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- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Nov 2022)
Paschal Donohoe: I understand the question the Deputy is putting to me, which is to deal with the two other matters he has put to me. He is correct that the expenditure has to be incurred in the 12 months immediately prior to letting. I have already answered the Deputy's second question. It is two years for retrofitting, but by the time we get to that section I will have a better answer for the Deputy on...
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Nov 2022)
Paschal Donohoe: I move amendment No. 47: In page 73, after line 36, to insert the following: “Deduction for retrofitting expenditure 26.The Principal Act is amended by the insertion of the following section after section 97A: “97B.(1)In this section— ‘Act of 2004’ means the Residential Tenancies Act 2004; ‘approved retrofitting grant’ means any of...
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Nov 2022)
Paschal Donohoe: The Deputy is right in saying that the key feature of it is that capital allowances may be drawn down over a shorter period of two years. So, he is correct in his question to me. He also asked about the relevant period, which is the period under which retrofitting expenditure may be claimed against this relief. That is from 2023 to 2025. That is the first question the Deputy put to me...
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Nov 2022)
Paschal Donohoe: -----and come back to it later on.
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Nov 2022)
Paschal Donohoe: Yes.
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Nov 2022)
Paschal Donohoe: I am aware of the criticism of how difficult it can be in some parts of the country to get the retrofitting work done. We have tried to recognise that in having a relevant period from 2023 to 2025. I accept there is a risk there and there may not be enough operators available to do the work. The Department will need to review that in due course and decide whether the scheme needs to be...
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Nov 2022)
Paschal Donohoe: I will certainly consider the point to the Deputy has made. However, we consulted the SEAI and the Department of Environment, Climate and Communications on this measure. They were involved in the decision that we made on the timeframe for how long the scheme would be available and on the definition of "relevant". I am eager to move ahead with this because even within my own constituency I...
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Nov 2022)
Paschal Donohoe: We need to build more homes and have the different investments and policies in place to allow more homes to be built in our country. The Deputy asked about my track record on this. My track record also means that for 2023, €4 billion of Exchequer funding has been made available to lead to the building of more homes. Even though we need to build even more homes in the time ahead,...
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Nov 2022)
Paschal Donohoe: I am not living in any bubble. I represent a constituency that is directly affected by the pressures Deputy Doherty is referring to. I have never suggested that our housing difficulties are caused by the war or the pandemic. I have made the case that fixing them over the last numbers of years has been affected by those developments. It has been affected by the fact that the construction...
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Nov 2022)
Paschal Donohoe: Housing was affected.
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Nov 2022)
Paschal Donohoe: I am going to go on about this to the Deputy.
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Nov 2022)
Paschal Donohoe: The Deputy may think I am provoking him now but he should listen to what I am going to say. The policies he is making the case for will let down the people he referred to who have gone to live in Sydney. When he looks at nurses and tells me that his party's policies are going to make a difference-----
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Nov 2022)
Paschal Donohoe: I am only getting going about what I am going to say to the Deputy.
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Nov 2022)
Paschal Donohoe: I am only getting going.
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Nov 2022)
Paschal Donohoe: I am only getting going with what I am going to say to Deputy Doherty. I meet the people who are affected by the housing difficulties, which I know are there. I meet the people who are worried about their rents, what they can afford in the future and their future in our country. I can see the anger and worry as clearly as the Deputy can. What I am trying to do is bring forward policies...
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Nov 2022)
Paschal Donohoe: Our budget deficit in 2010 was €48.8 billion. That is the figure. Why were we not in a position for the State to directly buy and keep all of the housing stock that Deputy Boyd Barrett has referred to? It is because at that point, our budget deficit was just under €49 billion. Two years later, it did improve to just under €19 billion. If the Deputy wants the answer...
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Nov 2022)
Paschal Donohoe: Sinn Féin councillors vote against the building of new homes. They vote against it. I see it with my own-----
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Nov 2022)
Paschal Donohoe: I see it with my own eyes. I saw how the O'Devaney Gardens development, within my constituency, has been delayed. The delay has been caused by other factors also, absolutely, including the collapse in the global economy and the Irish economy. It has, however, been delayed and delayed again because Sinn Féin councillors voted against it. They vote against any housing projects of scale...
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Nov 2022)
Paschal Donohoe: Well certainly within parts of the city that I represent it is true and I see it again and again. Let me withdraw what I said there a moment ago because I do not have the figures in front of me to back up a nationwide claim but I have the experience in front of me to back up a citywide claim. Sinn Féin councillors continually vote against the provision of more homes in the city of...
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Nov 2022)
Paschal Donohoe: I will begin with the issues Deputy Boyd Barrett has put to me. I assume people will be living in the empty apartments in the block the Deputy referred to at a point in the near future. I hope so.