Tax Reliefs
Dail Éireann — 2025-12-09
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Paula Butterly (FG), Louth

I could not but help but put my hand to ask a further question when I heard a Deputy talk about something being fundamentally Irish. When I hear the words "whiskey" and "beer", I am automatically reminded of the farmers and tillage farmers in particular. While I know this is a request that will require cross-consultation with the Minister for Finance, the Minister for agriculture, Deputy Heydon, and the Minister for enterprise, Deputy Peter Burke, we have to look at an incentive or a tax regime that will allow tillage farmers to produce and provide the grains necessary to the brewery system. We cannot have whiskey and beer produced in Ireland that is primarily made from imported grain. We have find an incentive so that we can use Irish grains in Irish whiskey. A solution has been found in Scotland. There is a case for it. I would love a further opportunity to discuss this with the Tánaiste and the Ministers for agriculture and enterprise. It is possible. It would be good for the industry, both the brewers and the tillage farmers.

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Sitting date: 2025-12-09