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- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2023: Committee Stage (29 Mar 2023)
Pearse Doherty: That is fine. I thank the Minister for the clarification.
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2023: Committee Stage (29 Mar 2023)
Pearse Doherty: I move amendment No. 3: In page 5, to delete lines 19 to 24 and substitute the following: " 1 May 2023 €483.34 €483.34 €425.45 €425.45 €425.45 €0.00 €164.23 €111.14 €142.76 €79.17 €9.36 1 June 2023 ...
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2023: Committee Stage (29 Mar 2023)
Pearse Doherty: Is carbon tax hypothecated in Irish tax law?
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2023: Committee Stage (29 Mar 2023)
Pearse Doherty: It is not in law.
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2023: Committee Stage (29 Mar 2023)
Pearse Doherty: There is no legal impediment to reducing the level of mineral oil tax on home heating oil, which is colloquially called carbon tax. The €57 million by which we would be reducing the cost to individuals of heating their homes could be obtained from any other source of revenue. The argument put forward is that if this is done, it will take away from investment available for energy...
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2023: Committee Stage (29 Mar 2023)
Pearse Doherty: I have been very clear on that. We should not put up the price of petrol and diesel and thereby make families poor. We need a just transition.
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2023: Committee Stage (29 Mar 2023)
Pearse Doherty: Yes, I would. Sinn Féin's policy is very clear in this regard. If we look at the issue of price and whether continuing price rises will deter people from jumping into a car, we need only consider what has happened in the past year or year and a half, when the price of petrol and diesel went through the roof. At some points, a litre cost €2.20. That did not stop people from...
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2023: Committee Stage (29 Mar 2023)
Pearse Doherty: I am referring to my amendment
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2023: Committee Stage (29 Mar 2023)
Pearse Doherty: They got no direct supports to heat their homes.
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2023: Committee Stage (29 Mar 2023)
Pearse Doherty: I ask the Minister to quote me properly.
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2023: Committee Stage (29 Mar 2023)
Pearse Doherty: This is not a micro-issue. More than a third of people in this country use home heating oil to heat their homes.
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2023: Committee Stage (29 Mar 2023)
Pearse Doherty: These householders do not get direct support to heat their homes.
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2023: Committee Stage (29 Mar 2023)
Pearse Doherty: There was no direct support from the Government for 37% of households to heat their homes. The argument I have consistently made is that for people who use gas to heat their homes, there was a measure to support them. The Minister referred to micro-issues. A situation in which 37% of households do not have any direct support to heat their homes is not a micro-issue. That situation applies...
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2023: Committee Stage (29 Mar 2023)
Pearse Doherty: There is a measure that benefits those who heat their homes by gas. There is no piped gas in my county of Donegal. There is not an inch of pipe in it. It does not exist. Even if people wanted to use gas, they could not do it. A total of 37% of households right across the board were left out of a policy decision to reduce the cost of heating homes. A policy decision was taken that was...
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2023: Committee Stage (29 Mar 2023)
Pearse Doherty: As the mover of the amendment, I will finish on this point. The amendment is very clear. It is about reducing to zero mineral oil tax on home heating oil until the end of October in the middle of a cost-of-living crisis. The Minister talked about measures he is taking. I am not taking away from him on that but, on top of that, the Government also reduced the cost for households,...
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2023: Committee Stage (29 Mar 2023)
Pearse Doherty: Section 2 contains the staggered increase of petrol and diesel. The reduction will be phased out and by the end of October the price will be higher than what it was before the reduction because the Government plans to increase both types of fuel with an increase in mineral oil tax come budget time. That is legislated for in the Schedule. We have seen fluctuations in petrol and diesel and...
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2023: Committee Stage (29 Mar 2023)
Pearse Doherty: Although we tabled no amendments, the section deals with reducing VAT rates to electricity, gas and the hospitality and tourism sectors. I spoke at length regarding the inequality of having a measure for those who use gas primarily, and nothing for those who use home heating oil, so I will not repeat myself. We see from a reply to a parliamentary question that while the projected cost of...
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2023: Committee Stage (29 Mar 2023)
Pearse Doherty: Every country across Europe is in that same position, where their energy companies, given what has happened in the wholesale markets, will want to see the suppliers reduce costs for consumers. In Germany, the Netherlands, Austria, France and Poland, and countries like that, it is really important for them because what they are doing is subsidising the difference between the lower cost that...
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2023: Committee Stage (29 Mar 2023)
Pearse Doherty: Of course the Minister did.
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2023: Committee Stage (29 Mar 2023)
Pearse Doherty: Of course it can.