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Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Sep 2021)

Pearse Doherty: Tá na mic linn taobh amuigh den Dáil agus iad ag agóid mar go bhfuil siad ag stopadh in óstáin, i lóistín Bhia agus Leaba agus i mbrúnna óige. Tá mic léinn eile ag taistil ar feadh uaireanta fada gach uile lá, óna dtithe féin, isteach go dtí an chathair ar maidin agus ar ais tráthnóna agus níos measa...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Sep 2021)

Pearse Doherty: This is not just a Covid story. Students down through the years have lived in tents, hotels, bed and breakfast accommodation and hostels. There is a housing crisis right across society, as I laid out for the Tánaiste, from mica families to the women we heard yesterday. What they had to say was devastating. I do not know whether the Tánaiste heard them but he should listen to...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget 2022 Scrutiny (Resumed): Minister for Finance (23 Sep 2021)

Pearse Doherty: I welcome the Minister to the committee. I want to pick up on the points he made in regard to next year's budget. In his opening statement, the Minister said that the expenditure ceiling would be fixed at €88.2 billion. This is consistent with what was spelled out in the summer economic statement such that regardless of how well the economy does, or tax fluctuation, the expenditure...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget 2022 Scrutiny (Resumed): Minister for Finance (23 Sep 2021)

Pearse Doherty: Okay. Given there have been changes in tax revenue and that the economic growth we are seeing is above what was projected in the summer economic statement, can the Minister outline the revised projections for the deficit in tax revenue this year and next year as a result of the tax buoyancy and higher than expected economic growth such that the committee is fully apprised of the detail? The...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget 2022 Scrutiny (Resumed): Minister for Finance (23 Sep 2021)

Pearse Doherty: The Tánaiste was clear and at pains to point out the intention to protect people's wage growth from additional tax. The Minister has said the Government wants to do that as much as possible, which is different to what the Tánaiste said. It is also completely different from the commitment in the programme for Government which promised an index link to earnings growth. Given the...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget 2022 Scrutiny (Resumed): Minister for Finance (23 Sep 2021)

Pearse Doherty: We will not go into that debate. The Minister and others like him, people who are earning salaries of €180,000, will also benefit from this tax cut. It is not directed only at people who are going back to work. It is all about priorities. The Minister has his priorities. My priorities are to make the investment in capital infrastructure in terms of housing, to make sure we recruit...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget 2022 Scrutiny (Resumed): Minister for Finance (23 Sep 2021)

Pearse Doherty: So am I. We do not have time.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget 2022 Scrutiny (Resumed): Minister for Finance (23 Sep 2021)

Pearse Doherty: I will come back in on the issue that Deputy Mairéad Farrell raised. There is a lack of clarity, given the conversation that went on. Will the Minister clear this up? Two days ago, on Tuesday, the Tánaiste stated, "any agreement we may or may not sign up to won’t impact the average Irish business, won’t impact even any large Irish business, or mid-caps. The 12.5 per...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget 2022 Scrutiny (Resumed): Minister for Finance (23 Sep 2021)

Pearse Doherty: He is not referring to the OECD agreement. I am familiar with the current draft that has been agreed. The question is about its implementation. Deputy Farrell has put that question to the Minister. For us to implement that, mindful that many countries across the globe have an effective rate of above 15%, from what the Tánaiste has said, we would need approval from the Commission to...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget 2022 Scrutiny (Resumed): Minister for Finance (23 Sep 2021)

Pearse Doherty: The Commission has not yet approved a situation where Ireland can run two simultaneous taxation rates, which currently could not be done. Does the Minister have any confirmation that we could potentially run two simultaneous corporation tax rates, with one at 12.5% for those outside the OECD BEPS process with turnover of less than €750 million, and then whatever higher rate we could...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget 2022 Scrutiny (Resumed): Minister for Finance (23 Sep 2021)

Pearse Doherty: I do not think that is good enough, with respect. Maybe the Minister does not have the answer, because it appears that it has not yet been approved by the Commission. I put it to the Minister that the Tánaiste went to the media and gave certainty to businesses that regardless of the outcome of OECD BEPS and regardless of whether we opt into that process, businesses without a turnover...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget 2022 Scrutiny (Resumed): Minister for Finance (23 Sep 2021)

Pearse Doherty: Could Ireland operate two separate tax rates for these types of companies at this point in time if we wanted to do it in our Finance Bill? We obviously could not. We would need Commission approval to do that.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget 2022 Scrutiny (Resumed): Minister for Finance (23 Sep 2021)

Pearse Doherty: The Tánaiste-----

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget 2022 Scrutiny (Resumed): Minister for Finance (23 Sep 2021)

Pearse Doherty: From what I take from what he is saying, the Minister, unlike the Tánaiste, is refusing to give the same commitment that this will not impact average Irish businesses, large Irish businesses or mid-caps and the 12.5% rate will stay in place for them.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget 2022 Scrutiny (Resumed): Minister for Finance (23 Sep 2021)

Pearse Doherty: That is not accurate.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget 2022 Scrutiny (Resumed): Minister for Finance (23 Sep 2021)

Pearse Doherty: In every alternative budget that we have put forward-----

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget 2022 Scrutiny (Resumed): Minister for Finance (23 Sep 2021)

Pearse Doherty: It is.

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Fiscal Data (23 Sep 2021)

Pearse Doherty: 206. To ask the Minister for Finance the projected General Government Balance as a percentage of both GDP and GNI* in each of the years 2021 to 2069 consistent with the methodology and assumptions used in his Department’s publication Population Ageing and the Public Finances in Ireland in the two scenarios outlined in table 6 of page 26, in which the SPA remains constant and in which...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Test (22 Sep 2021)

Pearse Doherty: 19. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if a driving test can be expedited for a person (details supplied) in County Donegal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45526/21]