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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Public Expenditure Policy (9 Jul 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: That is being done by the Department of Finance at the moment. It reassesses twice a year its tax forecast for the years ahead. A big part of that will be the corporate tax forecasts, which have a big impact on overall tax figures. The final update for this year will be on budget day.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General (9 Jul 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: The Minister, Deputy Catherine Martin, and I are engaging with one another on the future funding of RTÉ. The aim of the Government is to reach a decision on the matter before the end of this month. With regard to the enhanced oversight arrangements, as I said in my answer a moment ago, my understanding is that the Minister will bring forward the legislation to implement this...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General (9 Jul 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: The Government is committed to bringing forward enhanced accountability. I have just informed the Dáil of the timeline for the Minister, Deputy Catherine Martin, to bring forward that legislation. On the Deputy's view and that of her party on the abolition of the television licence, I do not understand the argument that the funding gap that is currently in RTÉ will be improved by...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General (9 Jul 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: We have a licence for which the majority of people still pay, despite all the difficulty in RTÉ and Sinn Féin's view is that the funding situation will be improved by the abolition of a charge that most people, albeit reluctantly, are still willing to pay. I do not understand that approach or why it would improve where we are. I have heard again and again the case for credible,...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: National Development Plan (9 Jul 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: I am happy to answer Deputy Pringle's question, but I have a question from Deputy Durkan.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: National Development Plan (9 Jul 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: I will raise some key points about the progress the national development plan, NDP, is making for the people of County Donegal. I highlight where we are with the national broadband plan. At the moment there are 20 connected remote working hubs in County Donegal. I point to the upgraded N56 in County Donegal, which was reopened following an investment of more than €100 million and I...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: National Development Plan (9 Jul 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: I was not claiming to have delivered the projects myself. I want to make that clear. I just stated that they are examples of projects that the NDP has delivered over a number of years. Work remains to be done on the N56. I heard what the Deputy said about that. I will quickly list other projects that are under way across the county, such as different residential care facilities at...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Budget 2025 (9 Jul 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: You are capable of a few of them yourself.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Budget 2025 (9 Jul 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: We would get to that point in the same way as we do with many other targets. We would do it step by step. Despite Deputy Boyd Barrett's best hopes and ambitions, we do not live in a centrally planned economy. We do not live in an economy in which there is only one thing in respect of which we have to make progress. We have to build more homes. We also have to build more schools. We also...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Budget 2025 (9 Jul 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: How are we going to do that? We are going to do it step by step. How are we not going to do? By means of the type of explosion that Deputy Boyd Barrett appears to be proposing, funded by the very companies and individuals he rails against all the time, he would look to do it all in a single go. Can he accept that there is merit in doing this step by step? He might state that it will take...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Budget 2025 (9 Jul 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: Give me an example of a country that successfully implemented a wealth tax.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Budget 2025 (9 Jul 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: Give me an example of a country that has successfully implemented a wealth tax.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Budget 2025 (9 Jul 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: Nice flourish but no answer. I asked Deputy Boyd Barrett to give me-----

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Budget 2025 (9 Jul 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: At least you are admitting in the answer back that it has never been done. At least you are admitting that. What you are offering as a solution to the housing crisis is a solution from a taxation perspective, which you admit has never been done.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Budget 2025 (9 Jul 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: You know well-----

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Budget 2025 (9 Jul 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: They are your own words. The Deputy knows well that we have taxes on property, most of which he wants to get rid of. He wants to get rid of the property tax, which is the main form of taxation we have for wealth that is held in the form of property.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Budget 2025 (9 Jul 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: Yes, but if we were to increase it, you would be against that as well. All you have to offer is a solution that you admit has not been done before. As the Housing Commission says, this needs to be done in phases and this is what we will do. As I have said already, we have shown our ability to increase capital investment in such a way that is the reason, while acknowledging the great...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General (9 Jul 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: I thank Deputy Conway-Walsh. On 7 May last, the Government agreed in principle to the recommendation of the expert advisory committee which conducted the review of the governance and culture of RTÉ to assign the Comptroller and Auditor General as auditor of RTÉ. The Minister Deputy Catherine Martin, in a statement accompanying the publication of the expert advisory committee...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Summer Economic Statement (9 Jul 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: Last year's budget represented the highest level of funding that has ever been provided to the Department of Health. At that point, more than €6 billion of additional funding was provided to it, compared with where we were in 2019. What has happened since is that the level of additional health expenditure in the first half of this year exceeded any expectations that I could have had....

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Summer Economic Statement (9 Jul 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: Deputy Conway-Walsh made a call for more capital spending, more money for the health service and more money for social protection. They are just three of the items she listed. All of those would very considerably add to the size of the overall budget package, which already proposes spending growth of 6.9% compared with a year ago. The bigger the Deputy makes the package, in the way she...