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- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Summer Economic Statement: Discussion (10 Jul 2024)
Jack Chambers: The information is being worked on at the moment-----
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Summer Economic Statement: Discussion (10 Jul 2024)
Jack Chambers: -----to provide updated projections out to 2030.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Summer Economic Statement: Discussion (10 Jul 2024)
Jack Chambers: I do not have the updated information. That is being worked on. The previous-----
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Summer Economic Statement: Discussion (10 Jul 2024)
Jack Chambers: It is important to say-----
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Summer Economic Statement: Discussion (10 Jul 2024)
Jack Chambers: A charge has been made. It is important to allow the-----
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Summer Economic Statement: Discussion (10 Jul 2024)
Jack Chambers: It is important to allow that to be clarified in the context of the charge that was made.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Summer Economic Statement: Discussion (10 Jul 2024)
Jack Chambers: The information can be provided to the committee, privately.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Summer Economic Statement: Discussion (10 Jul 2024)
Jack Chambers: I think it will be in the interests of the committee, Chair, that the chief economist is able to set out the factual position.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Summer Economic Statement: Discussion (10 Jul 2024)
Jack Chambers: As the Minister, Deputy Donohoe, has said we have a major demographic challenge in our country. Our population pyramid over previous years was defined as being very much a young and wide base, but this is now ageing quickly and we are seeing our population ageing comparatively in a very accelerated way compared with European countries that have a higher age demographic. This is why the...
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Summer Economic Statement: Discussion (10 Jul 2024)
Jack Chambers: I thank Deputy Healy-Rae for his kind words at the start. I appreciate it. Turning to address the points made by the Deputy, significant work is ongoing across government on the Housing for All plan. The Minister, Deputy O'Brien, is working on it. Action has been taken specifically concerning landlords. The Deputy will be aware that in the Finance Act 2023 a measure was introduced...
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Summer Economic Statement: Discussion (10 Jul 2024)
Jack Chambers: What are the policy measures to deliver that? The Deputy is saying that a tax credit would be one.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Summer Economic Statement: Discussion (10 Jul 2024)
Jack Chambers: I have given the Deputy the information of when it will be provided.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Summer Economic Statement: Discussion (10 Jul 2024)
Jack Chambers: We have a package of €1.4 billion and we still have to decide how that will be-----
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Summer Economic Statement: Discussion (10 Jul 2024)
Jack Chambers: On corporation tax, that demonstrates the volatility of the ten companies and why we are putting the money aside in the context of the future Ireland fund and the infrastructure, climate and nature fund. Depending on their profitability in a particular year, that will have an impact on the concentration. What we do know is that that concentration risk is continuing or becoming even greater...
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Summer Economic Statement: Discussion (10 Jul 2024)
Jack Chambers: A full list of all tax expenditure will be provided on budget day.
- Written Answers — Department of Finance: Departmental Strategies (10 Jul 2024)
Jack Chambers: The Deputy should note that my Department and I share concerns that the Disabled Drivers and Disabled Passengers Scheme (DDS) is no longer fit-for-purpose and believe it should be replaced with a needs-based, grant-led approach for necessary vehicle adaptations that could serve to improve the functional mobility of the individual. However, this is very much a matter for Government as...
- Written Answers — Department of Finance: Universal Social Charge (10 Jul 2024)
Jack Chambers: I am advised by Revenue that they do not have information specifying the number of craft apprentices or their income levels. As such, I am advised that it is not possible for Revenue to calculate the revenue effects sought by the Deputy.
- Written Answers — Department of Finance: Housing Schemes (10 Jul 2024)
Jack Chambers: Section 477C of the Taxes Consolidation Act 1997 (TCA) requires that applicants for the Help to Buy (HTB) scheme must be first-time purchasers, which is defined as: " 'first-time purchaser' means an individual who, at the time of a claim under subsection (3) has not, either individually or jointly with any other person, previously purchased or previously built, directly or indirectly, on...
- Written Answers — Department of Finance: Housing Policy (10 Jul 2024)
Jack Chambers: Officials in my Department are in constant communication with officials in the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage. This engagement happens formally, through various groups such as the Housing for All Secretary General Delivery Group and the Housing for All Investment Group, as well as regular communication on an informal basis. The Report of the Housing Commission is...
- Written Answers — Department of Finance: Covid-19 Pandemic (10 Jul 2024)
Jack Chambers: Following a loan request by the then Minister for Finance on behalf of the Government, Ireland received a total of €2.492 billion on 30 March 2021 under the SURE EU programme. SURE, which stands for Support to mitigate Unemployment Risks in an Emergency, was a specific financial instrument created by the European Union to protect jobs and workers’ incomes in the context of the...