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- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement (18 Sep 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Let me put it to you-----
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement (18 Sep 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Yes, I know. Nonetheless, that is a very worrying admission on the Minister’s part. Nobody is disputing that we need 50,000, 60,000 or maybe 70,000 houses a year but what the Minister seems to be saying is that it might be overheating the economy to try to deliver that. The Central Bank is talking about a timeline. Does the Minister accept that we are, therefore, facing a deficit...
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement (18 Sep 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: There are other ways around the overheating issue.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement (18 Sep 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: That sounds like we are facing into at least a decade, if not more, of a housing crisis. If we do not meet those targets, it is going to accumulate, just like the deficit we already have.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement (18 Sep 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I have a question on another area. There was an announcement in July of this year that the recruitment embargo had been lifted in the health service. I did not know at the time but have been informed by workers in my local hospital, St. Michael’s, and subsequently by the National Rehabilitation Hospital people when I went to the opening of the new wing there, and it has been...
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement (18 Sep 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: That is what I am being told by the workers.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement (18 Sep 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Even if the staffing levels are unsafe.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement (18 Sep 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I am saying that the staffing levels are unsafe.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement (18 Sep 2024)
Gerald Nash: I will conclude this element of the discussion and move on to the next speaker. I call Deputy Michael Healy-Rae.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement (18 Sep 2024)
Gerald Nash: I thank Deputy Healy-Rae very much. Would either Minister like to respond to the observations made by the Deputy?
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement (18 Sep 2024)
Gerald Nash: I will make some observations and ask some questions. There has been a great deal of media focus on the position the Minister, Deputy Chambers, seems to have adopted on the introduction of the residential zoned land tax. Has the Minister resolved the reported difficulties with the Green Party?
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement (18 Sep 2024)
Gerald Nash: Will the residential zoned land tax be introduced at that time it is supposed to be introduced?
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement (18 Sep 2024)
Gerald Nash: I assume the Minister has done considerable analysis with his officials on the potential revenue and has liaised with local authorities on this.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement (18 Sep 2024)
Gerald Nash: The local authorities were initially responsible-----
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement (18 Sep 2024)
Gerald Nash: -----in terms of gathering the data and that is as it should be. There is an opportunity to propose that people who are actively farming, as the Minister has described-----
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement (18 Sep 2024)
Gerald Nash: I do not mean to be obtuse, and I certainly would not be obtuse with the Minister, but it seems that something is missing from this discussion. I go back to my experience on local authorities many years ago when developing master plans for rapidly developing areas. It is open to landowners to have their land dezoned. As far as the Minister is aware and his officials can establish, of...
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement (18 Sep 2024)
Gerald Nash: As well as that, there is no single panacea for addressing the housing shortage we have. We are well aware of the labour shortages we have in this country in terms of even meeting the Government's own modest targets in housing delivery. This is certainly key to unlocking Ireland's potential to house those who need homes and enabling us to reach our economic potential. I hope there are no...
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement (18 Sep 2024)
Gerald Nash: I read a headline in The Examiner this afternoon that read something to the effect that the Minister will not abolish inheritance tax.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement (18 Sep 2024)
Gerald Nash: I expect tomorrow that you will say you are not abolishing VAT, income tax or corporation tax.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement (18 Sep 2024)
Gerald Nash: Well done. To be fair, the Minister does not write the headlines.