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Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Jun 2022)

Pearse Doherty: I thank the Tánaiste for his response. I am surprised by his commentary that there are no plans for emergency legislation. This highlights the fact the members of the Government are not speaking to each other. The Minister of State, Deputy Madigan, is on the record as saying she has spoken to the Attorney General in the context of emergency legislation. We need emergency legislation....

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Defective Building Materials (23 Jun 2022)

Pearse Doherty: I do not think the Minister answered the question. Maybe it was an issue of timing. The question I was asking was what happens if the NSAI comes back, as we expect it will, and says we need to deal with foundations. There are old Irish sayings about not building on sand. The idea of taxpayers' money going into building a structure on foundations that are at least questionable and are not...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Defective Building Materials (23 Jun 2022)

Pearse Doherty: 10. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the reason the remediation of dwellings damaged by defective concrete blocks Bill 2022 does not provide for the replacement of the foundations of homes that will have to be demolished, given that he has asked the National Standards Authority of Ireland to examine the need for this to be done in their ongoing review; and if he...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Defective Building Materials (23 Jun 2022)

Pearse Doherty: Is é an cheist atá os comhair na Dála inniu ná an fhadhb atá ann le míoca agus le pirít. Why has the Minister ensured the remediation of dwellings damaged by defective concrete blocks does not provide for the replacement of foundations of homes that must be demolished, given that the Minister has asked the National Standards Authority of Ireland, NSAI, to...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Defective Building Materials (23 Jun 2022)

Pearse Doherty: Part of the question I asked related to the costs associated with this. The Minister has triggered a review into deleterious materials in foundations and other materials in the blocks but he authorised the Society of Chartered Surveyors Ireland to carry out a study of the cost of rebuilding while asking them to exclude the cost of foundations. The Minister has acknowledged a change from the...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Vacant Properties (23 Jun 2022)

Pearse Doherty: 72. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to outline the commitments made to tackle vacant housing in the Housing for All Plan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33088/22]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Data (23 Jun 2022)

Pearse Doherty: 188. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Questions No. 394 and 395 of 14 June 2022, the number of persons availing of tax relief on pension contributions in 2019 disaggregated by salary band in intervals of €10,000, on an individual level given that the PAYE data on employee pension contributions is now reported to the Revenue Commissioners. [33268/22]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Data (23 Jun 2022)

Pearse Doherty: 189. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Questions No. 394 and 395 of 14 June 2022, the cost to the Exchequer of tax relief on pension contributions in 2019 disaggregated by salary band in intervals of €10,000, on an individual level given that the PAYE data on employee pension contributions is now reported the Revenue Commissioners. [33269/22]

Insurance Reform: Statements (22 Jun 2022)

Pearse Doherty: I welcome the opportunity to speak to the issue of insurance reform, an important matter. This is a timely discussion, two and a half years after the Government launched its Action Plan on Insurance Reform in December 2020. Although insurance often seems like a boring or dry topic, it is crucial to the functioning of a modern economy because it allows business to transfer risk, without...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Tax Expenditures Review: Discussion (22 Jun 2022)

Pearse Doherty: I thank the witnesses for appearing before an coiste and for the three presentations. I will start with the research and development tax credit, the larger of the three being discussed. All members of the committee recognise the importance of developing innovation, high productivity and a high-wage economy, and the importance of research and development in that regard and in fostering...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Tax Expenditures Review: Discussion (22 Jun 2022)

Pearse Doherty: The principle of having an enhanced tax credit for small and micro businesses was not an issue for the Commission. It just needed to be targeted. That is a positive step.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Tax Expenditures Review: Discussion (22 Jun 2022)

Pearse Doherty: That takes me to the next point. Why do we not disentangle them? Why do we not have a separate research and development tax credit using the definitions the Commission is asking us to use in regard to having a targeted, state aid approved support package? We could have two separate applications and a micro business could apply to either, technically. Why do we not do that? You would then...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Tax Expenditures Review: Discussion (22 Jun 2022)

Pearse Doherty: Absolutely.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Tax Expenditures Review: Discussion (22 Jun 2022)

Pearse Doherty: I understand Ms Donaghy's point. By excluding businesses you make the main tax credit a targeted credit and therefore it needs state aid approval as well. Why would you have to go down that road? Why can you not have in legislation that if you claim the micro, enhanced, targeted credit that you automatically rule yourself out of the main credit? Therefore it is not targeted because it is...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Tax Expenditures Review: Discussion (22 Jun 2022)

Pearse Doherty: The good news is, it is not dead in the water as a policy. It is just a case of time, resources and being able to look at another track.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Tax Expenditures Review: Discussion (22 Jun 2022)

Pearse Doherty: Is there any likelihood of something appearing in the finance Bill this year in regard to it? The heavy lifting is done to a certain degree.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Tax Expenditures Review: Discussion (22 Jun 2022)

Pearse Doherty: Okay, and Ms Donaghy will probably put the paper in front of the Minister.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Tax Expenditures Review: Discussion (22 Jun 2022)

Pearse Doherty: That brings me neatly on to the second issue which we have been raising for many years as well, that is, the problems faced by indigenous small and medium enterprises, SMEs, which is the over-burdensome procedure in regard to the credit. Many SMEs do not have access to the large accountancy firms. It is acknowledged that the process in Britain and in the North is much simpler and less risky...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Tax Expenditures Review: Discussion (22 Jun 2022)

Pearse Doherty: That is helpful. The key finding from UCD and what we hear from SMEs all the time is that this was designed for FDI, that is, it was to design an R&D tax credit for SMEs in terms of the application process and the reporting process. We all recognise the importance of FDI and the R&D tax credit, which need to be maintained, but we have two different and completely unequal systems for...