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Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (14 Dec 2022)

Paschal Donohoe: Recent Government policy has focused on strengthening the environmental rationale behind company car taxation. Until the changes I brought in as part of the Finance Act 2019, Ireland’s vehicle benefit-in-kind regime was unusual in that there was no overall CO2 rationale in the regime. This is despite a CO2 based vehicle BIK regime being legislated for as far back as 2008 (but never...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Enterprise Support Services (14 Dec 2022)

Paschal Donohoe: I propose to take Questions Nos. 54 and 59 together. Details of the new Temporary Business Energy Support Scheme (TBESS) are set out in Finance Bill 2022. The TBESS will be available to tax compliant businesses carrying on a trade or profession the profits of which are chargeable to tax under Case I or Case II of Schedule D where they meet the eligibility criteria and to certain sporting...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (14 Dec 2022)

Paschal Donohoe: I am advised by Revenue that the tax treatment of maintenance payments varies depending on: 1. whether the maintenance arrangement in place is legally enforceable or voluntary, 2. whether the maintenance payment is made for the benefit of the other party to the relationship or a child, and 3. the basis of assessment applicable to the couple. Where the payment is legally enforceable and is...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Credits (14 Dec 2022)

Paschal Donohoe: By way of background, the 2009 Commission on Taxation reviewed the One-Parent Family Tax Credit. It acknowledged that the credit played a role in supporting and incentivising the labour market participation of single and widowed parents but recommended that the credit should be allocated to the principal carer of the child only. A feature of the One-Parent Family Tax Credit was that it could...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Banking Sector (14 Dec 2022)

Paschal Donohoe: There are certain legal and regulatory requirements governing the provision of mortgage credit to consumers. For example, the Central Bank’s Consumer Protection Code 2012 (the Code) imposes ‘Knowing the Consumer and Suitability’ requirements on lenders. Under these requirements, lenders are required to assess affordability of credit and the suitability of a product or...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Social Media (14 Dec 2022)

Paschal Donohoe: I wish to advise the Deputy that Departmental spend on social media in 2021 and to date in 2022 is outlined in the table below. Division 2022 2021 *Commission on Taxation Nil *€24,419.15 **FSD Nil Nil ***Banking/FSPO Nil Nil ****Fiscal ...

Confidence in Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Motion (13 Dec 2022)

Paschal Donohoe: I will vote confidence in the Minister, Deputy Darragh O'Brien, this evening, and not just because of his incredible dedication to his role, his resilience, and the effort he puts into making a difference to all that this Government wants to do better. I will vote confidence in him not just because of those qualities, which I see regularly. I will vote confidence in him because of the...

Confidence in Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Motion (13 Dec 2022)

Paschal Donohoe: I am only getting going. Let me get into some of the other homes being delivered. Let me talk about the homes that are in planning at the moment: 124 homes on Constitution Hill-----

Confidence in Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Motion (13 Dec 2022)

Paschal Donohoe: -----and 92 homes in Matt Talbot Court. Let me talk about the work our approved housing bodies are doing: Ellis Court, 22 homes; Connaught Street, 20 homes; Railway Street, 47 homes; North Great Charles Street, 52 homes; and Halston Street, 12 homes. For every home I have listed this Government wants to see more built and is determined to make a difference, but those are homes that are...

Confidence in Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Motion (13 Dec 2022)

Paschal Donohoe: Let me tell the House just how hollow the Sinn Féin claims are this evening. Its Front Bench spokesperson, Deputy Ó Broin, cannot even bother to be here for the debate this evening. Where are the Sinn Féin Deputies?

Confidence in Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Motion (13 Dec 2022)

Paschal Donohoe: Is that how little confidence Sinn Féin has in its own policies that its own spokesperson will not be here this evening to make the claim for it?

Confidence in Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Motion (13 Dec 2022)

Paschal Donohoe: I understand why they will not be here.

Confidence in Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Motion (13 Dec 2022)

Paschal Donohoe: It is because the Sinn Féin answer to every difficulty this Government knows we face, to everything we need to make a difference to, is that we need to spend more and we need to do more. I listened very attentively to the speeches from Deputy McDonald and the housing spokesperson, when he graced us with his presence. What they said was that Sinn Féin would build more homes with...

Confidence in Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Motion (13 Dec 2022)

Paschal Donohoe: Sinn Féin makes the same case for every difficulty that is raised with it and every problem to which it seeks to make a difference. Change is not promising everything to everybody. That is not positive change; it is cynicism. It is not change; it is populism. It is not policies; it is vitriol. What we need is a vision that can make a difference.

Confidence in Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Motion (13 Dec 2022)

Paschal Donohoe: What I see in the work of the Minister, Deputy O'Brien, a colleague with whom I am privileged to serve, is-----

Confidence in Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Motion (13 Dec 2022)

Paschal Donohoe: -----a plan we know needs to do better and a plan we know needs to deliver more, and it will due to the Minister, Deputy O'Brien, and the commitment and work of this Government. In contrast, we have an Opposition, especially a Sinn Féin Opposition, which says it wants to build more homes and to deliver more rental accommodation when it has turned landlords, developers and banks into...

Confidence in Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Motion (13 Dec 2022)

Paschal Donohoe: That is what they are in the Opposition's world. The people we need to build more homes, the people to whom we need to lend more to get those homes built, those we need to come back in to provide rental accommodation, in the Opposition's world, are terms of abuse and have been throughout this Dáil and before. When the Opposition then says it will spend more and build more, with what...

Seanad: Finance Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (13 Dec 2022)

Paschal Donohoe: I thank the Senators for raising this issue through recommendation No. 1. I am not in a position to accept the recommendation because there are many other ways in which the potential for a wealth tax to raise additional revenue for the State can be evaluated over the course of the year. I do not believe it is appropriate, in the context of a Finance Bill, to incorporate a commitment to...

Seanad: Finance Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (13 Dec 2022)

Paschal Donohoe: I thank the Senator for raising a number of important matters. In our last debate on this general issue, I covered some of the broader matters she has raised so I am going to confine my comments to the very important points she made regarding gender equality with regard to private pension tax relief and access to pensions. I acknowledge that there are very specific gender-related issues...

Seanad: Finance Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (13 Dec 2022)

Paschal Donohoe: I thank Senator Higgins for the different issues that she has raised. It is important to know the banks we are referring to and the role that they play within our economy. I am as conscious as everybody else in this House of the cost and the considerable harm that was done to our economy and our country some years ago as a result of the behaviour of our banks. However, we need those same...