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	<title>Financial Resolution No. 10: Stamp Duties | D&amp;aacute;il debates</title>
	<link>http://www.kildarestreet.com/debates/?id=2009-04-07.562.0&amp;m=871#g893.0</link>
	<description>The land is not even in Ireland.</description>
	<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p pid="893.1">The land is not even in Ireland.</p>]]></content:encoded>
	<dc:date>2009-04-07T23:00:00+00:00</dc:date>
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	<title>Financial Resolution No. 10: Stamp Duties | D&amp;aacute;il debates</title>
	<link>http://www.kildarestreet.com/debates/?id=2009-04-07.562.0&amp;m=871#g891.0</link>
	<description>It is the foreign assets.  That is the difference, is it?</description>
	<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p pid="891.1">It is the foreign assets.  That is the difference, is it?</p>]]></content:encoded>
	<dc:date>2009-04-07T23:00:00+00:00</dc:date>
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	<title>Financial Resolution No. 10: Stamp Duties | D&amp;aacute;il debates</title>
	<link>http://www.kildarestreet.com/debates/?id=2009-04-07.562.0&amp;m=871#g872.0</link>
	<description>We do not doubt the capacity of the T&Atilde;&iexcl;naiste&acirc;€™s party to spend money.  It is getting results that is the problem.</description>
	<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p pid="872.1">We do not doubt the capacity of the TĂˇnaisteâ€™s party to spend money.  It is getting results that is the problem.</p>]]></content:encoded>
	<dc:date>2009-04-07T22:00:00+00:00</dc:date>
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	<title>Financial Resolution No. 10: Stamp Duties | D&amp;aacute;il debates</title>
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	<description>It was not the current Government anyway.</description>
	<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p pid="829.1">It was not the current Government anyway.</p>]]></content:encoded>
	<dc:date>2009-04-07T22:00:00+00:00</dc:date>
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	<title>Financial Resolution No. 10: Stamp Duties | D&amp;aacute;il debates</title>
	<link>http://www.kildarestreet.com/debates/?id=2009-04-07.562.0&amp;m=871#g809.0</link>
	<description>Where does the &acirc;‚&not;80 billion figure come from in the first place?</description>
	<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p pid="809.1">Where does the â‚¬80 billion figure come from in the first place?</p>]]></content:encoded>
	<dc:date>2009-04-07T22:00:00+00:00</dc:date>
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	<title>Financial Resolution No. 10: Stamp Duties | D&amp;aacute;il debates</title>
	<link>http://www.kildarestreet.com/debates/?id=2009-04-07.562.0&amp;m=871#g722.0</link>
	<description>By increasing taxes.</description>
	<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p pid="722.1">By increasing taxes.</p>]]></content:encoded>
	<dc:date>2009-04-07T22:00:00+00:00</dc:date>
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	<title>Financial Resolution No. 10: Stamp Duties | D&amp;aacute;il debates</title>
	<link>http://www.kildarestreet.com/debates/?id=2009-04-07.562.0&amp;m=871#g677.0</link>
	<description>There have been some cuts in specific areas but overall expenditure has increased.</description>
	<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p pid="677.1">There have been some cuts in specific areas but overall expenditure has increased.</p>]]></content:encoded>
	<dc:date>2009-04-07T22:00:00+00:00</dc:date>
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	<title>Financial Resolution No. 10: Stamp Duties | D&amp;aacute;il debates</title>
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	<description>No, it has not.  The T&Atilde;&iexcl;naiste has not even read the budget.</description>
	<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p pid="675.1">No, it has not.  The TĂˇnaiste has not even read the budget.</p>]]></content:encoded>
	<dc:date>2009-04-07T22:00:00+00:00</dc:date>
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	<title>Financial Resolution No. 10: Stamp Duties | D&amp;aacute;il debates</title>
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	<description>The Deputy should vote for the budget then.</description>
	<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p pid="640.1">The Deputy should vote for the budget then.</p>]]></content:encoded>
	<dc:date>2009-04-07T22:00:00+00:00</dc:date>
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	<title>Financial Resolution No. 10: Stamp Duties | D&amp;aacute;il debates</title>
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	<description>The Deputy is referring to capital investment, which I accept will be cut. </description>
	<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p pid="629.1">The Deputy is referring to capital investment, which I accept will be cut. </p>]]></content:encoded>
	<dc:date>2009-04-07T22:00:00+00:00</dc:date>
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	<title>Financial Resolution No. 10: Stamp Duties | D&amp;aacute;il debates</title>
	<link>http://www.kildarestreet.com/debates/?id=2009-04-07.562.0&amp;m=871#g626.0</link>
	<description>It is extraordinary that this is the Government&acirc;€™s economic policy.  I cannot believe it.  We will be back here very soon.</description>
	<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p pid="626.1">It is extraordinary that this is the Governmentâ€™s economic policy.  I cannot believe it.  We will be back here very soon.</p>]]></content:encoded>
	<dc:date>2009-04-07T21:00:00+00:00</dc:date>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.kildarestreet.com/debates/?id=2009-04-07.562.0&amp;m=871#g624.0">
