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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: I view it slightly differently to the Deputy's good self. What I believe is happening is that there are many jobs that were available before Covid and were not available over the 18 months of the dark days of the pandemic but that are now returning. They might not all be in exactly the same sectors, but there is no sign at all of job opportunity erosion happening within our economy. As...

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: The Deputy raised two questions, the first of which has to do with who will receive the payment. I have a list with me regarding the forms of job that will be receiving the payment. It includes doctors, nurses, healthcare assistants, porters, cleaners, medical laboratory staff, health and social work professionals, swabbers, vaccinators, home carers who were carrying out duties contracted...

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 expect that, for most, it will be paid this month.

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 two duties that the Deputy mentioned, my understanding is that they are not included in the list currently. However, engagement is under way with the healthcare unions on the full list. I expect that all of the details of who will be receiving the payment and, I assume, the pro rata issue will be published later this week.

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 understand that it will cost between €130 million and €150 million.

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: It will be made available. I understand that the full public list of who will be part of the payment will be made available this week.

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 expect most payments will be made available within the month. It is the case, however, as the Deputy knows, that there are many different payroll operations included in the different sets of workers to whom I have just referred. It may well be the case, because of when payrolls are run, for the workers I referred to, some of that may happen in early May and not all within April. However,...

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. 1: In page 11, to delete lines 19 and 20 and substitute the following: “(iii) the scheme commonly known as the Live Performance Restart Grant Scheme;”. These amendments make changes to sections 5 to 10, inclusive, to delete references to the scheme commonly known as the "live performance support scheme phase 4" and replace that with the new name of...

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 thank the Deputy for his questions. The key issue first is what the Government has done to try to offer support to companies that will be facing difficulty or viability challenges as we exit from the emergency supports that are in place. As the committee will be aware, we have put in place two significant legislative changes to try to provide support to smaller businesses, in particular,...

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. 2: In page 13, to delete lines 26 and 27 and substitute the following: “(iii) the scheme commonly known as the Live Performance Restart Grant Scheme;”.

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. 3: In page 16, to delete lines 1 and 2 and substitute the following: “(iii) the scheme commonly known as the Live Performance Restart Grant Scheme;”.

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. 4: In page 18, to delete lines 11 and 12 and substitute the following: “(iii) the scheme commonly known as the Live Performance Restart Grant Scheme;”.

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. 5: In page 20, to delete lines 16 and 17 and substitute the following: “(iii) the scheme commonly known as the Live Performance Restart Grant Scheme;”.

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. 6: In page 22, to delete lines 19 and 20 and substitute the following: “(iii) the scheme commonly known as the Live Performance Restart Grant Scheme;”.

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-----