Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 5 November 2025

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach

Finance Bill 2025: Committee Stage

2:00 am

Photo of Paschal DonohoePaschal Donohoe (Dublin Central, Fine Gael)

I have just given the answer to the Deputy. We may just have nearly a theological difference, as it were, here. The presentation and information I have received from the LDA is that tax is part of the cost calculations it has to bear. At what point it appears in its calculations and on the balance sheet is a matter for it to further explain, both to me and to this committee, but the LDA has been clear in the case it made to us that it is a component of its cost. If it is a component of its cost, then any reduction in that regard should help with viability.

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