	<title>Financial Resolution No. 10: Stamp Duties | D&amp;aacute;il debates</title>
	<link>http://www.kildarestreet.com/debates/?id=2009-04-07.562.0&amp;m=871#g624.0</link>
	<description>The majority of these resolutions provide for increases in capital taxation.  I share the view that capital taxes in Ireland should be considerably higher because it is wrong to tax income from...</description>
	<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p pid="624.1">The majority of these resolutions provide for increases in capital taxation.  I share the view that capital taxes in Ireland should be considerably higher because it is wrong to tax income from work at such a high rate while taxing wealth not gained through work, such as inheritance or capital gains on property, at a lower rate.  That is why I have no difficulty in seeking significant increases in capital taxes provided that they form part of a wider package involving reduced taxes on income.</p><p pid="624.2">These resolutions, however, merely comprise yet another major tax grab by the Fianna FĂˇil led Government.  Death and gift taxes are being increased, as are taxes on life assurance and savings.  These come on top of the horrendous increases in tax on work through PRSI increases, the Lenihan levy, the health levy, excise increases and the previous budgetâ€™s increases on VAT and taxes on second homes and parking spaces.  The Minister for Finance has indicated his intention to tax children and homes in the next budget.  I have not even mentioned the travel tax on those flying to this country.  The Governmentâ€™s entire economic and budgetary strategy appears to be tax and more tax.  My party opposes this view because we do not think one can tax oneâ€™s way out of recession.  A much more sophisticated approach is required.  First, one needs to control spending.  The adjustment should come two thirds from spending and one third from tax increases.  Some measures also need to be included which will stimulate demand and employment.  We have put those views across for reducing both VAT rates, abolishing the travel tax, and bringing the pension fund back home to invest in infrastructure and new State enterprises.  The Governmentâ€™s strategy, however, is just about tax.</p><p pid="624.3">What really defines this budget and the entire policy is subhead C15 which refers to gross current expenditure at â‚¬62.4 billion this year, â‚¬64.5 billion in 2010, â‚¬65.4 billion in 2011, â‚¬67.4 billion in 2012, and â‚¬68.9 billion in 2013.  It is spend, spend, spend and when the Government has finished doing that, let us spend some more.  How will the Government manage that?  It will hit people on tax.  Tax revenue will be â‚¬34.4 billion this year, â‚¬35.3 billion in 2010, â‚¬38.9 billion in 2011, â‚¬41.3 billion in 2012 and â‚¬43.73 billion in 2013.  This is the budget that Fidel Castro or Kim Il Sung would have eaten their hearts out for.  These are the pure tax-and-spend, old-fashioned policies of the early 1980s, the kind of failed policies that ended up with a national debt of 120% of our gross domestic product, unemployment of 20% and a recession-depression for the best part of a decade.  That is where the Government is going.</p><p pid="624.4">We have learned nothing from our economic history in this State if we think this kind of approach will work.  It will not work because the Government will not get the returns from tax increases that it expects.  It will find out that these attempts to tax everything that is not already taxed while taxing everything else more will not bring increased revenues.  It will drive money out of the country and drive people out of jobs.  The Government will have to come back here either in three or six monthsâ€™ time with a new budget that involves some of the measures that are necessary, including reduced spending.  One cannot increase spending from â‚¬46.3 billion to â‚¬54.5 billion in five years.  The Government has already spent too much.  We already spend 48% of our gross national product, our national income, on public spending.  It will be well over 50% within two years, so the Government cannot go on like this.</p><p pid="624.5">Tax and spend is not the solution.  That is my argument in a nutshell when it comes to these particular issues.  We will certainly be voting against this.  I could countenance increases in capital taxes if they were part of a process that involved reducing taxes at work but certainly not in this scenario.  This policy will lead us to ruin.  It is back to the 1980s.</p>]]></content:encoded>
	<dc:date>2009-04-07T21:00:00+00:00</dc:date>
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	<title>Financial Resolution No. 4: Mineral Oil Tax | D&amp;aacute;il debates</title>
	<link>http://www.kildarestreet.com/debates/?id=2009-04-07.405.0&amp;m=871#g425.0</link>
	<description>Ah go on.  The Deputy will not try to tell me he is against tax and spend.  If he is, he should join Fine Gael.</description>
	<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p pid="425.1">Ah go on.  The Deputy will not try to tell me he is against tax and spend.  If he is, he should join Fine Gael.</p>]]></content:encoded>
	<dc:date>2009-04-07T21:00:00+00:00</dc:date>
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	<title>Financial Resolution No. 4: Mineral Oil Tax | D&amp;aacute;il debates</title>
	<link>http://www.kildarestreet.com/debates/?id=2009-04-07.405.0&amp;m=871#g423.0</link>
	<description>-----and address that issue again.  The monthly year on year returns from excise on alcohol are falling because of the law of diminishing returns.  I will not be two-faced about diesel.  My party...</description>
