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- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Business of Select Committee (16 Nov 2022)
Steven Matthews: Amendments Nos. 61 and 62 are related and may be be discussed together by agreement. Is that agreed? Agreed.
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Business of Select Committee (16 Nov 2022)
Steven Matthews: Can the note be sent to all committee members?
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Business of Select Committee (16 Nov 2022)
Steven Matthews: Amendment No. 67 has been ruled out of order.
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Business of Select Committee (16 Nov 2022)
Steven Matthews: Amendment No. 68 is in my name and I understand I have to vacate the Chair to speak to an amendment. Deputy Boyd Barrett's amendments are included in this, as is Deputy Doherty's amendment. I propose that Deputy Doherty take the Chair/
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Business of Select Committee (16 Nov 2022)
Steven Matthews: I move amendment No. 68: In page 153, line 17, after "commences," to insert the following: "except where properties have been deemed not liable for local property tax due to being unsuitable for use as a dwelling. In all cases where properties are residential properties and deemed unsuitable for use as a dwelling, such properties shall be registered as derelict by the local authority and...
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Business of Select Committee (16 Nov 2022)
Steven Matthews: Regarding properties that would meet the criteria for being deemed derelict, by being damaged, uninhabitable and unsightly, is the Minister saying it is not within his remit under the tax Bill to request that such properties be put on the derelict sites register? Could he advise whether it is a matter for the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to address?
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Business of Select Committee (16 Nov 2022)
Steven Matthews: A person has to make a return to the Revenue Commissioners indicating a property he or she owns is uninhabitable and therefore not subject to the vacant property tax. Is there a mechanism whereby the Revenue Commissioners can inform the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage that such a dwelling has been declared uninhabitable, after which the property would be automatically...
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Business of Select Committee (16 Nov 2022)
Steven Matthews: In other words, the Revenue Commissioners would not be aware there is an uninhabitable property because it would not have been declared liable for the tax.
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Business of Select Committee (16 Nov 2022)
Steven Matthews: Nobody would be aware of the status of a property of the kind in question because the owner would not have declared its liability for the vacant homes tax to the Revenue Commissioners. Since it would be unknown to the Revenue Commissioners, it could not pass on the information to the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, or the information would not be available for the...
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Business of Select Committee (16 Nov 2022)
Steven Matthews: I seek clarification on one more matter. What is the definition of "uninhabitable" under the local property tax Act?
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Business of Select Committee (16 Nov 2022)
Steven Matthews: Is the definition of "uninhabitable" as contained in-----
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Business of Select Committee (16 Nov 2022)
Steven Matthews: Okay, but-----
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Business of Select Committee (16 Nov 2022)
Steven Matthews: Exactly. This appears to create properties that might fall into it. For example, if the front is missing from a house, would it be considered uninhabitable and therefore not liable under the local property tax and therefore not liable under the vacant home tax? We do not have a definition of what “uninhabitable” is. How do we prevent houses being made uninhabitable in order...
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Business of Select Committee (16 Nov 2022)
Steven Matthews: Neither am I, but I just-----
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Business of Select Committee (16 Nov 2022)
Steven Matthews: On that basis, I withdraw this amendment while maintaining the right to introduce something further on Report Stage.
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Business of Select Committee (16 Nov 2022)
Steven Matthews: We only just covered amendment No. 68.
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Business of Select Committee (16 Nov 2022)
Steven Matthews: Amendment No. 73 is about the retention of records and the fine that would accrue to somebody who failed to comply with the rules on the retention of records with regard to declaring that a house is not vacant because it has been occupied for more than 30 days. I think that is what is set out in the legislation. This amendment is similar in nature to the one that Deputy Boyd Barrett spoke...
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Business of Select Committee (16 Nov 2022)
Steven Matthews: Sorry, I tuned out for a moment.
- Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Sport and Recreational Development (17 Nov 2022)
Steven Matthews: 10. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the way that her Department intends to protect referees at local matches from physical and verbal abuse; the engagement that has taken place with national governing bodies and match official representatives on this issue; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [56769/22]
- Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Early Childhood Care and Education (17 Nov 2022)
Steven Matthews: 79. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the percentage amount that investment in early years has increased by in each of the past eight years; the total percentage increase in that period; his plans for future investment in this area; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56222/22]