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	<title>Order of Business | D&amp;aacute;il debates</title>
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	<description>Given the ending of the capital allowance relief on health facilities announced in Tuesday&acirc;€™s budget and the abandonment of the main plank of health policy regarding co-location, why is the...</description>
	<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p pid="306.1">Given the ending of the capital allowance relief on health facilities announced in Tuesdayâ€™s budget and the abandonment of the main plank of health policy regarding co-location, why is the Minister for Health and Children still in Cabinet?</p>]]></content:encoded>
	<dc:date>2009-04-09T11:00:00+00:00</dc:date>
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	<title>Financial Resolution No. 11: General (Resumed) | D&amp;aacute;il debates</title>
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	<description>Why can the others not do that?</description>
	<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p pid="438.1">Why can the others not do that?</p>]]></content:encoded>
	<dc:date>2009-04-08T17:00:00+00:00</dc:date>
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	<title>Financial Resolution No. 11: General (Resumed) | D&amp;aacute;il debates</title>
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	<description>If they want to be Irish citizens, they should pay their taxes here.</description>
	<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p pid="436.1">If they want to be Irish citizens, they should pay their taxes here.</p>]]></content:encoded>
	<dc:date>2009-04-08T17:00:00+00:00</dc:date>
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	<title>Financial Resolution No. 11: General (Resumed) | D&amp;aacute;il debates</title>
	<link>http://www.kildarestreet.com/debates/?id=2009-04-08.329.0&amp;m=829#g434.0</link>
	<description>There is one law for the rich and another law for the everybody else.</description>
	<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p pid="434.1">There is one law for the rich and another law for the everybody else.</p>]]></content:encoded>
	<dc:date>2009-04-08T17:00:00+00:00</dc:date>
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	<title>Financial Resolution No. 11: General (Resumed) | D&amp;aacute;il debates</title>
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	<description>How?</description>
	<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p pid="432.1">How?</p>]]></content:encoded>
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	<title>Financial Resolution No. 11: General (Resumed) | D&amp;aacute;il debates</title>
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	<description>That is right.</description>
	<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p pid="427.1">That is right.</p>]]></content:encoded>
	<dc:date>2009-04-08T17:00:00+00:00</dc:date>
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	<title>Financial Resolution No. 11: General (Resumed) | D&amp;aacute;il debates</title>
	<link>http://www.kildarestreet.com/debates/?id=2009-04-08.329.0&amp;m=829#g424.0</link>
	<description>The Government had the choice to hit families or remove the relief currently available to landlords, but it chose to hit families over landlords.  On the basis of the figures provided to us,...</description>
	<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p pid="424.1">The Government had the choice to hit families or remove the relief currently available to landlords, but it chose to hit families over landlords.  On the basis of the figures provided to us, there was potential to save â‚¬500 million by cutting tax relief for landlords but the Government chose to ignore that and hit ordinary families instead.  There is no justification whatsoever for that.  The reduction in mortgage interest for families will save â‚¬65 million but the Government could have saved a multiple of that if it had tackled landlords.</p><p pid="424.2">There will be major problems for those who are experiencing or who face unemployment.  Where one member of a couple becomes unemployed, they have difficulty repaying their mortgage.  When they seek assistance from the community welfare officer, they are staggered that so little help is available.  A ridiculous, arbitrary rule applies whereby if oneâ€™s partner works 30 or more hours a week, one is automatically precluded from any assistance.  That rule needs to change.  The means test must be eased because the mortgage interest relief acts as a disincentive to work.  The other problem relates to those who are stuck on fixed rate mortgages, which is like a life sentence for them.  Many people who have sought to change over to a variable rate mortgage with their provider are being quoted between â‚¬12,000 and â‚¬14,000 to make the switch.  In exchange for the bank guarantee, flexibility should be shown to people who find themselves in this impossible situation.</p><p pid="424.3">One of the worst aspects of the budget is the cut in the Christmas bonus.  It is wrong of the Government and the Minister, as she did earlier, to claim there have been no cuts in social welfare.  The cut in the Christmas bonus amounts to a 2% reduction in real terms for social welfare recipients.  There is a great deal of spin about the consumer price index showing the cost of living has reduced by 4%.  That is not the case for those depending on welfare payments.  