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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: That would indeed be an appearance.

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: We have already commented on what an unusual event that would be. Maybe Deputy Doherty will invite Deputy Durkan along to a Sinn Féin Parliamentary Party meeting before this committee appearance is 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: In answer to the Deputy's question and point, this is why the Minister of State, Deputy Burke, has brought forward the changes in foreshore licensing and marine planning, which is to lay the foundations for accelerating where we are with offshore wind and renewable energy. There is no doubt at all that if we want to increase our energy security, not to mention respond to the great challenge...

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: One of the reasons private sector investment has not yet materialised in the way we want is that there has been uncertainty regarding where these kinds of applications would stand from a planning point of view. That is why the legislation the Minister of State, Deputy Burke, has piloted through the Oireachtas is so important. It aims to bring clarity to the licensing regime off our shores....

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: We are trying to avoid bringing the economy to a halt in any way as we try to find new ways in which energy can be generated. We will do that. The Deputy is right. We are not where we want to be in terms of having access to more renewable energy. We need to do better than we are doing at present. This is why I go back to the importance of the legislative change that has just been made. ...

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: This is the kind of work that the Minister, Deputy McGrath, and I need to do.

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 is.

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 intention.

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: We have to work all of that 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: The event.

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: Of course, my curiosity is now piqued as to what music festival the Deputy is involved 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: Is it the Rory Gallagher one?

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 do not know if the Deputy will be disappointed or relieved to know I have seen many of those acts, only not at the Deputy's festival.

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: We will, if the Chairman will come along. That would make some outing. That would be good.

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 am aware that this matter is being dealt with by the SFPA, which the Deputy referred to. This issue has been the subject of engagement through the consultation committee between the SFPA and the local industry that the Deputy mentioned. I was not aware this matter would be raised. I appreciate it is an important matter. While the SFPA is an independent body of Government and,...

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: Killybegs is an important anchor for our maritime sector. The SFPA is independent of the Government, but it sounds like the Deputy has raised an important matter. I will ask for an update on it. My departmental officials have put a great deal of work into this section because the issue had been raised by the sector with the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine. We knew that we...

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. 9: In page 3, lines 6 and 7, to delete “regulation of taxation and of stamp duties” and substitute “regulation of taxation, of stamp duties and of duties relating to excise”.

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Primary Medical Certificates (5 Apr 2022)

Paschal Donohoe: I propose to take Questions Nos. 231, 233, 249 and 250 together. The Disabled Drivers & Disabled Passengers Scheme (DDS) provides relief from VRT and VAT on the purchase and use of an adapted car, as well as an exemption from motor tax and an annual fuel grant. The Scheme is open to severely and permanently disabled persons who also meet one of six specified medical criteria, as a...