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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (22 Feb 2022)

Paschal Donohoe: Was he against the pandemic unemployment payment? Was he against the additional money we put into our health services when the pandemic hit?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (22 Feb 2022)

Paschal Donohoe: What element of it was the Deputy against? What element would he have done differently?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (22 Feb 2022)

Paschal Donohoe: As for the closure of our economy, I fully accept that it-----

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (22 Feb 2022)

Paschal Donohoe: -----had an effect on so many. Yes, the level of closure that we had was higher than many but so was the number of deaths that we were successful in preventing within our country. I refer to the loss of life and the number of people we were able to help not get this disease. Those who had the disease in our country also fared fairly well. However, as I said, I know there are thousands of...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Tax Code (22 Feb 2022)

Paschal Donohoe: The EU Commission published a proposal on the reform of VAT rates in January 2018 which would allow member states more flexibility in how they apply VAT rates. As the compromise text agreed at the meeting of the Economic and Financial Affairs Council, ECOFIN, in December has been amended significantly in comparison to the original proposal, the European Parliament will once again be...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Tax Code (22 Feb 2022)

Paschal Donohoe: I am very aware of the really important role that defibrillators play in sporting and voluntary clubs all over our country. I see them in many clubs that I go into. In terms of what will happen, firstly, the European Parliament has to come back with an opinion on the decision that has been made by the finance ministers at the meeting of ECOFIN. When the Parliament comes back with that...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Tax Code (22 Feb 2022)

Paschal Donohoe: The reduced areas of flexibility refer to two new limitations that will be on member states. They are included in the third annexe of the current proposal. The first limitation will limit member states to applying a 0% rate to no more than seven value added taxable categories. The second limitation will limit member states to using a maximum of 24 categories to which a reduced rate can be...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Tax Code (22 Feb 2022)

Paschal Donohoe: As we have debated on several occasions already, these funds and this capital are leading to the supply of more homes overall and this does have to be seen in conjunction with, for example, a very strong public housing programme. I know the Deputy wants us to build more public housing but we are going to build well in excess of 6,000 public homes this year through local authorities and...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Tax Code (22 Feb 2022)

Paschal Donohoe: As we have heard from the exchange that has just taken place, there are more homes being built in the constituency represented by Deputy Boyd Barrett. It is not for me to say that; Deputy Carroll MacNeill is more of an expert than I am in that regard. Those homes are being built. It is part of the increased number of homes that are being built in the country overall. We know more need to...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Tax Code (22 Feb 2022)

Paschal Donohoe: Nobody is being sent in to mark anybody here.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Tax Code (22 Feb 2022)

Paschal Donohoe: I would have thought, given Deputy Boyd Barrett's prowess as a public speaker and the way in which he------

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Tax Code (22 Feb 2022)

Paschal Donohoe: ------tackles me regularly, that he would be up for debate and discussion as opposed to, frankly, the feigned outrage he indulged in just there.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Tax Code (22 Feb 2022)

Paschal Donohoe: The Deputy is entirely-----

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Tax Code (22 Feb 2022)

Paschal Donohoe: Well the Deputy appears to have recovered from it pretty quickly. We are surely-----

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Tax Code (22 Feb 2022)

Paschal Donohoe: I would have thought the Deputy would welcome debate and that a perspective on what is happening in his constituency can be legitimately given in this Dáil by a fellow Deputy who also represents that constituency. I am well aware of the level of housing need that is there. I am well aware of the anxiety and trauma it is inflicting upon so many but I simply make the case to the Deputy...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Small and Medium Enterprises (22 Feb 2022)

Paschal Donohoe: Specifically, the findings of the report estimate that the share of firms making losses throughout 2020 and 2021 could have been around one third higher if supports were not available. It finds that in the absence of the extensive supports provided by the Government to SMEs, the distress rate for companies would have been 72% higher. Moreover, by 2024, without the support that we had in...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Small and Medium Enterprises (22 Feb 2022)

Paschal Donohoe: I am afraid I do not follow the questions from Deputy Connolly. She asked me what was the way forward, and I said what the way forward was in the employment wage subsidy scheme. The report focused on the impact of the employment wage subsidy scheme on SMEs. On the question asked by Deputy Carroll MacNeill, she raised an important point that is covered in this report, which is that there...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Small and Medium Enterprises (22 Feb 2022)

Paschal Donohoe: I repeat what I said to the Deputy. She has a habit of giving me a very precise question and when I give her a very precise answer, she normally dismisses it.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Small and Medium Enterprises (22 Feb 2022)

Paschal Donohoe: The Deputy asked me what the future of the schemes was and I answered the question. She asked what was the way forward for the sector, and I answered the question. I gave the Deputy a precise answer to a precise question. I do not know how my answering the question has provoked her to draw an analogy of good pupils and bad pupils.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Small and Medium Enterprises (22 Feb 2022)

Paschal Donohoe: I come into this House, as is my obligation and duty, and I answer the questions the Deputies put to me. However, as I said, the Deputy asks a precise question, I give a precise answer and more often than not she dismisses it. The Deputy asked me a question about the future of the employment wage subsidy scheme and I answered it.