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Finance (European Stability Mechanism and Single Resolution Fund) Bill 2021 [Seanad]: Report and Final Stages (2 Dec 2021)

Pearse Doherty: I welcome that we will be dealing with the Final Stage of this legislation. As we discussed during the debate on the Finance Bill, the purpose of this Bill is to ratify agreements to the European Stability Mechanism, ESM, treaty and the Single Resolution Fund, SRF, intergovernmental agreement. This is required to fulfil the agreement that was reached by the Eurogroup on 30 November of last...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: European Union (2 Dec 2021)

Pearse Doherty: 28. To ask the Minister for Finance the derogation under which Ireland enjoys a reduced rate of VAT on energy for households; the conditions that are attached to this derogation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [59596/21]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: European Union (2 Dec 2021)

Pearse Doherty: 29. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on the European Union toolbox on energy on tackling energy prices statement that member states may decide to apply reduced VAT rates on energy products as long as they respect the minima laid down in the European Union VAT Directive and they consult the European Union VAT Committee and that the right to a reduced rate is a general albeit...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services (2 Dec 2021)

Pearse Doherty: 196. To ask the Minister for Health if additional funding was sought in 2020 from the estimates to provide seven day per week respite at a centre (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [59598/21]

Finance Bill 2021: Report Stage (1 Dec 2021)

Pearse Doherty: This throws into stark contrast the discussions we had earlier. We had discussions about cross-Border workers and the Minister spoke about equity and fairness among taxpayers. Many people would ask a question about that in respect of the SARP policy being pursued by the Government. It has been said previously by me, Deputy Boyd Barrett and others, and this is probably a reflection on us in...

Finance Bill 2021: Report Stage (1 Dec 2021)

Pearse Doherty: The Minister has taken out his big, bad wolf script again about how terrible things would be if Sinn Féin's policies were accepted. He wants us to thank him for this provision for these special people, which is not my language but his. This provision is called the special assignee relief programme. The Minister named them special, not me. This provision for these special people, who...

Finance Bill 2021: Report Stage (1 Dec 2021)

Pearse Doherty: The Minister does not like the truth.

Finance Bill 2021: Report Stage (1 Dec 2021)

Pearse Doherty: The Minister does not have the floor. This is for the benefit of the butcher, so please thank the Minister for Finance. They just do not understand the reason we give these tax cuts to what the Minister has called these special people.

Finance Bill 2021: Report Stage (1 Dec 2021)

Pearse Doherty: The Minister does not like the truth. I will tell him this - the butchers and teachers I know are not thankful that the Minister is cutting the tax rates of those millionaires and thinking that it is for their benefit. They know exactly what is at stake here. Dr. Micheál Collins appeared before the Committee on Budgetary Oversight and said that the special assignee relief programme...

Finance Bill 2021: Report Stage (1 Dec 2021)

Pearse Doherty: The Minister has been there for ten years. His record is the highest rents in this city in Europe. His record is generations locked out of home ownership. His record is thousands of people homeless as a result of sky-high rents. That is the reality and things are getting worse. In 17 counties in Ireland rent increases are in double digits. The record is the Government brought forward...

Finance Bill 2021: Report Stage (1 Dec 2021)

Pearse Doherty: This is a government who would stand up for the constituents the Minister feigns sympathy for when they tell him they struggle to make ends meet.

Finance Bill 2021: Report Stage (1 Dec 2021)

Pearse Doherty: That is what we would do. We would be a government that would-----

Finance Bill 2021: Report Stage (1 Dec 2021)

Pearse Doherty: -----put those individuals into homes, instead of introducing higher rents.

Finance Bill 2021: Report Stage (1 Dec 2021)

Pearse Doherty: The Minister does not like to hear the truth.

Finance Bill 2021: Report Stage (1 Dec 2021)

Pearse Doherty: The Minister is not entitled to come back in.

Finance Bill 2021: Report Stage (1 Dec 2021)

Pearse Doherty: It is a point of order.

Finance Bill 2021: Report Stage (1 Dec 2021)

Pearse Doherty: The Minister can accuse me of whatever he wants and can say what my policies or those of my party may or may not do. But look at the Minister's track record. We do not have to look into a crystal ball to see what may happen. The Minister has been in Cabinet for well over a decade and has been Minister of Finance for a period of time. He has huge sympathy for all these poor...

Finance Bill 2021: Report Stage (1 Dec 2021)

Pearse Doherty: I move amendment No. 9: In page 20, between lines 28 and 29, to insert the following: "Report on income tax relief 16.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 subsidy,...

Finance Bill 2021: Report Stage (1 Dec 2021)

Pearse Doherty: I move amendment No. 8: In page 20, between lines 28 and 29, to insert the following: “Report on income levy on high incomes 16.The Minister shall, within six months of the passing of this Act, prepare and lay before Dáil Éireann a report on the introduction of a high-income levy on high incomes in excess of €140,000.”.

Finance Bill 2021: Report Stage (1 Dec 2021)

Pearse Doherty: Tapering out tax credits does not increase the marginal rates. They will remain the same. The impact would be on the effective rate. I mentioned to the Minister that this, combined with the other measure, would bring the effective rate below where it was in 2014. Tapering out the tax credits, therefore, would not impact on the marginal rate of taxation, which brings in €232...