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Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2021: Committee Stage (16 Nov 2021)

Kieran O'Donnell: Are we speaking on the amendments or the section?

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2021: Committee Stage (16 Nov 2021)

Kieran O'Donnell: May I speak on section 5?

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2021: Committee Stage (16 Nov 2021)

Kieran O'Donnell: I was trying to be helpful. In normal procedure we speak on a section before it is put to a vote.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2021: Committee Stage (16 Nov 2021)

Kieran O'Donnell: I ask the Vice Chair to tell me when he is ready for me to speak.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2021: Committee Stage (16 Nov 2021)

Kieran O'Donnell: I flagged this issue previously with the Minister and I have had discussions with the officials on the living city initiative. I am a Deputy for Limerick City. I have been tracking how it is performing for a good number of years. The merits of the scheme as announced on day one are very commendable. Limerick is unique in that the entire core of the inner city is Georgian. No other city...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2021: Committee Stage (16 Nov 2021)

Kieran O'Donnell: I very much welcome the commitment from the Department of Finance. For me, it is about ensuring that it is done expeditiously. There is an element of frustration on my part that we have not seen greater take-up of the scheme. We have a beautiful city. Its unique feature is that it is Georgian. I want us to capitalise on that. I have put a range of proposals to both the Minister and...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2021: Committee Stage (16 Nov 2021)

Kieran O'Donnell: Yes.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2021: Committee Stage (16 Nov 2021)

Kieran O'Donnell: Will a review be carried out early in the new year?

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2021: Committee Stage (16 Nov 2021)

Kieran O'Donnell: I welcome the fact that there will be engagement even before the end of the year.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2021: Committee Stage (16 Nov 2021)

Kieran O'Donnell: I look forward to engaging with the Minister and his Department in order that we might find a way to enhance what was intended in the context of the overall aim of the Living City initiative, create a vibrant city and capitalise on the potential of Limerick's Georgian quarter.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2021: Committee Stage (16 Nov 2021)

Kieran O'Donnell: I thank the Vice Chairman.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2021: Committee Stage (16 Nov 2021)

Kieran O'Donnell: Can I speak on the help-to-buy scheme?

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2021: Committee Stage (16 Nov 2021)

Kieran O'Donnell: The help-to-buy scheme is there to help people to buy homes. People come to all of us in our constituencies and we know that the help-to-buy scheme has been of major benefit in the context of young people buying their homes. I find it contradictory where, in one breath, Sinn Féin proposes that it wants people to get homes, and yet it opposes a measure that directly benefits people by...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2021: Committee Stage (16 Nov 2021)

Kieran O'Donnell: The amendment is to oppose the section.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2021: Committee Stage (16 Nov 2021)

Kieran O'Donnell: That is one thing that cannot be done.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2021: Committee Stage (16 Nov 2021)

Kieran O'Donnell: The Vice Chairman might be confusing us but we are certainly not confusing him.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2021: Committee Stage (16 Nov 2021)

Kieran O'Donnell: Tá. Is Deputy Farrell pushing the section to a vote?

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2021: Committee Stage (16 Nov 2021)

Kieran O'Donnell: Then that is it.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2021: Committee Stage (16 Nov 2021)

Kieran O'Donnell: We will first deal with the amendments to section 5 and then put the question on the section.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2021: Committee Stage (16 Nov 2021)

Kieran O'Donnell: Can I speak on the help-to-buy scheme?