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Finance Bill 2018: Report Stage (Resumed) (22 Nov 2018)

Pearse Doherty: Of course, we have campaigned against it.

Finance Bill 2018: Report Stage (Resumed) (22 Nov 2018)

Pearse Doherty: We have tabled motions and called Fianna Fáil out time and again.

Finance Bill 2018: Report Stage (Resumed) (22 Nov 2018)

Pearse Doherty: We have called the Deputy's colleagues in Fianna Fáil out.

Finance Bill 2018: Report Stage (Resumed) (22 Nov 2018)

Pearse Doherty: The Deputy can hide under the skirt of the confidence and supply agreement, but what he is doing is pushing up the price of a mortgage for 400,000 householders.

Finance Bill 2018: Report Stage (Resumed) (22 Nov 2018)

Pearse Doherty: The truth hurts.

Finance Bill 2018: Report Stage (Resumed) (22 Nov 2018)

Pearse Doherty: The Deputy should stand up, be a man and get out from under the skirt of the confidence and supply agreement.

Finance Bill 2018: Report Stage (Resumed) (22 Nov 2018)

Pearse Doherty: The Deputy should stand with those who are being penalised by rip-off mortgages by supporting the amendment.

Finance Bill 2018: Report Stage (Resumed) (22 Nov 2018)

Pearse Doherty: I am pressing the amendment.

Finance Bill 2018: Report Stage (Resumed) (22 Nov 2018)

Pearse Doherty: The Deputy should put his money where his mouth is.

Finance Bill 2018: Report Stage (Resumed) (22 Nov 2018)

Pearse Doherty: Fianna Fáil negotiated an increase in the price of a mortgage for hundreds of thousands of families. That is a fact. Hundreds of thousands of families will be penalised because of it.

Finance Bill 2018: Report Stage (Resumed) (22 Nov 2018)

Pearse Doherty: I move amendment No. 38:In page 145, between lines 32 and 33, to insert the following:“Report on mortgage interest relief 62. The Minister shall, within 6 months of the passing of this Act, prepare and lay before Dáil Éireann a report on maintaining the current Mortgage Interest Rate Relief until such time as mortgage interest rates are equivalent to the European...

Finance Bill 2018: Report Stage (Resumed) (22 Nov 2018)

Pearse Doherty: There is absolutely no basis on which the Minister can say this measure pushes up house prices. It is in place for persons who are being absolutely ripped off by banks, in which the Minister is the majority shareholder. They are charging twice the interest rates being charged by our European competitors and the Minister sits there and does absolutely nothing about it. That is nonsense....

Finance Bill 2018: Report Stage (Resumed) (22 Nov 2018)

Pearse Doherty: We have listened to the Minister, Deputy Donohoe, and to the previous Minister, Deputy Noonan, for a number of years. They continued to tell us that everything would be okay. We have heard all the different measures they introduced such as the help-to-buy scheme and now giving tax breaks to landlords. The latter measure is not just supported by Fianna Fáil. It demanded that it would...

Finance Bill 2018: Report Stage (Resumed) (22 Nov 2018)

Pearse Doherty: I move amendment No. 37:In page 145, between lines 32 and 33, to insert the following:“Report on income tax relief for individuals in rental accommodation 62. The Minister shall, within 6 months of the passing of this Act, prepare and lay before Dáil Éireann a report on an income tax relief equivalent in value to one month’s rent of an individual available to all...

Finance Bill 2018: Report Stage (Resumed) (22 Nov 2018)

Pearse Doherty: I move amendment No. 36:In page 145, between lines 32 and 33, to insert the following:“Report on rate of exit tax 62. Within one month of the passing of this Act the Minister shall lay a report before Dáil Éireann on the implications of increasing to 33 per cent the rate at which the exit tax in section 31 is set at.”. I welcome the introduction of a new exit tax...

Finance Bill 2018: Report Stage (Resumed) (22 Nov 2018)

Pearse Doherty: I support this recommendation, although I think a report in six months might be too late for certain areas. I have made the point very forcefully on Committee Stage that while there is merit in increasing the VAT rate to 13.5% for the hotel industry, there is no merit in that type of jump with regard to other areas of the hospitality and tourism sector. The Government is getting wrapped up...

Finance Bill 2018: Report Stage (Resumed) (22 Nov 2018)

Pearse Doherty: The flowers and all of that. The Government has wrecked a happy day for many couples so I can level that one at the Government. Perhaps I cannot blame it for the performance of the Irish team earlier on. That is the genuine seriousness of this and this is how it plays out. This part of the measure was not appropriate. I know the hotel sector is a separate argument. I have long argued...

Finance Bill 2018: Report Stage (Resumed) (22 Nov 2018)

Pearse Doherty: This is all about clarity. This issue has been dragging on for some time and the industry is entitled to the clarity it is seeking. In reply to a parliamentary question the Minister informed me that an expert report was received by Revenue more than a year ago and that he had looked at options prior to this budget and decided not to do anything legislatively. The industry tells us it is...

Finance Bill 2018: Report Stage (Resumed) (22 Nov 2018)

Pearse Doherty: I add my support on this issue which we discussed at length on Committee Stage last year. In fairness, Deputy Michael McGrath has brought it up on numerous occasions. There are obviously anomalies. I am the father of four children. My eldest child is now 12 years old, but he wears a size 10 shoe and has done so for quite a while. As has been said, not every person is of average size....

Finance Bill 2018: Report Stage (Resumed) (22 Nov 2018)

Pearse Doherty: We are well aware that this was a temporary measure that has lasted in our tax code for a period of 25 years. Anyone from the industry would be forgiven for thinking that it was always renewed, always in place and permanent. One of the main issues I see is the sudden shock to the industry and the way the industry operates. I was rather impressed to see the size and scale of the sector...