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

I have the documentation. The Minister's officials have recommended a tax at the level of the fund. They have recommended a rate of that tax. A tax of that nature could bring in a quarter of a billion euro. Does the Minister know what he could do with a quarter of a billion euro? He could do what Sinn Féin is proposing, that is, to double the renters' tax credit and put €2,000 into every renter's pocket across the State to help them as they are being fleeced by the landlords the Government protected over many years. Does he know what else he should do along with that? He should make sure he bans further rent increases. That is the type of policies we are putting forward. To go back to the core of this, there are people who are ripping their tenants off with these type of eye-watering rents of thousands of euro, and they are not paying a penny tax on that rent. If I am the landlord, I have to pay tax; if it is a company down the road, it has to pay tax; but if it is a vulture fund or institutional investor, they pay no corporation tax on that rental income. It should stop-----

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Sitting date: 2026-09-29