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Financial Resolution No. 3: Value-Added Tax (7 Oct 2025)

Matt Carthy: I have never seen a Government throw it out before the first budget.

Financial Resolution No. 3: Value-Added Tax (7 Oct 2025)

Matt Carthy: I want to speak on Financial Resolution No. 4 very briefly and support the comments from Deputy Ó Broin that this just appears to be a rabbit out of a hat. It stands as one of those examples where Ministers and probably senior civil servants sitting around a room late last week realised they had done nothing in respect of housing and needed to provide some form of a fig leaf to suggest...

Financial Resolutions 2025 - Financial Resolution No. 1: Excise (7 Oct 2025)

Matt Carthy: On Financial Resolution No. 1, it has got to the point where these increases in the cost of cigarettes are now just vindictive rather than serving any purpose. It certainly does not serve any health purpose. We know that for a number of years, there were substantial reductions in the number of smokers. That has begun to turn around despite the fact that over the past number of years, the...

Financial Resolutions 2025 - Financial Resolution No. 1: Excise (7 Oct 2025)

Matt Carthy: That is the statement from the Minister's Government colleague, Deputy Danny Healy-Rae.

Financial Resolutions 2025 - Financial Resolution No. 1: Excise (7 Oct 2025)

Matt Carthy: We are talking about the financial resolutions-----

Financial Resolutions 2025 - Financial Resolution No. 1: Excise (7 Oct 2025)

Matt Carthy: -----and I am putting on the record-----

Financial Resolutions 2025 - Financial Resolution No. 1: Excise (7 Oct 2025)

Matt Carthy: -----that I will not support a resolution that is making the lives of people more difficult for no purpose other than to serve a stated objective of the Government to give the appearance of doing something. The truth of the matter is that just like today's budget, this financial resolution is not in the interests of the people we were sent here to represent. It is, as I said, a vindictive...

Financial Resolutions 2025 - Financial Resolution No. 1: Excise (7 Oct 2025)

Matt Carthy: It is not agreed. Vótail.

Financial Resolutions 2025 - Budget Statement 2026 (7 Oct 2025)

Matt Carthy: Hear, hear.

Financial Resolutions 2025 - Budget Statement 2026 (7 Oct 2025)

Matt Carthy: Just not in the presidential election.

Financial Resolutions 2025 - Budget Statement 2026 (7 Oct 2025)

Matt Carthy: Hear, hear.

Financial Resolutions 2025 - Budget Statement 2026 (7 Oct 2025)

Matt Carthy: That is a €500 increase.

Financial Resolutions 2025 - Budget Statement 2026 (7 Oct 2025)

Matt Carthy: Surely, Michael Healy-Rae did not agree to that.

Financial Resolutions 2025 - Budget Statement 2026 (7 Oct 2025)

Matt Carthy: Hitting the rural communities again.

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Historical Conflicts (7 Oct 2025)

Matt Carthy: 418. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the actions he intends to take regarding concerns that there was never a proper and thorough investigation into the 1975 bombing of Dublin airport (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53380/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Historical Conflicts (7 Oct 2025)

Matt Carthy: 419. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the engagements he has had with British authorities regarding the 1975 bombing of Dublin Airport (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53381/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Family Law Cases (7 Oct 2025)

Matt Carthy: 420. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the timeframe for when he expects to receive guidelines from the Judicial Committee established in July 2024, further to a review of the role of expert reports in the family law process; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53388/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Family Law Cases (7 Oct 2025)

Matt Carthy: 421. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of the six recommendations to address the issues linked to actions within the Family Justice Strategy, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53389/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Family Law Cases (7 Oct 2025)

Matt Carthy: 422. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of recommendations with the Parental Alienation Research Report and Policy Paper, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53390/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Family Law Cases (7 Oct 2025)

Matt Carthy: 423. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will report on the work of the Family Justice Strategy 2022 - 2025, a Family Justice Training Working Group; the status of the review into existing training needs for those working within family justice; the timeframe in which he intends effective and relevant training programmes will be developed; and if he will make a...