Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 16 November 2022
Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach
Business of Select Committee
Pearse Doherty (Donegal, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source
This amendment deals with the VAT reduction on electricity and gas. I have a specific question. We discussed home heating oil earlier. The Minister has reduced the VAT rate on gas until the end of February in this Finance Bill and will review the position in spring. Does he have any concerns about the fairness of the Bill given that it does not provide any measures to directly support the hundreds of thousands of homes that use home heating oil rather than gas? There is a measure in the Bill for people who happen to live in Dublin, Cork or elsewhere and heat their homes with gas, but the Minister has decided not to do anything on home heating oil. Does he have any concern about the fairness of that because it does not seem to be very equitable?
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