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Supplementary Budget for Rural Communities and Farmers: Motion [Private Members] (23 Feb 2022)

Paschal Donohoe: I would appreciate the Ceann Comhairle's discretion to make a final point. The Rural Independent Group has brought forward proposals in respect of which there is no costing or recognition of the challenge that is involved in responding to the challenges that we acknowledge are real for so many. The Government is acting. We are responding. The House heard from the Minister, Deputy...

Supplementary Budget for Rural Communities and Farmers: Motion [Private Members] (23 Feb 2022)

Paschal Donohoe: It creates the sense of easy solutions. In the Rural Independent Group proposals, there is no honesty about how they can be paid for and the challenges that the Government faces in responding to those challenges.

Supplementary Budget for Rural Communities and Farmers: Motion [Private Members] (23 Feb 2022)

Paschal Donohoe: We have acted. We have brought forward measures. We know that prices and costs are increasing and we appreciate that is a challenge for many people, but this Government has acted.

Supplementary Budget for Rural Communities and Farmers: Motion [Private Members] (23 Feb 2022)

Paschal Donohoe: In what we announced in the budget and the measures we brought forward recently, we have acted to make a difference.

Supplementary Budget for Rural Communities and Farmers: Motion [Private Members] (23 Feb 2022)

Paschal Donohoe: For those on social welfare benefits, including the living alone allowance, it means €600 to €800 of extra support. For those who are on the standard rate of income tax, it means between €400 and €600 extra.

Supplementary Budget for Rural Communities and Farmers: Motion [Private Members] (23 Feb 2022)

Paschal Donohoe: I can well understand the behaviour of the Independent Deputies opposite. They are embarrassed-----

Supplementary Budget for Rural Communities and Farmers: Motion [Private Members] (23 Feb 2022)

Paschal Donohoe: -----to have brought forward proposals for a mini-budget-----

Supplementary Budget for Rural Communities and Farmers: Motion [Private Members] (23 Feb 2022)

Paschal Donohoe: -----with no sense of their cost or how they would be paid for. I hope those they claim to represent are looking in and taking note of their behaviour and recognise the dishonesty involved in bringing forward these ideas and calling for a mini-budget, while at no point in the debate giving any recognition of the cost or of what is involved in that regard.

Supplementary Budget for Rural Communities and Farmers: Motion [Private Members] (23 Feb 2022)

Paschal Donohoe: For all of those reasons, the Government has put forward an amendment. We reject the attempts by the Rural Independent Group-----

Supplementary Budget for Rural Communities and Farmers: Motion [Private Members] (23 Feb 2022)

Paschal Donohoe: -----to pretend that they understand the difficulties that many are facing-----

Supplementary Budget for Rural Communities and Farmers: Motion [Private Members] (23 Feb 2022)

Paschal Donohoe: -----and their efforts here to pretend that they have a solution to it.

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Energy Prices (23 Feb 2022)

Paschal Donohoe: The Disabled Drivers and Disabled Passengers Fuel Grant is regulated by S.I. 635/2015 and provides for payment of a fuel grant based on a the value of excise chargeable per litre rate of fuel. The grant is based on the excise component of the fuel, not the market price. The current value is €0.636 for petrol, €0.535 for diesel and €0.118 for liquefied petroleum gas (LPG)...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Energy Prices (23 Feb 2022)

Paschal Donohoe: As the Deputy is aware, the final retail price of fuel is determined by a number of factors including the costs of production, distribution, global market factors, international exchange rates, taxation, wholesale market contracts as well as individual retail pricing policies. Ireland’s taxation of fuel is based on European Union law as set out in the Energy Tax Directive which sets...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (23 Feb 2022)

Paschal Donohoe: As the Deputy will be aware, agricultural relief allows the value of agricultural assets gifted or inherited (including farmland, buildings, stock) to be reduced by 90% of its value for the calculation of a Capital Acquisition Tax (CAT) liability. This is a valuable relief from CAT and a fundamental objective of this relief is that it is availed of by genuine, and active farmers, and that it...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Reliefs (23 Feb 2022)

Paschal Donohoe: Recent Government policy has been focused on strengthening the environmental rationale behind company car taxation. Until the Finance Act 2019 Ireland’s vehicle benefit-in-kind regime was unusual in that there was no overall CO2 rationale in the regime, despite a CO2 based vehicle BIK regime being legislated for as far back as 2008 (but never having been commenced). Section 6 of the...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Reliefs (23 Feb 2022)

Paschal Donohoe: The Programme for Government includes a commitment to facilitate and support remote working. The National Remote Work Strategy aims to make remote work a permanent feature of the Irish working experience in a way that maximises the economic, social and environmental benefits. As part of the national remote working strategy: Making Remote Work, the Tax Strategy Group (TSG) reviewed the...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Primary Medical Certificates (23 Feb 2022)

Paschal Donohoe: The Disabled Drivers & Disabled Passengers Scheme provides relief from Vehicle Registration Tax and VAT on the purchase and use of an adapted car, as well as an exemption from motor tax and an annual fuel grant. The Scheme is open to severely and permanently disabled persons as a driver or as a passenger and also to certain charitable organisations. In order to qualify for relief,...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (24 Feb 2022)

Paschal Donohoe: As the Deputy will be aware, 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. The compromise text agreed at ECOFIN in December has been amended significantly in comparison to the original proposal so the EU Parliament will once again be consulted for their opinion. While not...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: European Investment Bank (24 Feb 2022)

Paschal Donohoe: At the outset, the Deputy should note that as Minister for Finance, and a Governor of the European Investment Bank (EIB), I have no role in the negotiation of contracts between the EIB and any borrowers here in Ireland. In addition, in my role as a Governor of the EIB, I have no role in the allocation of funding in Ireland, nor do I have the authority to specify which sector funding should...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (24 Feb 2022)

Paschal Donohoe: The Employment Wage Subsidy Scheme (EWSS) was legislated for under the Financial Provisions (Covid-19) (No. 2) Act 2020. Since the scheme commenced, 51,988 employers have registered and payroll submissions have been filed in respect of 727,662 eligible employees. Subsidy payments totalling €6.5 billion and PRSI credits totalling €1 billion have been processed to date. ...