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Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Budget 2025 (9 Jul 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: Give me an example of a country that has successfully implemented a wealth tax.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Budget 2025 (9 Jul 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: Nice flourish but no answer. I asked Deputy Boyd Barrett to give me-----

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Budget 2025 (9 Jul 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: At least you are admitting in the answer back that it has never been done. At least you are admitting that. What you are offering as a solution to the housing crisis is a solution from a taxation perspective, which you admit has never been done.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Budget 2025 (9 Jul 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: You know well-----

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Budget 2025 (9 Jul 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: They are your own words. The Deputy knows well that we have taxes on property, most of which he wants to get rid of. He wants to get rid of the property tax, which is the main form of taxation we have for wealth that is held in the form of property.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Budget 2025 (9 Jul 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: Yes, but if we were to increase it, you would be against that as well. All you have to offer is a solution that you admit has not been done before. As the Housing Commission says, this needs to be done in phases and this is what we will do. As I have said already, we have shown our ability to increase capital investment in such a way that is the reason, while acknowledging the great...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General (9 Jul 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: I thank Deputy Conway-Walsh. On 7 May last, the Government agreed in principle to the recommendation of the expert advisory committee which conducted the review of the governance and culture of RTÉ to assign the Comptroller and Auditor General as auditor of RTÉ. The Minister Deputy Catherine Martin, in a statement accompanying the publication of the expert advisory committee...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Summer Economic Statement (9 Jul 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: Last year's budget represented the highest level of funding that has ever been provided to the Department of Health. At that point, more than €6 billion of additional funding was provided to it, compared with where we were in 2019. What has happened since is that the level of additional health expenditure in the first half of this year exceeded any expectations that I could have had....

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Summer Economic Statement (9 Jul 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: Deputy Conway-Walsh made a call for more capital spending, more money for the health service and more money for social protection. They are just three of the items she listed. All of those would very considerably add to the size of the overall budget package, which already proposes spending growth of 6.9% compared with a year ago. The bigger the Deputy makes the package, in the way she...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Budget 2025 (9 Jul 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: Deputy Boyd Barrett refers to a figure of only €1.4 billion. He should take a step back and listen to what he said. Is that all he can offer? He says it is only €1.4 million more. Do his words not feel hollow to him? What we are doing is proposing to increase by more than 10% the amount of capital spending we have within the year compared with where we are at the moment....

Inquiry into the death of Shane O'Farrell: Motion [Private Members] (9 Jul 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: God.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Summer Economic Statement (9 Jul 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: The summer economic statement demonstrates the Government’s ongoing commitment to provide for high-quality public services and better societal outcomes in a manner that is consistent with the safe management of our public finances. It is another key milestone in our budgetary timetable, setting out our strategy for the year ahead and providing an outline of the resources that are...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: National Development Plan (9 Jul 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: The Government committed €165 billion towards capital investment through the National Development Plan (NDP) 2021-30 published in 2021. An additional €2.25 billion from the windfall tax receipts was made available to capital expenditure over the period 2024-26 in the Summer Economic Statement (SES) last year. This was to facilitate the progression of important projects and...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Functions (9 Jul 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: Well-targeted investment has the ability to be transformational for society and it is essential that the State gets value for money for the significantly increased capital budget under the National Development Plan. In order to do so, all Government Departments and agencies tasked with delivering these vital projects must have the capacity, capability and appropriate governance structures in...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Decentralisation Programme (9 Jul 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: As the Deputy will be aware, there was a Decentralisation Programme in operation from 2003 to 2011 with c.3,400 posts decentralised. The programme was cancelled by the Government in light of the budgetary and staffing outlook at that time. The Civil Service Mobility scheme which comes under the remit of my department, and is administered through HR Shared Services, National Shared...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Staff (9 Jul 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: As the Deputy may be aware, under the Public Service Management (Recruitment and Appointments) Act 2004, the responsibility for recruitment in each sector of the Public Service is a matter for the relevant Minister. As Minister of Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform I am directly responsible for the Civil Service. Section 33 of the 2004 Act established the...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Legislative Measures (9 Jul 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: The Arterial Drainage Act 1945 is one of the legislative mechanisms utilised by the Office of Public Works and Local Authorities in the delivery of flood relief schemes in the State. Flood schemes are also delivered via direct application to An Bord Pleanála under the Planning and Development Act 2000. The decision on which planning framework to utilise for a given scheme is a...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: National Development Plan (9 Jul 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: As Minister for Public Expenditure, NDP Delivery and Reform I am responsible for setting the overall capital allocations across Departments. The responsibility for the management and delivery of individual investment projects, within the allocations agreed under the National Development Plan (NDP), rests with the individual sponsoring Department in each case. National Strategic Outcome (NSO)...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Pensions (9 Jul 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: The Single Public Service Pension Scheme is a statutory Public Service Career-Average Defined Benefit Pension Scheme, established on 1 January 2013 under the Public Service Pensions (Single Scheme and Other Provisions) Act 2012. The Single Scheme was established to place publicly-funded retirement benefits on a more sustainable footing in the context of longer life expectancies. All new...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: National Development Plan (9 Jul 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: As Minister for Public Expenditure, NDP Delivery and Reform I am responsible for setting the overall capital allocations across Departments and for monitoring monthly expenditure at Departmental level. The responsibility for the management and delivery of individual investment projects or sectoral policy strategies, within the allocations agreed under the National Development Plan (NDP),...