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Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Service 2024
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (Supplementary) (16 Oct 2024)

Alan Farrell: I thank Deputy O’Rourke. For my part, before I call in Deputy Feighan, I wish to say that it is fantastic to see this project working so quickly and efficiently. The additional information the Minister of State provided with regard to the number of homes that are being connected, at 10,000 per week-----

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Service 2024
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (Supplementary) (16 Oct 2024)

Alan Farrell: Per month excuse me. It is a pretty astonishing number. It is fantastic to see. Arising from Deputy O'Rourke's contribution in respect of areas in urban environments where there are gaps, I am aware of a further gap. It might be a matter for ComReg but the Minister of State might have a view on it or it might have arisen before. There are a number of estates built in the noughties with...

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Service 2024
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (Supplementary) (16 Oct 2024)

Alan Farrell: For an inferior service.

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Service 2024
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (Supplementary) (16 Oct 2024)

Alan Farrell: Will that require transposition into Irish law?

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Service 2024
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (Supplementary) (16 Oct 2024)

Alan Farrell: That is very welcome information. I thank the Minister of State. What does the European Act envisage in the scenario where there is a notionally privately owned duct in a private estate? We need to bear in mind that these are not public estates. These are invariably apartment complexes where an arrangement was made and the builder has gone off the scene. It is a private management...

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Service 2024
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (Supplementary) (16 Oct 2024)

Alan Farrell: I thank the Minister of State. That was very informative and helpful.

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Service 2024
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (Supplementary) (16 Oct 2024)

Alan Farrell: I hope somebody from the Competition and Consumer Protection Commission is listening because it also offers that service. I agree with the Deputy that bonkers.ie is a good example.

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Service 2024
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (Supplementary) (16 Oct 2024)

Alan Farrell: The Minister of State is correct. The interest rate is 3% for the State-backed loan scheme for retrofitting. It was slightly off the Estimate.

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Service 2024
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (Supplementary) (16 Oct 2024)

Alan Farrell: Before we conclude, while we are on the subject of State support for general retrofits, the Minister of State mentioned VAT. It is not uniform across retrofitting products. We as a State need to revisit that decision. There are currently two different rates for construction-related products, such as heat pumps, for retrofitting. People are not sure what rate they should pay, in particular...

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Service 2024
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (Supplementary) (16 Oct 2024)

Alan Farrell: The Minister of State is absolutely right. It is often the people who need the support the most who are the ones in need of getting the job done. That is why a rate of 10% or 13% is important. Doing a retrofit does not involve a small amount of money. I thank the Minister of State and his officials for engaging with the committee. As we have now completed our consideration of...

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Message to Dáil (16 Oct 2024)

Alan Farrell: In accordance with Standing Order 101, the following message will be sent to the Clerk of the Dáil: The Select Committee on Transport and Communications has completed its consideration of the following Supplementary Estimate for public services for the year ending 31 December 2024: Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications.

Finance Bill 2024: Second Stage (16 Oct 2024)

Ruairi Ó Murchú: It is another year, another budget, and another finance Bill, and we have a continuity of unfairness. We have not had the levelling-out with the huge resources we have with regard to those who have and those who do not. This is the Government's final budget. We are talking about the same two-tier income tax package we have come to expect. The cost-of-living crisis is obviously not over...

Finance Bill 2024: Second Stage (16 Oct 2024)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: The Deputy might try tabling an amendment to the Bill to address those interesting matters.

Finance Bill 2024: Second Stage (16 Oct 2024)

James Lawless: That is what parliamentary questions are for.

Finance Bill 2024: Second Stage (16 Oct 2024)

Ruairi Ó Murchú: They would have to go through six months or more. He would be happy enough if he could do the test now but he said there was a possibility of a digicard with the New Zealand licence, and even if there was, there is the timeline anomaly with regard to it. However, there is an overall solution that needs to be implemented, such as a bilateral agreement. I thank the Ceann Comhairle for his...

Finance Bill 2024: Second Stage (16 Oct 2024)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: I thank Deputy Ó Murchú. He is a man of great versatility. Deputy Boyd Barrett is next.

Finance Bill 2024: Second Stage (16 Oct 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is a remarkable achievement by the Government that it has a budget surplus of, I think, €25 billion. The Minister of State can correct me if I am wrong. I think it is €25 billion or in that region. It has a windfall of €13 billion plus in Apple tax money that it did not want because it would have preferred that Apple, a staggeringly wealthy and profitable company,...

Finance Bill 2024: Second Stage (16 Oct 2024)

Róisín Shortall: I very much welcome the opportunity to again discuss budget measures. I will concentrate, in particular, on tax measures contained in budget 2025 that, overall, are bad for the public and bad for the State. Budget 2025 can only be characterised as a naked attempt to buy the election. As I said on budget day, it has all the hallmarks of a Bertie budget. The Government's overriding...

Finance Bill 2024: Second Stage (16 Oct 2024)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: I thank Deputy Nash. For another Louth perspective, I call Deputy Fergus O'Dowd.

Finance Bill 2024: Second Stage (16 Oct 2024)

Fergus O'Dowd: I call on all the people who have any knowledge of the disappearance and murder of that young boy in Drogheda to co-operate fully with the Garda. It is very important. What we have been told today is shocking and traumatic and everybody who can help should. I welcome this budget. There are many important things in it, which I welcome. In particular, I will talk about older people....