When one examines their expenses, one sees there has been no reduction in their cost of living and, therefore, there is no justification for cutting payments.  Payments will be cut by 2%, which is reprehensible because the Government is hitting those dependent on welfare at a vulnerable time - the first week in December.  There are major demands on the household budgets of pensioners and families with young children in providing for Christmas, whether that involves buying presents for grandchildren or putting money aside for Christmas cards or buying clothes or toys for Christmas.  Social welfare recipients are absolutely dependent on the bonus payment at the start of December to have a Christmas and it is Scrooge-like to cut it when the Government had many other choices.  It could have tackled tax relief for the rich on a range of fronts but chose to hit the most vulnerable families when they are most vulnerable.  That is a reprehensible decision and will drive families into the hands of moneylenders.  There is no question about that.  That decision will reverse the progress the Government has made in recent years in removing people from the clutches of moneylenders.</p><p pid="424.4">Early child care supplement will be halved from next month.  This is regressive.  It shows no consideration for the fact that families try to plan and budget but suddenly from next month their money is down.  For many years the Labour Party has promoted the idea of free preschool education for all three and four year olds, which is necessary.  The Governmentâ€™s measure, however, announces a subsidy for preschool education as cover for cutting a welfare payment to children.  It is making savings on the backs of young children and saying that instead it will return less than half that sum as a contribution towards the cost of child care.  This is not a child care initiative because it takes no consideration of the fact that the existing <i>ad hoc</i> system does not have the capacity to cater for the 60,000 three year olds who will be looking for places from next January.  The Minister for State at the Department of Health and Children, Deputy Barry Andrews, should not pretend that this a child-centred measure.  It is merely a cost-saving measure on the backs of children under the cover of returning half the money as a contribution to the cost of child care.</p><p pid="424.5">The Governmentâ€™s proposal to pull back child benefit is another threat to family budgets and to the welfare of children.  This is a universal payment.  The tax system does not recognise the expenses involved in having children and child benefit is the only measure that exists.  It would be regressive to go back on that.</p>]]></content:encoded>
	<dc:date>2009-04-08T17:00:00+00:00</dc:date>
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	<title>Financial Resolution No. 11: General (Resumed) | D&amp;aacute;il debates</title>
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	<description>I am about to do that.  The Government parties had choices regarding mortgage interest relief.  They chose to hit families that are struggling to get by.  The choice was to do that or examine the...</description>
	<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p pid="421.1">I am about to do that.  The Government parties had choices regarding mortgage interest relief.  They chose to hit families that are struggling to get by.  The choice was to do that or examine the relief available to landlords.</p>]]></content:encoded>
	<dc:date>2009-04-08T17:00:00+00:00</dc:date>
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	<title>Financial Resolution No. 11: General (Resumed) | D&amp;aacute;il debates</title>
	<link>http://www.kildarestreet.com/debates/?id=2009-04-08.329.0&amp;m=829#g419.0</link>
	<description>What the Government is doing will save money.</description>
	<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p pid="419.1">What the Government is doing will save money.</p>]]></content:encoded>
	<dc:date>2009-04-08T17:00:00+00:00</dc:date>
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	<title>Financial Resolution No. 11: General (Resumed) | D&amp;aacute;il debates</title>
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	<description>There is no Green Party representative in the Chamber on a regular basis.  This supplementary budget is savage in the manner in which it targets families and people on welfare and lets the better...</description>
	<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p pid="417.1">There is no Green Party representative in the Chamber on a regular basis.  This supplementary budget is savage in the manner in which it targets families and people on welfare and lets the better off completely off the hook.  It will not be tolerated by the public.  It is fundamentally unfair; it fails on the grounds of fairness.</p><p pid="417.2">This budget is being introduced against the backdrop of all that has gone on in the banks in recent months and years.  The question of a bad bank or national asset management agency is highly suspect.  There is grave concern that ordinary people are being targeted because of the behaviour of senior management in the banks, who have been highly irresponsible, greedy developers and, in many ways, the Government parties, which have mismanaged the economy in recent years.  There is no reason under the sun that ordinary working people or those dependent on welfare should have to pay for their mistakes.  There is palpable anger about this proposal for that reason.  