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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Tax Code (22 Feb 2022)

Paschal Donohoe: I propose to take Questions Nos. 23 and 62 together. I am glad to assure that my humour is good. I am just answering all the questions that are put to me, including by the Deputy. Regarding where things stand with that, I will spend time trying to find the written material here and would do so at the expense of answering the Deputy's question. The Revenue Commissioners are currently...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Tax Code (22 Feb 2022)

Paschal Donohoe: I am sure the Ceann Comhairle would be liberal in his application of those rules on this occasion if there are any matters the Deputy believes I have not answered.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Tax Code (22 Feb 2022)

Paschal Donohoe: As I said, and the Minister of State, Deputy Fleming, was the first to say it, we appreciate the fundamental importance of these companies to the operation of our economy and we recognised that through the support schemes we had in place. To deal with the Deputy's question regarding the future, I will park the EWSS for now, given that we have discussed it already. What does the future hold?...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Tax Code (22 Feb 2022)

Paschal Donohoe: I propose to take Questions Nos. 24, 60 and 230 together. This was the subject of a Private Members' motion today and is the subject of another one tomorrow. I will repeat the key points I made earlier. I believe that carbon taxing is playing and will play an important role in how we can reduce carbon emissions in the future. The challenge we face with regard to the climate is...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Small and Medium Enterprises (22 Feb 2022)

Paschal Donohoe: Specifically, the findings of the report estimate that the share of firms making losses throughout 2020 and 2021 could have been around one third higher if supports were not available. It finds that in the absence of the extensive supports provided by the Government to SMEs, the distress rate for companies would have been 72% higher. Moreover, by 2024, without the support that we had in...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Tax Code (22 Feb 2022)

Paschal Donohoe: As we have debated on several occasions already, these funds and this capital are leading to the supply of more homes overall and this does have to be seen in conjunction with, for example, a very strong public housing programme. I know the Deputy wants us to build more public housing but we are going to build well in excess of 6,000 public homes this year through local authorities and...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Tax Code (22 Feb 2022)

Paschal Donohoe: As we have heard from the exchange that has just taken place, there are more homes being built in the constituency represented by Deputy Boyd Barrett. It is not for me to say that; Deputy Carroll MacNeill is more of an expert than I am in that regard. Those homes are being built. It is part of the increased number of homes that are being built in the country overall. We know more need to...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Tax Code (22 Feb 2022)

Paschal Donohoe: Nobody is being sent in to mark anybody here.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Tax Code (22 Feb 2022)

Paschal Donohoe: I would have thought, given Deputy Boyd Barrett's prowess as a public speaker and the way in which he------

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Tax Code (22 Feb 2022)

Paschal Donohoe: ------tackles me regularly, that he would be up for debate and discussion as opposed to, frankly, the feigned outrage he indulged in just there.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Tax Code (22 Feb 2022)

Paschal Donohoe: The Deputy is entirely-----

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Tax Code (22 Feb 2022)

Paschal Donohoe: Well the Deputy appears to have recovered from it pretty quickly. We are surely-----

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Tax Code (22 Feb 2022)

Paschal Donohoe: I would have thought the Deputy would welcome debate and that a perspective on what is happening in his constituency can be legitimately given in this Dáil by a fellow Deputy who also represents that constituency. I am well aware of the level of housing need that is there. I am well aware of the anxiety and trauma it is inflicting upon so many but I simply make the case to the Deputy...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (22 Feb 2022)

Paschal Donohoe: Deputy Tóibín is the second Deputy who has attempted to write my legacy today. I do not know what has provoked that.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (22 Feb 2022)

Paschal Donohoe: Deputy Tóibín is the Deputy who voted against the legislation to safely reopen our country and our economy. He voted against it.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (22 Feb 2022)

Paschal Donohoe: He consistently voted against it. I remember the debates in here vividly. The Deputy came here, voted and argued against-----

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (22 Feb 2022)

Paschal Donohoe: -----the use of certificates that allowed the hospitality sector to reopen. If the Deputy wants to have a debate about my legacy, I ask him to look at what is happening now with the number of employers that are opening up again. I ask him to consider how quickly the PUP fell and the way in which the viability of employers was affected during a moment of the greatest challenge for our...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (22 Feb 2022)

Paschal Donohoe: -----that our debt, as a percentage of national income, will be back to what it was before the pandemic. I thank Deputy Carroll MacNeill for raising the issue of engagement. There is constant engagement with businesses, big and small, across our country, not to mention with Deputies, such as Deputy Carroll MacNeill, in this House.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (22 Feb 2022)

Paschal Donohoe: I am deeply aware of my responsibility for the additional €32 billion of national debt and understand the impact it could have in the future. I am not sure what element of that Deputy Tóibín was against. Was he against the employment wage subsidy scheme?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (22 Feb 2022)

Paschal Donohoe: Was he against the pandemic unemployment payment? Was he against the additional money we put into our health services when the pandemic hit?