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- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (11 Jul 2024)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: It is one rule for the east coast and one for the west.
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (11 Jul 2024)
Micheál Martin: You settled for less.
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (11 Jul 2024)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: It is 100% for the east but not for the west. That is what you stood over.
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (11 Jul 2024)
Micheál Martin: You settled for less in 2019.
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (11 Jul 2024)
Catherine Connolly: Deputies, please.
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (11 Jul 2024)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: It was the Minister, Deputy McConalogue. The Tánaiste did the same, as did his campaigners. It is 100% for the east but not 100% for the west.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Jul 2024)
Richard O'Donoghue: In 2020, it was €120 per sq. ft. to build a house and, today, it is anywhere from €180 to €200 per sq. ft. Given taxes at 23% on a 2,000 sq. ft. house, the Government was taking €4,600 in VAT but is now taking €9,200 because the base cost of that house has gone from €240,000 plus VAT to €380,000 plus VAT. It is the same house but the...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Jul 2024)
Micheál Martin: Come on. The Government is reducing tax for workers. We are reducing income tax for workers and we reduced the universal social charge last year. The focus has been on reducing income tax to give people more disposable income and enable them to spend at their discretion. That has been the focus of the Government over the last four years. We have also reduced the cost of services in terms...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Jul 2024)
Richard O'Donoghue: There are higher taxes.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Jul 2024)
Micheál Martin: The Deputy seems to want us not to reduce the tax for workers but, rather, reduce it elsewhere. I do not know whether he believes we should have a €2 billion tax package or a €2.5 billion tax package. He needs to specify what his priorities are.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Jul 2024)
Richard O'Donoghue: I want a reward for somebody who works.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Jul 2024)
Micheál Martin: Our priority is to reduce taxes for workers to enable workers to have more disposable income to spend on services at their discretion and on what their families want to prioritise.
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (11 Jul 2024)
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (11 Jul 2024)
Pearse Doherty: On the same issue, workers and families are continuing to struggle under the cost of living crisis. In three weeks time, the Government plans to increase the price of petrol and diesel for those same families. This is the last day that we have to stop the plan for price increases on petrol and diesel. Petrol and diesel prices are way higher than they were just a few years ago and, as has...
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (11 Jul 2024)
Micheál Martin: In its alternative budget, Sinn Féin proposed that the excise reduction that happened should be restored in one go on 1 April of this year, unlike the Government’s step-by-step restoration. Under its plan, motorists would have seen a full 8% increase for petrol and a 6% increase for diesel on 1 April last. Once again, Sinn Féin proposes one thing in its budget proposals and...
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (11 Jul 2024)
Pearse Doherty: We said it needed to be kept under review.
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (11 Jul 2024)
Micheál Martin: That is what you said in your budget. You would have done it all at once, back in April, with an 8% increase on petrol and a 6% increase on diesel. The Government took a different view. We wanted to try to reduce the pressures on the public, unlike the Sinn Féin proposal, and we will keep it under review.
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (11 Jul 2024)
Pearse Doherty: You cannot keep it under review because this is the last day. You cannot keep it under review unless you recall the Dáil.
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (11 Jul 2024)
Catherine Connolly: Páirtí an Lucht Oibre.
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (11 Jul 2024)
Pearse Doherty: For clarification, is the Tánaiste suggesting a recall of the Dáil in the next three weeks because today is the last day that they can stop their price hikes?