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revert to the Deputy in respect of the other issue he raised about the aircraft maintenance proposal. It is not in the gift of the State

congratulate the Minister of State. They say love is blind and marriage is an eye-opener. We in Sinn Féin believe in a tax system that is fair. As part of this, inheritance tax is an important tool to tackle inequality and invest in public services to deliver … discriminatory towards beneficiaries of estates left by people with no children. The capital acquisitions tax, CAT, regime applies a rate of 33% on gifts or inheritances above a certain tax-free threshold that depends on the beneficiary’s relationship to the person who gives them the gift

costs down in the long term. Instead, this and previous Governments have focused on once-off and short-term measures. In fact, it gifted approximately €115 million through energy credits to second homes and holiday homes, which is a complete and absolute waste of public money. I welcome … please tell me how he will target those measures, and how he will hold those energy companies to account as he previously stated

workers’ pockets and reduce their take-home pay. Instead of investing this money through the NTMA in things like green energy, which the State and wider society and communities could benefit from, private industry has to get its cut. Perhaps it is the Government’s plan that Irish … Auto-enrolment is a good idea. The compulsory removal from ordinary workers’ pockets today is not. Allowing Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael to gift these funds to the private pension industry rather than investing them for the good of workers and the benefit of Irish citizens

barbaric genocidal attack against the impoverished, besieged people of Gaza. Netanyahu’s brutal military machine, funded, armed and supported by the United States, the European Union and Britain, has slaughtered tens of thousands of Palestinian children, women and men before the eyes of the world. Israel has perpetrated … clear – Israel could not carry out this genocide and occupation for so long and so savagely if it were not for the impunity gifted to Netanyahu’s regime by the international community and if it was not for the moral cowardice of the world’s most powerful

thank the Minister of State for being here. I welcome the fact that now over 170,000 children are availing of the school transport system, which is a huge increase on the 120,000 who previously availed of it. I also welcome that in the programme for Government … different towns. School preferences and subject interests need to be taken into account. For example, some schools do not teach music. A gifted student who loves music may want to go to a school where it is taught. We have to keep siblings together. Some secondary schools