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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: VAT Refunds to Unregistered Farmers: Revenue Commissioners (8 May 2024)

Paul Daly: I am sorry for interrupting, but just for the sake of clarity, is that risk appraisal Revenue's balance sheet? Is the Revenue looking at how much is coming in and how much is being paid out, and if it finds itself paying out more than is coming in, it does something about it?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: VAT Refunds to Unregistered Farmers: Revenue Commissioners (8 May 2024)

Paul Daly: That is in numbers.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: VAT Refunds to Unregistered Farmers: Revenue Commissioners (8 May 2024)

Paul Daly: There has been serious inflation in prices. This 23% or 13.5% VAT rate, and it is 23% for most of this stuff, is now 23% of what is now a much bigger base figure for the actual product. These numbers are going to fluctuate and change anyway. I asked a simple question. I am a farmer. I am not in dairy, but if I were and I had bought a milk tank in October 2021 and put it into my existing...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: VAT Refunds to Unregistered Farmers: Revenue Commissioners (8 May 2024)

Paul Daly: In questions to various Ministers, is it not on the record of these Houses that Revenue's interpretation has changed?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: VAT Refunds to Unregistered Farmers: Revenue Commissioners (8 May 2024)

Paul Daly: I did not get any answers at all.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: VAT Refunds to Unregistered Farmers: Revenue Commissioners (8 May 2024)

Paul Daly: I am still struggling, Chair. I have still not got an answer to my hypothetical question about me or some other individual buying the tank in 2021 and what changed if it was bought in 2023.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: VAT Refunds to Unregistered Farmers: Revenue Commissioners (8 May 2024)

Paul Daly: Revenue would have a lot to look at. I find it very frustrating to have to repeat myself. The Chair mentioned this in his opening statement. From last August or September, we all became inundated. If Mr. Egan were to give me a straight answer, I or the hypothetical farmer would have got the VAT on the milk tank back without any hassle for the second-hand shed in 2021. I, or any...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: VAT Refunds to Unregistered Farmers: Revenue Commissioners (8 May 2024)

Paul Daly: Stats on approvals and figures can balance any book, but I am talking about a specific milk tank. Balance that one. What has changed with the item? Forget about the figures, stats, the income, and the outgoings. What has changed with a milk tank going into an existing shed since 2021 and 2022 to 2023 and 2024?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: VAT Refunds to Unregistered Farmers: Revenue Commissioners (8 May 2024)

Paul Daly: I have one more question, which has a one-line answer. There are meetings documented here. The witnesses said they have had two with the ICMSA and one with the IFA, and will have further meetings. At whose request were those meetings?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: VAT Refunds to Unregistered Farmers: Revenue Commissioners (8 May 2024)

Paul Daly: What issues?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forest Strategy Implementation Plan: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (8 May 2024)

Paul Daly: Can I ask one question on that in passing to save us returning to it later? Would the recent announcement by the EPA that our peatland is now emitting 60% less-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forest Strategy Implementation Plan: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (8 May 2024)

Paul Daly: -----have a bearing on the environmental conditions that were set when we looked for state aid, given that our European colleagues and friends set them on the basis of the original EPA figures?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forest Strategy Implementation Plan: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (8 May 2024)

Paul Daly: I hope I am not next in line to Senator Lombard the day he decides he will not be brief. Nearly everything has been covered. I have a couple of hypothetical questions. I know the answer Mr. Gleeson will possibly give, which will be that it is a political decision. We all know and we all admit that at this stage we need solutions. It is not about how we got to where we are. We will not...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forest Strategy Implementation Plan: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (8 May 2024)

Paul Daly: If the Minister said to this to Mr. Gleeson in the morning, would he then be flagging to the Minister that this is a great idea and would maybe get us up and running? I am asking if we have to go back to Europe on the state aid rules. Could we do that if the Minister or Government were to change their policy and targets? Could we just do it here or would we end up going back for more state...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forest Strategy Implementation Plan: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (8 May 2024)

Paul Daly: Were the sums built around it? Why did state aid kick in-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forest Strategy Implementation Plan: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (8 May 2024)

Paul Daly: We are going to have approximately 400 ha of trees maturing in 2050 that were sowed this year.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forest Strategy Implementation Plan: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (8 May 2024)

Paul Daly: Does the Department not agree with the theory of incentivising? Were we to reach 6,000 ha, that would be an achievement in itself.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forest Strategy Implementation Plan: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (8 May 2024)

Paul Daly: But what if we do not achieve it? I think 6,000 ha is better than having a target of 8,000 ha and not achieving it. I am asking the hypothetical question while it is a political decision, not Mr. Gleeson's decision, I would like to get his opinion.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forest Strategy Implementation Plan: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (8 May 2024)

Paul Daly: That is not what they tell us.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: VAT Refunds to Unregistered Farmers: Revenue Commissioners (8 May 2024)

Paul Daly: What issues were raised?