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Financial Resolutions 2023 - Financial Resolution No. 1: Mineral Oil Tax (10 Oct 2023)

Eamon Ryan: I have to respond, a Leas-Cheann Comhairle.

Financial Resolutions 2023 - Financial Resolution No. 1: Mineral Oil Tax (10 Oct 2023)

Eamon Ryan: The issue of carbon tax-----

Financial Resolutions 2023 - Financial Resolution No. 1: Mineral Oil Tax (10 Oct 2023)

Eamon Ryan: Most of the commentary on the motion related to the carbon tax, which will increase this evening. The amount is relatively small compared to the €500 million in deferred revenue we are putting through in the resolution. The reason I discussed the comments by Sinn Féin is, in its budget figures every year, the party says it will not increase the carbon tax but it will take all of...

Financial Resolutions 2023 - Financial Resolution No. 1: Mineral Oil Tax (10 Oct 2023)

Eamon Ryan: If I might just make the point-----

Financial Resolutions 2023 - Financial Resolution No. 1: Mineral Oil Tax (10 Oct 2023)

Eamon Ryan: The benefit of the carbon tax is that we can use that to ensure the budget is progressive, which it is.

Financial Resolutions 2023 - Financial Resolution No. 1: Mineral Oil Tax (10 Oct 2023)

Eamon Ryan: The bottom decile gets a 4.7% increase in income.

Financial Resolutions 2023 - Financial Resolution No. 1: Mineral Oil Tax (10 Oct 2023)

Eamon Ryan: The top decile gets a 1.5% increase. This is partly because 30% of the carbon revenue goes to protect against poverty.

Financial Resolutions 2023 - Financial Resolution No. 1: Mineral Oil Tax (10 Oct 2023)

Eamon Ryan: A total of 55% then goes towards retrofitting-----

Financial Resolutions 2023 - Financial Resolution No. 1: Mineral Oil Tax (10 Oct 2023)

Eamon Ryan: -----where more than half of our money is used to protect those on the lowest incomes.

Financial Resolutions 2023 - Financial Resolution No. 1: Mineral Oil Tax (10 Oct 2023)

Eamon Ryan: The last 15% goes to the farming communities-----

Financial Resolutions 2023 - Financial Resolution No. 1: Mineral Oil Tax (10 Oct 2023)

Eamon Ryan: -----to help in the transition.

Financial Resolutions 2023 - Financial Resolution No. 1: Mineral Oil Tax (10 Oct 2023)

Eamon Ryan: The benefit of that is that we know-----

Financial Resolutions 2023 - Financial Resolution No. 1: Mineral Oil Tax (10 Oct 2023)

Eamon Ryan: -----every year that this money is going to come and we can put it to good effect.

Financial Resolutions 2023 - Financial Resolution No. 1: Mineral Oil Tax (10 Oct 2023)

Eamon Ryan: That is what we are doing with the carbon tax. In the meantime,-----

Financial Resolutions 2023 - Financial Resolution No. 1: Mineral Oil Tax (10 Oct 2023)

Eamon Ryan: -----we are actually making sure that we protect Irish householders by deferring some of the charges.

Financial Resolution No. 2: Value-Added Tax (10 Oct 2023)

Eamon Ryan: I move: (1)THAT the rate of value-added tax chargeable on the supply of electricity provided for by section 46(1)(caa) of, and paragraph 17(2) of Schedule 3 to, the Value-Added Tax Consolidation Act 2010 (No. 31 of 2010) and the supply of gas provided for by section 46(1)(caa) of, and paragraph 17(3) of Schedule 3 to, that Act, being 9 per cent until 31 October 2023, be extended until 31...

Financial Resolutions 2023 - Financial Resolution No. 4: General (Resumed) (11 Oct 2023)

Eamon Ryan: I want to join the Taoiseach and Tánaiste in commending the budget to the House, as the third party in a coalition Government that is working collectively to serve our people to the best of our ability. That is our entire focus. This budget does it and I want to set out why, in a very uncertain world, in a very difficult time. Some of my colleagues have to leave for a Council of...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Mining Industry (10 Oct 2023)

Eamon Ryan: Information on the number of Prospecting Licences issued since 2008 is published in a six monthly report to the Oireachtas on mineral exploration and mining available at www.gov.ie/en/collection/d460d-six-monthly-reports-to-the-oi reachtas-on-mineral-exploration-and-mining-in-ireland/.

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Angling Sector (10 Oct 2023)

Eamon Ryan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 28, 29, 30, 31 and 32 together. The management of each of Ireland’s 140 salmon rivers including the calculation of the salmon catchment numbers/allowances/exploitation rates/conservation limits per river are operational matters for Inland Fisheries Ireland (IFI) in which neither I nor my Department have any role. Inland Fisheries Ireland (IFI)...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: State Properties (10 Oct 2023)

Eamon Ryan: The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) owns no vacant or derelict properties or sites.