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- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Nov 2022)
Pearse Doherty: The rent cap is out, Minister.
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Nov 2022)
Pearse Doherty: It exists in Scotland. The Minister does not have to go to Berlin. As far as I know, Berlin does not have a rent cap. It was overturned, was it not?
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Nov 2022)
Pearse Doherty: The point is that if you come in here half-cocked and with the full information-----
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Nov 2022)
Pearse Doherty: It does not exist.
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Nov 2022)
Pearse Doherty: Will the Minister explain again how the Department arrived at the figure that 400,000 people are eligible to apply for this credit? It started with a figure of 613,000 provided by the CSO and subtracted from that the supported accommodation, reducing the figure to 513,000 or something similar. A rate of 75% was then applied to that. Is that correct?
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Nov 2022)
Pearse Doherty: What was the rationale behind the figure of 75%?
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Nov 2022)
Pearse Doherty: There is no way to know how many children are in supported tenancies. Is that correct?
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Nov 2022)
Pearse Doherty: Sorry. Of the 613,000, there is no way of figuring out how many of those are children. Is that correct?
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Nov 2022)
Pearse Doherty: The CSO also says the figure of 613,000 is underestimated because landlords usually only register one tenant or one PPSN. Is that not also the case?
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Nov 2022)
Pearse Doherty: There is, therefore, quite a bit of extrapolation and a wee bit of guesstimation. Would the Minister agree?
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Nov 2022)
Pearse Doherty: Should that not be tenants?
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Nov 2022)
Pearse Doherty: We know how many tenancies there are.
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Nov 2022)
Pearse Doherty: Where did the additional 18,000 come from?
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Nov 2022)
Pearse Doherty: When the CSO tells us that the starting figure of 613,000 tenants is an underestimation, what does the Minister do to deal with that fact?
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Nov 2022)
Pearse Doherty: I thank the Minister for taking me through this. I expect there is some guesstimation in relation to this but that it is not a major issue. I will go back to the issue of the advice the Minister got from the Department. From all the documents I have seen, the Department officials have been clear to the Minister that the likely scenario here, to quote his officials, is that the rational...
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Nov 2022)
Pearse Doherty: That is fair enough and that is the Minister's prerogative as Minister for Finance. I would never suggest that a Minister in any Department should be bound completely by the advice of officials but I asked the question given that it was the Minister's own position and he has made a massive U-turn in the space of 12 months. That would be welcome if he went the full hog. I will leave it at...
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Nov 2022)
Pearse Doherty: Okay, or the €5,000 in rent for a couple?
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Nov 2022)
Pearse Doherty: I am happy to pair for the vote.
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Nov 2022)
Pearse Doherty: On the "specified landlord", one of these means a "Minister of the Government". Obviously, I can understand the rationale behind this because it could be extrapolated as a supported tenancy, for example the Defence Forces. That would also rule out a Minister of the Government. Some of the Minister's colleagues in government are landlords. Under this definition, where they now fall, their...