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Finance Bill 2022: Report Stage (23 Nov 2022)

Paschal Donohoe: The Government and I have shown the commitment we have to make a difference to the huge challenges many are facing by increasing the funding in our capital building programmes for local authorities all over the country to build more social and affordable houses and by our efforts to support the private sector to deliver more homes. I refer to the role and impact of the help to buy scheme,...

Finance Bill 2022: Report Stage (23 Nov 2022)

Paschal Donohoe: Whether it is San Francisco or Berlin, or even in the debate taking place regarding the implementation of a rent freeze in Scotland, the warnings are clear. Of course it delivers a benefit to those in rental accommodation who need support but it will deter the supply of more rental accommodation in future. This is why, even though I can understand its attraction, such a measure would lead...

Finance Bill 2022: Report Stage (23 Nov 2022)

Paschal Donohoe: Do Deputies see the typical approach here from Deputy Doherty? What he does is create the impression that I, as Minister, have an approach that is all about driving up rents at the expense of tenants. The Deputy asks me or suggests that I have some figures in my mind regarding how much I want rents to go up by and creates the impression that I am not sympathetic or aware of the challenges...

Finance Bill 2022: Report Stage (23 Nov 2022)

Paschal Donohoe: -----and, in fact, in the face of the track record that some of the policies he is advocating have been bad for supply and bad for making more rental accommodation available. I understand why the Deputy makes that claim. I will reassert that in many of the different debates that Deputy Doherty and I have, I do not make the case about what the Deputy's intentions are and what he is...

Finance Bill 2022: Report Stage (23 Nov 2022)

Paschal Donohoe: -----by saying that I have a goal in relation to how much I would want rents to go up.

Finance Bill 2022: Report Stage (23 Nov 2022)

Paschal Donohoe: That is typical. We have more evasion from the Deputy.

Finance Bill 2022: Report Stage (23 Nov 2022)

Paschal Donohoe: He says I am thinking about what I want to do based on how rents go up.

Finance Bill 2022: Report Stage (23 Nov 2022)

Paschal Donohoe: There he goes. He just said it again.

Finance Bill 2022: Report Stage (23 Nov 2022)

Paschal Donohoe: I am clear on what I am looking to do.

Finance Bill 2022: Report Stage (23 Nov 2022)

Paschal Donohoe: I thank the Acting Chairman. What I am looking to do here, conscious of the big challenge and need that so many face at present, is to build more homes and make more rental accommodation available. I appreciate that it is taking time and it will take time for these measures to be felt and to have the effect I want to see. While I accept the evidence is not fast enough for many, we are...

Finance Bill 2022: Report Stage (23 Nov 2022)

Paschal Donohoe: In my earlier contribution, I said my objective was to increase supply. The record of the Dáil will show whether or not I gave a commitment here this evening to reduce prices. I do not believe I did. What I said was that the aim of Government policy is to increase supply. I believe that increasing supply over time will lead to a reduction in the price pressure that is there and is...

Finance Bill 2022: Report Stage (23 Nov 2022)

Paschal Donohoe: I will respond to the proposal made by Deputy O'Donnell. As he will be aware, the Department has conducted a thorough review of the help-to-buy scheme. I appreciate the further point he raised. My officials and I received the paper he submitted and we will, of course, give it consideration. He knows the issue we grapple with, however, in that I accept there is an issue with the so-called...

Finance Bill 2022: Report Stage (23 Nov 2022)

Paschal Donohoe: I move amendment No. 4: In page 10, line 22, to delete “on or before 30 September 2022”. The Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth has implemented a scheme of once-off payments to the value of €3,000 to each individual whose incorrect birth registration has been confirmed by or to Tusla. The payment is to be provided on an ex gratia...

Finance Bill 2022: Report Stage (23 Nov 2022)

Paschal Donohoe: I move amendment No. 5: In page 10, after line 38 to insert the following: “Exemption in respect of payments under Covid-19 Death in Service Ex-Gratia Scheme for Health Care Workers 4. Chapter 1 of Part 7 of the Principal Act is amended by the insertion of the following section after section 192L (inserted by section 3): “Exemption in respect of payments under...

Finance Bill 2022: Report Stage (23 Nov 2022)

Paschal Donohoe: I have passed this matter on to the Minister for Health and I know he is directly aware of the interest in this matter. However, it is a matter for the Minister for Health rather than for the Finance Bill. I will again make sure the Department of Health is aware of this matter.

Finance Bill 2022: Report Stage (23 Nov 2022)

Paschal Donohoe: I move amendment No. 6: In page 11, to delete lines 15 and 16 and substitute the following: “(a) in subsection (1)— (i) by the insertion of the following definition: “ ‘Act of 2021’ means the Affordable Housing Act 2021;”, (ii) in the definition of “qualifying period”, by the substitution of “2024” for...

Finance Bill 2022: Report Stage (23 Nov 2022)

Paschal Donohoe: With the permission of the Ceann Comhairle, I will speak to the amendments as a group and respond to all of them. A number of amendments have been grouped together, covering a report on the abolition or replacement of USC, as submitted by Deputies from People Before Profit and the Rural Independent Group, and a report from the introduction of a 43% income tax rate on individuals earning over...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: National Treasury Management Agency (23 Nov 2022)

Paschal Donohoe: The investment objective of the National Reserve Fund is to preserve, to the extent possible, the full nominal value of the fund having regard to the credit rating of the financial institution or issuer of the investments. The NTMA has informed me that in line with that objective, the Fund is currently invested in Exchequer notes at commercial rates. Irish Exchequer Notes are currently the...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (23 Nov 2022)

Paschal Donohoe: I propose to take Questions Nos. 67, 73 and 74 together. For clarity, I did not make any changes in Budget 2023 to existing benefit-in-kind (BIK) provisions that would negatively impact on the application of benefit-in-kind for workers. Rather, I amended two specific measures to further enhance the BIK treatment applicable to employees. Firstly, the relief provided for in section 112B...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Business Supports (23 Nov 2022)

Paschal Donohoe: The Financial Stability Review provides an overview of potential risks to financial stability in the euro area. It aims to promote awareness in the financial industry and among the public of euro area financial stability issues. As the Deputy notes the Review states that "As financial conditions tighten, the vulnerabilities of more-indebted sovereigns, households and corporates are at...