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Financial Resolution No. 1: Excise (1 Oct 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: I move: (1) THAT for the purposes of the tax charged by virtue of section 72 of the Finance Act 2005 (No. 5 of 2005), that Act be amended, with effect as on and from 2 October 2024, by substituting the following for Schedule 2 to that Act (as amended by section 53 of the Finance (No. 2) Act 2023 (No. 39 of 2023)): “SCHEDULE 2 RATES OF TOBACCO PRODUCTS TAX (With effect as on and...

Financial Resolution No. 1: Excise (1 Oct 2024)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: They are grouped for discussion so they must be discussed together.

Financial Resolution No. 1: Excise (1 Oct 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: Financial Resolution No. 1 provides for the excise duty increases on tobacco products with effect from midnight tonight. The increase amounts to €1, inclusive of VAT, on a packet of 20 cigarettes in the most popular price category, together with pro rata increases for other tobacco products. The price of a packet of 20 cigarettes in the most popular category, assuming the full...

Financial Resolution No. 1: Excise (1 Oct 2024)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: Speakers will have approximately two minutes each.

Financial Resolution No. 1: Excise (1 Oct 2024)

David Cullinane: I will speak to Financial Resolution No. 2 on the VAT on gas and electricity. Households continue to struggle under the weight of high energy bills. We know that electricity prices over the past three years have increased by almost 50% and gas prices have increased by more than 84%. Irish electricity prices remain among the highest in the European Union. All the while this is happening,...

Financial Resolution No. 1: Excise (1 Oct 2024)

Gerald Nash: I will move a Labour Party amendment to Financial Resolution No. 2. The Government motion intends to extend the 9% rate of VAT on electricity and gas until 30 April 2025. The measure is projected to cost €110 million, inclusive of November and December 2024, as it expires on 31 October. In our alternative budget, published last week, the Labour Party proposed this measure should be...

Financial Resolution No. 1: Excise (1 Oct 2024)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: I ask other Deputies to speak for one minute each please.

Financial Resolution No. 1: Excise (1 Oct 2024)

Matt Carthy: I know I am known for my brevity but-----

Financial Resolution No. 1: Excise (1 Oct 2024)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: You could take up the whole four minutes if you want and then there would be no response.

Financial Resolution No. 1: Excise (1 Oct 2024)

Matt Carthy: I will try not to. I want to speak to Financial Resolution No. 1 on the increase in the price of cigarettes and tobacco products. This is not a popular thing to say but I am completely opposed to such a hike in the cost of cigarettes. I believe it is vindictive. It will not deliver the stated ambition of the Government. Yes, rates of smoking dropped from 27% in 2024 to 17% in 2019. This...

Financial Resolution No. 1: Excise (1 Oct 2024)

Michael Healy-Rae: On behalf of every adult person in Ireland who smokes I absolutely object to this massive increase. Of course we want to see a society where people do not smoke but there are people who are dependent on cigarettes. It is not so much that they enjoy it but it is part of what they do. I totally disagree with what the Minister said earlier, whereby he said it was the continuous increase in...

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

Cuireadh an Dáil ar fionraí ar 8.09 p.m. agus cuireadh tús leis arís ar 8.30 p.m. Sitting suspended at 8.09 p.m. and resumed at 8.30 p.m.

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

Marian Harkin: There was a lot of money available to the Government so there are positive aspects to this budget and measures I agree with, including the Future Ireland Fund and the Infrastructure, Climate and Nature Fund. I actually voted for them in the previous budget and am glad to see they are being continued and that the Government is investing more in Irish Water and in the Land Development Agency....

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

Joan Collins: My contribution will be an overview of the budget and its context. It was a huge opportunity for the Government to examine the fundamentals in our society that need to be addressed. Instead, this budget is the final nail in the coffin for any idea that Fianna Fáil, Fine Gael and the Green Party Government has any plans or intentions to address the problems the country is facing. They...

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

Catherine Connolly: The Parliamentary Budget Office prepared a paper for us, which stated: "It has to be acknowledged that the political cycle provides little incentive to plan for medium or long-term needs." It acknowledged that point, and that each Government is driven by short-term needs. However, notwithstanding that acknowledgement, the continuation of that approach by this Government is particularly...

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

Michael Fitzmaurice: I welcome the opportunity to speak on the budget. Like most Deputies, I welcome the increases for carers and our elderly. Childcare supports and the €2,000 increase in the threshold before entering the higher tax bracket are also welcome. Nobody will be against these changes. The only problem is that today is a day when the Government has a lot of money. We did not have a fraction...

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

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: We now go to the Independent Group. Deputy Thomas Pringle to begin and he is sharing time with his colleagues.

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

Thomas Pringle: I have said this in every one of my budget speeches over the last three years but I find this whole debate a bit of a farce. We knew exactly what would be in the budget long before it was laid before us. I read the full breakdown of budget measures in The Irish Times yesterday, which is beyond ridiculous. Why do we continue with the farce of a budget day special when it is all out there...

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

Richard O'Donoghue: I would like to put forward a question to the people in Ireland and to all the different generations of people who have voted for Fianna Fáil, Fine Gael, the Green Party and other parties. I ask them today whether their children and grandchildren are for sale because that is what this budget is. The Government is trying to buy the votes of those who have voted for those parties for...

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

Michael Healy-Rae: There is plenty of money here but no plan. I am not going to vote for this budget because I am standing up for the hospitality sector in County Kerry, the tourism capital of the western world that the Minister of State and her Government has totally abandoned here today. How in the name of God can the Government say this to the hoteliers, to the vintners, to the restaurant people and to the...