Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 25 November 2025
Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade
Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 28 - Foreign Affairs and Trade (Supplementary)
2:00 am
Cathy Bennett (Cavan-Monaghan, Sinn Fein)
In relation to the diplomatic point, I know the Minister of State has launched an Australian campaign to encourage people, the diaspora, to come home to Ireland. I was contacted recently by a man in Australia who wanted to come home. He is a tradesman and he was going to come home with his tools but he was going to be charged VAT on all his tools when coming home. Is this something the Minister of State could look at in relation to the VAT on tools for men and women who work in the construction industry wanting to come home? It would be beneficial to us here in Ireland for house building.
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