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Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance (Covid-19 and Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (6 Apr 2022)

Paschal Donohoe: As of February, €57 million in temporary wage subsidy scheme overpayments have been moved into the debt warehouse, and so far we have not had any in respect of the EWSS.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance (Covid-19 and Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (6 Apr 2022)

Paschal Donohoe: I move amendment No. 7: In page 24, between lines 7 and 8, to insert the following: “Amendment of Schedule 2 to Finance Act 1999 11.The Finance Act 1999 is amended with effect as on and from 10 March 2022 by the substitution of the following Schedule for Schedule 2 (as amended by section 42 of the Finance Act 2021): “SCHEDULE 2 RATES OF MINERAL OIL TAX ...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance (Covid-19 and Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (6 Apr 2022)

Paschal Donohoe: Regarding the different issues that have been brought forward, I first picked the date of the end of August-early September for the change that would be made in petrol and diesel excise in the hope that the energy price pressure that we are facing due to the war would begin to moderate and improve as the year goes on. It is certainly not my intention to go back to the Government and ask for...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance (Covid-19 and Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (6 Apr 2022)

Paschal Donohoe: If the Deputy wanted to open the dictionary and find an example of an opposition that has been dishonest, he would find Sinn Féin in the same dictionary. Sinn Féin comes forward and claims it is serious about trying to make a difference to the potentially catastrophic decay of our climate, but it will not advocate any measure that is challenging in order to make a difference to...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance (Covid-19 and Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (6 Apr 2022)

Paschal Donohoe: I want to call out-----

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance (Covid-19 and Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (6 Apr 2022)

Paschal Donohoe: I want to call out what Deputy Doherty is doing there. The Deputy is deliberately looking, again and again, to create the image of some kind of cosseted elite who are making decisions with the deliberate consequence of trying to add hardship and do harm to those we are privileged to serve. The tone, the words, and the way the Deputy describes those who are privileged to be in Cabinet and to...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance (Covid-19 and Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (6 Apr 2022)

Paschal Donohoe: Can I just tell the Deputy that I can appreciate why he is doing this because as I call out of this kind of tactic, it is uncomfortable for him and it is uncomfortable for Sinn Féin? Let me tell the Deputy that there are no pedestals over here. I am trying to get the balance right between decisions that I know are needed to help our country in the years to come, to deal with trying to...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance (Covid-19 and Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (6 Apr 2022)

Paschal Donohoe: That is correct.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance (Covid-19 and Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (6 Apr 2022)

Paschal Donohoe: That is correct.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance (Covid-19 and Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (6 Apr 2022)

Paschal Donohoe: That is correct.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance (Covid-19 and Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (6 Apr 2022)

Paschal Donohoe: I know that those organisations, as is the case with many other representative bodies who represent those who are affected by this change and by changes in our economy, wanted me to do more. They believe that measures I have brought forward could be strengthened. I believe the change we are making here will offer help in respect of the additional costs that many are facing at the moment in...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance (Covid-19 and Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (6 Apr 2022)

Paschal Donohoe: I would describe it as meaningful help.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance (Covid-19 and Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (6 Apr 2022)

Paschal Donohoe: That is correct.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance (Covid-19 and Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (6 Apr 2022)

Paschal Donohoe: I will get that figure for the Deputy. It will be €138.17.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance (Covid-19 and Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (6 Apr 2022)

Paschal Donohoe: That is correct.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance (Covid-19 and Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (6 Apr 2022)

Paschal Donohoe: That is the case also with other fuels that I have referred to. As I have said all along, the measures I am bringing forward will not stop any increase happening, they will just reduce the level of increase that consumers will face.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance (Covid-19 and Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (6 Apr 2022)

Paschal Donohoe: I have stopped an increase going through that the Deputy would no doubt have criticised, had it happened.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance (Covid-19 and Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (6 Apr 2022)

Paschal Donohoe: In the absence of the change I brought forward, that increase would have happened after 1 May. Does the Deputy accept that?

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance (Covid-19 and Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (6 Apr 2022)

Paschal Donohoe: No.