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Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services (26 Oct 2022)

Pearse Doherty: 183. To ask the Minister for Health when a child (details supplied) in County Donegal will obtain an appointment for occupational therapy services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53721/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Concrete Block Levy: Discussion (26 Oct 2022)

Pearse Doherty: Given that we are talking about a defective block levy, I will start with Ms Hone if that is okay. We are very conscious that it is now a year since the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage, Deputy O'Brien, announced that enhancements would be made to the redress scheme. One year later can Ms Hone describe the situation and the human impact on the ground in her county of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Concrete Block Levy: Discussion (26 Oct 2022)

Pearse Doherty: Many of the homeowners are obviously continuing to pay the mortgages they have with financial institutions. They face a lengthy process to even get accepted onto the old scheme in the first instance, and they are waiting for the second scheme. We have heard in different committees about the shortfall families will have to make up themselves. Ms Hone touched on that in her opening...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Concrete Block Levy: Discussion (26 Oct 2022)

Pearse Doherty: I will touch on that later with the SCSI in relation to the levy and the figures being provided. I am not questioning it but when you decide to exclude certain things, then the overall costs and the true costs are also excluded. I will turn to Mr. Parlon with regard to the Construction Industry Federation, CIF. I welcome his statement which took into account of the changes that happened...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Concrete Block Levy: Discussion (26 Oct 2022)

Pearse Doherty: Anecdotal evidence that developments are being paused or reconsidered was touched on. I see it in my own community, mostly with self-builds, where people pausing for a couple of years to see if the rates will come down. Suppliers in my area tell me that people are just trying to get the house closed in and then just leaving it like that because they cannot afford to continue at the present...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Concrete Block Levy: Discussion (26 Oct 2022)

Pearse Doherty: I thank the Society of Chartered Surveyors Ireland for its analysis of the impact of the concrete levy. Mr. James went much further in his opening statement, if he does not mind me saying that. He suggested that the Government will be challenged in terms of meeting its targets, that it has missed targets and that we would need to be reaching 45,000 by the end of the decade. He made it very...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Concrete Block Levy: Discussion (26 Oct 2022)

Pearse Doherty: Of course, some will use timber joists.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Concrete Block Levy: Discussion (26 Oct 2022)

Pearse Doherty: I want to clarify the witnesses costings and those of the Department. First, the Department has carried out costings based on returns it got in September. It states that ''the cost ranges based on September 2022 tender returns and the impact on cost caused by hyper inflation, temporary works, Russia-Ukraine conflict, rising energy costs, abnormal ground conditions are also excluded''. All...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Concrete Block Levy: Discussion (26 Oct 2022)

Pearse Doherty: The Department also believes that two thirds of this levy will be hard costs and one third will be soft costs. The witnesses' figure of up to €1,200 is on hard costs only. The soft costs they have estimated are itemised as professional fees, contingency finance and risk. If you were to add that on, that could potentially take it up to €1,800. Would that be correct, using the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Concrete Block Levy: Discussion (26 Oct 2022)

Pearse Doherty: Mr. James has made the point that this is contrary to what is required. Does he believe this challenges the viability of some projects? I am mindful it is coming on the back of changes in terms of the Central Bank, which has acknowledged there will also be modest increases in house prices as a result of that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Concrete Block Levy: Discussion (26 Oct 2022)

Pearse Doherty: Can I ask one quick question with the Chair's indulgence? There are two types of blocks that will be covered in this legislation - the typical masonry block and the aircrete or autoclaved block. How much of the second, light weight ones, are used on the Irish market? I know Quinn manufacture them here but they are obviously imported as well. They are very thermal efficient and all the rest.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Concrete Block Levy: Discussion (26 Oct 2022)

Pearse Doherty: I thank Mr. Hennessy for being able to present to the committee. I understand that there were some difficulties initially, but I am glad that the officials were able to rethink matters. I wish to seek a few clarifications. I understand that the levy will apply to concrete block materials that are sold from the North into this State. Is that correct?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Concrete Block Levy: Discussion (26 Oct 2022)

Pearse Doherty: Does Ms O'Callaghan mean when the developer uses them?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Concrete Block Levy: Discussion (26 Oct 2022)

Pearse Doherty: Let us say I wish to build a house in Donegal and am based in Buncrana but source my blocks from Derry. In that instance, who pays the levy?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Concrete Block Levy: Discussion (26 Oct 2022)

Pearse Doherty: Would I have to pay the levy?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Concrete Block Levy: Discussion (26 Oct 2022)

Pearse Doherty: If my house is a self-build, why do I have to pay the levy?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Concrete Block Levy: Discussion (26 Oct 2022)

Pearse Doherty: Exactly. If I buy the blocks from a company in Letterkenny, that company will pay the 5% levy to Revenue and will have the invoice.