Finance (Covid-19 and Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2021: Committee and Remaining Stages
Seanad Éireann — 2021-07-13
============================================================

Vincent P. Martin (GP), Nominated by the Taoiseach

The decision to retain the 9% VAT rate will be most welcome among stakeholders and is a sign the Government is listening. I concur with the remarks of Senator Kyne that it will be a lifeline for them. While there may be grounds to extend it further, at least this extension gives sufficient space to have that discussion at a later date. It is a positive and essential move for a sector that has been almost devastated.

---

Source: Houses of the Oireachtas. Licensed under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). The Official Report is revised after first publication; the fetch timestamp below identifies the version quoted.

Record URI: https://data.oireachtas.ie/akn/ie/debateRecord/seanad/2021-07-13/debate/main
Retrieved: 2026-08-14T04:49:31+00:00
Sitting date: 2021-07-13