Seanad debates

Wednesday, 24 March 2004

Finance Bill 2004 [[i]Certified Money Bill[/i]]: Committee and Remaining Stages.

 

4:00 pm

Charlie McCreevy (Kildare North, Fianna Fail)

I am not sure, but I think the Deputy is correct. It should be borne in mind that the living over the shop scheme is a regurgitation of a previous scheme, which may have been introduced by Deputy Quinn. As there was practically no take-up of the former scheme, it was eventually abandoned. When I became Minister for Finance, the Department of the Environment, Heritage and Local Government said that if further changes were made to the previous scheme, it might be more successful. We made more changes at the behest of the Department, but we understand that there has been a very poor take-up.

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