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- Financial Resolutions 2022 - Financial Resolution No. 1: Mineral Oil Tax (27 Sep 2022)
Michael McNamara: I want to give the Minister time to respond. He has talked about Ireland's energy transformation. He and I are both admirers of the Shannon hydroelectric scheme and the bravery displayed by the new State at that time to meet Ireland's energy needs. We were completely reliant on imported energy at the time. We are not completely reliant on it now but we are almost completely reliant. The...
- Financial Resolutions 2022 - Financial Resolution No. 1: Mineral Oil Tax (27 Sep 2022)
Catherine Murphy: The Minister should consider the amendment. The Social Democrats support it. The bigger energy bills become, the bigger the tax take and the bigger the VAT take. One cannot project the costs involved because we do not know the extent of the coming increases but we know they will be substantial. I addressed standing charges with the Minister at Leaders' Questions last week. It is...
- Financial Resolutions 2022 - Financial Resolution No. 1: Mineral Oil Tax (27 Sep 2022)
Eamon Ryan: This Government has to manage the public finances. In its three years in government, there has been a pandemic, from which we have now emerged. We have the ability to provide protection to our people because of good management of the public finances. That needs to continue. We need to get through this winter period and in March, we will review and examine the whole range of different...
- Financial Resolutions 2022 - Financial Resolution No. 1: Mineral Oil Tax (27 Sep 2022)
Eamon Ryan: Energy credits and the emergency purchase of generation were one-off payments, which were not to be repeated the next year. It is not a cut in the budget at all.
- Financial Resolutions 2022 - Financial Resolution No. 1: Mineral Oil Tax (27 Sep 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Hold on. Seriously-----
- Financial Resolutions 2022 - Financial Resolution No. 1: Mineral Oil Tax (27 Sep 2022)
Eamon Ryan: Sorry, through the Chair.
- Financial Resolutions 2022 - Financial Resolution No. 1: Mineral Oil Tax (27 Sep 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I want the Minister to answer. I am sorry, but that is not a good enough explanation. It really is not. I ask the Minister to think about the words "energy transformation" in the current context. We are facing the most unprecedented crisis. We have heard the Minister, other Government Ministers and European Ministers, one after the other, getting up and saying that this is the moment...
- Financial Resolutions 2022 - Financial Resolution No. 1: Mineral Oil Tax (27 Sep 2022)
Eamon Ryan: There has been a real 32% increase in that budget.
- Financial Resolutions 2022 - Financial Resolution No. 1: Mineral Oil Tax (27 Sep 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Then the Government should get the budget reprinted.
- Financial Resolutions 2022 - Financial Resolution No. 1: Mineral Oil Tax (27 Sep 2022)
Eamon Ryan: It is audited.
- Financial Resolutions 2022 - Financial Resolution No. 1: Mineral Oil Tax (27 Sep 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It states that the allocation for energy transformation has been reduced by 35%. It states that for the Minister's overall Department, which is the Department of the Environment, Climate and Communications, the allocation has been reduced by 17%. Is that also incorrect?
- Financial Resolutions 2022 - Financial Resolution No. 1: Mineral Oil Tax (27 Sep 2022)
Eamon Ryan: That is correct, but the Deputy is counting different things.
- Financial Resolutions 2022 - Financial Resolution No. 1: Mineral Oil Tax (27 Sep 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: That is correct.
- Financial Resolutions 2022 - Financial Resolution No. 1: Mineral Oil Tax (27 Sep 2022)
Catherine Connolly: There are others waiting to speak.
- Financial Resolutions 2022 - Financial Resolution No. 1: Mineral Oil Tax (27 Sep 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I am just saying, that it is pretty stunning.
- Financial Resolutions 2022 - Financial Resolution No. 1: Mineral Oil Tax (27 Sep 2022)
Catherine Connolly: Deputy-----
- Financial Resolutions 2022 - Financial Resolution No. 1: Mineral Oil Tax (27 Sep 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It is connected to the rationale for this.
- Financial Resolutions 2022 - Financial Resolution No. 1: Mineral Oil Tax (27 Sep 2022)
Catherine Connolly: I must interrupt the Deputy for a moment to make a clarification. I am not stopping him from speaking. Just in case there is any misunderstanding, resolutions Nos. 1 and 2 are being discussed together. There will not be an opportunity later to discuss-----
- Financial Resolutions 2022 - Financial Resolution No. 1: Mineral Oil Tax (27 Sep 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Yes, on the VAT.
- Financial Resolutions 2022 - Financial Resolution No. 1: Mineral Oil Tax (27 Sep 2022)
Gerald Nash: I have to move the amendment to resolution No. 2-----