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Finance (Local Property Tax) (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2015 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: Or a Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael Government.

Finance (Local Property Tax) (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2015: Second Stage (11 Dec 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: They are likely to have to eat their Christmas dinner elsewhere. Members of the Government will stand in the photographs highlighting this disaster while the people to whom I refer will still be expected to pay their property tax. That is cynical. I find this Bill cynical because it represents and admission that the value of a house no longer represents the wealth of a family. A recent...

Finance (Local Property Tax) (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2015 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: If property price inflation continues, the average family will face a property tax bill approximately €180 higher by 2019. As a result, the Fine Gael backbenchers from south Dublin and elsewhere come into the House and create a racket and burn the ear off the Minister for Finance. They say that now, as the election approaches, people are facing a massive increase in property charges...

Finance (Local Property Tax) (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2015 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: There are no Labour Party Deputies present in the House. However, Labour Party Deputies have been singing about this matter during the past year. Where they are on local authorities with Sinn Féin, which has been using its mandate to reduce local property tax, they have been criticising what Sinn Féin has been doing and saying it is hollowing out the income of local authorities,...

Finance (Local Property Tax) (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2015 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: Sinn Féin has submitted amendments and I hope we will have time to debate them. It will be a travesty if we do not. I hope the Government will respond and say that it will amend the Bill to ensure that exemptions will include people suffering as a result of the floods. Mention was made of exemptions from the tax for people whose homes have been affected by pyrite but only 80 people...

Finance (Local Property Tax) (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2015: Second Stage (11 Dec 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: Ba mhaith liom i dtús báire freagra a thabhairt ar an méid a bhí le rá ag an Aire Stáit faoi "stability" i gcomhthéacs an cáin mhaoine áitiúil. Dúirt sé go bhfuil an cáin seo mar shaghas tacaíochta do "stability". It is clear that the Minister of State has not been listening to the Irish Fiscal Advisory Council's latest...

Finance (Local Property Tax) (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2015: Second Stage (11 Dec 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: Exactly. There is no doubt about it.

Finance (Local Property Tax) (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2015: Second Stage (11 Dec 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: I welcome the fact there should be taxation on jobs.

Finance (Local Property Tax) (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2015: Second Stage (11 Dec 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: In 2004, 2005 and 2006, Bertie Ahern shifted taxation from personal taxation towards stamp duty, which applies in a very unstable section of the economy. The current Government is doing the exact same thing and thereby creating instability.

Finance (Local Property Tax) (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2015: Second Stage (11 Dec 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: Incredibly, some 140 companies pay 70% of all corporation tax. The focus on this narrow sector of society reminds me of the focus on another narrow sector of society - the construction industry - some years ago. The Government has created an unbalanced economy, with 90% of exports coming from the foreign direct investment sector. Countries like Denmark and Austria provide approximately 40%...

Finance (Tax Appeals) Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (11 Dec 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: I move amendment No. 5:In page 39, line 19, to delete “High Court” and substitute “Circuit Court”.

Finance (Tax Appeals) Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (11 Dec 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: This is the opposite of what happened with the previous amendment, when the Government moved in respect of a view of the committee. This time, it has decided not to move. I am curious to know why the Minister is travelling down this road. It is not particular to this Bill, as a pattern has developed across a number of Bills in recent times. The Customs Act 2015 springs to mind. The new...

Finance (Tax Appeals) Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (11 Dec 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: I move amendment No. 2:In page 34, line 2, to delete “Subject to subsections (2) and (3), every” and substitute “Every”. Transparency is the ally of a citizen and in most cases involving central, local government or tax affairs where there is transparency, it usually results in better behaviour by all involved. The purpose of these amendments is to remove the...

Finance (Tax Appeals) Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (11 Dec 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: I move amendment No. 3:In page 34, to delete lines 4 to 25.

Leaders' Questions (10 Dec 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: If the land is under water, where will the herd go?

Leaders' Questions (9 Dec 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: The Government did not come into office overnight.

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Credit Guarantee (Amendment) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (8 Dec 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: I move amendment No. 3:In page 6, between lines 29 and 30, to insert the following:“(c) the finance provider is a crowd funder which operates as a credit facility and its liquidity is sourced from the general public and provides loans to businesses in a peer to peer arrangement. (d) the finance provider is a credit union which operates in Ireland under Central Bank...

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Credit Guarantee (Amendment) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (8 Dec 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: On Second Stage the Minister of State said crowd funding could not be included because its definition was not tight enough. I now understand he is saying there is a possibility, given the breadth of the Bill, that crowd funders could be included in the future. Will he give me a commitment that they will be so included?

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Credit Guarantee (Amendment) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (8 Dec 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: As Opposition Deputies, we have an opportunity to discuss what the Bill states and will do. If we simply agree that it should be left to the Minister to decide what should be included in the scheme at some point in the future, we abdicate our responsibility as Opposition Deputies to the different sectors that are components of a functioning and healthy economy. If we simply decide that it...

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Credit Guarantee (Amendment) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (8 Dec 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: To clarify, will the Minister's section allow SBCI to directly provide credit to SMEs?