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- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Business of Select Committee (16 Nov 2022)
Pearse Doherty: In fairness, perhaps the Minister will tell us how he is going to warm people in those houses this winter.
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Business of Select Committee (16 Nov 2022)
Pearse Doherty: Chair, I might make one final remark, as the proposer of the amendment.
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Business of Select Committee (16 Nov 2022)
Pearse Doherty: To cut through some of the - what is the parliamentary word for this? - bluff and bluster from the Minister, this is the Finance Bill. I would not bring forward amendments relating to expenditure or how we deal with expenditure. I have to hand a copy of the list of amendments to the Finance Bill that I have tabled and I can read them out. Every one of them is tax related. Will the...
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Business of Select Committee (16 Nov 2022)
Pearse Doherty: This amendment deals with the VAT reduction on electricity and gas. I have a specific question. We discussed home heating oil earlier. The Minister has reduced the VAT rate on gas until the end of February in this Finance Bill and will review the position in spring. Does he have any concerns about the fairness of the Bill given that it does not provide any measures to directly support the...
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Business of Select Committee (16 Nov 2022)
Pearse Doherty: While the Minister could not reduce VAT, or if he did he would have to introduce a basket of other measures, he could reduce excise. My question, therefore, stands. Does the Minister not believe there is an issue of fairness here when he is taking measures to reduce the cost for some households to heat their homes this winter and not taking the measure open to him in respect of excise duty...
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Business of Select Committee (16 Nov 2022)
Pearse Doherty: While things will not get worse for those who heat their homes through gas, the Minister will ensure, through the measures that were taken last year and extended this year, that things will be better for them in respect of a reduced cost. The Minister could do the same for home heating oil but he has decided not to do so. There is an issue of fairness here as there are over 500,000...
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Business of Select Committee (16 Nov 2022)
Pearse Doherty: No, I am talking about excise.
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Business of Select Committee (16 Nov 2022)
Pearse Doherty: That revenue is not hypothecated.
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Business of Select Committee (16 Nov 2022)
Pearse Doherty: This section deals with section 110 companies. The Commission on Taxation and Welfare recommended a review of the tax treatment of section 110 companies and the Minister committed to that in his budget speech. Such a review is long overdue and Sinn Féin has been calling for one year after year, most recently in June 2021. These calls have been repeatedly ignored by the Minister and...
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Business of Select Committee (16 Nov 2022)
Pearse Doherty: That is the clarification-----
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Business of Select Committee (16 Nov 2022)
Pearse Doherty: I have tabled amendments relating to VAT rates of 0%. I will be brief on this. This section deals with the zero-rating of items in respect of the media industry and certain medical and sanitary products. I support the section, particularly in respect of medical and sanitary products. I say that because I will focus on the media part of the section if that is okay. We know that on budget...
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Business of Select Committee (16 Nov 2022)
Pearse Doherty: Will the Minister clarify the following for me? Is it not the case that he announced on budget day that he would zero-rate newspapers as well as news periodicals?
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Business of Select Committee (16 Nov 2022)
Pearse Doherty: Obviously, the Minister's speech does not encompass all the tax changes, but did the tax changes document published as part of the budget day package include newspapers and news periodicals or did it just include newspapers?
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Business of Select Committee (16 Nov 2022)
Pearse Doherty: However, that was not checked before the budget documents were published where the Minister committed to reducing the VAT on news periodicals. I have it here in front of me. Was it that he did not get that checked out beforehand?
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Business of Select Committee (16 Nov 2022)
Pearse Doherty: How much will it cost to move newspapers and their online editions to a zero rate of VAT?
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Business of Select Committee (16 Nov 2022)
Pearse Doherty: Is that in a full year or in the first year?
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Business of Select Committee (16 Nov 2022)
Pearse Doherty: The budget day documents gave a figure of €39 million for newspapers and news periodicals and digital editions.
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Business of Select Committee (16 Nov 2022)
Pearse Doherty: That is for the two that will be done now, but for the-----
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Business of Select Committee (16 Nov 2022)
Pearse Doherty: Where did the Department get the €6 million reduction for news periodicals?