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Seanad: Finance Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (6 Nov 2024)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I welcome that those factors will be considered. It is in line with what we saw in terms of equality budgeting in Scotland, where there was a move from original expenditure to looking to tax expenditures in terms of tax reliefs and so forth. Will there be an explicit gender disaggregation in the context of that equality analysis?

Seanad: Finance Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (6 Nov 2024)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I would appreciate any correspondence in that regard.

Seanad: Finance Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (6 Nov 2024)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I thank the Minister.

Seanad: Finance Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (6 Nov 2024)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I will not go over these aspects in detail again. I had some discussion in this regard with the Minister of State, Deputy Richmond, when he was in. I just wish to signal this issue again in response to his response. I refer to the auto-enrolment retirement savings system. I am significantly concerned regarding what I believe is a lacuna concerning ethical oversight in respect of those...

Seanad: Finance Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (6 Nov 2024)

Alice-Mary Higgins: No. I was speaking to the section. I think the Minister was remarking on Senator Gavan's recommendation.

Seanad: Finance Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (6 Nov 2024)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I believe a mistake has been made and I have signalled this very clearly to the Minister, Deputy Humphreys. I am now signalling it to the Minister and his Department. This scheme is not the same as a private or occupational pension scheme in that the State is determining, in effect, the eligible vehicles in this regard. The State is contributing a great deal of the money in this context...

Seanad: Finance Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (6 Nov 2024)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I will speak briefly in support of this recommendation. As a member of the finance committee, I know it is an issue we have examined. This backlog has caused considerable distress both for those who work for the Disabled Drivers Medical Board of Appeal and, crucially, for the disabled drivers who have found themselves in limbo waiting for their appeals to be addressed. I endorse this...

Seanad: Finance Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (6 Nov 2024)

Alice-Mary Higgins: These recommendations are very much related to my own recommendation No. 42, which I thought might be grouped with these recommendations, although it is fine that it is not. We know that a huge amount of expenditure goes into the research and development tax relief but we do not have the information on how that is being done. I support the recommendations. While my own recommendation,...

Seanad: Finance Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (6 Nov 2024)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I am disappointed there was no engagement on the recommendation relating to shares. I was looking forward and interested to hear what the response would have been.

Seanad: Finance Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (6 Nov 2024)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I thank the Minister of State for addressing the issue. He detailed a number of points of information, details of which it would be useful to have, in respect of private jets and Senator Gavan's recommendation. That is exactly what points to why a report is needed in this area. We need to be honest about the fact that Ireland is one of the major hubs for aircraft leasing. Ireland has a...

Seanad: Finance Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (6 Nov 2024)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I move recommendation No. 36: In page 163, between lines 23 and 24, to insert the following: “Report on private pension tax reliefs 103. The Minister shall, within six months of the passing of this Act, lay before both Houses of the Oireachtas a report on private pension tax relief including the following: (a) an assessment of the cost to the Exchequer, including the cost to the...

Seanad: Finance Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (6 Nov 2024)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I move recommendation No. 37: In page 163, between lines 23 and 24, to insert the following: “Report on wealth tax 103. The Minister shall, within six months of the passing of this Act, lay before both Houses of the Oireachtas a report on the potential revenue raised from, and distributional impact of, a wealth tax of 1 per cent on all households with assets of over 10 million...

Seanad: Finance Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (6 Nov 2024)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I move recommendation No. 40: In page 163, between lines 23 and 24, to insert the following: “Report on re-introduction of trade union tax relief 103. The Minister shall, within six months of the passing of this Act, prepare and lay before both Houses of the Oireachtas a report on the re-introduction of the trade union tax relief.”. Recommendation No. 40 relates to a key...

Seanad: Finance Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (6 Nov 2024)

Alice-Mary Higgins: Questions remain concerning the assumptions behind the rationale the Minister of State outlined. He implied there is no policy case although we have a direct public policy imperative to move from 22%. The analyses he referred to are previous to the transposition of the directive. Obviously, it was not regarded as the case that there was a public policy imperative to increase union...

Seanad: Finance Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (6 Nov 2024)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I have been very clear. I just want to object-----

Seanad: Finance Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (6 Nov 2024)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I object to points being characterised as emotive considering that I have been raising them very clearly on a public policy basis.

Seanad: Finance Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (6 Nov 2024)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I would like to take the Minister of State up on his offer of correspondence on all the relevant reports.

Seanad: Finance Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (6 Nov 2024)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I move recommendation No. 41: In page 163, between lines 23 and 24, to insert the following: "Report on aviation fuel tax relief 103. The Minister shall, within six months of the passing of this Act, prepare and lay before both Houses of the Oireachtas a report on the phasing out of tax relief for aviation fuel.".

Seanad: Finance Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (6 Nov 2024)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I move recommendation No. 42: In page 163, between lines 23 and 24, to insert the following: "Report on Knowledge Development Box 103. The Minister shall, within six months of the passing of this Act, prepare and lay before both Houses of the Oireachtas a report on the links between the research and development activities supported by tax relief arising from the Knowledge Development...

Seanad: Finance Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (6 Nov 2024)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I move recommendation No. 43: In page 163, between lines 23 and 24, to insert the following: “Report on tax relief policy 103. The Minister shall, within six months of the passing of this Act, prepare and lay before both Houses of the Oireachtas a report on measures to improve the gender and equality impact of policies in respect of tax relief, including comparative analysis...