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

Pearse Doherty: The Minister is also on the record as misleading the Dáil.

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

Catherine Connolly: The amendment has been formally moved. Is there anybody here to press that amendment? No, so the amendment falls.

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

Amendment, by leave, withdrawn.

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

Section 1 agreed to.

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

SECTION 2

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

Question proposed: "That section 2 stand part of the Bill."

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

Pearse Doherty: On section 2 of the Bill, which deals with the rate of charge in relation to USC, this is not the way the tax package should have been introduced and I will speak to this point more generally in respect of my own amendment. There absolutely was, however, a fairer way to do that. We in Sinn Féin have put on the record that if we have the opportunity to lead the next Government, we will...

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: On a point of order, are the amendments dealing with USC in the next section?

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

Catherine Connolly: I am not sure what section they are on but on this section, there are no amendments. There are no amendments on section 2 but Deputy Doherty wanted to speak to this section, which is perfectly in order.

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

Martin Browne: Workers have had it bad enough with the cost-of-living increases, rents and house prices, increased fuel costs and the LPT increases imposed by Government parties and others who choose to align themselves with the Government parties, such as Labour and some independent councillors in my own constituency. We need to see the abolition of USC for the workers whose means are not sufficient to...

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

Jack Chambers: This section of the Bill amends section 531AN of the Taxes Consolidation Act 1997 to give effect to the two changes to the universal social charge that were announced in budget 2025. First, the ceiling of the second rate of USC, that is, the 2% rate, will increase to take account of the increase in the national minimum wage. It is increasing by 80 cent per hour, that is, from €12.70...

Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Control of Economic Activity (Occupied Territories) Bill 2018: Discussion (5 Nov 2024)

Micheál Martin: I will ask the legal advice to come in.

Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Control of Economic Activity (Occupied Territories) Bill 2018: Discussion (5 Nov 2024)

Micheál Martin: We have signed a money message, which contradicts the Deputy's point. The Government has approved the progression of the Bill.

Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Control of Economic Activity (Occupied Territories) Bill 2018: Discussion (5 Nov 2024)

Micheál Martin: We have, actually.

Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Control of Economic Activity (Occupied Territories) Bill 2018: Discussion (5 Nov 2024)

Micheál Martin: The money message has been signed, or issued or whatever the terminology is.

Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Control of Economic Activity (Occupied Territories) Bill 2018: Discussion (5 Nov 2024)

Micheál Martin: The Deputy's party representatives would have ongoing-----

Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Control of Economic Activity (Occupied Territories) Bill 2018: Discussion (5 Nov 2024)

Micheál Martin: No.

Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Control of Economic Activity (Occupied Territories) Bill 2018: Discussion (5 Nov 2024)

Micheál Martin: The Deputy knows my views on The Ditch. It is as much a political organisation as anything else. Those involved have their views and they are entitled to have their views in a democracy, but The Ditch can also contrive how it reports things. There will always be communication between embassies. Notwithstanding whatever communications come from any embassy, we have issued a money message.

Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Control of Economic Activity (Occupied Territories) Bill 2018: Discussion (5 Nov 2024)

Micheál Martin: No, it is not unfair. I think the Deputy is referring to a report in The Ditch about the Minister, Deputy Donohoe, talking to the Israeli ambassador. That never happened. He is not here to defend himself but he has been adamant that such a conversation did not happen and he was not spoken to. It is not fair to draw conclusions from a conversation that did not occur.

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

Jack Chambers: To speak about the amendment tabled, the specific wording proposed by the Deputies would have no effect if incorporated into the Finance Bill. For this reason, I cannot accept it. The proposed amendment is to section 1, which provides for the meaning of words in Part 1. Inserting a definition here does not change the meaning of words in the Taxes Consolidation Act 1997 and, as such, the...