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Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (13 Feb 2025)

Pearse Doherty: There is a serious issue here. We cannot go through another RTÉ phase 2. We need all the information and Ministers need to tell us what the Department knew, who knew, whether the Department of public expenditure knew and whether the Department of the Environment knew.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (13 Feb 2025)

Pearse Doherty: Is fíor a rá gur chaith Rialtais Fhianna Fáil agus Fhine Gael go holc le ceantair tuaithe ar fud an Stáit thar na blianta. Léiríonn an dóigh ar láimhseáil an Rialtas an stoirm is déanaí an cás seo arís. Le rudaí a dhéanamh níos measa, tá na bodaigh mhóra i mBord Soláthair an Leictreachais anois ag...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (13 Feb 2025)

Pearse Doherty: It is not a case of whether the ESB will be gouging people in the future. The ESB has been gouging customers for years. People in the Tánaiste's constituency, in my constituency and right across this State pay among the highest electricity costs in Europe. The ESB made profits of €898 million in the last calendar year we have available. That is a significant amount of profit....

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Ireland Strategic Investment Fund (13 Feb 2025)

Pearse Doherty: My colleague, Deputy Daly, has outlined clearly and in detail the activities of some of these companies in which Ireland is investing. I will put the issue to the Minister again. We have raised it numerous times during meetings of the finance committee where we have tried to pursue the legislation. What the Minister has told the House is that millions of euro of taxpayers' money are...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Ireland Strategic Investment Fund (13 Feb 2025)

Pearse Doherty: The State is making profit from illegal settlements.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Ireland Strategic Investment Fund (13 Feb 2025)

Pearse Doherty: This is an issue we have raised on numerous occasions. My colleague has legislation before the House that has, unfortunately, been blocked by Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael in the face of a genocide. The question asks for the current total number and value of State investments in companies that derive profit from their activities in illegal Israeli settlements, the total number of such...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: International Agreements (13 Feb 2025)

Pearse Doherty: 5. To ask the Minister for Finance to outline the implications for Ireland of the recent decision by the new US Administration to withdraw from the OECD Global Tax Deal, making specific reference to both pillars of the agreement; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5419/25]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: International Agreements (13 Feb 2025)

Pearse Doherty: This question is on the OECD pillar 2. Obviously, for those of us who support the OECD process and the outcomes of that the decision by the American Administration to withdraw from it has caused serious questions about the implementation not only of pillar 1, which was stalled, but also the practicality of pillar 2. As this is transposed into domestic legislation it includes the provision...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: International Agreements (13 Feb 2025)

Pearse Doherty: I thank the Minister. I am going to park pillar 1 because it never came into effect anyway and we have not transposed it into legislation. If we look at it from a financial point of view it was not in our interests and if we look at it from a global point of view it was good to have an agreement internationally. Pillar 2 is a serious problem for us because it is now in our domestic law...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: International Agreements (13 Feb 2025)

Pearse Doherty: I thank the Minister. I agree it is early days and we will have to see. President Trump has made statements that seem to be a negotiation stance, so we definitely need to have those engagements at a European level and a domestic level to see how this will play out. Obviously pillar 1 and pillar 2 had a net reduction in our corporation tax. The implementation of those reduced the...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Tax Reliefs (13 Feb 2025)

Pearse Doherty: I am very concerned about what the Minister just said. I say that because I have been in premises and spoken with hoteliers and restaurateurs. They opened up their books to me in some cases. They are expecting a reduction to 9%. They are talking to their accountants and figuring whether they can hang on. They are also talking in some cases to their bank managers. The Government was...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Tax Reliefs (13 Feb 2025)

Pearse Doherty: 3. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will deliver on election campaign promises to reduce the VAT rate for the hospitality sector in advance of the budget in October 2026, in recognition of the difficulties faced by many small businesses in the hospitality sector; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5418/25]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Tax Reliefs (13 Feb 2025)

Pearse Doherty: This is about the reduction of the VAT rate for the hospitality sector. The Minister will be well aware that Sinn Féin was the only party to call for the 9% VAT rate for the hospitality sector in the general election. The Minister campaigned for a rate of 11%, and Fianna Fáil wished to keep the higher rate. There is a commitment in the programme for Government to reduce the rate....

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Tax Reliefs (13 Feb 2025)

Pearse Doherty: Can the Minister offer clarification to the House and, more importantly,to the thousands of businesses across the State and the 130,000 people dependent on jobs in the hospitality sector? That sector is under pressure. We have seen 700 businesses close down since the Government increased the VAT rate to 13.5%. According to CSO employment figures released in June, the hospitality sector saw...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Insurance Industry (13 Feb 2025)

Pearse Doherty: 1. To ask the Minister for Finance the steps he will take to deliver on transparency and affordability in the insurance sector in the context of insurance premiums either remaining too high or increasing, and the pressure this places on households, community organisations and small businesses; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5417/25]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Insurance Industry (13 Feb 2025)

Pearse Doherty: The question before us relates to the ever-increasing insurance costs that motorists, homeowners, small businesses and sports clubs have to pay. One would think all is good with insurance looking at the programme for Government. Does the Minister accept that there is a fundamental problem with insurance in the State? Does he also accept that premiums are too high and are increasing for...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Insurance Industry (13 Feb 2025)

Pearse Doherty: The Minister of State is new in the brief but I have heard nothing from him that is new. The one factor that is constant in all of this is that people are being ripped off. Motor insurance has increased by 12% since 2022. I am sure the Minister of State knows all about the increases from having to insure his house. A significant number of people are seeing their insurance premium go up,...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Insurance Industry (13 Feb 2025)

Pearse Doherty: If we have the same objective, then the Government should allow the legislation that I have drafted to proceed. It passed Second Stage here about three years ago. The Government is stopping that legislation from being passed. All of the major insurance companies here are the same ones that operate in Britain, where they have to account for whether the reduced costs that the changes in the...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Insurance Industry (13 Feb 2025)

Pearse Doherty: I am asking the serious questions. I am asking the Minister of State if he is asking serious questions, and if he will stop blocking my legislation.

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Rental Sector (13 Feb 2025)

Pearse Doherty: 26. To ask the Minister for Finance the total revenue collected in the recent year from the taxation of rental income from short-term rentals and how that income has evolved over recent years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5089/25]