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Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Business of Select Committee (16 Nov 2022)

Paschal Donohoe: I move amendment No. 162: In page 211, to delete lines 39 to 42, and in page 212, to delete lines 1 and 2 and substitute the following: “(26) The following provisions made in this section, namely— (a) the specification of 28 February 2023 in the definition of “specified period” in subsection (1)as the date on which the period therein referred to shall end;...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Business of Select Committee (16 Nov 2022)

Paschal Donohoe: I move amendment No. 164: In page 212, between lines 9 and 10, to insert the following: “(3) Section 1077A of the Principal Act is amended, in the definition of “the Acts”, by the insertion of the following paragraph after paragraph (ca): “(cb) section 88 of the Finance Act 2022,”.”. These deal with penalties in relation to-----

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Business of Select Committee (16 Nov 2022)

Paschal Donohoe: -----overpayments and a typo, which I have already spoken to.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Business of Select Committee (16 Nov 2022)

Paschal Donohoe: I move amendment No. 165: In page 212, line 14, to delete “support” and substitute “energy”.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Business of Select Committee (16 Nov 2022)

Paschal Donohoe: I also thank all of the secretariat for facilitating a process that is lengthy and demanding by necessity. I am ever grateful to my officials in the Department and the Revenue for their impeccable professionalism and for the work they do in preparing the Bill and preparing me for the Bill. I also thank all the members of the committee for the effort they put in and acknowledge that there...

Finance Bill 2022: Report Stage (23 Nov 2022)

Paschal Donohoe: With the permission of the Ceann Comhairle, I will speak to the amendments as a group and respond to all of them. A number of amendments have been grouped together, covering a report on the abolition or replacement of USC, as submitted by Deputies from People Before Profit and the Rural Independent Group, and a report from the introduction of a 43% income tax rate on individuals earning over...

Finance Bill 2022: Report Stage (23 Nov 2022)

Paschal Donohoe: I move amendment No. 4: In page 10, line 22, to delete “on or before 30 September 2022”. The Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth has implemented a scheme of once-off payments to the value of €3,000 to each individual whose incorrect birth registration has been confirmed by or to Tusla. The payment is to be provided on an ex gratia...

Finance Bill 2022: Report Stage (23 Nov 2022)

Paschal Donohoe: I move amendment No. 5: In page 10, after line 38 to insert the following: “Exemption in respect of payments under Covid-19 Death in Service Ex-Gratia Scheme for Health Care Workers 4. Chapter 1 of Part 7 of the Principal Act is amended by the insertion of the following section after section 192L (inserted by section 3): “Exemption in respect of payments under...

Finance Bill 2022: Report Stage (23 Nov 2022)

Paschal Donohoe: I have passed this matter on to the Minister for Health and I know he is directly aware of the interest in this matter. However, it is a matter for the Minister for Health rather than for the Finance Bill. I will again make sure the Department of Health is aware of this matter.

Finance Bill 2022: Report Stage (23 Nov 2022)

Paschal Donohoe: I move amendment No. 6: In page 11, to delete lines 15 and 16 and substitute the following: “(a) in subsection (1)— (i) by the insertion of the following definition: “ ‘Act of 2021’ means the Affordable Housing Act 2021;”, (ii) in the definition of “qualifying period”, by the substitution of “2024” for...

Finance Bill 2022: Report Stage (23 Nov 2022)

Paschal Donohoe: I will respond to the proposal made by Deputy O'Donnell. As he will be aware, the Department has conducted a thorough review of the help-to-buy scheme. I appreciate the further point he raised. My officials and I received the paper he submitted and we will, of course, give it consideration. He knows the issue we grapple with, however, in that I accept there is an issue with the so-called...

Finance Bill 2022: Report Stage (23 Nov 2022)

Paschal Donohoe: In my earlier contribution, I said my objective was to increase supply. The record of the Dáil will show whether or not I gave a commitment here this evening to reduce prices. I do not believe I did. What I said was that the aim of Government policy is to increase supply. I believe that increasing supply over time will lead to a reduction in the price pressure that is there and is...

Finance Bill 2022: Report Stage (23 Nov 2022)

Paschal Donohoe: Do Deputies see the typical approach here from Deputy Doherty? What he does is create the impression that I, as Minister, have an approach that is all about driving up rents at the expense of tenants. The Deputy asks me or suggests that I have some figures in my mind regarding how much I want rents to go up by and creates the impression that I am not sympathetic or aware of the challenges...

Finance Bill 2022: Report Stage (23 Nov 2022)

Paschal Donohoe: -----and, in fact, in the face of the track record that some of the policies he is advocating have been bad for supply and bad for making more rental accommodation available. I understand why the Deputy makes that claim. I will reassert that in many of the different debates that Deputy Doherty and I have, I do not make the case about what the Deputy's intentions are and what he is...

Finance Bill 2022: Report Stage (23 Nov 2022)

Paschal Donohoe: -----by saying that I have a goal in relation to how much I would want rents to go up.

Finance Bill 2022: Report Stage (23 Nov 2022)

Paschal Donohoe: That is typical. We have more evasion from the Deputy.

Finance Bill 2022: Report Stage (23 Nov 2022)

Paschal Donohoe: He says I am thinking about what I want to do based on how rents go up.

Finance Bill 2022: Report Stage (23 Nov 2022)

Paschal Donohoe: There he goes. He just said it again.

Finance Bill 2022: Report Stage (23 Nov 2022)

Paschal Donohoe: I am clear on what I am looking to do.

Finance Bill 2022: Report Stage (23 Nov 2022)

Paschal Donohoe: I thank the Acting Chairman. What I am looking to do here, conscious of the big challenge and need that so many face at present, is to build more homes and make more rental accommodation available. I appreciate that it is taking time and it will take time for these measures to be felt and to have the effect I want to see. While I accept the evidence is not fast enough for many, we are...