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Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement (18 Sep 2024)

Jack Chambers: It is our intention-----

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement (18 Sep 2024)

Jack Chambers: -----to exclude active farmers and have the tax. This is what we have consensus on.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement (18 Sep 2024)

Jack Chambers: Correct.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement (18 Sep 2024)

Jack Chambers: Who could not get out.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement (18 Sep 2024)

Jack Chambers: The most recent figure I have is a percentage because information is still coming back from local authorities. The latest information as of a week or two ago is that more than 90% of farmers who sought to exclude themselves could not do so in the process that existed in previous months. This is why it is a serious issue being raised by most political parties.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement (18 Sep 2024)

Jack Chambers: The process they entered into was an application to change the zoning from residential to the respective use they presently have. In a majority of those instances, based on the data we have received, that has been refused by local authorities. That is why we have this challenge and why we are trying to develop a mechanism that resolves it in a context of ensuring we have a tax, which this...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement (18 Sep 2024)

Jack Chambers: I appreciate the points raised by Deputy Nash. On the wider matters we will set out the total tax package and expenditure package on budget day, which up to now with this Government has been highly progressive in the context of changes to taxation and public expenditure considerations. On inheritance tax, we are considering that issue. I said to Deputy Conway-Walsh there is a campaign to...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement (18 Sep 2024)

Jack Chambers: Correct.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement (18 Sep 2024)

Jack Chambers: I do not write the headlines. I would say that it has not been adjusted for many years, and there is considerable feedback on it and it is part of the overall consideration. The predominant focus of our tax package will be making sure there is a progressivity at its core and equity in the context of the other issues identified by the Deputy around housing. I want to make further progress...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement (18 Sep 2024)

Jack Chambers: There has been discussion on this. The Government will set that out on budget day.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement (18 Sep 2024)

Jack Chambers: That will be set out in developing options on spending the proceeds of the AIB share sales in the context of housing, water and energy and we are working on that at the moment.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement (18 Sep 2024)

Jack Chambers: That is the intention. We set out the timetable to the finance committee as is done every year.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement (18 Sep 2024)

Jack Chambers: That was set out. Every Minister for Finance writes to the finance committee to set out the draft schedule of what is intended in the context of the finance Bill. We communicated that to the finance committee so it can bring in preparations around scheduling the required meetings.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement (18 Sep 2024)

Jack Chambers: I am happy to come back into my old brief. I know the wider ambition and focus within different regions on transport infrastructure and through the capital plans, which the Minister, Deputy Donohoe, has already agreed. Obviously, we are keen to advance some of them. We know there is further ambition to do more. The Minister, Deputy Ryan, published the all-island rail review, which is...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement (18 Sep 2024)

Jack Chambers: I will have to set that out in the White Paper. I am not going to give the Deputy a false figure.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement (18 Sep 2024)

Jack Chambers: Yes.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement (18 Sep 2024)

Jack Chambers: I was asked if I would, and I said I would not.

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Business Supports (18 Sep 2024)

Jack Chambers: As Minister for Finance, I have policy responsibility for the development of the legal framework governing financial services regulation, including for the insurance sector. In terms of the challenges associated with obtaining flood cover, please be aware that the provision of such cover is a commercial matter for insurance companies, based on an actuarial assessment of the risks they are...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Primary Medical Certificates (18 Sep 2024)

Jack Chambers: The Deputy should note that my Department and I share concerns that the Disabled Drivers and Disabled Passengers Scheme or 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: Tax Reliefs (18 Sep 2024)

Jack Chambers: Mortgage Interest Tax Relief is a one-year temporary relief, which is available to taxpayers in respect of their principal private residence in the State, where the outstanding mortgage balance was between €80,000 and €500,000 as of 31 December 2022. The relief also extends to a qualifying property located in the State, which is the sole or main residence of the...