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
Paschal Donohoe (Dublin Central, Fine Gael)
I disagree with the Deputy.
I have been a Member of the Houses and attended committees of the Oireachtas for as long as the Deputy. He knows there is ample opportunity to raise policy matters under the section of the Bill. The amendment that the Deputy brought forward, in our view, is not about taxation policy. That is why we gave the recommendation we did. I do not accept the idea that we are shuttering down debate in any way. The Deputy knows that there is ample opportunity for him to raise broader policy matters by raising them on the section of the Bill. He knows that. He does not need to bring forward an amendment in order to do that.
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