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that. They are engaging in voodoo economics, and espousing no carbon tax ever, no USC, and no local property tax. Where in the name of God are we going to get taxation revenue from? This is voodoo economics, and it needs to be called out. When seeking

scheme is the lesser of €30,000 or 10% of the purchase price of the new property or the amount of income tax and deposit interest retention tax, DIRT, paid in the four years before the application of the relief. That has proven to be a substantial support … first-time buyers. Then we have a whole range of other provisions, such as the local authority purchase and renovation loan. There are about 6,000 availing of the first home scheme. The vacant property refurbishment grants are also quite substantial in respect of vacant or derelict properties

funding for roads under the local improvement scheme, LIS. We are talking about critical infrastructure. For people who need to access their homes, it is critical that they have a road to drive on. They pay property tax and other taxes, yet they are denied basic access

spiralling rents but at the same time, there are grants in the form of tax breaks to huge developers to build expensive for-rent apartments in the larger cities. Landlords and large property owners are favoured but people need a home they can call their own. There … publicity videos that we were obliged to fact check. Were college fees reduced? No, they actually increased. Was there more money for the local improvement scheme, LIS? No, there was actually a decrease. Was there more money for roads in Kerry? Again, this was not true. Funding

debate. As a government, we have put forward significant supports for first-time buyers, such as the help-to-buy scheme, the local authority home loan, the first home scheme and others. It is totally inconsistent with those policies that we, as a government, on the other hand … strongly arguing here today that we should reintroduce a relief for first-time buyers on stamp duty up to a certain value of property. That relief was in place before, until 2010. I believe it would be a fair and equitable approach by the Government and would

person's budget is €1,500 per month, there are just two two-bed properties for rent on daft.ie today. The housing crisis has been normalised on the Taoiseach's watch. As a local TD, it is getting harder and harder to support people through this deepening crisis … mercy of the rental market. It has passed laws unleashing a tsunami of eviction notices and its solutions are "shedsits" and tax breaks for developers. When will the Government take radical action to end the housing disaster, stop evictions of renters and refugees, and ramp up the Land

What type of a mess is that? Likewise, I have heard of cases where it is obvious to everyone that half of a property will need to be rectified down the line. Many homeowners cannot afford to enter the scheme. They cannot afford to pay upfront … scheme available in respect of those homes. That needs to be rectified. There needs to be a scheme. We need to ensure that local authorities can get on with the business of rectifying the problems with those houses. This problem was created as a result of either light

Deputy Barry Ward asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance his views on the whether the local property tax is equitable given that it is based on property value rather than income; if he is concerned that it is overburdensome on people that live in high value properties

Department has carried out any estimates into the cost to the Exchequer of implementing an upper limit cap on the cost of local property tax for people on lower, fixed incomes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11989/26

Deputy Joe Neville asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance when he plans to roll out the new derelict property tax; the involvement there will be from local authorities in relation to authorisation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26147/26