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Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Annual Progress Report 2025: Discussion (24 Jun 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: I am asking questions here and the Minister is eating into my time.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Annual Progress Report 2025: Discussion (24 Jun 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: As the Minister knows-----

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Annual Progress Report 2025: Discussion (24 Jun 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: As the Minister knows, we support measures to broaden the tax base. We-----

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Annual Progress Report 2025: Discussion (24 Jun 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: I have a couple of amendments, and if the Minister accepts them I can guarantee support. He is eating into my time.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Annual Progress Report 2025: Discussion (24 Jun 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: I have tabled amendments to widen the tax base further in respect of the local property tax rules.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Annual Progress Report 2025: Discussion (24 Jun 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: For Report Stage anyway, we would look at numbers to-----

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Annual Progress Report 2025: Discussion (24 Jun 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: Let me go back to my questions because the Minister for Finance is taking up my time. I have a question for the Minister for public expenditure on the national development plan. I absolutely understand the priority for investment under the plan relates to infrastructure needed to support more housing and economic development. I agree with that approach. There is an issue in that, in...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Annual Progress Report 2025: Discussion (24 Jun 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: Also community infrastructure. It was intended that that would be supported through development levies, and then they are not collected due to things turning out differently.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Annual Progress Report 2025: Discussion (24 Jun 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: There were comments from property developer Sean Mulryan at the weekend in the Business Post, saying that he did not feel that tax breaks were needed to encourage more housing development. He said that the answer is to get land zoned, get the infrastructure in and get on with it. Does the Minister agree with his assessment that we do not need tax breaks here, which could be very costly, and...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (24 Jun 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: I, too, welcome the Little Blue Heroes and the gardaí and commend everyone involved in that. Listening to the Taoiseach's answers I wonder does he get it at all. He was presented with the stark reality people face in terms of grocery prices and he rattled off a list of numbers and inflation rates rather than acknowledging the real difficulties people are facing when they do their...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (24 Jun 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: Well, if the Taoiseach were listening, the question was whether is he going to act-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (24 Jun 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: -----to ensure all supermarket chains have to declare their profits in full detail.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (24 Jun 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: The Taoiseach did rattle off a range of figures about inflation but did not acknowledge the real hardship people face in terms of grocery prices. I ask him to acknowledge that. Last week, his Government took the decision to lift the pay caps for senior high-paid bankers. Newspapers reported that means, for instance, the annual package of the head of AIB could go from €500,000 to...

Finance (Local Property Tax and Other Provisions) (Amendment) Bill 2025: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Jun 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: I move amendment No. 3: In page 3, between lines 23 and 24, to insert the following: “Report into differential rates for owners of multiple properties 3. The Minister shall within six months from the passing of this Act prepare and lay before Dáil Eireann a report on the potential introduction of differential rates of local property tax on residential properties under this Act...

Finance (Local Property Tax and Other Provisions) (Amendment) Bill 2025: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Jun 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: I thank the Minister for explaining to me the difference between a parliamentary question and an amendment to legislation. I understand the difference but I thank him very much for his generous explanation. This amendment is not a parliamentary question. I am not solely seeking the information the Minister outlined. I am seeking a report on the potential introduction of rate changes in...

Finance (Local Property Tax and Other Provisions) (Amendment) Bill 2025: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Jun 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: I thank the Minister for being helpful. I assure him that there was absolutely nothing in his tone that caused any offence whatsoever. I am very grateful for the clarification. I am also grateful to the Minister for being very helpful in making my case for me in his response. The exact point that he has made is that there is less volatility in taxation on fixed property than in other...

Finance (Local Property Tax and Other Provisions) (Amendment) Bill 2025: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Jun 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: I thank the Minister for getting to his feet to make arguments to support what I am putting forward for a second time. I thank him very much for that. Will he now accept the amendment?

Finance (Local Property Tax and Other Provisions) (Amendment) Bill 2025: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Jun 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: I move amendment No. 5: In page 4, between lines 21 and 22, to insert the following: “Insertion of new section 10E into Act of 2012 5. The Act of 2012 is amended by the insertion of the following new section after section 10D: “10E. A residential property that is in an area that has yet to be taken in charge by a local authority shall have a 50 per cent reduction applied...

Finance (Local Property Tax and Other Provisions) (Amendment) Bill 2025: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Jun 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: I thank the Minister for his response. I get the overall rationale in terms of not wanting to have an endless list of exemptions because, of course, that would undermine this funding stream. I am not looking for an exemption. What this amendment proposes is a 50% reduction, in the full acknowledgment that in an area where an estate or a development has been built and is not yet taken in...

Finance (Local Property Tax and Other Provisions) (Amendment) Bill 2025: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Jun 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: A key function of the local property tax is not simply to collect revenue, but to fund local services. That has been clear from the outset. If the point is to fund local services but people do not get those services where they live because the local authority has not taken their area in charge, then of course there is a strong rationale for the way the local property tax is designed to...