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Financial Resolutions - Financial Resolution No. 1: Tobacco Products Tax (8 Oct 2019)

Simon Harris: There were a lot of comments anyway. I thank the Deputies for their contributions. On Financial Resolution No. 1, I thought it had been long established in this House that there is a very significant impact by tobacco and smoking on public health policy. We do not just close our eyes to that and say that it is a matter for private individuals. It has an impact on our kids, on our health...

Financial Resolutions - Financial Resolution No. 1: Tobacco Products Tax (8 Oct 2019)

Simon Harris: It must be the first protest taking place that the Deputy does not feel he can join because he is out touch with the people outside these gates.

Financial Resolutions - Financial Resolution No. 1: Tobacco Products Tax (8 Oct 2019)

Simon Harris: We will get to rural Ireland in a second but there are young people-----

Financial Resolutions - Financial Resolution No. 1: Tobacco Products Tax (8 Oct 2019)

Simon Harris: There are young people outside the gates of this House tonight who probably think that we should be doing an awful lot more on carbon tax and yet there is a bunch of people who have never seen a protest before that they did not want to join who are not in line with them.

Financial Resolutions - Financial Resolution No. 1: Tobacco Products Tax (8 Oct 2019)

Simon Harris: The Deputies have no credibility on the matter of climate.

Financial Resolutions - Financial Resolution No. 1: Tobacco Products Tax (8 Oct 2019)

Simon Harris: The Deputies have no credibility on climate action. It is quite different for Members of this House to rightly say that they are in favour of a carbon tax but scrutinise Government on what it will do to mitigate. That is quite different from those who come in here and dismiss the idea of a carbon tax because they love to divide.

Financial Resolutions - Financial Resolution No. 1: Tobacco Products Tax (8 Oct 2019)

Simon Harris: I welcome Deputy Smith to the debate. We just had it. In breaking news, climate change effects rural Ireland. When I was Minister of State with responsibility for the OPW, I visited Kerry and Cork South West, which Deputies Danny Healy-Rae, Michael Healy-Rae and Michael Collins represent, and we watched parts of our country begin to fall into the sea and begin to flood. The idea of...

Financial Resolutions - Financial Resolution No. 1: Tobacco Products Tax (8 Oct 2019)

Simon Harris: People are asking legitimate questions tonight about what we will do to protect those vulnerable to fuel poverty. It is a really important point. We need to look at the overall impact of a €6 increase on household costs. In the grand scheme of things, it is relatively small but it is fair to say that the burden of increased carbon taxes falls unequally. In lower income homes, it...

Financial Resolutions - Financial Resolution No. 1: Tobacco Products Tax (8 Oct 2019)

Simon Harris: I will get to that. I am answering them in the sequence in which they were asked. Deputy Dooley asked about the just transition fund. I assure him that we obviously listen to Deputy Carey, the Minister of State, Deputy Breen, and Senator Martin Conway, and Deputy Dooley, as he knows. The Minister, Deputy Bruton, has confirmed that the principles of the just transition fund will have to be...

Financial Resolutions - Financial Resolution No. 1: Tobacco Products Tax (8 Oct 2019)

Simon Harris: That is a matter for the Deputy to debate with the Minister and a matter for the Finance Bill. Deputy MacSharry asked about the NORA levy. The Government has decided that it will be used to fund climate action. The Minister, Deputy Bruton, will bring legislation forward shortly on this. If the Ceann Comhairle will allow me to answer Deputy Fitzmaurice's question, I will say that when a...

Financial Resolutions - Financial Resolution No. 1: Tobacco Products Tax (8 Oct 2019)

Simon Harris: It is not exempt.

Financial Resolutions - Financial Resolution No. 1: Tobacco Products Tax (8 Oct 2019)

Simon Harris: Not necessarily.

Financial Resolutions - Financial Resolution No. 1: Tobacco Products Tax (8 Oct 2019)

Simon Harris: It is.

Financial Resolutions - Financial Resolution No. 1: Tobacco Products Tax (8 Oct 2019)

Simon Harris: I move: (1) THAT for the purposes of the tax charged by virtue of section 72 of the Finance Act 2005 (No. 5 of 2005), that Act be amended, with effect as on and from 9 October 2019, by substituting the following for Schedule 2 to that Act (as amended by section 34 of the Finance Act 2018 (No. 30 of 2018)): “SCHEDULE 2 Rates of tobacco products tax (With effect as on and from 9...

Financial Resolutions - Financial Resolution No. 1: Tobacco Products Tax (8 Oct 2019)

Simon Harris: Financial Resolution No. 2 provides for an increase in the carbon charge component of mineral oil tax on petrol and auto diesel, with effect from 12 midnight tonight. The increase amounts to €6 per tonne of carbon dioxide emissions. Assuming the full increase is passed through to the final retail price, this will result in a VAT inclusive increase of €0.017 on the price of 1l...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Pension Provisions (8 Oct 2019)

Simon Harris: I have asked the HSE to respond directly to the Deputy on this matter.

Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Staff Remuneration (8 Oct 2019)

Simon Harris: I have asked the HSE to respond directly to the Deputy on this matter.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cancer Screening Programmes (8 Oct 2019)

Simon Harris: An independent expert panel review of cervical screening was established with the aim of providing women who participated in the CervicalCheck national screening programme and who developed invasive cervical cancer with independent clinical assurance about the timing of their diagnosis and treatment. The Independent Clinical Expert Review is being carried out by the Royal College of...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (8 Oct 2019)

Simon Harris: Under the Health Act 2004, the Health Service Executive (HSE) is required to manage and deliver, or arrange to be delivered on its behalf, health and personal social services. Section 6 of the HSE Governance Act 2013 bars the Minister for Health from directing the HSE to provide a treatment or a personal service to any individual or to confer eligibility on any individual. The National...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products Reimbursement (8 Oct 2019)

Simon Harris: I propose to take Questions Nos. 188 and 189 together. Work on the review of the HSE reimbursement and pricing decision-making process is ongoing. The review, conducted by Mazars, is progressing and on completion my officials will consider its findings. The agreement which was signed with Mazars, sets out the relevant stakeholders to be consulted, including patient representatives. The...