It is an outrageous concept that the State, through the taxpayer, should take responsibility for between â‚¬80 billion and â‚¬90 billion of bad debt run up in recent years.  It is a high risk strategy.  There is no reason for the public to have confidence in the Government in tackling the problem and dealing with it in a transparent way, given the unethical record and the corrosive relationship between Fianna FĂˇil in government and the business community.  The jury is very much out on this and massive risks are involved for the country.</p><p pid="417.3">I refer to the manner in which the Government has targeted working families through this budget.  The increases in various levies and PRSI are the greatest blow of all to such families.  The income and health levies have been doubled and their thresholds lowered and, just in case anybody in the middle income bracket might get away with not paying these levies, the PRSI threshold was increased to bring in people earning between â‚¬52,000 and â‚¬75,000.  Anyone on a low, moderate or middle income will still be hit by the budget with one income and dual income families with small children, in particular, being hit.</p><p pid="417.4">They will pay through the imposition of these levies, the loss of the early child care supplement and the changes in mortgage interest relief.  The Governmentâ€™s proposal regarding such relief represents a major attack on family budgets.  The decision to abolish this relief after only seven years is incredible, given the way many people are struggling.  Their mortgage is worth more than their house and they are in negative equity.  They are struggling to repay their mortgage but the Government will remove this tax relief, which, up to now, eased the burden on them.  In addition, this will be introduced with immediate effect.  The Minister of State does not realise the difficulties many families face in just getting by from month to month.  There is no flexibility in their budgets to meet these additional demands.  Many people will find themselves in serious difficulty next month as a result of the abolition of this relief without any notice.  People had a reasonable expectation that the rules that applied when they took out their mortgage would continue to apply but the Government has cut the small relief that was in place in midstream.  This will add greatly to the hardship people are experiencing.</p>]]></content:encoded>
	<dc:date>2009-04-08T17:00:00+00:00</dc:date>
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	<title>Financial Resolution No. 11: General (Resumed) | D&amp;aacute;il debates</title>
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	<description>The Minister should not talk to us about fairness.  He does not understand the meaning of the word.  This Government speaks in the House about hitting people who are earning &acirc;‚&not;20,000.  It claims...</description>
	<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p pid="415.1">The Minister should not talk to us about fairness.  He does not understand the meaning of the word.  This Government speaks in the House about hitting people who are earning â‚¬20,000.  It claims that this is fair while it lets high-rollers off with paying little or no tax.  It is just outrageous.  The public has not bought that, for all that the Governmentâ€™s spin machines were in action over recent weeks.  They do not accept that.  There is no reason families on low and middle incomes, which are struggling to get by, should have to feel pain in contributing to solving a problem that has nothing to do with them.  The Minister is not staying.  He is slipping out again.  The amount of time he spends in the Chamber is minute.</p>]]></content:encoded>
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	<title>Financial Resolution No. 11: General (Resumed) | D&amp;aacute;il debates</title>
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	<description>-----about the considerable tax relief on pension schemes for high rollers?  What about all the property-based tax relief schemes?</description>
	<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p pid="412.1">-----about the considerable tax relief on pension schemes for high rollers?  What about all the property-based tax relief schemes?</p>]]></content:encoded>
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	<title>Financial Resolution No. 11: General (Resumed) | D&amp;aacute;il debates</title>
	<link>http://www.kildarestreet.com/debates/?id=2009-04-08.329.0&amp;m=829#g410.0</link>
	<description>It includes large numbers who are accurately described as being the &acirc;€śworking poor&acirc;€ť.  These are people who are working in minimum waged jobs and are really struggling to keep their heads above...</description>
	<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p pid="410.1">It includes large numbers who are accurately described as being the â€śworking poorâ€ť.  These are people who are working in minimum waged jobs and are really struggling to keep their heads above water.  It includes the many thousands of people who are dependent on welfare who are just about getting by.  It is outrageous to say to these people that somehow it is their fault the economy is in a mess and they must pay while at the same time we continue to see significant numbers of people getting away with paying little or no tax.</p><p pid="410.2">Is the Minister, Deputy Gormley, proud that the Government of which he is part, has done nothing to tackle the problem of tax exiles?  Is he proud that nothing has been done-----</p>]]></content:encoded>
