Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 23 September 2025
Committee on Budgetary Oversight
Pre-Budget Engagement (Resumed)
2:00 am
Cian O'Callaghan (Dublin Bay North, Social Democrats)
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I thank the witness for coming in.
On the point about the challenge of infrastructure, delivering it, and the importance of financing infrastructure, IBEC's pre-budget submission has a costing of €86 million to do the reduction on VAT for apartments and to discontinue development levies on new-build apartments. Does that €86 million include replacement funding for infrastructure in lieu of those development levies as well as the VAT reduction?