Finance (Local Property Tax) (Amendment) Bill 2021: Financial Resolution

Minister for Finance (Deputy Paschal Donohoe)

I move:

THAT provision be made to amend the provisions for the charging of taxes in the Finance (Local Property Tax) Act 2012 in relation to the definition of ‘residential property’; in relation to the tax exemption for certain unsold trading stock of builders; in relation to the tax exemption for ‘first-time buyers’; in relation to the tax exemption for the purchase of properties constituting the unsold trading stock of builders; in relation to the tax exemption for properties situated in unfinished housing estates; in relation to the tax exemption provided for properties damaged by pyrite; in relation to a liable person for the charge to local property tax in respect of long leases to a local authority or an approved housing body; in relation to the bringing of newly completed properties within the charge to local property tax during a valuation period; in relation to the acquisition of a property from a local authority or an approved housing body; and in relation to the calculation of the charge to local property tax.

Question put:

The Dáil divided: Tá, 93; Níl, 48; Staon, 0.

Tá

Bacik, Ivana.
Berry, Cathal.
Brophy, Colm.
Browne, James.
Bruton, Richard.
Burke, Colm.
Burke, Peter.
Butler, Mary.
Byrne, Thomas.
Cahill, Jackie.
Calleary, Dara.
Canney, Seán.
Carey, Joe.
Carroll MacNeill, Jennifer.
Chambers, Jack.
Collins, Niall.
Costello, Patrick.
Coveney, Simon.
Cowen, Barry.
Creed, Michael.
Crowe, Cathal.
Devlin, Cormac.
Donnelly, Stephen.
Donohoe, Paschal.
Duffy, Francis Noel.
Durkan, Bernard J.
English, Damien.
Farrell, Alan.
Feighan, Frankie.
Fitzpatrick, Peter.
Flaherty, Joe.
Flanagan, Charles.
Fleming, Sean.
Foley, Norma.
Gannon, Gary.
Grealish, Noel.
Griffin, Brendan.
Harkin, Marian.
Harris, Simon.
Haughey, Seán.
Heydon, Martin.
Higgins, Emer.
Hourigan, Neasa.
Howlin, Brendan.
Humphreys, Heather.
Kehoe, Paul.
Kelly, Alan.
Lahart, John.
Lawless, James.
Leddin, Brian.
Lowry, Michael.
Madigan, Josepha.
Martin, Catherine.
Martin, Micheál.
Matthews, Steven.
McAuliffe, Paul.
McConalogue, Charlie.
McGrath, Michael.
McHugh, Joe.
McNamara, Michael.
Moynihan, Aindrias.
Moynihan, Michael.
Murnane O'Connor, Jennifer.
Murphy, Catherine.
Murphy, Verona.
Nash, Ged.
Naughton, Hildegarde.
Noonan, Malcolm.
O'Brien, Darragh.
O'Brien, Joe.
O'Callaghan, Cian.
O'Callaghan, Jim.
O'Connor, James.
O'Donnell, Kieran.
O'Donovan, Patrick.
O'Dowd, Fergus.
O'Sullivan, Christopher.
O'Sullivan, Pádraig.
Ó Cathasaigh, Marc.
Ó Cuív, Éamon.
Rabbitte, Anne.
Richmond, Neale.
Ryan, Eamon.
Shanahan, Matt.
Sherlock, Sean.
Shortall, Róisín.
Smith, Brendan.
Smith, Duncan.
Smyth, Niamh.
Smyth, Ossian.
Stanton, David.
Varadkar, Leo.
Whitmore, Jennifer.

Níl

Andrews, Chris.
Barry, Mick.
Boyd Barrett, Richard.
Brady, John.
Browne, Martin.
Buckley, Pat.
Carthy, Matt.
Clarke, Sorca.
Collins, Michael.
Conway-Walsh, Rose.
Cronin, Réada.
Crowe, Seán.
Cullinane, David.
Daly, Pa.
Doherty, Pearse.
Donnelly, Paul.
Ellis, Dessie.
Farrell, Mairéad.
Fitzmaurice, Michael.
Funchion, Kathleen.
Gould, Thomas.
Guirke, Johnny.
Healy-Rae, Danny.
Healy-Rae, Michael.
Kenny, Gino.
Kenny, Martin.
Kerrane, Claire.
Mac Lochlainn, Pádraig.
McGrath, Mattie.
Mitchell, Denise.
Munster, Imelda.
Murphy, Paul.
Mythen, Johnny.
Nolan, Carol.
O'Donoghue, Richard.
O'Reilly, Louise.
O'Rourke, Darren.
Ó Broin, Eoin.
Ó Murchú, Ruairí.
Ó Snodaigh, Aengus.
Quinlivan, Maurice.
Ryan, Patricia.
Smith, Bríd.
Stanley, Brian.
Tóibín, Peadar.
Tully, Pauline.
Ward, Mark.
Wynne, Violet-Anne.

Staon

Tellers: Tá, Deputies Brendan Griffin and Jack Chambers; Níl, Deputies Denise Mitchell and Pádraig Mac Lochlainn.

Deputy Holly Cairns did not vote in this division due to an agreed pairing arrangement with Minister Helen McEntee for the duration of the Minister’s maternity leave.

Question declared carried.

Dáil Éireann díospóireacht - Wednesday, 14 Jul 2021