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Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance (No. 2) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (8 Nov 2023)

Pearse Doherty: I do not think I have ever dealt with a section in a finance Bill where a Minister for Finance was not willing to say how much the section, for which we are legislating - and we are not legislating for Pillar 1 - would actually accrue to the State. Is there a reason? We know Pillar 1 will have a negative effect. Pillar 2 will be more than €2 billion but what are the calculations?...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance (No. 2) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (8 Nov 2023)

Pearse Doherty: I need to come back in here. We are not legislating for Pillar 1. Pillars 1 and 2 are separate now in law. We have signed up to it and the intention is to legislate for it. This committee is passing Pillar 2 into law. It is fair and reasonable for this committee, which is tasked with scrutinising this legislation, to ask for this information and to ask about the effect of this...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance (No. 2) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (8 Nov 2023)

Pearse Doherty: I am forced to say that I do not accept that. The Minister could provide an estimate for Pillars 1 and 2 combined but cannot tell us that if they are separate components. That makes no sense. I am not asking for an accurate figure. Who knows what the accurate figure would be at the end of the day? However, the Minister could provide an estimate. We would not be doing our job if we did...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance (No. 2) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (8 Nov 2023)

Pearse Doherty: If the two pillars together are €2 billion, then there has to be a calculation for Pillar 2 somewhere. That figure was probably outdated because this was done two years ago.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance (No. 2) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (8 Nov 2023)

Pearse Doherty: That is fair enough. I appreciate that.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance (No. 2) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (8 Nov 2023)

Pearse Doherty: I, too, intend to bring amendments on Report Stage. At this late hour, I thank the Cathaoirleach and the officials for facilitating the committee. I also thank the Minister for his attendance here. There are other engagements the Minister missed as a result of being here and he did not have substitutes. That is very important in legislation like this. The Minister has taken it right...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance (No. 2) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (8 Nov 2023)

Pearse Doherty: What level of information will be available to us as legislators and policymakers on the level of QDMTT that has been applied to different companies? Without naming or identifying any company, as we fast forward into 2026 will we be able to sit here and say that corporation tax receipts were "X" QDMTT for "X" year and was "X" amount, and the operation of the income inclusion rule by Irish...

Housing: Motion [Private Members] (7 Nov 2023)

Pearse Doherty: Fine Gael has been in power for 12 years and since 2016, it and Fianna Fáil have delivered eight housing budgets together. In that time, the housing crisis has only worsened. It has mutated into a social disaster. As we have heard, the average house price has increased by more than €70,000 since this Government took office, thereby pushing homeownership beyond the reach of far...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Passport Services (7 Nov 2023)

Pearse Doherty: 96. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if a first-time passport application (details supplied) for a child will issue on time for travel; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47377/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (7 Nov 2023)

Pearse Doherty: 503. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when two Leaving Certificate English teacher positions will be filled in a secondary school in County Donegal (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [48049/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (7 Nov 2023)

Pearse Doherty: 1114. To ask the Minister for Health the number of people on waiting lists for a dermatologist in the north west broken down into whether they have been waiting for 6-12, 12-18, 8-24 and over 24 months; how these figures compare with last years, in tabular form; if he is concerned about the fact that a consultant dermatologist has said in a letter to GPs that dermatology provision in the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Care Services (7 Nov 2023)

Pearse Doherty: 1285. To ask the Minister for Health if respite services can be provided for a person (details supplied) in County Donegal for one week; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48464/23]

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance (No. 2) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (7 Nov 2023)

Pearse Doherty: I welcome the Minister and his officials. I look forward to our engagement and to scrutinising this Bill in the next few days.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance (No. 2) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (7 Nov 2023)

Pearse Doherty: Section 2 deals with the universal social charge, in particular the changes the Minister has introduced, including the increase in the 2% rate threshold in line with the minimum wage, the extension for the provision for medical card holders, which was coming to an end, as proposed by Sinn Féin, and the rate of 4.5% being reduced to 4%. As the Minister will be aware, the latter rate...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance (No. 2) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (7 Nov 2023)

Pearse Doherty: If the Minister wants to look at the overall tax package, the distributional impact gets worse. Under the section which we are dealing with, which is just USC, somebody earning just below the median wage in the State would benefit by €92. As I said, somebody earning just below the median wage in this State would benefit by €92. Somebody earning twice that would benefit by...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance (No. 2) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (7 Nov 2023)

Pearse Doherty: I am sure that at the start of Committee Stage of the Finance (No. 2) Bill 2023, we can agree on some of the facts that are known to us. According to the CSO, the median earning in this State is €33,516. That takes in part-time earnings. If we looked at full-time earnings, which would be unfair because many part-time workers are struggling as well, the figure would be...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance (No. 2) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (7 Nov 2023)

Pearse Doherty: When was the last time somebody walked up to the Minister and said what happened in the budget had increased their net take-home pay by 2%? Nobody does that. The reality is they look at how much better off they are next year for tax purposes than this year. Those on €30,000 will be about €292 better off; higher income earners will be €900 better off. The median income...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance (No. 2) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (7 Nov 2023)

Pearse Doherty: We are not dealing with the overall budget, the social welfare package or the minimum wage increase. We are dealing with the Minister’s taxation package which he is presenting to us. I have asked him to own the fact he is presenting to us that workers on higher incomes will benefit more than those on average incomes. That is what he is asking the committee to vote for today. Is...