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

Mairéad Farrell: But if it is not zero?

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

Mairéad Farrell: If the Cathaoirleach will give me a moment, all my notes are over there.

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

Mairéad Farrell: No, I will not speak to it.

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

Mairéad Farrell: I have a question on section 52. Is any of the electricity produced fed into the national grid for public consumption?

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

Mairéad Farrell: I need my notes too. I am asking for clarification on the electricity production. Is that electricity fed into the national grid for public consumption? Perhaps the Minister would like to speak to the section.

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

Mairéad Farrell: Will the Minister speak on this section? This is obviously something that comes in every year. We know the financial impact it has on people who smoke. A 50 cent increase is quite large. Will the Minister speak on that?

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

Mairéad Farrell: This is something that comes up every year. Since when has this increase been going? How much of a difference has it made? It has increased every year I have been here.

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

Mairéad Farrell: Has analysis been done as to how much has come in on the black market as a result of the increases?

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

Mairéad Farrell: I know we are coming up to 12 noon but has analysis been done as to how much money has been spent on Revenue's increased focus on that kind of illegal tobacco trade or cigarettes being brought in illegally?

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

Mairéad Farrell: An Teachta Doherty has outlined a lot of this already. One area where the mind boggles is that it is effective immediately, although the reality is that many of these will already have been built. When the Minister says this has something to do with the impact on the supply of housing through the supply of apartment blocks, it does not make sense to me. It seems this policy has a...

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

Mairéad Farrell: On the breakdown of 56,000 outside Dublin, could the Minister furnish the committee with that? It would be of interest.

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

Mairéad Farrell: Was section 66 not-----

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

Mairéad Farrell: The amendment passed, so the Minister's new amendment would be put in. We now want to delete that amendment. We are now voting against the amended section-----

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

Mairéad Farrell: -----but the Minister is voting for it.

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

Mairéad Farrell: It is the amended section we are voting on. We want to vote against it.

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

Mairéad Farrell: No, we want it to be deleted. It is not deleted-----

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

Mairéad Farrell: Yes.

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

Mairéad Farrell: No.

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 are. Is the question that section 67, as amended, be agreed?

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

Mairéad Farrell: Amendments Nos. 67 and 68 are related and will be discussed together.