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
Mairéad Farrell (Galway West, Sinn Fein)
In the context of what we were just discussing in relation to the special assignee relief programme, SARP, and the tax breaks, this is something that really could be a helping hand to workers who might otherwise struggle to afford travel for work, which is also extremely essential. It shows the priorities of the Government. The Minister said he did not have a breakdown in terms of the type of vehicle. I would be interested in knowing what analysis was done of the impact on the construction workforce in particular. Has such an analysis been done? We are always talking about the need for more people to work in the construction sector to ensure we can build the homes we need. I have seen the ads the Government had out in Australia. Is this provision not saying something very different to those people that the Government is trying to bring back from Australia?
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