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- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2016: Committee Stage (9 Nov 2016)
Pearse Doherty: Has it been discussed already?
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2016: Committee Stage (9 Nov 2016)
Pearse Doherty: I ask the Chair to bear with me. We are going to end up discussing the subject matters of these amendments when we consider the section as a whole.
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2016: Committee Stage (9 Nov 2016)
Pearse Doherty: It was not clear to me that all of this was being discussed together. I apologise for that.
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2016: Committee Stage (9 Nov 2016)
Pearse Doherty: We can either agree them now or-----
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2016: Committee Stage (9 Nov 2016)
Pearse Doherty: -----we can oppose them all now by calling a vote on each one before discussing them again when we are considering the section.
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2016: Committee Stage (9 Nov 2016)
Pearse Doherty: Given the lack of clarification, I am going to have to do that. The alternative is to discuss the amendments now.
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2016: Committee Stage (9 Nov 2016)
Pearse Doherty: Yes, but I am not going to agree amendments on Committee Stage without having discussed them. I do not want to be forced into calling votes on these amendments and voting against them individually. For example, we have not been given clarification on the four-year tax-----
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2016: Committee Stage (9 Nov 2016)
Pearse Doherty: Yes, I understand.
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2016: Committee Stage (9 Nov 2016)
Pearse Doherty: I did.
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2016: Committee Stage (9 Nov 2016)
Pearse Doherty: That is fine. That is okay. I am just explaining. We started into a discussion on the section.
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2016: Committee Stage (9 Nov 2016)
Pearse Doherty: The Chair will remember that this was opposite the amendment. When that discussion closed down, it seemed that the entire discussion on this group of amendments was closed down.
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2016: Committee Stage (9 Nov 2016)
Pearse Doherty: Yes, with the indulgence of the Chair. I just want clarification on some of these amendments because they are quite technical.
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2016: Committee Stage (9 Nov 2016)
Pearse Doherty: Is there any provision for enabling returning emigrants, about whom we hear so much, to avail of this scheme? I understand the Government has a plan to entice 70,000 of them to return home. Given that they might not have a tax liability in the four years prior to their purchase of a new home, are any amending provisions being made to accommodate them?
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2016: Committee Stage (9 Nov 2016)
Pearse Doherty: I have an issue with the Minister's suggestion that this is a technical amendment. I would argue that it is a substantive change, regardless of whether that is what was originally intended. The existing section within the legislation would mean that this would only apply in the case of a contractor who was proposing to build new-builds and thereby increase supply. This amendment will...
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2016: Committee Stage (9 Nov 2016)
Pearse Doherty: The previous wording was about new supply. This amendment will expand the scheme to include existing houses that are likely to be sold anyway. It goes against the grain of the Minister's argument for why this is required in the first place.
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2016: Committee Stage (9 Nov 2016)
Pearse Doherty: Yes.
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2016: Committee Stage (9 Nov 2016)
Pearse Doherty: It is not agreed.
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2016: Committee Stage (9 Nov 2016)
Pearse Doherty: Can I get clarification on that? Does a fully completed building in Dublin or wherever that is not in a ghost estate and has not yet been sold qualify as a result of this section even though it would not have qualified under the existing section?
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2016: Committee Stage (9 Nov 2016)
Pearse Doherty: Okay. I think the Minister has been very selective in relation to ghost estates. It is far wider than that. It increases-----
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2016: Committee Stage (9 Nov 2016)
Pearse Doherty: It is the same issue as in the past. Those who are opposed to the scheme continue to vote to expand it.