It relates to the investment strategy under the Future Ireland Fund and would provide a focus for the investment strategy with respect to the Future Ireland Fund towards domestic investment in the State. Instead of creating a fund that will focus its investments abroad, the Government should use the windfall corporation tax receipts to create a fund that will focus investment on infrastructure here in Ireland, one that will give a return to the fund itself.
The amendment is in recognition of the fact that, given the chronic housing shortage that we have and that our people are facing, this fund should be unlocked in the same manner as for environmental projects to fund the housing projects so desperately needed in the years ahead.
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Tellers: Tá, Deputies Hildegarde Naughton and Cormac Devlin; Níl, Deputies Pádraig Mac Lochlainn and Denise Mitchell.
| Question | Result | Tá–Níl |
|---|---|---|
| Amendment put: | Lost | 49–61 |
| Amendment put: | Lost | 49–59 |
| Amendment put: | Lost | 33–74 |
| Amendment to amendment put: | Lost | 47–65 |
| Amendment put: | Carried | 66–47 |
| Question put: "That the motion, as amended, be agreed to." | Carried | 66–47 |
| Amendment put: | Carried | 66–47 |
| Question put: "That the motion, as amended, be agreed to. | Carried | 66–47 |
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