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Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Data (23 May 2024)

Pearse Doherty: 158. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 292 of 9 April 2024, the projected carbon tax annual revenue in each of the years 2024 to 2030 respectively, with respect to carbon tax increases in each of those years on a cumulative basis. [23480/24]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Reliefs (23 May 2024)

Pearse Doherty: 159. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 8 of 10 April 2024, if he has received correspondence from the Revenue Commissioners expressing concern regarding the BIK exemption for employer contributions to PRSAs, legislated through Section 22 of the Finance Act 2022, if he will share details of those concerns expressed; and the actions he is considering on foot...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Insurance Industry (23 May 2024)

Pearse Doherty: 160. To ask the Minister for Finance the options he is considering to force further premium reductions in the insurance market; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23485/24]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Insurance Industry (21 May 2024)

Pearse Doherty: One of the problems we consistently have is that the Minister of State continues to be almost a spokesperson for the insurance industry. He did it again. When I asked him whether the insurance industry is taking a hand at the Government he said he was not happy with the rate of decreases. Where are the decreases? This is the problem. Does the Minister of State not know what is happening...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Insurance Industry (21 May 2024)

Pearse Doherty: -----and said he expected insurance companies to cut the cost, it was 2021.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Insurance Industry (21 May 2024)

Pearse Doherty: What difference does it make now when the Minister of State tells them his expectations? Will they just take a hand at him-----

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Insurance Industry (21 May 2024)

Pearse Doherty: -----in the same way they took a hand at his partners in government and continued to raise prices?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Insurance Industry (21 May 2024)

Pearse Doherty: I have a simple question. Is the insurance industry taking a hand at the Minister of State and the Government? For the past six years, the Government and Ministers, particularly Ministers in the Minister of State's party, have been telling insurance companies their expectation that they will reduce prices but prices have gone in the other direction for businesses and community groups. Does...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Insurance Industry (21 May 2024)

Pearse Doherty: Premiums are not coming down.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Insurance Industry (21 May 2024)

Pearse Doherty: It is not the pace at which they are coming down; they are not coming down.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Insurance Industry (21 May 2024)

Pearse Doherty: Premiums are not coming down.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Customs and Excise (21 May 2024)

Pearse Doherty: The Minister does not get this. He proceeded with one increase last month, which was the wrong thing to do at the wrong time again. Now he s planning for and has legislated for this increase in 70 days and legislated for a further increase two months later. It is not just those people who are struggling. It is not just the people who have to fill their tanks. Every time they put a litre...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Customs and Excise (21 May 2024)

Pearse Doherty: A vote for Fianna Fáil is a vote for higher petrol and diesel prices.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Customs and Excise (21 May 2024)

Pearse Doherty: The Minister's advice was to keep it under review. He knows that well. He should be brutally honest please; a vote for Fianna Fáil is a vote for an increase in petrol prices.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Customs and Excise (21 May 2024)

Pearse Doherty: And if it is not, and if a vote for Fianna Fáil is not to increase petrol and diesel prices maybe the Minister will clarify that. I will give him the floor.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Customs and Excise (21 May 2024)

Pearse Doherty: A vote for Fianna Fáil is a vote for higher petrol and diesel prices.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Customs and Excise (21 May 2024)

Pearse Doherty: 63. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will cancel the increases in excise duty on petrol and diesel scheduled for August and October of this year, given the cost-of-living pressures facing households and their impact on trade for businesses in the Border region; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22786/24]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Customs and Excise (21 May 2024)

Pearse Doherty: Last month, the Minister increased the price of petrol and diesel and we see that now at the pumps across the State. The Minister is set to increase the tax further in just over 70 days and then again two months later. This will push the price of petrol up by another 6 cent and diesel by another 5 cent. This is happening at a time when workers and families continue to face a cost-of-living...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Customs and Excise (21 May 2024)

Pearse Doherty: This morning, Social Justice Ireland pointed out that the Minister's budget would widen the gap between the rich and the poor. If he has not noticed, low and middle-income families the length and breadth of this State are still struggling with high costs. Yet, what the Minister has planned are more price hikes for them. The Minister increased the price of petrol and diesel last month and...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Tax Credits (21 May 2024)

Pearse Doherty: From the figures the Minister has put on the record today, it is patently obvious that he has taken a very good idea from Sinn Féin, although he and his Government resisted it for quite a while. However, when he finally gave in, he made a mess of the design of it. The fact that despite there being 700,000 mortgage holders across the State, only 18,000 households have received the full...