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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...

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

Brendan Howlin: Soft landings.

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

Duncan Smith: We have never had soft landings before. The way the Government is setting this country up means we will fall hard, maybe harder than we have ever fallen in the past. I will leave that there as I am running out of time. The Government is really playing fast and loose with our finances and with the country's economy. This budget is not as glossy, as shiny or as helpful to the ordinary...

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

Róisín Shortall: I wish to share time with my colleague, Deputy Cian O'Callaghan. The budget will be remembered as one of missed opportunities. It is kind of like a giveaway on steroids and is certainly grabbing the headlines; there is no doubt about that. We have lots of breathless reporting of the gargantuan surplus figure, that €25 billion, and the complex array of one-off measures. However,...

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

Duncan Smith: On behalf of the Labour Party, on a day when we discuss and debate, and scrabble over the many billions of euro we have in this country, our thoughts are with the innocents in Lebanon and Gaza and throughout the Middle East who are living in fear under a hail of drone, rocket and artillery fire as that war not only continues but escalates.

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

Ivana Bacik: Hear, hear.

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

Duncan Smith: The Government has done a remarkable job trying to frame this budget as a budget that has no losers and only winners, that it is a budget that will benefit everyone, particularly children and families. If we look beyond our shores economically, we can see that the three largest economies in Europe, namely, Germany, France and the UK, are facing gloomy economic predictions of varying degrees....

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

Alan Kelly: Hear, hear - 100%.