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Financial Resolutions 2024 - Budget Statement 2025 (1 Oct 2024)

Pearse Doherty: The Government needs the scale of ambition to match what has been put forward by Sinn Féin. The truth hurts, as we hear from the heckling here. It is a sore point that not a single extra social or affordable home above the existing targets have been provided. We have long campaigned for the renter's tax credit. Do you remember that one, Paschal? You fought me tooth and nail on...

Financial Resolutions 2024 - Budget Statement 2025 (1 Oct 2024)

Bernard Durkan: Negativity.

Financial Resolutions 2024 - Budget Statement 2025 (1 Oct 2024)

Pearse Doherty: Under the watch of Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil, what has happened to the average rents? That is for existing rents. The increase for new rents is actually way higher than that. It is the same across the State. The tax credit the Minister is providing is going into the pockets of the landlords but I suspect he knew that all along. It is just another way to feather the nests of...

Financial Resolutions 2024 - Budget Statement 2025 (1 Oct 2024)

Pearse Doherty: This is the last budget from this Government and like all others there will be a spending increase. But the question we must ask ourselves, as with all other budgets, is if it will make the big difference that people need in their lives and the difference they are crying out for. Will it address the housing crisis, and make housing affordable, as laid out by Sinn Féin? The answer is...

Financial Resolutions 2024 - Budget Statement 2025 (1 Oct 2024)

Joe McHugh: Hear, hear.

Financial Resolutions 2024 - Budget Statement 2025 (1 Oct 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: We are working to maintain a safe and secure Ireland and to support where we can overseas. DEFENCE Crucial to this goal is the work of the Defence Forces, for which I am announcing an allocation of €1.35 billion for 2025. This is a 22% increase in the capital investment to a record allocation of €215 million to enable the advancement of major defence equipment and...

Financial Resolutions 2024 - Budget Statement 2025 (1 Oct 2024)

Pearse Doherty: You forgot about your bike shed.

Financial Resolutions 2024 - Budget Statement 2025 (1 Oct 2024)

Seán Crowe: And the children's hospital.

Financial Resolutions 2024 - Budget Statement 2025 (1 Oct 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: Today, I am providing an additional €1.7 billion for 2025 for more homes and schools, for improvements in our hospitals and to tackle climate change. This will include an investment of €400 million in the national broadband plan. Next year, total capital investment will be close to €15 billion, the highest annual spend ever in our country. As we focus on infrastructure...

Financial Resolutions 2024 - Budget Statement 2025 (1 Oct 2024)

Mattie McGrath: If they have a GP.

Financial Resolutions 2024 - Budget Statement 2025 (1 Oct 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: To provide further support to families raising children, two double payments of child benefit will be made to all qualifying households in November and December. There will also be a double payment of the foster care allowance. To ensure our supports are targeted to those families who need them most, a €400 lump-sum payment will be made to recipients of the working family payment...

Financial Resolutions 2024 - Budget Statement 2025 (1 Oct 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: At the right cost.

Financial Resolutions 2024 - Budget Statement 2025 (1 Oct 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: -----at the right time. ADDING TO OUR INFRASTRUCTURE I wish, therefore, to briefly address the funding arising from the recent decision of the Court of Justice of the European Union. These funds are estimated to have a current value of €14.1 billion. This is, as the Minister, Deputy Chambers, acknowledged, a very significant amount of money.

Financial Resolutions 2024 - Budget Statement 2025 (1 Oct 2024)

A Deputy: You did not want it.

Financial Resolutions 2024 - Budget Statement 2025 (1 Oct 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: We also need to recognise that this amount is one-off and equal to the sum we are already planning to invest in the national development plan next year alone. It is vital, therefore, that we make the best use of these funds and get the best outcome for the long term. The Government has agreed the principle that these funds will be invested to expand our infrastructure for the future...

Financial Resolutions 2024 - Budget Statement 2025 (1 Oct 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: Thank you, a Cheann Comhairle. INTRODUCTION Today’s budget sets out a positive path for the future while striving to meet the needs of today. It is a budget for an Ireland with a growing population, full employment, public finances in surplus and public services expanding to meet our country’s needs. This positive position is the result of a balanced and planned approach...

Financial Resolutions 2024 - Budget Statement 2025 (1 Oct 2024)

Mattie McGrath: You broke your heart.

Financial Resolutions 2024 - Budget Statement 2025 (1 Oct 2024)

Jack Chambers: -----with immediate effect. BANK LEVY I will extend the bank levy for a further year, with a target yield of €200 million. It remains appropriate that the sector continues to make a contribution to the Irish economy following the support it received during the financial crisis. STAMP DUTY ON HIGH VALUE RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY I have decided to increase the rate of stamp duty...

Financial Resolutions 2024 - Budget Statement 2025 (1 Oct 2024)

Mattie McGrath: What about the aeroplanes?

Financial Resolutions 2024 - Budget Statement 2025 (1 Oct 2024)

Jack Chambers: -----to part fund a socially progressive national retrofitting and energy efficiency programme, and to encourage and support farmers in the green transition. HEAT PUMPS I have decided to lower the VAT rate charged on the installation of heat pumps from the standard rate at 23% to the 9% reduced rate. This measure will complement the Government's national retrofit plan to transform...