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

Jack Chambers: I acknowledge everyone who has spoken. There was a wide array of topics referred to and I will try to respond on some of them. On amendments numbers 2, 3 and 4, on the universal social charge, the Rural Independent Group has requested a report on the abolition of the charge for those earning less than €70,000 per annum and a report on abolishing the charge for all employees in the...

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

Joe Flaherty: We are speaking a lot about taxation. I want to address the issue of capital gains tax retirement relief changes to be made under section 55 of the Finance Bill 2024. I welcome aspects of the changes, in particular the €10 million limit, which will not now come into effect until 1 January 2025. I would suggest, however, that a small number of changes could be made that would...

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

Paul McAuliffe: I join my constituency colleague, Deputy Shortall, in speaking about the USC obligation on general practitioners involved in the GP Care for All practice. I note as a broader point the changes to the USC and welcome them. I think they will be very welcome for workers. I will return to them in a moment but I want to speak to the point Deputy Shortall raised. Since she said it might be her...

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

Rose Conway-Walsh: I know you are about to conclude this, a Leas-Cheann Comhairle, but I was struck by Deputy McAuliffe's comment that the Bill keeps people where they are because that is exactly what is coming back from this budget - the sense of injustice. People know that, come next February and March, they will be in the very same position as they were before this. It certainly keeps them in their place,...

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

Damien English: No, it has not. That is not factually true.

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

Pearse Doherty: That is fact. There are-----

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

Damien English: That is not true. Check your percentages. Go back to your percentages.

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

Pearse Doherty: Let me deal with this. Some 100,000 fewer under-40s own their own home today compared with when Fine Gael entered government.

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

Damien English: Go with your percentages.

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

Pearse Doherty: That is a fact. Home ownership has collapsed for the under-40s. That is fact. It has fallen by half. When Deputy English talks about wanting to give people a country that gives people the opportunity to come home again, I agree 100%. However, they did not leave because they could not get a job. That is not the reason they are leaving in such numbers. They are leaving because Fine Gael...

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

Damien English: Sinn Féin wants to cancel the schemes. It wants to cancel the two most important schemes.

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

Pearse Doherty: Fine Gael do not want to hear the truth. That is okay but the Deputy should have a little bit of múineadh, a little bit of manners.

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

Damien English: Explain your two schemes.

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

Pearse Doherty: Home ownership has collapsed under Fine Gael. As I have said, 100,000 fewer under-40s own their own home today as did before Fine Gael entered government. The average age at which a person first owns their own home in this State today is 39. All of these kids, these adults, know that their lives are on pause not because they cannot get a job or because the economy is not booming, but...

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

Paul McAuliffe: The Deputy is not speaking to the section.

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

Pearse Doherty: With respect, I will not take any lectures from Deputy McAuliffe either. He does not like to hear what the Government parties have done to the young generation of this State. Deputy English talked about giving people hope and an opportunity. I have responded to those comments. I am calling out the bull in the suggestion that people are leaving because of the economy. It is because of...

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

Róisín Shortall: A lot of nonsense has been spoken about housing here today, particularly by some of the Government representatives. When canvassing in the Dublin area, it is an entirely different story. House after house, I meet people who tell me about their two sons in their late 20s or 30s who are still living with them and who have no hope of getting a place to live. They tell me about their daughter...

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

Damien English: I welcome the changes to the USC and the tax bands. Contrary to the opinion that the higher rate of tax kicks in too late for some, we have to recognise, as Deputy Ó Cuív mentioned, that we are in a constant competition for talent and if our taxes on jobs are too high, we will lose jobs. I have listened to debates here inside out and upside since 2011 on the tax policy of the...

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

Pearse Doherty: I am the sponsor of amendment No. 3, which seeks a report on abolishing USC on the first €45,000 of the income of all workers. I made the point earlier on we are going into a general election and if I have the honour of going into government, that is exactly what I would do within the first two years as Minister for Finance. There would be no USC paid by average workers in this State...

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

Mattie McGrath: We can spend hours talking about this. USC, as I said at the outset, is a disingenuous, heinous and cruel tax that was brought in as a temporary arrangement after the crash. The coalition Government promised to abolish it. The Minister might shake his head and say that Fianna Fáil did not but they are one and the same now - totally hybrid. The Green Party members are hanging around...