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Seanad: Appropriation Bill 2022: Committee and Remaining Stages (15 Dec 2022)

Aidan Davitt: Now.

Seanad: Appropriation Bill 2022: Committee and Remaining Stages (15 Dec 2022)

Aidan Davitt: Now.

Seanad: Appropriation Bill 2022: Motion for Earlier Signature (15 Dec 2022)

Aidan Davitt: I move: That, pursuant to subsection 2° of section 2 of Article 25 of the Constitution, Seanad Éireann concurs with the Government in a request to the President to sign the Appropriation Bill 2022 on a date which is earlier than the fifth day after the date on which the Bill shall have been presented to him.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Office of the Revenue Commissioners: Engagement (14 Dec 2022)

Aidan Davitt: I welcome the Revenue Commissioners to the meeting. I commend our guests. Through business and in one form or another, I deal with Revenue, on and off, relatively regularly. Particularly during the pandemic when there was a shotgun effect to the need to deal with the pandemic unemployment payment and other immediate payments, we found that when different tax categories needed to be...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Office of the Revenue Commissioners: Engagement (14 Dec 2022)

Aidan Davitt: I appreciate what Mr. Cody has said. He spoke about pillar 1 and companies with profits of greater than €20 billion. I would say they will fall into this category of the top ten companies which are paying 56% of our corporation tax and heading for 60%, the way things are going. When that pillar 1 comes into play, I would say it is very foreseeable that more than half of our...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Office of the Revenue Commissioners: Engagement (14 Dec 2022)

Aidan Davitt: I have one other question. Outside pharma and the big IT companies that we are aware of, is there anything else coming on the horizon, or are there different types of business that have struck Mr. Cody in the last while as turning in quite large corporation taxes as well?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Office of the Revenue Commissioners: Engagement (14 Dec 2022)

Aidan Davitt: I have a question on new-build houses. In the North, there is no VAT payable on new-build houses. I have discussed this with various Ministers and have raised it at meetings of my parliamentary party and the response I get is that any changes in that regard would cause a problem with Revenue. They always want to blame somebody else. Would Revenue have an issue with making new-build houses...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Office of the Revenue Commissioners: Engagement (14 Dec 2022)

Aidan Davitt: Yes, but I am just curious-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Office of the Revenue Commissioners: Engagement (14 Dec 2022)

Aidan Davitt: It is possible for social housing. Is that correct?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Office of the Revenue Commissioners: Engagement (14 Dec 2022)

Aidan Davitt: I would appreciate that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Office of the Revenue Commissioners: Engagement (14 Dec 2022)

Aidan Davitt: I have called the Revenue on behalf of people with problems. They thought something and the Revenue thought something different. Does the witness think it would be helpful to have a medium resolution-type forum instead of going to court? Would some kind of halfway house be possible? I have made contact with Revenue on behalf of people and while I have found its officials to be helpful,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Office of the Revenue Commissioners: Engagement (14 Dec 2022)

Aidan Davitt: Do the Revenue Commissioners get many results through the tax appeals system in general? Would 50% be resolved?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Office of the Revenue Commissioners: Engagement (14 Dec 2022)

Aidan Davitt: I am curious to know the figures.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Office of the Revenue Commissioners: Engagement (14 Dec 2022)

Aidan Davitt: I appreciate that.

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Local Representation Allowance (31 Jan 2023)

Aidan Davitt: I welcome the Minister of State, Deputy O'Donnell. He is one of the hardest-working Ministers of State in the House. I am sure he will have no problem in taking over the big shoes of Deputy Peter Burke in what is a tough portfolio. I am also sure we will see a lot of the new Minister of State here. I raised this issue with the Minister of State's predecessor. I acknowledge that the new...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Local Representation Allowance (31 Jan 2023)

Aidan Davitt: When the Minister of State is tightening up on the little bit of legislation-----

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Local Representation Allowance (31 Jan 2023)

Aidan Davitt: Yes, directions on it. When he is on it, I implore the Minister of State to look at the full cost of paying an alarm company. To have only 20% allowable is not 20% security. Mainly, the security is tied to the person's position as an elected representative. I would implore the Minister of State to allow the 100% grant of the monthly expenses. The expenses are €4,200 plus the...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (1 Feb 2023)

Aidan Davitt: Beannachtaí Lá Fhéile Bríde, a Chathaoirligh. I raise the issue of 44,000 pensioners who are due back pay. Most worked as nurses or in social care. There are some doctors as well and many carers. An increment of €500-odd was to be paid on 1 October 2021 and again in 2022, and there is another increment to be paid in February. In most of these pensions I would...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (15 Feb 2023)

Aidan Davitt: I had a meeting this morning with the Georgian ambassador. It is a little before my time but he told me that the friendships between Members of the Houses of the Oireachtas and our counterparts in Georgia will, in the coming few days, have been in existence for 25 years. Following that meeting, I want to stress the hardship people in the countries bordering Russia are under at present.Our...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (16 Feb 2023)

Aidan Davitt: I wish to follow up on a matter that was in the news yesterday, namely, the great success of the Garda in disrupting the flow of cocaine, a class-A drug, into the country. That has to be welcomed, and the resources the Minister for Justice has been putting into this area must be welcomed. I am concerned about another issue. Perhaps the relevant Minister could come to the House to address...