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Financial Resolutions 2022 - Budget Statement 2023 (27 Sep 2022)

Michael McNamara: ...we did not have the technological capability to do it, and we do not have the technological capability to harness all the wind energy off the west coast. The only reaction to this conundrum, this long-term problem, other than to throw money at it in the short term - money that everybody accepts we might not have next year or the year after - is formally to fund the setting up of the...

Financial Resolutions 2022 - Budget Statement 2023 (27 Sep 2022)

Thomas Pringle: ...there are actually houses available to rent, too. It is not enough to increase the vacant home tax. That will only further incentivise landlords to let their properties on Airbnb. We need a 50% tax on Airbnb and subsidies for long-term rentals going forward. That is the only way that we can address the crisis. I was in contact with one business owner in my home town of Killybegs...

Financial Resolutions 2022 - Budget Statement 2023 (27 Sep 2022)

Joan Collins: .... It involves subsidising energy companies using fossil fuels such as gas. The most fundamental way is to nationalise them. The cost to France this year is an estimated at €7 billion. It would not cost our State anything like that - possibly €1.5 billion. In the long run, measures taken by the Government, such as the €600 credit for electricity bills, are also a...

Financial Resolutions 2022 - Budget Statement 2023 (27 Sep 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: ...that extra money is coming in that regard. Unfortunately, when we get to agriculture in the budget it is a few short sentences and it does not seem to have the same grá. At one time when I came in here in 2014 there was a good long piece on agriculture, but now it seems to be getting less. I do not know if this is by design because the Green Party does not like agriculture. I...

Financial Resolutions 2022 - Budget Statement 2023 (27 Sep 2022)

Marian Harkin: ...a member of the Opposition is to look at where it falls down and fails people, and to make the case to Government to think again. In this context, while one-off payments are welcome, they do not address the long-term issues of poverty, especially for disabled people and others who are living on the margins. I fully agree with the response of the Independent Living Movement, which...

Financial Resolutions 2022 - Budget Statement 2023 (27 Sep 2022)

Carol Nolan: I welcome the opportunity to speak in this important debate on budget 2023. I will try to be as constructive as possible and to recognise those few positives that have been announced and the long-sought supports that have been introduced. However, I will also highlight some of the areas in which lost opportunities have clearly emerged. For example, much has been made of the fact that the...

Financial Resolutions 2022 - Budget Statement 2023 (27 Sep 2022)

Richard O'Donoghue: ...of all these 10% levies is 23% VAT. Not only is the Government putting a 10% levy on these things, it is 10% plus 23% VAT. That is if it is supplied only. If it is supplied and fitted, it is 10% plus 13.5% VAT. The Government has screwed this country long enough. I am asking every person, businessperson, working person and everyone else in this country to please see the light before...

Financial Resolutions 2022 - Budget Statement 2023 (27 Sep 2022)

Mattie McGrath: ...companies responsible, many of which are still operating? It is they who caused this problem. The Government is instead putting up the price of concrete for family businesses such as Corbett Concrete in my own town of Cahir. It is a long-standing family business. The price of concrete has gone out of reach for all the products that company makes. It serves the agriculture, home and...

Financial Resolutions 2022 - Budget Statement 2023 (27 Sep 2022)

Michael Collins: ...people have no choice but to use. Of course, the Greens are wagging the tail. The Government's answer is to turn a blind eye to this crisis. A bag of coal costs more than €40. It cost €20 or less not so long ago. The Government's answer to this is the sticky-plaster solution, by adding €12 to pensions and social welfare. I ask the Minister to go out and buy some...

Financial Resolutions 2022 - Budget Statement 2023 (27 Sep 2022)

Cathal Berry: ...Defence not consider an upfront payment to the military personnel? The Department of Health could reimburse the Department of Defence thereafter. An ex gratiapayment for the people involved in the Department of Defence would go a long way to improving morale. My second point relates to the Government action plan, which contains a commitment for a €5,000 pay rise for personnel...

Financial Resolutions 2022 - Budget Statement 2023 (27 Sep 2022)

Verona Murphy: ...reducing the VAT rates on fuel because it used the EU as an excuse for that also. To do that would have been just one big idea that could have meant compromise but instead the Government has come along with short-term measures. This is because it is short-sighted and devoid of new ideas. After last year's budget, a 40 kg bag of coal cost in or around €25 euro. Next week, it...

Financial Resolutions 2022 - Budget Statement 2023 (27 Sep 2022)

Seán Canney: ...in the two or three years after that. The European Union has downgraded the north and west of our country, serving the counties of Galway, Mayo, Sligo, Roscommon and Leitrim, the five counties alone in Connacht, along with Monaghan and Donegal. Ours is now a region that is lagging, and that is because we have fallen way behind in respect of the investment made over a period. If we are...

Financial Resolutions 2022 - Budget Statement 2023 (27 Sep 2022)

Cian O'Callaghan: ...see the heavily pregnant women who have slept on our streets, having been unable to get into emergency accommodation? A 0.3% tax on vacancy is a disgrace. It is utterly ineffective. To take this long to come up with such a pathetic proposal on vacancy does the entire country a disservice with regard to the housing disaster. The Government has failed to put an effective tax on...

Financial Resolutions 2022 - Budget Statement 2023 (27 Sep 2022)

Duncan Smith: ...is a great place to grow up, get qualifications and join the workforce. We do not want people to be forever broke, straight into debt and without the hope of owning their own homes or securing a long-term, stable and affordable rental home. What really matters for people is securing such homes, investing in quality public healthcare and taking real measures to tackle the cost of living....

Financial Resolutions 2022 - Budget Statement 2023 (27 Sep 2022)

Róisín Shortall: ...at temporary one-off measures as evidence that the interests of the most vulnerable have been protected. Nobody should be fooled by this approach. Temporary supports will not help people in the medium to long term. They will not provide sustainable relief to those who can no longer afford the soaring prices for necessities such as food, fuel, energy and rent. The tragedy is that this...