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Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2025: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Nov 2025)

Paschal Donohoe: I move amendment No. 66: In page 89, between lines 17 and 18, to insert the following: “Amendment of section 46 of, and Schedule 3 to, Principal Act (reduced rate for housing as part of a social policy) 67. (1) The Principal Act is amended, with effect as on and from 8 October 2025— (a) in section 46(1)— (i) in paragraph (a), by the insertion of...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2025: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Nov 2025)

Paschal Donohoe: I thank the Deputies for their questions. I will begin in the order in which they were put to me, but I am going to need clarification on one. In relation to Deputy Burke's question, that is the case, with regard to his comment on the land itself. In the scope of what we are implementing, the 13.5% will still apply. We are examining that matter. I need to consider whether we can we...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2025: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Nov 2025)

Paschal Donohoe: On the Deputy’s first question, the answer is "Yes". I will come back to him on his second question before Report Stage.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2025: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Nov 2025)

Paschal Donohoe: On the Deputy’s second point, my concern is that if we were to allow own-door access, it would be harder to target this measure, and that was the thinking behind that. He raised a fair point earlier in our debate. He made some important points regarding the design of subsidies. While he is against this, he made points I have sympathy and understanding with. Our view was that...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2025: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Nov 2025)

Paschal Donohoe: They would need to be-----

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2025: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Nov 2025)

Paschal Donohoe: If they are in a block and if they have own-door access, so in other words if there is one door just going into that apartment and there is no other access beyond going into that apartment, then they are included within it.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2025: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Nov 2025)

Paschal Donohoe: Because they are in a block.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2025: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Nov 2025)

Paschal Donohoe: Yes.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2025: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Nov 2025)

Paschal Donohoe: If there is common access to upstairs.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2025: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Nov 2025)

Paschal Donohoe: Yes, if the amendment goes through, then you would be opposing the amended section.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2025: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Nov 2025)

Paschal Donohoe: Exactly.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2025: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Nov 2025)

Paschal Donohoe: It is due to last until the end of 2030.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2025: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Nov 2025)

Paschal Donohoe: Our estimate is that by the time we get to 2030 the cost at that point will be €390 million.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2025: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Nov 2025)

Paschal Donohoe: I thank the Deputy. I will deal with the questions that were put to me. Before I respond, I will check if Deputy Nash wants to come in. I am conscious that I have to step out at 4 p.m.-----

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2025: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Nov 2025)

Paschal Donohoe: -----and I do not want to not respond to the Deputies on what is a significant element of the Finance Bill, given that Minister of State, Deputy Troy, would not have heard what the speakers said in the way that I have. In relation to the point regarding this measure taking effect from 8 October, the advice I have received is clear. VAT is a consumption tax that is placed on a product...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2025: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Nov 2025)

Paschal Donohoe: No, I did not mean that in a pejorative way.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2025: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Nov 2025)

Paschal Donohoe: I have had this debate myself; that is all.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2025: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Nov 2025)

Paschal Donohoe: I thank the Deputies for their questions. If the information Deputy Farrell asked about is available on a regional basis or at a more granular level, we will share it with her and make it available to the committee. On Deputy O'Callaghan's points, it would be difficult for us to anticipate the effect of a change like this on future levels of home ownership. We would have to make a huge...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2025: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Nov 2025)

Paschal Donohoe: I will have a look back at that advice. I am not doubting-----

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2025: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Nov 2025)

Paschal Donohoe: -----what the Deputy is saying for a moment, but I will have a look at the advice that was provided over the past number of years and give him a further answer on it. The reason we ended up with this in regard to apartments is because of my view that this should be targeted and not applicable to the entire construction sector. I found myself shaking my head and then nodding my head at...