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Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Fuel Prices (4 Jul 2024)

Neale Richmond: Two years ago, the Deputy was demanding an early budget.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Fuel Prices (4 Jul 2024)

Pearse Doherty: Two years ago it was Covid and exceptional circumstances so there was an early budget. I am making the point that the Minister is deciding to go into the budget without sight of the crucial September tax returns, which every previous Minister for Finance has said is crucial to the input of the budget. That is fine if they want to bring it forward but let us not pretend it is because of a...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Fuel Prices (4 Jul 2024)

Jack Chambers: I am not sure what question the Deputy is asking. Is he talking about the actual parliamentary question he asked or is he asking about the date of the budget? As he knows, Sinn Féin called for an earlier budget two years ago when we were responding to the cost-of-living challenges. We have to submit our wider fiscal and budgetary framework to the European Commission, as he will be...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Fuel Prices (4 Jul 2024)

Pearse Doherty: But the Government will not have the September figures.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Fuel Prices (4 Jul 2024)

Jack Chambers: To respond to the Deputy's question, I have said that we will keep this matter of excise under review. We have seen a reduction in the national average prices, which in May were €1.84 and €1.78, and the most recent prices as of 1 July were €1.77 for petrol and €1.69 for diesel.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Fuel Prices (4 Jul 2024)

Pearse Doherty: To clarify, every Minister for Finance knows that the September returns are crucial. Deputy Chambers knows this as well. We know the importance of corporation tax here. Companies have to file by September. Is he telling this House that he is bringing forward the budget without sight of the September returns? This is what it appears to be. That is fine if he is making that decision but...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Fuel Prices (4 Jul 2024)

Neale Richmond: The question was on diesel prices.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Fuel Prices (4 Jul 2024)

Pearse Doherty: He is taking the public for fools. If he does not want to answer the question that is fine but it is not for the Minister of State; it is for the Minister for Finance. He is taking us for fools. That is a major decision to take. Yes, it is absolutely a decision the Minister can take but it actually reduces the data he has in framing the budget. Every single finance Minister has crucially...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Fuel Prices (4 Jul 2024)

Jack Chambers: What will set the wider budgetary and fiscal parameters is the summer economic statement, which we announce next week. That will set out the position on taxation and expenditure, and what is possible for budget 2025. The Deputy is posing a complete contradiction. First, he is calling for an election every day of the week in here. Second, we are actually committed to political stability...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Fuel Prices (4 Jul 2024)

Pearse Doherty: I am asking the Minister the question.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Fuel Prices (4 Jul 2024)

Jack Chambers: -----that is reflected by his party and its opposition to every European treaty and its opposition to our pro-trade and pro-enterprise policies, which actually reflect in the strong corporation tax figures, the strong income tax figures, and the strong tax figures we have seen more generally in June this year. Sinn Féin's policy is to abandon all fiscal prudence, spend as it likes and...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Tax Code (4 Jul 2024)

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Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Tax Code (4 Jul 2024)

Verona Murphy: 72. To ask the Minister for Finance the consideration he is giving to the reinstatement of the 9% VAT rate; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28769/24]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Tax Code (4 Jul 2024)

Verona Murphy: I am sure the Minister will be aware of the higher prices being charged in the tourism and hospitality sectors over recent years. The increasing costs of operating a business in the industry ultimately mean that the customer has to pay more for goods and services. At the moment the Government is playing a three-card trick on businesses. On the one hand, it is providing grants to businesses...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Tax Code (4 Jul 2024)

Jack Chambers: As the Deputy will be aware, the 9% VAT rate was applied on a temporary basis to the hospitality and tourism sectors until 31 August 2023 when it reverted to the 13.5% rate. The 9% rate was introduced on 1 November 2020 in recognition of the fact that the tourism and hospitality sectors were among those most impacted by the public health restrictions put in place throughout the pandemic....

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Tax Code (4 Jul 2024)

Verona Murphy: I know it is part of the consideration. The Minister just accused Deputy Doherty of being a eurosceptic. Maybe he is one himself, given that the VAT rate for hospitality is lower in other European countries and most major European cities. It is only 7% in France and Germany. In destinations such as Portugal it is 6% and Greece it is 6.5%. Spain and Italy are at 10% and yet we persist...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Television Licence Fee (4 Jul 2024)

Pearse Doherty: I asked the Minister a simple question and I ask for a simple answer: has he or his Department engaged with Revenue about the potential of collecting a new charge? Do not force me to put down a freedom of information request; these are questions to the Minister. This system is broken. One third of households do not pay for the TV licence and 9,000 people are dragged before the courts...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Television Licence Fee (4 Jul 2024)

Paul Murphy: The Minister gave the figures for payment levels, suggesting they indicated that the vast majority pay. I think he said 800,000 paid last year and 358,000 had paid halfway through this year. In total, there are 1.8 million households in the State, approximately 500,000 of which are exempt. That leaves 1.3 million households. The Minister said that over a half-year period, 400,000 people...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Television Licence Fee (4 Jul 2024)

Jack Chambers: What I said publicly is what I am restating here: a discussion is ongoing. We are committed to the introduction of a new sustainable and fair funding model and will make a decision on that in the coming weeks. In reply to Deputy Doherty's question, we are exploring all options for a new and reformed funding model with a contribution. As I said, we have not landed on any particular model...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Television Licence Fee (4 Jul 2024)

Paul Murphy: The Minister said the vast majority.