Richard O'Donoghue (Limerick County, Independent) | Oireachtas source

I thank the Deputy. Businesses that are trying to stay open have been fighting through Covid and through the warehousing of tax. What they were warehousing for tax is the money they were using, with the subsidies, to keep the doors open because of excessive prices. In his statement, the Minister stated that those who avail of this scheme have to be tax-compliant. What is going to happen if Revenue pulls in the warehoused tax from those people? They have used this to keep people employed and keep businesses open in an area. What is going to happen to those businesses that used that warehoused tax to keep the doors opened? That is what the Minister must look at. It is one thing to bring in a scheme but they have already used this to keep the doors open for the circular economy within our areas. Has the Minister got an answer for those people? Is he going to tell us that this warehoused tax is not going to come back into play, that those businesses do not have to worry about it and that they will be able to survive and keep their businesses going in our communities?

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