	<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p pid="423.1">-----and address that issue again.  The monthly year on year returns from excise on alcohol are falling because of the law of diminishing returns.  I will not be two-faced about diesel.  My party proposed to increase excise on diesel by more than the Government proposed.  However ours was part of an overall package that did not hammer middle-class families through massive increases in taxation, which the Government has done here.  That is horrendous.  This is a tax and spend budget from the 1980s.  The Government is taking â‚¬4,000 from the pockets of the average family and â‚¬2,500 from the average working person.  It is recreating all those problems we had in the 1980s between PAYE workers who pay all the tax and others who can avoid it, and between those who benefit from welfare payments and those who do not.</p><p pid="423.2">Deputy Gilmore asked about the influence of the Greens in this budget.  It is clear that the PDsâ€™ influence is also missing from this budget because when it formed part of this Government it kept taxes down.  The Government is returning to tax and spend socialism and will tax people out of their jobs and onto the dole queues.  The mistakes the Government has made are huge.  I expect we will have another mini budget in a few months time and if not we will be faced with a much greater economic crisis as a consequence of this budget.</p>]]></content:encoded>
	<dc:date>2009-04-07T21:00:00+00:00</dc:date>
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	<title>Financial Resolution No. 4: Mineral Oil Tax | D&amp;aacute;il debates</title>
	<link>http://www.kildarestreet.com/debates/?id=2009-04-07.405.0&amp;m=871#g421.0</link>
	<description>I will be as brief as possible and might make some more substantive comments on the next resolution.   Speaking as a doctor and a non-smoker, I can see the case for increasing excise on tobacco...</description>
	<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p pid="421.1">I will be as brief as possible and might make some more substantive comments on the next resolution.  </p><p pid="421.2">Speaking as a doctor and a non-smoker, I can see the case for increasing excise on tobacco from a health point of view.  I am concerned, however, by the Governmentâ€™s projection that it will raise â‚¬32 million from this.  I do not think that will happen.  There is a law of diminishing returns with taxation. There is a significant amount of cigarette smuggling as we all know.  The year on year, monthly returns from tobacco are interesting.  Last month was the first in which the year on year return from excise on tobacco went down.  That might perhaps be because of a sudden reduction in smoking, for the first time ever, but the likelihood is that it is due to fraud and smuggling.  This is one of the many holes in the budget.  Revenue from excise on tobacco will fall for several reasons and the Government will have to address that.  It will have to come back in its mini-budget in June or September, or whenever it will introduce the next budget-----</p>]]></content:encoded>
	<dc:date>2009-04-07T21:00:00+00:00</dc:date>
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	<title>Supplementary Budget Statement 2009 | D&amp;aacute;il debates</title>
	<link>http://www.kildarestreet.com/debates/?id=2009-04-07.86.0&amp;m=871#g184.0</link>
	<description>It is 53%.</description>
	<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p pid="184.1">It is 53%.</p>]]></content:encoded>
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	<title>Supplementary Budget Statement 2009 | D&amp;aacute;il debates</title>
	<link>http://www.kildarestreet.com/debates/?id=2009-04-07.86.0&amp;m=871#g175.0</link>
	<description>And donations.</description>
	<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p pid="175.1">And donations.</p>]]></content:encoded>
	<dc:date>2009-04-07T15:00:00+00:00</dc:date>
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	<title>State Airports. | D&amp;aacute;il debates</title>
	<link>http://www.kildarestreet.com/debates/?id=2009-04-02.577.0&amp;m=871#g578.0</link>
	<description>Question 7: To ask the Minister for Transport  the cost incurred in implementing the decision to separate the State airports before the decision was taken to postpone this separation; and if he...</description>
	<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p pid="578.0"><i>Question 7:</i> To ask the Minister for Transport  the cost incurred in implementing the decision to separate the State airports before the decision was taken to postpone this separation; and if he will make a statement on the matter.  <b>[13846/09]</b></p>]]></content:encoded>
	<dc:date>2009-04-02T16:00:00+00:00</dc:date>
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	<title>Job Losses. | D&amp;aacute;il debates</title>
	<link>http://www.kildarestreet.com/debates/?id=2009-04-01.411.0&amp;m=871#g446.2</link>
	<description>If the jobs were in Donegal the Minister would move with greater speed.</description>
	<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p pid="446.2">If the jobs were in Donegal the Minister would move with greater speed.</p>]]></content:encoded>
	<dc:date>2009-04-01T15:00:00+00:00</dc:date>
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	<title>Job Losses. | D&amp;aacute;il debates</title>
	<link>http://www.kildarestreet.com/debates/?id=2009-04-01.411.0&amp;m=871#g442.2</link>
	<description>The T&Atilde;&iexcl;naiste is immune from accountability in that party.</description>
	<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p pid="442.2">The TĂˇnaiste is immune from accountability in that party.</p>]]></content:encoded>
	<dc:date>2009-04-01T15:00:00+00:00</dc:date>
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