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- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Report of the Commission on Taxation and Welfare: Discussion (9 Nov 2022)
Neasa Hourigan: I wish us all luck in having a grown-up conversation about inheritance tax in the Oireachtas. I am sorry; am I being too cynical?
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Report of the Commission on Taxation and Welfare: Discussion (9 Nov 2022)
Neasa Hourigan: Dr. Collins, did you want to come in?
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Report of the Commission on Taxation and Welfare: Discussion (9 Nov 2022)
Neasa Hourigan: Before I move on to the next speaker, Deputy Boyd Barrett, would Dr. Collins care to hazard a guess as to the percentage? Having done the programme for Government negotiations, I carried out a desktop study on programme for Government documents and how much had been implemented. I reckoned it was 30% or 35%.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Report of the Commission on Taxation and Welfare: Discussion (9 Nov 2022)
Neasa Hourigan: It is not a fair question anyway.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Report of the Commission on Taxation and Welfare: Discussion (9 Nov 2022)
Neasa Hourigan: Corporation tax comes up in another chapter, which is probably why we have not covered it in detail. I will not constrain people if they want to comment.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Report of the Commission on Taxation and Welfare: Discussion (9 Nov 2022)
Neasa Hourigan: Does the Deputy want to let the witnesses in?
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Report of the Commission on Taxation and Welfare: Discussion (9 Nov 2022)
Neasa Hourigan: Yes, we did.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Report of the Commission on Taxation and Welfare: Discussion (9 Nov 2022)
Neasa Hourigan: If I remember correctly, it was just when it was about to start paying off - in 2014.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Report of the Commission on Taxation and Welfare: Discussion (9 Nov 2022)
Neasa Hourigan: It is worth saying that the legislation is sitting there, already written.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Report of the Commission on Taxation and Welfare: Discussion (9 Nov 2022)
Neasa Hourigan: I am cognisant that a vote has been called so our members will have to leave. I have a few questions to continue with and will allow the members to leave. If they are not back in time we might adjourn for a few minutes.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Report of the Commission on Taxation and Welfare: Discussion (9 Nov 2022)
Neasa Hourigan: I expect members to return by 7.45 p.m.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Report of the Commission on Taxation and Welfare: Discussion (9 Nov 2022)
Neasa Hourigan: Fair enough.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Report of the Commission on Taxation and Welfare: Discussion (9 Nov 2022)
Neasa Hourigan: Yes, go and vote, Deputy.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Report of the Commission on Taxation and Welfare: Discussion (9 Nov 2022)
Neasa Hourigan: I might just continue with a few questions of my own. I am excused at the moment.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Report of the Commission on Taxation and Welfare: Discussion (9 Nov 2022)
Neasa Hourigan: Let us not say that in the public forum. I want to pick up on a few issues and will go back to the site value tax. As Dr. Healy will be aware, a site value tax is a long-held interest of the Green Party. I worked on the policy. While not being an expert on such a tax at all I was interested to see in the recommendations the continuance of local property tax and the adoption of the site...
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Report of the Commission on Taxation and Welfare: Discussion (9 Nov 2022)
Neasa Hourigan: I hate that phrase. Go ahead.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Report of the Commission on Taxation and Welfare: Discussion (9 Nov 2022)
Neasa Hourigan: I have a follow-up question on that, unless anyone else wants to come in.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Report of the Commission on Taxation and Welfare: Discussion (9 Nov 2022)
Neasa Hourigan: I put it to Dr. Collins with regard to our adherence to or recognition of that issue, which is true, that the link or motivation around LPT is a function of a weak local government system. Local authorities do not have an ability to raise revenue in any other way. In other countries, measures such as tourist taxes and congestion charges are all available. The ability to raise revenue in...