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Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Annual Progress Report 2025: Discussion (24 Jun 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: I have a few questions for the Minister for Finance and a few for the Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation. I thank both for attending. Does the Minister for Finance have a view on why we are behind on corporation tax receipts by comparison with this time last year?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Annual Progress Report 2025: Discussion (24 Jun 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: The Minister stated that most of the money associated with the underlying deficit, minus what could be windfall corporation tax receipts, is being used for capital expenditure but some is being used for current expenditure. Could he give the level for current expenditure? Does he have concerns about what could be corporation tax receipts being used for current expenditure? Is that not poor...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Annual Progress Report 2025: Discussion (24 Jun 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: So, the majority of what we have been referring to here as an underlying deficit, or what the Parliamentary Budget Office has been referring to, is on the current side rather than the capital side. Does the Minister have a breakdown for that?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Annual Progress Report 2025: Discussion (24 Jun 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: There is a great risk because if a small number of corporations paying the tax relocated, we would have a deficit in current expenditure. Capital expenditure is investment for the future.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Annual Progress Report 2025: Discussion (24 Jun 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: I am asking questions here and the Minister is eating into my time.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Annual Progress Report 2025: Discussion (24 Jun 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: As the Minister knows-----

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Annual Progress Report 2025: Discussion (24 Jun 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: As the Minister knows, we support measures to broaden the tax base. We-----

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Annual Progress Report 2025: Discussion (24 Jun 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: I have a couple of amendments, and if the Minister accepts them I can guarantee support. He is eating into my time.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Annual Progress Report 2025: Discussion (24 Jun 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: I have tabled amendments to widen the tax base further in respect of the local property tax rules.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Annual Progress Report 2025: Discussion (24 Jun 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: For Report Stage anyway, we would look at numbers to-----

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Annual Progress Report 2025: Discussion (24 Jun 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: Let me go back to my questions because the Minister for Finance is taking up my time. I have a question for the Minister for public expenditure on the national development plan. I absolutely understand the priority for investment under the plan relates to infrastructure needed to support more housing and economic development. I agree with that approach. There is an issue in that, in...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Annual Progress Report 2025: Discussion (24 Jun 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: Also community infrastructure. It was intended that that would be supported through development levies, and then they are not collected due to things turning out differently.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Annual Progress Report 2025: Discussion (24 Jun 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: There were comments from property developer Sean Mulryan at the weekend in the Business Post, saying that he did not feel that tax breaks were needed to encourage more housing development. He said that the answer is to get land zoned, get the infrastructure in and get on with it. Does the Minister agree with his assessment that we do not need tax breaks here, which could be very costly, and...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Credit Unions (24 Jun 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: 289. To ask the Minister for Finance the timeline for the drafting of a five-year strategy for the credit union sector, as outlined in the Programme for Government; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33535/25]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Credit Unions (24 Jun 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: 290. To ask the Minister for Finance the likely contents of the five-year strategy for the credit union sector, as outlined in the Programme for Government; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33536/25]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Credit Unions (24 Jun 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: 291. To ask the Minister for Finance the timeline for the commencement of the regulations increasing credit union lending capacity; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33537/25]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Financial Services (24 Jun 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: 292. To ask the Minister for Finance the timeline for the implementation of Recommendations 11.2 of the retail banking review from November 2022 to bring buy-now-pay-later agreements into the central credit register, namely, reducing the reporting threshold for credit agreements from €500 to €200 and the consultation obligation threshold from €2,000 to €1,000; and...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Financial Services (24 Jun 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: 293. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on the operation of the Central Credit Register, particularly the pace of corrections by the Central Bank where errors are detected; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33539/25]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Wage-setting Mechanisms (24 Jun 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: 371. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment to provide information on when the Employment Regulation Order (Contract Cleaning Industry Joint Labour Committee) 27 February 2025 will be signed into effect; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34541/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Facilities (24 Jun 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: 781. To ask the Minister for Health if she will provide an update on the new emergency department in Beaumont Hospital; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33789/25]