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Finance Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (5 Nov 2024)

Gerald Nash: People who in all my years in the Dáil have not appeared at a finance committee hearing at all or the consideration of a Finance Bill.

Finance Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (5 Nov 2024)

Catherine Connolly: The Deputy is not listening. Dúirt sé "mar fhocal scoir". Bhí sé díreach chun chríochnú.

Finance Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (5 Nov 2024)

Mattie McGrath: Mar fhocal scoir. I did. I said the major bondholders went off scot-free, although they had insurance bonds, so the Irish people were doubly robbed by the bailout and the USC the Government promised it would get rid of.

Finance Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (5 Nov 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: This is what happens when a Finance Bill is guillotined. We end up with a shambolic Committee Stage where there is no actual scrutiny of the Bill and everyone is forced to try to shoehorn in any points they want to make into the first grouping of amendments. That is what has happened today. People have no choice at this stage. There is very little time left. They want to raise issues and...

Finance Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (5 Nov 2024)

Damien English: No, I was referring to people from here.

Finance Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (5 Nov 2024)

Mattie McGrath: Can I continue? Many of them are coming in here for refugee status and many are economic migrants. They will be coming back in. If the Government members are honest with themselves, they know from knocking at the doors they are meeting parents who have tears in their eyes because their brightest and best and loved ones are abroad. They have married, settled down and are having children...

Finance Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (5 Nov 2024)

Róisín Shortall: The Minister could facilitate it.

Finance Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (5 Nov 2024)

Jack Chambers: Sorry?

Finance Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (5 Nov 2024)

Róisín Shortall: You could facilitate a change-----

Finance Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (5 Nov 2024)

Jack Chambers: We have set out the-----

Finance Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (5 Nov 2024)

Róisín Shortall: You facilitated corporate bodies for general practice.

Finance Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (5 Nov 2024)

Jack Chambers: There has been no legal or administrative change. They are working together to try to deliver an operating model that allows them to continue that important work.

Finance Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (5 Nov 2024)

Róisín Shortall: A taxation change is required.

Finance Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (5 Nov 2024)

Catherine Connolly: We will move on. I pay tribute to Deputy Shortall. I know many TDs are retiring but I think the Deputy's history is unprecedented in the history of the Dáil, with 32 years as a female TD. I do not think it has happened in the history of the Dáil. Comhghairdeas agus go n-éirí léi. It is important to acknowledge that.

Finance Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (5 Nov 2024)

Róisín Shortall: Thank you very much, a Leas-Cheann Comhairle.

Finance Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (5 Nov 2024)

Mattie McGrath: And so say all of us.

Finance Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (5 Nov 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Well done, Deputy Shortall.

Finance Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (5 Nov 2024)

Catherine Connolly: I will go back to the list. Deputy McGrath is at the top of it.

Finance Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (5 Nov 2024)

Mattie McGrath: I would like to be associated with the tribute to an Teachta Shortall. Thirty-two years is a long time. What is the song? Twenty-one years is long but 32 years is much longer for a female. Well done to the Deputy. I wish her the best of luck. We have been around the Houses and the Minister has had his backbenchers in to praise his fiscal policy. If any ordinary business person...

Finance Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (5 Nov 2024)

Jack Chambers: I acknowledge everyone who has spoken. There was a wide array of topics referred to and I will try to respond on some of them. On amendments numbers 2, 3 and 4, on the universal social charge, the Rural Independent Group has requested a report on the abolition of the charge for those earning less than €70,000 per annum and a report on abolishing the charge for all employees in the...