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Leaders' Questions (10 Apr 2014)

Séamus Healy: The Government has chosen not to impose an asset or wealth tax on the super rich. However, it is hitting poor and less well-off families.

Leaders' Questions (10 Apr 2014)

Séamus Healy: There is wealth in this country that is not being taxed by the Government. Will the Minister introduce a tax on wealth and assets to ensure the very wealthy in society, that is, those who earn €595,000 a year and those who have significant assets, pay their fair share of taxes?

Leaders' Questions (10 Apr 2014)

Séamus Healy: Will the Government introduce a wealth or an asset tax?

Leaders' Questions (10 Apr 2014)

Séamus Healy: I just want the Minister to answer the question.

Leaders' Questions (10 Apr 2014)

Séamus Healy: I am asking about a wealth or an asset tax.

Leaders' Questions (10 Apr 2014)

Séamus Healy: A Fine Gael Minister did it in the past.

Leaders' Questions (10 Apr 2014)

Séamus Healy: There are 10,000 such individuals.

Leaders' Questions (10 Apr 2014)

Séamus Healy: I would like an answer.

Leaders' Questions (10 Apr 2014)

Séamus Healy: The Minister has been inviting us to consider outcomes. Maybe we should examine some of the outcomes of the social and economic policy of this Government. The gap between rich and poor in Ireland is now four times the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, OECD, average. Incomes in the average Irish household have fallen by 50% and low income households lost a greater...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: IBRC Mortgage Loan Book (8 Apr 2014)

Séamus Healy: 147. To ask the Minister for Finance the fraction of the book value that was paid recently by Lone Star and Oakland Capital for the non-performing loans which had been originally drawn down from Irish Nationwide Building Society; the status of the assurance by Lone Star and Oakland Capital that they will comply with Central Bank of Ireland guidelines in dealing with mortgage debt; the entity...

Leaders' Questions (2 Apr 2014)

Séamus Healy: They are not solvable.

Leaders' Questions (2 Apr 2014)

Séamus Healy: As the leader of this country, the Taoiseach is responsible for what is happening in relation to repossessions and evictions. As he well knows, thousands of families are unable to meet the insolvency criteria set down by this Government. Up to 30,000 families are facing eviction. This is happening every day throughout this country. At the same time, tax exiles and the Irish elite are...

Leaders' Questions (2 Apr 2014)

Séamus Healy: -----will have a property repossessed on foot of a debt of €50,000 while a friend of the bankers has €500,000, €1 million or €5 million written off.

Leaders' Questions (2 Apr 2014)

Séamus Healy: Can senior bankers give write-downs to each other? Will a banker be able to give a write-down to his political buddies in the local branch or cumann? During the boom years, these bankers gave huge loans to the Irish elite. The same people are now benefitting from these write-downs. The International Monetary Fund said in a recent report that the current situation here endangers social...

Leaders' Questions (2 Apr 2014)

Séamus Healy: Every day.

Leaders' Questions (2 Apr 2014)

Séamus Healy: Every day.

Leaders' Questions (2 Apr 2014)

Séamus Healy: What about the 30,000 cases that will not get written down?

Leaders' Questions (2 Apr 2014)

Séamus Healy: We are concerned about the write-downs being given to bankers' buddies.

Leaders' Questions (2 Apr 2014)

Séamus Healy: The elite were given huge loans during the boom and now they are getting huge write-downs.

Leaders' Questions (2 Apr 2014)

Séamus Healy: Thousands of Irish families are facing eviction. Ulster Bank alone has 4,700 repossession cases before the courts.