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Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Funding (9 Oct 2019)

Simon Harris: Funding is provided to the HSE for Health services in accordance with the letter of determination which sets out the approved level of overall HSE expenditure for the year in question. As the Deputy will be aware, voluntary organisations provide services on behalf of the Health Service Executive, through section 39 service level agreements. These agreements underpin the delivery of health...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Capital Expenditure Programme (9 Oct 2019)

Simon Harris: The Health Service Executive recently published its Capital Plan for 2019-2021 outlining projects to be progressed over the three-year period, as part of Project Ireland 2040. The Capital Plan includes a number of projects for County Kildare, particularly the important developments at Naas General Hospital such as the new units for endoscopy, day procedures, physical medicine and...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Infrastructure Provision (9 Oct 2019)

Simon Harris: As the Health Service Executive is responsible for the delivery of public healthcare infrastructure projects, I have asked the HSE to respond to you directly in relation to this matter.

Financial Resolution No. 2: Carbon Tax (8 Oct 2019)

Simon Harris: I move: (1) THAT for the purposes of the tax charged by virtue of section 95 of the Finance Act 1999 (No. 2 of 1999), that Act be amended, with effect as on and from 9 October 2019—(a) in section 96(1B), by substituting “A is the amount to be charged per tonne of CO2emitted, being €26 in the case of petrol, aviation gasoline, and heavy oil used as a propellant or for air...

Financial Resolutions - Financial Resolution No. 1: Tobacco Products Tax (8 Oct 2019)

Simon Harris: There were a lot of comments anyway. I thank the Deputies for their contributions. On Financial Resolution No. 1, I thought it had been long established in this House that there is a very significant impact by tobacco and smoking on public health policy. We do not just close our eyes to that and say that it is a matter for private individuals. It has an impact on our kids, on our health...

Financial Resolutions - Financial Resolution No. 1: Tobacco Products Tax (8 Oct 2019)

Simon Harris: It must be the first protest taking place that the Deputy does not feel he can join because he is out touch with the people outside these gates.

Financial Resolutions - Financial Resolution No. 1: Tobacco Products Tax (8 Oct 2019)

Simon Harris: We will get to rural Ireland in a second but there are young people-----

Financial Resolutions - Financial Resolution No. 1: Tobacco Products Tax (8 Oct 2019)

Simon Harris: There are young people outside the gates of this House tonight who probably think that we should be doing an awful lot more on carbon tax and yet there is a bunch of people who have never seen a protest before that they did not want to join who are not in line with them.

Financial Resolutions - Financial Resolution No. 1: Tobacco Products Tax (8 Oct 2019)

Simon Harris: The Deputies have no credibility on the matter of climate.

Financial Resolutions - Financial Resolution No. 1: Tobacco Products Tax (8 Oct 2019)

Simon Harris: The Deputies have no credibility on climate action. It is quite different for Members of this House to rightly say that they are in favour of a carbon tax but scrutinise Government on what it will do to mitigate. That is quite different from those who come in here and dismiss the idea of a carbon tax because they love to divide.

Financial Resolutions - Financial Resolution No. 1: Tobacco Products Tax (8 Oct 2019)

Simon Harris: I welcome Deputy Smith to the debate. We just had it. In breaking news, climate change effects rural Ireland. When I was Minister of State with responsibility for the OPW, I visited Kerry and Cork South West, which Deputies Danny Healy-Rae, Michael Healy-Rae and Michael Collins represent, and we watched parts of our country begin to fall into the sea and begin to flood. The idea of...

Financial Resolutions - Financial Resolution No. 1: Tobacco Products Tax (8 Oct 2019)

Simon Harris: People are asking legitimate questions tonight about what we will do to protect those vulnerable to fuel poverty. It is a really important point. We need to look at the overall impact of a €6 increase on household costs. In the grand scheme of things, it is relatively small but it is fair to say that the burden of increased carbon taxes falls unequally. In lower income homes, it...

Financial Resolutions - Financial Resolution No. 1: Tobacco Products Tax (8 Oct 2019)

Simon Harris: I will get to that. I am answering them in the sequence in which they were asked. Deputy Dooley asked about the just transition fund. I assure him that we obviously listen to Deputy Carey, the Minister of State, Deputy Breen, and Senator Martin Conway, and Deputy Dooley, as he knows. The Minister, Deputy Bruton, has confirmed that the principles of the just transition fund will have to be...

Financial Resolutions - Financial Resolution No. 1: Tobacco Products Tax (8 Oct 2019)

Simon Harris: That is a matter for the Deputy to debate with the Minister and a matter for the Finance Bill. Deputy MacSharry asked about the NORA levy. The Government has decided that it will be used to fund climate action. The Minister, Deputy Bruton, will bring legislation forward shortly on this. If the Ceann Comhairle will allow me to answer Deputy Fitzmaurice's question, I will say that when a...

Financial Resolutions - Financial Resolution No. 1: Tobacco Products Tax (8 Oct 2019)

Simon Harris: It is not exempt.

Financial Resolutions - Financial Resolution No. 1: Tobacco Products Tax (8 Oct 2019)

Simon Harris: Not necessarily.

Financial Resolutions - Financial Resolution No. 1: Tobacco Products Tax (8 Oct 2019)

Simon Harris: It is.

Financial Resolutions - Financial Resolution No. 1: Tobacco Products Tax (8 Oct 2019)

Simon Harris: I move: (1) THAT for the purposes of the tax charged by virtue of section 72 of the Finance Act 2005 (No. 5 of 2005), that Act be amended, with effect as on and from 9 October 2019, by substituting the following for Schedule 2 to that Act (as amended by section 34 of the Finance Act 2018 (No. 30 of 2018)): “SCHEDULE 2 Rates of tobacco products tax (With effect as on and from 9...

Financial Resolutions - Financial Resolution No. 1: Tobacco Products Tax (8 Oct 2019)

Simon Harris: Financial Resolution No. 2 provides for an increase in the carbon charge component of mineral oil tax on petrol and auto diesel, with effect from 12 midnight tonight. The increase amounts to €6 per tonne of carbon dioxide emissions. Assuming the full increase is passed through to the final retail price, this will result in a VAT inclusive increase of €0.017 on the price of 1l...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Pension Provisions (8 Oct 2019)

Simon Harris: I have asked the HSE to respond directly to the Deputy on this matter.