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

Mattie McGrath: Fianna Fáil said it would abolish it

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

Paul Murphy: No, that was Fine Gael

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

Mattie McGrath: They are all the same.

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

Paul Murphy: I know they are.

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

Jack Chambers: That is to be factual in reply to Deputy McGrath's question. On Deputy Doherty's question, I have set out my perspective on the three changes we have made around personal tax credits, USC and the standard rate. Even if we were to use the median, the CSO figures published today show it is €43,000 for 2023. It is likely to be higher in 2024 and higher again in 2025, so many of the...

Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Control of Economic Activity (Occupied Territories) Bill 2018: Discussion (5 Nov 2024)

Micheál Martin: First the Department of Foreign Affairs will prepare amendments to be ready for the next Government. There has already been meeting between our officials and Senator Black and her team. That dialogue can continue but a new Government will want to have sight of the amendments as well. There will be a continuing dialogue.

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

Mattie McGrath: What happened to Fianna Fáil's promise before the last election that it was going to abolish the USC? Its members will go out canvassing on the doors again and make more promises. What credibility do they think they can have with people? Fianna Fáil and other parties promised they would abolish it. I remember when it was, to quote the late Albert Reynolds, "a temporary little...

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

Pearse Doherty: What is the Minister's view of middle income? He talked about middle-income workers and all the rest. Will he clarify to the House his definition of "middle income"? Does he use CSO data for example, which tells us that the median income in 2023 was €43,221? I am sure people would accept that definition of "middle income". However, as the CSO tells us, that excludes everybody who...

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

Jack Chambers: When you take the progressivity of all these measures, the effective tax rate of someone on €25,000 has gone from 12.5% to 9.4% in five years. That is a low-income worker. Someone on €35,000 has gone from 17.1% to 14.4%. Someone on €40,000 has gone from 20.9% to 16%. Someone on €50,000 has gone from 26.4% to 20.6%. I can go on. It demonstrates the...

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

Pearse Doherty: I have two questions. The Minister talks about his tax package. I will answer the question he put to me. I would introduce a tax package that is fair. If I get the opportunity to sit where he is, as Minister for Finance, I will abolish the USC for average workers across the State. I will ensure that average workers never pay a tax introduced at that time by Fianna Fáil. I will...

Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Control of Economic Activity (Occupied Territories) Bill 2018: Discussion (5 Nov 2024)

Micheál Martin: On purchases from the occupied territories, we have made our decision on defence procurement.

Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Control of Economic Activity (Occupied Territories) Bill 2018: Discussion (5 Nov 2024)

Micheál Martin: The State does not buy anything from the occupied territories.

Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Control of Economic Activity (Occupied Territories) Bill 2018: Discussion (5 Nov 2024)

Micheál Martin: Yes.

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

Jack Chambers: As the Deputy knows, the committee of which he is a member agreed to postpone the specific hearing on that to get legal advice. Everyone agrees there is a need to take action in the context of the FSPO and the amendment that is required and the Government has said that. That is why, what I have set out in the context of the CCMA, is the overall consumer protection code-----

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

Pearse Doherty: They do not have the same protection.

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

Jack Chambers: -----and what we have said is that the legislation is waiting for a date from the committee.

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

Pearse Doherty: No, the Minister said they had the same protection and he should withdraw that comment.

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

Jack Chambers: I have set out the context on the CCMA, which is factually correct.

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

Pearse Doherty: It is not.