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Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 Oct 2024)

Mary Lou McDonald: Scoil Mochua in Clondalkin provides education and disability supports to approximately 76 children from Dublin and the wider Leinster region. The children who attend the school have profound physical and intellectual disabilities. For 30 years, the school, its staff and its parents have worked together to transform the lives of hundreds of children. The school's patron is the Central...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 Oct 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: I thank the Deputy very much for raising what is a very important issue for the school and for education policy in general. I know she agrees that all the girls and boys who go to that school and their teachers deserve support and recognition in the learning received and the teaching provided. It is therefore very important that this issue be raised here today. I will comment on the...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 Oct 2024)

Mary Lou McDonald: For all that, schools are generally underfunded. This specific school is underfunded to the tune of €125,000, which is needed for heating, cleaning and insurance costs. The CRC has provided a backstop for the shortfall in money coming from the Department of Education. The Minister can tell the House if this has changed but the information I have been given is that Department is...

VAT Rate for Hospitality Sector: Motion [Private Members] (16 Oct 2024)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I thank Deputy Harkin. I thank the Minister of State and everyone else who spoke on the motion. I thank the Minister of State for his engagement on this. Everybody is entitled to their opinion and I acknowledge that Deputy Nash of the Labour Party has an amendment in. For people who go into business in their local areas, there seems to be a disconnect from what I would call the people in...

VAT Rate for Hospitality Sector: Motion [Private Members] (16 Oct 2024)

Amendment to amendment put.

VAT Rate for Hospitality Sector: Motion [Private Members] (16 Oct 2024)

Michael Ring: In accordance with Standing Order 80(2), the division is postponed until the weekly division time this evening.

VAT Rate for Hospitality Sector: Motion [Private Members] (16 Oct 2024)

Cuireadh an Dáil ar fionraí ar 11.54 a.m. agus cuireadh tús leis arís ar mheán lae. Sitting suspended at 11.54 a.m. and resumed at 12 noon.

VAT Rate for Hospitality Sector: Motion [Private Members] (16 Oct 2024)

Marian Harkin: I thank Deputy Fitzmaurice for drafting this motion, which I fully support. The motion proposes maintaining the 9% VAT rate for the hospitality sector. This is in the wider context of the huge increases in the past 12 to 18 months in the cost of doing business but specifically this morning, we are looking at the 9% VAT rate. In that context, let us look at our VAT rate on hospitality in...

VAT Rate for Hospitality Sector: Motion [Private Members] (16 Oct 2024)

Mattie McGrath: Gabhaim buíochas and I compliment the Independent Group for bringing forward this motion. I was delighted to meet Richard Gleeson, the vintners' representative, and Michael Foley, of Foley's Bar in Cashel. They run two fabulous establishments, one in Clonmel and one in Cashel as do the other publicans and the other people who were there yesterday. Some 600 such establishments have...

VAT Rate for Hospitality Sector: Motion [Private Members] (16 Oct 2024)

Neale Richmond: There is no basis for that comment, Deputy.

VAT Rate for Hospitality Sector: Motion [Private Members] (16 Oct 2024)

Michael Collins: I thank the Acting Chair. First, I think Deputy Fitzmaurice and the Independent Group of Deputies for putting forward this very worthy motion at this time. The Minister of State should remember one thing which is that all of these restaurants, cafés, pubs and hairdressers are small businesses. That is why the Government has them crushed. It is trying to crush them out of business....

VAT Rate for Hospitality Sector: Motion [Private Members] (16 Oct 2024)

Neale Richmond: I was down there two weeks ago.

VAT Rate for Hospitality Sector: Motion [Private Members] (16 Oct 2024)

Michael Collins: They came up yesterday. In one minute I will give the Minister of State time to talk and I will not interrupt his talking. They came up here yesterday out of their goodwill and took another few pounds out of their pockets. They were brought up here a couple of days before the budget, the VAT 9 group, and were codded to their eyeball by Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil. The Minister of...

VAT Rate for Hospitality Sector: Motion [Private Members] (16 Oct 2024)

Violet-Anne Wynne: The hospitality sector in Clare has been speaking and highlighting its struggles for the past number of months now. I pay tribute to Maurice Walsh and Michael Vaughan for doing exactly that. They have said that they are facing an Armageddon this winter if the Government does not respond to their loud pleas. We know that Shannon Airport has been doing fantastic and its passenger numbers are...

VAT Rate for Hospitality Sector: Motion [Private Members] (16 Oct 2024)

Neale Richmond: I welcome the opportunity to respond to the issues raised. I acknowledge the protests which came to Dublin yesterday and I believe I met all of the representative bodies many times in dealing with this, including the local businesses in my own community. I would like to acknowledge the role of the Cathaoirleach Gníomhach, Deputy Ring, in introducing the 9% VAT rate originally at a...

VAT Rate for Hospitality Sector: Motion [Private Members] (16 Oct 2024)

Matt Shanahan: I thank Deputy Fitzmaurice and his colleagues for bringing forward this motion, which speaks to support for all of the SME sector. Across the sector, there are significant challenges for SMEs, retailers, hairdressers, beauty salons and all service providers, as we heard on the streets yesterday. There are specific challenges for the food and hospitality sectors. This motion is calling for...

VAT Rate for Hospitality Sector: Motion [Private Members] (16 Oct 2024)

Michael Healy-Rae: I thank the Independent Group for bringing this important motion before the House. I thank the businesspeople, workers from around the country, who left their businesses yesterday to come to Dublin to outline their concerns. I thank the deputation from Kerry, which was led by Mr. Christie Walsh from Listowel, the chairman of the Vintners' Federation of Ireland. Also part of that deputation...

VAT Rate for Hospitality Sector: Motion [Private Members] (16 Oct 2024)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am glad of the opportunity to contribute. I too compliment all the traders from Kerry and from all around the country who were outside the gates of Leinster House yesterday to highlight their concerns about what has been happening. The fact that VAT has not been reduced to 9% is ensuring that more places will close, following those that have already closed. That is what the Government of...

VAT Rate for Hospitality Sector: Motion [Private Members] (16 Oct 2024)

Richard O'Donoghue: The Government has proved that it, and the Minister of State's Department, know nothing about business. Deputy Micheál Martin has said that the issues in respect of the hospitality sector need to be revisited. That is what he is saying now. Why is that the case? The Government did not cost it properly. The increase in VAT and the two increases to the minimum wage have affected...

VAT Rate for Hospitality Sector: Motion [Private Members] (16 Oct 2024)

Seán Canney: I welcome the motion from the Independent Group. It is important we look at the hospitality and pub sector in a different light. The pub is part of our tradition and culture and is a tourist attraction for people coming into the country. What I am finding happening on the ground is that pubs are downsizing. Where they had a big space, they have cut it down to a small bar size. They are...