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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Renewable Energy - Wind, Solar and Biogas: Discussion (4 Dec 2019)
Alice-Mary Higgins: Is it bypassing-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Renewable Energy - Wind, Solar and Biogas: Discussion (4 Dec 2019)
Alice-Mary Higgins: Will this be a project of common interest in the future?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Renewable Energy - Wind, Solar and Biogas: Discussion (4 Dec 2019)
Alice-Mary Higgins: I would like to make a final point.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Renewable Energy - Wind, Solar and Biogas: Discussion (4 Dec 2019)
Alice-Mary Higgins: I understand that we will get a number of supplementary documents, one of which will relate to ammonia.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Renewable Energy - Wind, Solar and Biogas: Discussion (4 Dec 2019)
Alice-Mary Higgins: How do we reach a point at which we are not in breach of our ammonia limits? We are in breach of them at present. Maybe we could get some supplementary information on that in written form. I continue to have some concerns in this regard.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Renewable Energy - Wind, Solar and Biogas: Discussion (4 Dec 2019)
Alice-Mary Higgins: Any written information on this model would be very useful.
- Seanad: Finance Bill 2019: Committee Stage (3 Dec 2019)
Alice-Mary Higgins: Section 9 deals with the special assignee relief programme, SARP, an income tax relief for some of the highest earners in the State. It is a relief on salaries between €75,000 and €1 million. We know for a fact that some of those who benefit from the scheme have salaries of over €3 million. I recognise that they only get the special tax relief on that part of their...
- Seanad: Finance Bill 2019: Committee Stage (3 Dec 2019)
Alice-Mary Higgins: It is concerning that we do not have the 2018 figure when we are considering the budget for 2020. When it comes to smaller-ticket measures that come under the social protection budget, for example, we have to look at their exact impact and prove their benefit up, down and sideways if we want to see them extended or improved slightly. It is a cause for concern that a scheme that cost...
- Seanad: Finance Bill 2019: Committee Stage (3 Dec 2019)
Alice-Mary Higgins: Apparently, we could not afford an increase in the minimum wage this year.
- Seanad: Finance Bill 2019: Committee Stage (3 Dec 2019)
Alice-Mary Higgins: The Minister of State is editorialising.
- Seanad: Finance Bill 2019: Committee Stage (3 Dec 2019)
Alice-Mary Higgins: You are theorising that this will not help.
- Seanad: Finance Bill 2019: Committee Stage (3 Dec 2019)
Alice-Mary Higgins: With respect, I ask the Minister of State not to editorialise in sweeping generalisations on what he thinks we think and what he believes our beliefs are. We have many specific amendments-----
- Seanad: Finance Bill 2019: Committee Stage (3 Dec 2019)
Alice-Mary Higgins: I am saying the debate will move better if we do not have to go back and forth on those matters. I do not believe any of us is interested in talking about what Sinn Féin and Fine Gael like. Let us focus on the proposals at hand. If I was a shareholder in a company in which the CEO was making decisions on where to locate the company based on his or her salary and income tax, I would...
- Seanad: Finance Bill 2019: Committee Stage (3 Dec 2019)
Alice-Mary Higgins: The Government is hollowing out the income taken from higher earners.
- Seanad: Finance Bill 2019: Committee Stage (3 Dec 2019)
Alice-Mary Higgins: Again, the Minister of State-----
- Seanad: Finance Bill 2019: Committee Stage (3 Dec 2019)
Alice-Mary Higgins: I did not question somebody's patriotism if they went away and came back. I must call on the Acting Chairman.
- Seanad: Finance Bill 2019: Committee Stage (3 Dec 2019)
Alice-Mary Higgins: That is not what I said. I referred to where somebody needs a tax relief in order to return.
- Seanad: Finance Bill 2019: Committee Stage (3 Dec 2019)
Alice-Mary Higgins: It is actually not what I said.
- Seanad: Finance Bill 2019: Committee Stage (3 Dec 2019)
Alice-Mary Higgins: I do not want to keep going on this. I would just like it to be clarified.
- Seanad: Finance Bill 2019: Committee Stage (3 Dec 2019)
Alice-Mary Higgins: To clarify, I did not question people who leave and come back. I am delighted that people who leave come back. I questioned the narrative that they would come back only if offered a tax relief.