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Seanad: Europe Day: Statements (9 May 2024)

Paul Daly: I also welcome to the House for the first time in her role the Minister of State, Deputy Carroll MacNeill. She has ten minutes to open the debate.

Seanad: Europe Day: Statements (9 May 2024)

Paul Daly: Through the Chair.

Seanad: Europe Day: Statements (9 May 2024)

Paul Daly: It gives me great pleasure as a Kilbeggan man to welcome to the Gallery my neighbours from across the border in County Offaly who are members of Tullamore active retirement group. I hope they have a very enjoyable visit to the Houses of the Oireachtas.

Seanad: Europe Day: Statements (9 May 2024)

Paul Daly: I thank the Senator. As there are no more contributors, the Minister of State has no less than ten minutes to wrap up. As we are running ahead of schedule, I will be lenient with her if she wishes to continue.

Seanad: Europe Day: Statements (9 May 2024)

Paul Daly: I thank the Minister of State and all Senators for their contributions. When is it proposed to sit again?

Seanad: Europe Day: Statements (9 May 2024)

Paul Daly: Is that agreed? Agreed.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: VAT Refunds to Unregistered Farmers: Revenue Commissioners (8 May 2024)

Paul Daly: I had to leave to go to vote. If I ask a question that has been asked already, I apologise. There may be repetition for that reason. If the witnesses have already covered my questions, they should let me know and I will look at the transcript tomorrow or whenever it is available. I want to follow on from Deputy Kerrane. I want clarification. Statistically, nothing might have changed,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: VAT Refunds to Unregistered Farmers: Revenue Commissioners (8 May 2024)

Paul Daly: Why did this start only last summer? Why did we never hear from a farmer with regard to a VAT rebate until last summer? Something changed.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: VAT Refunds to Unregistered Farmers: Revenue Commissioners (8 May 2024)

Paul Daly: To make it simple, if I had bought a milk tank in October 2021 and was putting it into my existing shed, would I have got the VAT back? If I bought the same milk tank in October 2023 and was putting it into an existing shed, would I have got the VAT back? I would have in 2021 but I would not in 2023. This is what changed. I ask the witnesses to tell me this is not a change.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: VAT Refunds to Unregistered Farmers: Revenue Commissioners (8 May 2024)

Paul Daly: Revenue's interpretation.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: VAT Refunds to Unregistered Farmers: Revenue Commissioners (8 May 2024)

Paul Daly: When did that changed? I would have got the VAT back for the old build if I had done that in 2021 or 2022.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: VAT Refunds to Unregistered Farmers: Revenue Commissioners (8 May 2024)

Paul Daly: For an existing building, that is.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: VAT Refunds to Unregistered Farmers: Revenue Commissioners (8 May 2024)

Paul Daly: We are here to try to get solutions to problems, but if we do not accept there is a problem, we are going to find it very hard to get a solution.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: VAT Refunds to Unregistered Farmers: Revenue Commissioners (8 May 2024)

Paul Daly: I am sorry for interrupting, but just for the sake of clarity, is that risk appraisal Revenue's balance sheet? Is the Revenue looking at how much is coming in and how much is being paid out, and if it finds itself paying out more than is coming in, it does something about it?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: VAT Refunds to Unregistered Farmers: Revenue Commissioners (8 May 2024)

Paul Daly: That is in numbers.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: VAT Refunds to Unregistered Farmers: Revenue Commissioners (8 May 2024)

Paul Daly: There has been serious inflation in prices. This 23% or 13.5% VAT rate, and it is 23% for most of this stuff, is now 23% of what is now a much bigger base figure for the actual product. These numbers are going to fluctuate and change anyway. I asked a simple question. I am a farmer. I am not in dairy, but if I were and I had bought a milk tank in October 2021 and put it into my existing...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: VAT Refunds to Unregistered Farmers: Revenue Commissioners (8 May 2024)

Paul Daly: In questions to various Ministers, is it not on the record of these Houses that Revenue's interpretation has changed?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: VAT Refunds to Unregistered Farmers: Revenue Commissioners (8 May 2024)

Paul Daly: I did not get any answers at all.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: VAT Refunds to Unregistered Farmers: Revenue Commissioners (8 May 2024)

Paul Daly: I am still struggling, Chair. I have still not got an answer to my hypothetical question about me or some other individual buying the tank in 2021 and what changed if it was bought in 2023.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: VAT Refunds to Unregistered Farmers: Revenue Commissioners (8 May 2024)

Paul Daly: Revenue would have a lot to look at. I find it very frustrating to have to repeat myself. The Chair mentioned this in his opening statement. From last August or September, we all became inundated. If Mr. Egan were to give me a straight answer, I or the hypothetical farmer would have got the VAT on the milk tank back without any hassle for the second-hand shed in 2021. I, or any...