from your Department in respect of the following request for information on the PR spend within your Department and bodies under its aegis from Martin Fraser of the Department of the Taoiseach.
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records of all records and communication within the Department of Finance relating to fees and commissions payable/paid by the Department and/or AIB to investment banks and securities firms and other advisers working on AIB’s initial public offering in June. I’m particularly looking for a breakdown of the fees and commissions to individual firms.
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'copies of correspondence between the Taoiseach's Office and the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform and Department of Finance relating to the Strategic Communications Unit?' 'any correspondence to the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform and Department of Finance seeking funding for the Strategic Communications Unit?' 'copies of all costing relating to the Strategic Communications Unit.' 'all copies of correspondence between the department and John Concannon relating to the Strategic Communications unit.'
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Any and all records (including drafts thereof) generated by or held by the Department in respect of ay determination on or consideration of administrative and/or non-statutory methods of discharging any legal fees in relation to any Commission of Investigation established pursuant to the Commissions of Investigation Act 2004, frm 2016 to date
- Handled outside of FOIReceived —Decided —Department of Finance
copies of all documentation, correspondence, circulars, memos, minutes of meetings, that relate to this and that refer to this. If it simplifies matters for you I am seeking and will be satisfied with the details of when and on what basis promotion on seniority and suitability was first established in the Irish Civil Service. Under what legislative act or Ministerial Order or otherwise it was established. The circulars or memos that notified Departments of its establishment and the rules on which it is and was based. I am not seeking to put you to the unnecessary bother of searching through reams and reams of files going back years; just for you to provide the relevant details as per the paragraph immediately above
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all records held by the Department, over the past six months, relating to KBC and the tracker mortgage overcharging issue
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all records held by the Department, over the past six months, relating to Permanent TSB and the tracker mortgage overcharging issue
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records which are non-personal and which I believe are held by the department, dated between January 1, 2017 and the date of this letter. 1. A record of all correspondence, letters, emails, briefing documents and phone calls to and from the Minister’s office, from representatives of the manufacturers of fizzy drinks and sweet foods that would be taxable under the government's new sugar tax scheme.
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2. A record of all internal briefing documents prepared for the minister about taxing sweet foods and drinks.
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- All correspondence with the Department of Business, Enterprise and Innovation relating to the KEEP share option scheme. The timeframe should cover the period of March 1, 2017 to October 10, 2017.
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Records between Minister of Finance and any public body or member of the Oireachtas regarding concerns raised by Gerard Murphy and or Castleforbes Square Owner Management Company, of which I am a Director. Nature of the Request: Planning matters and related sale of assets,at the development known as Castleforbes Square, Dublin 1; of which Castleforbes Square OMC was party. Timescale: Between January 2016 and present.
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I would like copies of all correspondence between the Department and the banks relatinig to the bonus ban and the salary cap since January 2014. Please include any requests by banks to breach the salary cap or bonus ban for senior staff. Please include any correspondence from the banks seeking to have the salary cap and bonus ban
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abolished or reformed. Please include any correspondence from the banks seeking to have the bank levy abolished, reduced or reformed. In all of the above cases please include any and all responses from the Department.
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- Copies of any briefings, reports, submissions, or similar such explanatory or review documents prepared for Minister Michael Noonan regarding overcharging of tracker customers by Irish banks
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copies of any correspondence between the Minister and/or Secretary General and Nama, its management, or other senior officials at Nama relating to the setting up of Home Building Finance Ireland. This request to cover period 1 January 2017 to the current date. I would prefer to receive this information electronically, ideally in its original electronic format.
- RefusedReceived —Decided —Department of Finance
a copy of the due diligence that the department has conducted in relation to what is being proposed by AIB … at the EGM and Court Meeting due to be held on Friday morning at 10am
- GrantedReceived —Decided —Department of Finance
Could I please access all correspondence between the Department of Finance and the European Central Bank in relation to Philip Lane, the governor of the Irish Central Bank.
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All records, briefing notes, minutes etc. related to the Minister's meeting with the banks in October 2017