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- Finance (Local Property Tax) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (18 Dec 2012)
Michael Noonan: What kind of example is that to the public of Ireland?
- Finance (Local Property Tax) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (18 Dec 2012)
Michael Noonan: It is an absolutely ridiculous position.
- