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- Finance Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (5 Nov 2024)
Question declared carried.
- Finance Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (5 Nov 2024)
Michael Healy-Rae: There is no time as good as the present for gauging public opinion. I have been canvassing and knocking on people's doors and meeting them in their places of work. The one thing that is coming back - I am sure the Minister will be very interested in this, and I presume he is hearing it himself - is that people can pick good and bad out of the budget but the one thing that an awful lot of...
- Finance Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (5 Nov 2024)
Pearse Doherty: We voted against it.
- Finance Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (5 Nov 2024)
Michael Healy-Rae: No, Sinn Féin supported it.
- Finance Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (5 Nov 2024)
Pearse Doherty: No, we voted against it.
- Finance Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (5 Nov 2024)
Michael Healy-Rae: I will put on the record what was actually said. I would like to think that my memory is fairly sharp. At the time it was said across the floor of this House, obviously not to the Minister but to the person in charge at the time, that he was not going far enough, fast enough. This was with regard to taxation on carbon. That was what Sinn Féin said at the time. That must be...
- Finance Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (5 Nov 2024)
Pearse Doherty: The Deputy was not even here when it was voted on. He did not turn up to vote on the Finance Bill.
- Finance Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (5 Nov 2024)
Michael Healy-Rae: I am seeking the protection of the Ceann Comhairle because I do not want to take up too much time. However, I am making that point. That was said.
- Finance Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (5 Nov 2024)
Seán Ó Fearghaíl: I ask Deputy Doherty to restrain himself.
- Finance Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (5 Nov 2024)
Michael Healy-Rae: On carbon tax, Sinn Féin said the Government was not going far enough, quick enough, and that is on the record of the Dáil. I would take that back if I were wrong but it is on the record of the Dáil that the leader of the Sinn Féin Party said at that time that the Government was not putting enough tax on people. Sinn Féin then came in here complaining about it...
- Finance Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (5 Nov 2024)
Mattie McGrath: It flip flops.
- Finance Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (5 Nov 2024)
Michael Healy-Rae: It flip flops, yes Mattie.
- Finance Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (5 Nov 2024)
Pearse Doherty: Half of the Rural Independents did not turn up for the vote.
- Finance Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (5 Nov 2024)
Michael Healy-Rae: At present, when people look at the tax take out of their earnings they hurt very badly. When they go to the petrol pumps they hurt very badly because it is all tax, tax and more tax. As far as I can see, the Government is doing everything it can to penalise workers, to stop enterprise and to close down businesses. We asked - we actually begged - on behalf of people involved in business,...
- Finance Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (5 Nov 2024)
Pearse Doherty: I have submitted many amendments to the Bill. I am wondering why I went through this 274-page document in detail given that the guillotine is looming. I regret that. The Bill should never have been brought out of committee. We should have dealt with the Bill in committee. We have always facilitated the Government in respect of the passage of the legislation. Even when the Government of...
- Finance Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (5 Nov 2024)
Michael Collins: I will try to be brief. I will only speak for two to three minutes to give everybody else a chance. It is unfortunate that there is a guillotine here and we will not get an opportunity to speak on so many issues relating to the budget that are of great importance to the people of our country. It is a terrible situation that we have been forced into. There has been quite a lot of...
- Finance Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (5 Nov 2024)
Catherine Connolly: Deputy Danny Healy-Rae is next. There are just 26 minutes left for the debate.
- Finance Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (5 Nov 2024)
Danny Healy-Rae: In relation to spending money, taxes and USC, we have said previously that it is very important that people realise that when their money is being spent, it is being wasted. When the Government talks about housing - and it surely has done a lot of talking about housing - there is one avenue that it has not explored. We all know that there are so many vacant houses around the country, right...
- Finance Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (5 Nov 2024)
Seán Canney: First, I want to speak to the issue of the universal social charge. As many TDs have said, this was a temporary measure that was brought in at a time there was a call on people who were working to try to save this country. We have gone on too long taking this money and need to put a stop to this unworkable charge on people's earnings. It does not bear any resemblance to fairness any more....
- Finance Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (5 Nov 2024)
Catherine Connolly: I point out to Members that there are six speakers left in just 32 minutes.