	<dc:date>2009-04-08T15:00:00+00:00</dc:date>
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	<title>Financial Resolution No. 11: General (Resumed) | D&amp;aacute;il debates</title>
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	<description>The reason 40% were outside the tax net is that so many of them are on incredibly low incomes.  That 40% includes over 100,000 pensioners, for example.</description>
	<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p pid="408.1">The reason 40% were outside the tax net is that so many of them are on incredibly low incomes.  That 40% includes over 100,000 pensioners, for example.</p>]]></content:encoded>
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	<title>Financial Resolution No. 11: General (Resumed) | D&amp;aacute;il debates</title>
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	<description>Over the past weeks and months we all have had to endure a significant campaign of spin by this Government concerning what it proposed to do in this budget.  The main thrust of the spin was that...</description>
	<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p pid="406.1">Over the past weeks and months we all have had to endure a significant campaign of spin by this Government concerning what it proposed to do in this budget.  The main thrust of the spin was that we were all in this situation together and that everybody must pay, from top to bottom.  The Government was at this from two months out when it began to brief all the political correspondents to the effect that 40% of people did not pay any tax and, on grounds of fairness, these people must be brought into the tax net.  By and large, most of the political correspondents fell for the notion that there were 40% outside the tax net.</p>]]></content:encoded>
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	<title>Financial Resolution No. 11: General (Resumed) | D&amp;aacute;il debates</title>
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	<description>I remember the comments of the Minister and those of his colleague, the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources, Deputy Eamon Ryan last October.  He stated he was very proud of...</description>
	<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p pid="404.1">I remember the comments of the Minister and those of his colleague, the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources, Deputy Eamon Ryan last October.  He stated he was very proud of the budget that hit the pensioners.  Last night the Ministersâ€™ colleague, Deputy Mary White, spoke of how the Supplementary budget was a wonderful one that had the fingerprints of the Green Party all over it.</p><p pid="404.2">This shows how out of touch the Green Party is with the real world.  The Minister is other-worldly.  That is the best way of describing it.  He is out of touch and in time he will discover that he will pay a serious price for that.</p>]]></content:encoded>
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	<title>Financial Resolution No. 11: General (Resumed) | D&amp;aacute;il debates</title>
	<link>http://www.kildarestreet.com/debates/?id=2009-04-08.329.0&amp;m=829#g402.0</link>
	<description>I say to the Minister, Deputy Gormley, that for somebody who could not get himself out of bed on that fateful night last September when the Government decided to bail out the banks, he has a...</description>
	<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p pid="402.1">I say to the Minister, Deputy Gormley, that for somebody who could not get himself out of bed on that fateful night last September when the Government decided to bail out the banks, he has a brass neck to come into the House and boast about his record in Government, particularly when one considers that this country is in the throes of the worst recession in the history of the State.  The economy has been brought to the brink of collapse.</p>]]></content:encoded>
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	<title>Financial Resolution No. 11: General (Resumed) | D&amp;aacute;il debates</title>
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	<description>With the agreement of the House, I wish to share my time with Deputies Jack Wall and Mary Upton.</description>
	<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p pid="400.1">With the agreement of the House, I wish to share my time with Deputies Jack Wall and Mary Upton.</p>]]></content:encoded>
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	<title>Financial Resolution No. 11: General (Resumed) | D&amp;aacute;il debates</title>
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	<description>What about Ballymun?</description>
	<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p pid="395.1">What about Ballymun?</p>]]></content:encoded>
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	<title>Financial Resolution No. 11: General (Resumed) | D&amp;aacute;il debates</title>
	<link>http://www.kildarestreet.com/debates/?id=2009-04-08.329.0&amp;m=829#g369.0</link>
	<description>We did not make the type of announcements being made here.</description>
	<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p pid="369.1">We did not make the type of announcements being made here.</p>]]></content:encoded>
	<dc:date>2009-04-08T15:00:00+00:00</dc:date>
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