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Finance Bill 2022: Report Stage (23 Nov 2022)

Pearse Doherty: I move amendment No. 11: In page 65, between lines 8 and 9, to insert the following: “Report on income tax relief 24.The Minister shall, within six months of the passing of this Act, prepare and lay before Dáil Éireann a report on an income tax relief equivalent in value to 8.3 per cent of annual rent to all private rental tenants not already in receipt of any State...

Finance Bill 2022: Report Stage (23 Nov 2022)

Pearse Doherty: I move amendment No. 9: In page 27, after line 38, to insert the following: “Report on Foreign Earnings Deduction 17.The Minister shall, within six months of the passing of this Act, prepare and lay before Dáil Éireann a report on the Foreign Earnings Deduction, the extent to which the relief has achieved its policy objectives and to review its qualifying criteria to...

Finance Bill 2022: Report Stage (23 Nov 2022)

Pearse Doherty: I am glad the Minister has learned that one.

Finance Bill 2022: Report Stage (23 Nov 2022)

Pearse Doherty: Whatever the Minister's motivation, whether by design on accident, I would like to know how high rents will go before the penny drops with him that his policies are contributing to the housing crisis and the rental crisis. That is the point. Whatever about whether it was an accident or motivated, and I do not suggest it was motivated, the evidence of the Minister's time in Government is...

Finance Bill 2022: Report Stage (23 Nov 2022)

Pearse Doherty: I will speak to my party's amendment No. 11. It was not today or yesterday that I started to raise with the Minister the need to introduce a rent credit. Time and again, he has taken the position of telling us a rent credit would go into the pocket of landlords. Those words were echoed by his party leader and the Taoiseach. Year after year, the Minister said a rent credit would make the...

Finance Bill 2022: Report Stage (23 Nov 2022)

Pearse Doherty: I will finish on this. What is a level of success for the Minister? When will he say he has achieved it? If rents go up another 19% next year, will that be a failure? The Minister stated he was trying to correct the Dáil record and he did not mention the issue of reducing prices. That is the problem.

Finance Bill 2022: Report Stage (23 Nov 2022)

Pearse Doherty: He should be trying to reduce rents.

Finance Bill 2022: Report Stage (23 Nov 2022)

Pearse Doherty: He should be trying to reduce house prices. That is the problem here.

Finance Bill 2022: Report Stage (23 Nov 2022)

Pearse Doherty: I have finished.

Finance Bill 2022: Report Stage (23 Nov 2022)

Pearse Doherty: Which the Minister is now stealing.

Finance Bill 2022: Report Stage (23 Nov 2022)

Pearse Doherty: That is not true.

Finance Bill 2022: Report Stage (23 Nov 2022)

Pearse Doherty: I did not say that.

Finance Bill 2022: Report Stage (23 Nov 2022)

Pearse Doherty: I did not say that.

Finance Bill 2022: Report Stage (23 Nov 2022)

Pearse Doherty: I asked how high do they have to go before the penny drops.

Finance Bill 2022: Report Stage (23 Nov 2022)

Pearse Doherty: Before the penny drops.

Finance Bill 2022: Report Stage (23 Nov 2022)

Pearse Doherty: The Minister can say he is conscious of the deadweight - the €100 million that has gone to people who do not need this support to purchase their own homes - but he has done nothing about it. This is the Finance Bill and he has done nothing about it. Mazars made it clear that this is poorly designed in respect of affordability, house prices and its objectives, yet the Minister comes...

Finance Bill 2022: Report Stage (23 Nov 2022)

Pearse Doherty: I do not think Deputy O'Donnell has tabled an amendment relating to his proposal, but I hear what he is saying with regard to targeting support for those trying to get on the property ladder and having a detailed review of the matter. I again put it to the Minister that he has carried out a detailed review in this regard. The review has shown there is substantial dead weight in the...

Finance Bill 2022: Report Stage (23 Nov 2022)

Pearse Doherty: There are three amendments in this group and all deal with the issue of the USC. I have made the point before that the leader of Fine Gael, the Tánaiste and former Taoiseach, Deputy Varadkar, made commitments around the USC on numerous occasions that he has broken. He used to parade around the streets of Dublin with big posters saying he was going to be the leader that abolished the...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (23 Nov 2022)

Pearse Doherty: 101. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if a passport will issue for a person (details supplied) in County Donegal to permit travel to visit a sick relative abroad; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [58368/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teaching Qualifications (23 Nov 2022)

Pearse Doherty: 109. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason that a fully qualified teacher (details supplied) in County Donegal receives an unqualified rate; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [58230/22]