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- Finance (Local Property Tax and Other Provisions) (Amendment) Bill 2025: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Jun 2025)
Paschal Donohoe: The option is also open to people to pay weekly as opposed to paying it off in a single go. On the choices that are there, to deal with the options put forward by Deputy Doherty, we differ and we will do so respectfully much of the time. On the point he made about the third rate of income tax, the third rate of income tax would be a rate of income tax that we would charge to people who...
- Finance (Local Property Tax and Other Provisions) (Amendment) Bill 2025: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Jun 2025)
Pearse Doherty: I move amendment No. 2: In page 3, between lines 23 and 24, to insert the following: "Report outlining a roadmap for the removal of local property tax from principal private residences without loss of revenue to local authorities 3. The Minister shall, within 3 months of the passing of this Act, prepare and lay before Dáil Éireann a report outlining a roadmap for the removal...
- Finance (Local Property Tax and Other Provisions) (Amendment) Bill 2025: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Jun 2025)
Amendment put: The Committee divided: Tá, 64; Níl, 82; Staon, 0. Tellers: Tá, Deputies Pearse Doherty and Pádraig Mac Lochlainn; Níl, Deputies Mary Butler and Emer Currie.
- Finance (Local Property Tax and Other Provisions) (Amendment) Bill 2025: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Jun 2025)
Tá Cathy Bennett, John Brady, Pat Buckley, Joanna Byrne, Matt Carthy, Sorca Clarke, Michael Collins, Catherine Connolly, Rose Conway-Walsh, Seán Crowe, David Cullinane, Jen Cummins, Pa Daly, Máire Devine, Pearse Doherty, Paul Donnelly, Dessie Ellis, Aidan Farrelly, Mairéad Farrell, Gary Gannon, Sinéad Gibney, Thomas Gould, Johnny Guirke, Eoin Hayes, Rory Hearne,...
- Finance (Local Property Tax and Other Provisions) (Amendment) Bill 2025: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Jun 2025)
Amendment declared lost.
- Finance (Local Property Tax and Other Provisions) (Amendment) Bill 2025: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Jun 2025)
Paschal Donohoe: I thank the Deputy for raising this matter. I thank Deputies, despite the varying views on the legislation, for the opportunity to take the Bill through the Dáil this evening. A six-year exemption from local property tax, LPT, applies to certain properties that have been affected by the use of defective concrete blocks in their construction. The 2021 LPT Act provided that...
- Finance (Local Property Tax and Other Provisions) (Amendment) Bill 2025: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Jun 2025)
Pearse Doherty: I thank the Minister for clarifying that thousands of families in homes with defective blocks will have to continue to pay local property tax. That is the reality. The defective blocks are there. The fact only 1,000 have an exemption shows the restrictive measures in place. There are families living with this horror and this nightmare. Let us be clear: the local property tax will not...
- Message from Select Committee (25 Jun 2025)
- Message from Select Committee (25 Jun 2025)
Ruairí Ó Murchú: The Select Committee on Social Protection, Rural and Community Development has completed its consideration of the Social Welfare (Bereaved Partner's Pension) Bill 2025, made amendments thereto and amended the Title to read as follows: An Act to amend and extend the Social Welfare Acts; to make consequential amendments to the Taxes Consolidation Act 1997, to amend the Family Courts Act 2024;...
- Finance (Local Property Tax and Other Provisions) (Amendment) Bill 2025: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Jun 2025)
- Finance (Local Property Tax and Other Provisions) (Amendment) Bill 2025: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Jun 2025)
Sections 1 and 2 agreed to.
- Finance (Local Property Tax and Other Provisions) (Amendment) Bill 2025: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Jun 2025)
NEW SECTIONS
- Finance (Local Property Tax and Other Provisions) (Amendment) Bill 2025: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Jun 2025)
Pearse Doherty: I move amendment No. 1: In page 3, between lines 23 and 24, to insert the following: “Report on the accessibility of the local property tax exemption for those affected by defective concrete blocks 3. The Minister shall, within 3 months of the passing of this Act, prepare and lay before Dáil Éireann a report on the accessibility of the local property tax exemption for...
- Mental Health Bill 2024: Committee Stage (Resumed) (25 Jun 2025)
Mary Butler: I move amendment No. 283: In page 160, after line 13, to insert the following: “PART 9 CONSEQUENTIAL AMENDMENTS TO OTHER ACTSAmendment of Defence Act 1954 208. The Defence Act 1954 is amended— (a) in section 202— (i) in subsection (1)(b), by the substitution of “such person has a mental disorder (within the meaning of the Mental Health Act 2025) that...
- Mental Health Bill 2024: Committee Stage (Resumed) (25 Jun 2025)
Amendment agreed to.
- Mental Health Bill 2024: Committee Stage (Resumed) (25 Jun 2025)
Mary Butler: I move amendment No. 284: In page 160, after line 13, to insert the following: “Amendment of Coroners Act 1962 209. (1) The Coroners Act 1962 is amended— (a) in section 2, in the definition of “State custody or detention”— (i) by the deletion of paragraph (d), and (ii) by the insertion of the following paragraph after paragraph (d): ...
- Mental Health Bill 2024: Committee Stage (Resumed) (25 Jun 2025)
Amendment agreed to.
- Mental Health Bill 2024: Committee Stage (Resumed) (25 Jun 2025)
Mary Butler: I move amendment No. 285: In page 160, after line 13, to insert the following: “Amendment of Act of 1991 210. The Act of 1991 is amended— (a) in section 23F(2)(b)(ii), by the substitution of “Mental Health Act 2025” for “Mental Health Act 2001”, (b) in section 23H(1)(c)(ii), by the substitution of “Mental Health Act 2025” for...
- Mental Health Bill 2024: Committee Stage (Resumed) (25 Jun 2025)
Amendment agreed to.
- Mental Health Bill 2024: Committee Stage (Resumed) (25 Jun 2025)
Mary Butler: I move amendment No. 286: In page 160, after line 13, to insert the following: “Amendment of Bail Act 1997 211. Section 9A of the Bail Act 1997 is amended, in subsection (7), by the substitution of the following definition for the definition of “mental disorder”: “ ‘mental disorder’ means a mental disorder (within the meaning...