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Finance Bill 2020: Report Stage (2 Dec 2020)

Paschal Donohoe: I move amendment No. 42: In page 26, line 33, to delete “(14) and (15)” and substitute “(15) and (16)”.

Finance Bill 2020: Report Stage (2 Dec 2020)

Paschal Donohoe: I move amendment No. 43: In page 26, line 35, to delete “(17)” and substitute “(18)”.

Finance Bill 2020: Report Stage (2 Dec 2020)

Paschal Donohoe: I move amendment No. 44: In page 27, line 25, to delete “(7)” and substitute “(7) or (8)”.

Finance Bill 2020: Report Stage (2 Dec 2020)

Paschal Donohoe: I move amendment No. 45: In page 27, line 26, to delete “where” and substitute “where, after the end of the specified period,”.

Finance Bill 2020: Report Stage (2 Dec 2020)

Paschal Donohoe: I move amendment No. 46: In page 27, line 31, to delete “time,” and substitute “time from the end of the specified period,”.

Finance Bill 2020: Report Stage (2 Dec 2020)

Paschal Donohoe: I move amendment No. 47: In page 27, line 33, to delete “(14) or (15)” and substitute “(15) or (16)”.

Finance Bill 2020: Report Stage (2 Dec 2020)

Paschal Donohoe: I move amendment No. 48: In page 27, between lines 33 and 34, to insert the following: “(f) Where the conditions referred to in paragraph (c) are met, the excess amount shall carry interest as determined in accordance with section 1080(2)(c) as if the reference to the date when the tax became due and payable were a reference to the day after the day on which the specified period...

Finance Bill 2020: Report Stage (2 Dec 2020)

Paschal Donohoe: Their interests are poorly served by Deputy Mattie McGrath and the kind of argument he puts forward. He talks about tone. Each time Deputy McGrath makes an argument like that, the only people to whom he does a disservice are the good people who are trying to earn a living. They have not had their lives changed by a capricious Government, as Deputy McGrath sneeringly infers. 9...

Finance Bill 2020: Report Stage (2 Dec 2020)

Paschal Donohoe: Since this dreadful disease arrived in our country, the Government has: brought in the temporary wage subsidy scheme, which we then replaced with the employment wage subsidy scheme; reduced the standard rate of VAT to support retailers; reduced the VAT rate for the hospitality sector in order to support it; brought in a Covid restrictions support scheme to support businesses that are closed...

Finance Bill 2020: Report Stage (2 Dec 2020)

Paschal Donohoe: I ask the Ceann Comhairle to bear with me. I have only been given two minutes in this round. My understanding is that I get seven minutes.

Finance Bill 2020: Report Stage (2 Dec 2020)

Paschal Donohoe: This is the first round on this group of amendments.

Finance Bill 2020: Report Stage (2 Dec 2020)

Paschal Donohoe: I am responding to the first round of interventions. The challenge I would then face is that businesses that are allowed to reopen and have done so would then ask why they cannot access funding under the Covid restrictions support scheme if businesses that can open but remain closed can. Pubs would take this view and restaurants and hotels would quickly follow. It goes back to the point I...

Finance Bill 2020: Report Stage (2 Dec 2020)

Paschal Donohoe: I move amendment No. 11: In page 12, line 12, to delete “2020” and substitute “2020)”. As indicated on Committee Stage, I propose a number of amendments relating to the Covid restrictions support scheme, CRSS. This has been a very challenging period for businesses and it may take some time and additional cost to reopen once the restrictions are lifted. I...

Finance Bill 2020: Report Stage (2 Dec 2020)

Paschal Donohoe: A total of 1% of taxpayers in Ireland pay 23% of the total income tax paid in the country. This reflects the reality that those who have the most are paying the most. The top 20% of earners in the country will pay 77% of the total income tax and USC that is collected in Ireland in 2020. When Deputy Boyd Barrett calls for those who have more to pay more, the reality is that we have a tax...

Finance Bill 2020: Report Stage (2 Dec 2020)

Paschal Donohoe: The Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media, Deputy Catherine Martin, put in place the music stimulus fund to which the Deputy referred to support artists at this very difficult time. She has the ability to continue the fund into 2021 and I hope those artists who were unsuccessful in gaining access to it thus far may be able to do so later this year or next year. ...

Finance Bill 2020: Report Stage (2 Dec 2020)

Paschal Donohoe: Of course I acknowledge there are significant challenges within the rental market. It could be the case that some things in the rental market will be changed by what is happening with Covid-19 or its aftermath, but that does not take away from the great challenges that are there at the moment. That is why, for example, rental pressure zones are in place, as the Deputy is aware, and it is...

Finance Bill 2020: Report Stage (2 Dec 2020)

Paschal Donohoe: I will not take lectures on any elites on our island from the richest party in our country.

Finance Bill 2020: Report Stage (2 Dec 2020)

Paschal Donohoe: Tax relief in respect of rent paid was abolished in budget 2011 and is no longer available to those who commenced renting for the first time from 8 December 2010. This followed a recommendation of the 2009 report by the Commission on Taxation that rent relief should be discontinued. The view of this independent commission was that, in the same manner in which mortgage interest relief...

Finance Bill 2020: Report Stage (2 Dec 2020)

Paschal Donohoe: For my part I will call out the hypocrisy of Sinn Féin members, who say they want to tackle climate change but oppose carbon taxation. I will call out the hypocrisy of a party whose Deputies lambaste measures in our country while standing over weaker and less impactful measures in Northern Ireland. I will not accept claims by Sinn Féin, Deputy Doherty or any Opposition Deputy that...

Finance Bill 2020: Report Stage (2 Dec 2020)

Paschal Donohoe: I have listened to Deputy Doherty. Issues such as the role of income tax credits and the future of our income tax code can be, and I am sure will be, considered by the commission which the Government will put in place on taxation and welfare which will provide an input to the Government and the Oireachtas on decisions we may have to make in future to ensure we can pay for better public...