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Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (27 Feb 2024)

Aidan Davitt: I know that this is something close to the Leader's own heart as a person who has been involved with the Defence Forces. My thoughts are with all of the soldiers in Camp Shamrock today. Hezbollah's actions are despicable in using the cover of the Irish camp in Lebanon as a foil to fire indiscriminate rockets into Israel. It is putting peacekeepers under threat and my thoughts - people from...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Vaccination Programme (28 Feb 2024)

Aidan Davitt: "Cutting" being the operative word.

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Pension Provisions (28 Feb 2024)

Aidan Davitt: I would like to welcome the Minister of State, Deputy Heydon, to the House. He is a very active Minister of State in the area of agriculture. I heard him on the TV and the radio over last couple of days where he explained very well the angst that is being experienced by farmers. He has a great understanding of it. However, this is extremely unfair. In my time, and I have been here as...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Pension Provisions (28 Feb 2024)

Aidan Davitt: I thank the Minister of State. I appreciate the response. As I said from the outset, there are many other elements in this that would be nice to thrash out with the Minister for public expenditure but we are where we are. I appreciate the Minister of State's response and thank him.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Illegal Israeli Settlements Divestment Bill 2023: Discussion (20 Mar 2024)

Aidan Davitt: I have only one question and Senator Higgins has a second.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Illegal Israeli Settlements Divestment Bill 2023: Discussion (20 Mar 2024)

Aidan Davitt: I listened to the whole discussion. I apologise; I was tied up in the office. Mr. Ashmore mentioned the "unintended consequences" of the Bill and whatever else a couple of times. He threw it out there a couple of times. We are looking at the UN database on which the companies are listed. We get the eight companies and whatever else. I am just curious about this Bill. Would it be...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Illegal Israeli Settlements Divestment Bill 2023: Discussion (20 Mar 2024)

Aidan Davitt: Mr. Ashmore might respond.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Illegal Israeli Settlements Divestment Bill 2023: Discussion (20 Mar 2024)

Aidan Davitt: Therefore, they could get caught in the net of this. That is the reality of it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Illegal Israeli Settlements Divestment Bill 2023: Discussion (20 Mar 2024)

Aidan Davitt: The way the Bill is being put forward at present could possibly impact on larger Irish companies that are based out of here.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Illegal Israeli Settlements Divestment Bill 2023: Discussion (20 Mar 2024)

Aidan Davitt: It is a possibility, however.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Illegal Israeli Settlements Divestment Bill 2023: Discussion (20 Mar 2024)

Aidan Davitt: And quite a lot of large employers, which I do not think-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Illegal Israeli Settlements Divestment Bill 2023: Discussion (20 Mar 2024)

Aidan Davitt: -----is really Deputy Doherty's intention for the Bill. It is sort of a catch-all that is unintended really. I do not know whether it is going to work the way it is being proposed in its current form.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Illegal Israeli Settlements Divestment Bill 2023: Discussion (20 Mar 2024)

Aidan Davitt: You are not chasing a hard product. It is not that you are chasing coal or munitions. Now you are chasing an area.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Illegal Israeli Settlements Divestment Bill 2023: Discussion (20 Mar 2024)

Aidan Davitt: It is that somebody is trying to get access to put Facebook on their phone. That is the reality of it.

Seanad: Cost of Doing Business: Statements (17 Apr 2024)

Aidan Davitt: I welcome the Minister to the House. He is a Mullingar man the same as me. We soldiered on the town council and county council together and last week was a great week for the town as we now have a senior Minister. I wholeheartedly welcome the Minister to the House and congratulate him on his elevation. As the Minister knows, I am involved in running a business and employ quite a lot of...

Seanad: Gnó an tSeanaid - Business of Seanad (15 May 2024)

Aidan Davitt: The Member would not be picked again for a good while, a Chathaoirligh.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Revenue Commissioners: Discussion (15 May 2024)

Aidan Davitt: I listened to the introduction. I was in the office for a while and in the Seanad with Senator Higgins. I have a couple of specific queries first. I have a good deal of experience of Mr. Cody's, the Collector General's and the team's dealings with small business, particularly warehoused tax. I commend them, as I did at our previous meeting with them. The Revenue Commissioners have taken...