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

Carol Nolan: I welcome the opportunity to speak on the budget. It would be remiss of me not to acknowledge that we have seen some positive measures announced today. However, my overall sense is that these measures are short-term and are reflective of the short-term thinking of the Government. In other words, they are electioneering, and that is the only way that many people are looking at this,...

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

Danny Healy-Rae: I thank the Government for the increases in social welfare, which mean a lot to people who are on the breadline, such as pensioners, people with disabilities and so on. However, the word from Kerry, which I represent, is that many people in the tourism sector are very disappointed that the VAT rate was not reduced to 9%. Many providers in the nooks and corners in all the different places of...

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

Michael Collins: In recent days, I see Bertie Ahern had a secret meeting with Simon Harris. It is little wonder that he taught him about leaks and spins. Leaks usually come out of Fianna Fáil but they are now starting to come out of Fine Gael, with the leaks we had in recent weeks relating to the budget. It is like a bucket with no ass in it. At one time, when the budget took place nobody knew until...

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

Mattie McGrath: I first want to wish the best to our usher team leader, Tara Humpston. It is her first day as team leader in the Chamber. She has done a mighty job and there was not a word out of place today. We were all very quiet. This budget is like the curate's egg - good in spots. However, there are a lot of spots in it that can go awfully bad and can turn into what we know in the country as a...

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

Matt Shanahan: I support what Deputy Berry said about the Mitchell scholars. The unprecedented €10.5 billion budget announcement reflects a heady mix of previous decision-making bearing fruit, good fortune, but also the pain and discipline of the austerity years. The measures announced offer a reprieve from the merciless grip of inflation, rising prices and the diminishing purchasing power...

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

Peadar Tóibín: There is a level of democratic disrespect in the Government here today. God be with the days when they used say that there were budget leaks. Budgets are not leaked anymore; they are broadcast fully in preview before the debate even happens here. The fact that we have TDs from all parts of the country here representing tens of thousands of citizens, yet the Ministers responsible for this...

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

Cathal Berry: I welcome the opportunity to comment on the budget. Overall, I welcome its thrust. It is not perfect, but it represents progress in some areas. I will focus on three particular sectors that are rarely mentioned in the Chamber anymore: defence, agriculture and the shared island programme. I welcome the increase in defence expenditure. An extra €100 million represents an 8%...

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

Peter Fitzpatrick: I congratulate the Minister, Deputy Chambers, on his first budget. This budget was framed as a budget for families and alleviating the cost-of-living. While there are aspects that are welcome, the measures barely scratch the surface of what is required to help ordinary families. We cannot celebrate economic growth when many are left behind. First, I will touch on housing. The...

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

Verona Murphy: Having delivered a one-for-everybody-in-the audience-style budget in the short term, I have no doubt that people will appreciate the spirit and bona fides of the Minister's belief that it is to combat the cost of living. There is no doubt that it will be short-lived, however, because now that I am experiencing my fifth budget, I know that most of what has been announced will not be...

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

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: Next is the Regional Group and Deputy Canney is sharing time with his colleagues.

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

Seán Canney: I welcome the opportunity to speak on the budget announced today. A lot of money is being given out. There is a lot of detail that we have not seen yet. Something that came to my mind at the very start of this is that so much money is being flayed out all over the place, the most important thing will be how we are going to manage it. How are we going to make sure that money reaches where...

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

Mick Barry: My God, what could have been done with this budget when we look at the wealth in this country. Oxfam has advised that 1% now own 35% of financial wealth and 10% own 54% of total household net wealth. Profits trebled in the last ten years. Corporations might have made more than €300 billion profits after tax last year. If we had a government that was prepared to use the State...

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

Paul Murphy: The Minister, Deputy Chambers, spoke earlier about the Apple tax money having "the capacity to be transformational". He did not mention, nor did the Minister, Deputy Donohoe, that, as Deputy Boyd Barrett has pointed out, Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael fought tooth and nail not to take this transformative amount of money, to say that €14 billion should stay on the cash pile of one of...

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is disgraceful.

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

Paul Murphy: It is backing business at the expense of workers. That is exactly what it is doing. The reason this Government - or the next Government if it is returned - is not going to introduce a transformative budget is that it will not break from its reliance on the market. In other words, it will not break from the prioritisation of profit for Apple, corporate landlords, private developers,...

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

Mick Barry: It is a disgrace.

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

Paul Murphy: The treatment of education is summed up by the fact that, as the INTO has pointed out, more money has been allocated to the gimmick of smartphone pouches, to grab a cheap headline, than to increases in capitation for primary schools. That is absolutely scandalous and demonstrates a lack of priority for young people. The Government refused to introduce a second tier of child benefit for...

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

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: Are you sharing time with colleagues, Deputy Boyd Barrett?

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: Yes, I am sharing time with Deputies Paul Murphy and Mick Barry. The Government has unprecedented resources at its disposal that could have delivered a transformative budget to resolve the housing catastrophe the country is facing, address the crisis in the health service and the cost-of-living crisis and eradicate poverty. Instead of doing that, it has given us a splurge of one-off...

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

Cian O'Callaghan: Never before has the opportunity or the need for action from Government to address the housing crisis been so great and never before has the opportunity for Government to address the housing crisis been so great. The Housing Commission in its report published in May stated very clearly that we need 60,000 new homes a year to be delivered. Currently only about half of that is being...