Tax Collection
Dail Éireann — 2026-09-29
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Pearse Doherty (SF), Donegal

I am well aware of the IREF regime. The record will show it was me who campaigned to bring it in in 2016, just as it was me who had to force the Government to bring in the renters' tax credit and the mortgage interest relief that it continued to argue against but finally started to see sense on. This is the issue here. I have continued to campaign on this point. Just think about this: there are two-bedroom apartments a stone's throw from this building, from our national Parliament, and their owners are charging €3,000 rent and the Government allows them not to pay a penny in tax on that rental income. If that apartment was owned by the Chairperson or anybody else out there, they would have to pay 25% corporation tax on the rental income. If it was owned by a private company, they would have to pay tax on it. However, because it is vulture fund, an institutional investor, Fine Gael, Fianna Fáil and the Independents allow them not to pay a penny in tax on the eye-watering rents they are crippling young people and older people with in this city and beyond. It is scandalous. Worse is-----

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Sitting date: 2026-09-29