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Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2023: Committee Stage (29 Mar 2023)

Pearse Doherty: Let me just deal with this issue of costs. The Minister has made reference to this, so he knows well that energy suppliers hedge and buy in advance. When we met with some of the energy companies they told us they buy eight or nine months in advance. At the start of the invasion of Ukraine, we met with the energy companies and the regulator and they made the same point. They told us that...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2023: Committee Stage (29 Mar 2023)

Pearse Doherty: Yes, if energy were to spike as far as the upper limits for every business.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2023: Committee Stage (29 Mar 2023)

Pearse Doherty: Yes, but if energy prices increased to the point that every business hit the cap, what would it cost? I think it would cost in the region of €25 billion.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2023: Committee Stage (29 Mar 2023)

Pearse Doherty: Not with this Minister.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2023: Committee Stage (29 Mar 2023)

Pearse Doherty: With respect, I am speaking.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2023: Committee Stage (29 Mar 2023)

Pearse Doherty: The scheme would cost in the region of €25 billion. I would never argue that the Government has brought forward a scheme that had a price tag of €25 billion. The price tag was €1.2 billion. The reason is there were assumptions built into it with regard to the likely cost, by looking at where energy prices are. We know that TBESS did not cost a fraction of that. Only...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2023: Committee Stage (29 Mar 2023)

Pearse Doherty: The Minister's colleague said that is not how it works.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2023: Committee Stage (29 Mar 2023)

Pearse Doherty: I thank the Minister for that.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2023: Committee Stage (29 Mar 2023)

Pearse Doherty: Can I clarify one thing? The Minister stated that he accepts the Department's advice that the rate should go back up. Was the Department's advice that the reduced rate should not be extended?

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2023: Committee Stage (29 Mar 2023)

Pearse Doherty: The Minister will know in a minute. My view is clear.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2023: Committee Stage (29 Mar 2023)

Pearse Doherty: It relates to the impact on the sector. We would be of the view that if the 13.5% rate is not going to impact tourism-related jobs, then 13.5% is the rate that we believe is appropriate. The Minister made the point that if we reduce something, we will never put it back up. That is not the case. There are countless examples of that. One has to be able to intervene with a lower rate of VAT...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2023: Committee Stage (29 Mar 2023)

Pearse Doherty: Section 4 amends a number of schemes in the agricultural sector. It reduces the number of years that a person has from the date of transfer of the land or farm to qualify as a young trained farmer. Up until now, people had four years to be able to avail of this. It has been reduced to three years. I am interested to see why it has been reduced to three years. The Minister will be aware...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Emergency Accommodation (29 Mar 2023)

Pearse Doherty: 146. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he is aware that payment to a commercial premises housing Ukrainian refugees (details supplied) has been outstanding for the past four months; if an indication can be given as to when payment will be made; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15680/23]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Grant Payments (29 Mar 2023)

Pearse Doherty: 217. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a GLAS payment will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Donegal; the reason for the delay; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15529/23]

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2023: Committee Stage (29 Mar 2023)

Pearse Doherty: I move amendment No. 4: In page 8, between lines 7 and 8, to insert the following: “(4) The Minister for Finance and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment shall, within one month of the passing of this Act, prepare and lay before Dáil Éireann a progress report on the introduction of a scheme to provide financial assistance to businesses relying on oil and LPG as an...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2023: Committee Stage (29 Mar 2023)

Pearse Doherty: We have no timeframe, no costs and no number of businesses. Is that what the Minister is telling me about this scheme? Businesses have been left out since last year. There is no timeframe for when this scheme will happen, no estimate of the number of businesses affected and no costings.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2023: Committee Stage (29 Mar 2023)

Pearse Doherty: To clarify, coming into the month of April, we have no timeframe, we have no costings and we have no idea how many businesses are affected.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2023: Committee Stage (29 Mar 2023)

Pearse Doherty: Does the Minister know?

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2023: Committee Stage (29 Mar 2023)

Pearse Doherty: As Minister for Finance, does the Deputy know how much funding is ring-fenced for this? Does he have an idea?

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2023: Committee Stage (29 Mar 2023)

Pearse Doherty: There is no scheme and nobody knows how much money any of the businesses will get. Am I wrong? Does any business know the level of grant aid support that is going to be provided to it? Does any business know when it will get it? There is no scheme. The Government does not have a clue. This has been a massive error since last year. These businesses have had to fund all of the energy...