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Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2025: Committee Stage (5 Nov 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: Níl aon leithscéal faighte againn. No apologies have been received. Is mian liom na riachtanais bhunreachtúla seo a leanas a mheabhrú do chomhaltaí. Agus páirt á glacadh acu i gcruinnithe poiblí, caithfidh comhaltaí a bheith i láthair go fisiciúil laistigh de theorannacha suímh Theach Laighean. Ní cheadóidh mé...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2025: Committee Stage (5 Nov 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: We might try to keep the discussion to this section of the Bill. I realise we are at the start of the Bill. Minister, do you want to come back in?

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2025: Committee Stage (5 Nov 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: Amendments Nos. 2 to 5, inclusive, are related and will be discussed together.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2025: Committee Stage (5 Nov 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: That is noted and it is on the record. Go raibh maith agaibh, a Theachtaí.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2025: Committee Stage (5 Nov 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: We will seek clarification and as soon as we get it, we can bring it back to the committee. I will start with Teachta Doherty.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2025: Committee Stage (5 Nov 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: I understand that some other members want to come in.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2025: Committee Stage (5 Nov 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: Does Teachta O'Callaghan want to come in now?

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2025: Committee Stage (5 Nov 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: They are all being discussed together.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2025: Committee Stage (5 Nov 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: A Aire, if you want to come in first and then we will-----

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2025: Committee Stage (5 Nov 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: Yes.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2025: Committee Stage (5 Nov 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: We will take these thematically, because there were issues raised in relation to the groupings.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2025: Committee Stage (5 Nov 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: Did Deputy Nash want to come in on this? We are going to do it numerically.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2025: Committee Stage (5 Nov 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: Does the Aire want to come back in?

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2025: Committee Stage (5 Nov 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: Okay. I call an Teachta Doherty.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2025: Committee Stage (5 Nov 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: We are taking them thematically, yes.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Business of Select Committee (6 Nov 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: We have substitutes for Deputy Erin McGreehan. Deputy Peter 'Chap' Cleere will cover the first session and Deputies Paul McAuliffe and James O'Connor the next.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Business of Select Committee (6 Nov 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: Okay, go raibh maith agat. Is mian liom na riachtanais bhunreachtúla seo a leanas a mheabhrú do chomhaltaí agus páirt á glacadh acu i gcruinnithe poiblí. Caithfidh comhaltaí a bheith i láthair go fisiciúil laistigh de theorainneacha shuíomh Theach Laighean. Ní cheadóidh mé do chomhaltaí páirt a ghlacadh i gcruinnithe...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2025: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Nov 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: We adjourned the debate yesterday while we were considering section 40. The Minister had introduced his amendments. The amendments we are considering, which are grouped for the purposes of debate, are amendments Nos. 24 to 44, inclusive. They are related and are being discussed together. Then we will take the section in its entirety.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2025: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Nov 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: That is fine.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2025: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Nov 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: Before an Teachta O'Callaghan comes in, just to be clear, there is no other committee room available, so we have to have a break between 12 noon and 2.30 p.m.