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Finance Bill 2015: Report Stage (24 Nov 2015)

Pearse Doherty: I would like to hear the Minister's response.

Finance Bill 2015: Report Stage (24 Nov 2015)

Pearse Doherty: I move amendment No. 6:In page 60, between lines 32 and 33, to insert the following:“32. The Minister shall, within nine months from the passing of this Act, prepare and lay before Dáil Éireann a report on the expected impact of the Knowledge Development Box, including its expected beneficiaries, expected tax take and cost to the Exchequer.”. This amendment is on the...

Finance Bill 2015: Report Stage (24 Nov 2015)

Pearse Doherty: I acknowledge the fact that the Minister actually spoke to the amendment. The quality of debate from his backbenchers is appalling. It is no wonder the country got into the state it is in. We are dealing with the Finance Bill and it is a very simple amendment about whether profits accrued from now on should apply to all oil and gas licences. Whether Deputy Paul Murphy paid his household...

Finance Bill 2015: Report Stage (24 Nov 2015)

Pearse Doherty: I move amendment No. 4:In page 39, between lines 18 and 19, to insert the following:"20.The Minister shall, within nine months from the passing of this Act, prepare and lay before Dáil Éireann a report on options available with regards to ensuring that the new Petroleum Products Tax applies to all earnings from all petroleum revenue within Irish territory, regardless of discovery...

Finance Bill 2015: Report Stage (24 Nov 2015)

Pearse Doherty: You have done your fair share of that.

Finance Bill 2015: Report Stage (24 Nov 2015)

Pearse Doherty: Are you serious? You are pathetic. Honest to God.

Finance Bill 2015: Report Stage (24 Nov 2015)

Pearse Doherty: Engage in the debate. There is a housing crisis.

Finance Bill 2015: Report Stage (24 Nov 2015)

Pearse Doherty: You are embarrassed even sitting down. It is pathetic. That is schoolboy debate stuff.

Finance Bill 2015: Report Stage (24 Nov 2015)

Pearse Doherty: He is bringing a tear to my eye now. I know what it feels like.

Finance Bill 2015: Report Stage (24 Nov 2015)

Pearse Doherty: I rise for the second time to ask the Minister to answer the questions I put. Deputy McGrath has just repeated them. What is the cost of this measure? How many individuals does the Minister expect to avail of this measure? There are obviously existing tenants and landlords who will be able to avail of this, so what will be the cost? Has there been any examination of the knock-on effects...

Finance Bill 2015: Report Stage (24 Nov 2015)

Pearse Doherty: This amendment deals with the supply side of the housing crisis. The way to deal with it is not through tax breaks for landlords, but rather by building additional houses. Deputies on the Government side have veered into Sweden and the Stormont House Agreement, which the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade supports, as I am sure the Government does. Through Sinn Féin's efforts, an...

Finance Bill 2015: Report Stage (24 Nov 2015)

Pearse Doherty: A half-arsed attempt.

Finance Bill 2015: Report Stage (24 Nov 2015)

Pearse Doherty: It was a terrible attempt to try to deal with the fact that more than 100,000 individuals are on the housing waiting list. What analysis has the Minister done to determine how this measure will address the crisis? It will not put another brick on a site, a slab of mortar in between bricks or build any homes. Given that there is a supply-side problem, not only in social housing but also in...

Finance Bill 2015: Report Stage (24 Nov 2015)

Pearse Doherty: Speak to the amendment, for continuity purposes.

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Mortgage Lending (24 Nov 2015)

Pearse Doherty: 151. To ask the Minister for Finance the percentage of the space permitted for exemptions from the deposit rules used by the banks to date, subject to the Central Bank of Ireland's macro-prudential mortgage lending rule, by regulated bank in tabular form; the value of these exempted loans; the average mortgage within this set of exempted mortgages; and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Corporation Tax (24 Nov 2015)

Pearse Doherty: 165. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of companies that paid corporation tax in the bands €0 to €50,000, €50,000 plus to €100,000, €100,00 plus to €500,000, €500,000 plus to €1 million, €1 million plus to €5 million, and €5 million plus, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41606/15]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Corporation Tax (24 Nov 2015)

Pearse Doherty: 166. To ask the Minister for Finance the average increase in corporation tax paid in 2015 to date, by the top 20% of companies; and the equivalent amount at this point in 2014; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41607/15]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Government Expenditure (24 Nov 2015)

Pearse Doherty: 167. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Question No. 208 of 17 November 2015, if he will list the number of other calls on the central fund referred to in the reply. [41634/15]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Staff Data (24 Nov 2015)

Pearse Doherty: 174. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of exemptions requested by individual Departments, State agencies and local authorities to the moratorium on recruitment and promotion since its introduction in March 2009, by request, including the name of the requesting body and the reasons given; the number of exemptions granted for promotions, recruitments and...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Valuation Office (24 Nov 2015)

Pearse Doherty: 179. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the date that each local authority was advised in writing by the Valuation Office regarding the global revaluations in 2015; if any advance notice of this intended revaluation was issued; and if so, when. [41684/15]