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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...

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

Robert Troy: I welcome the opportunity to contribute to this debate. Listening to Deputy Mattie McGrath most recently and earlier this evening, he failed to acknowledge that this is a much more fragmented Dáil. There are many political parties and each political party will contest the election on its own platform. This outgoing Government is a government of three very distinct and unique...

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

Paul Murphy: No we did not, as we point out every single time.

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

Danny Healy-Rae: What do you know? Sure you do not know whether your own son, baby is a boy or a girl.

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

Paul Murphy: Fuck off.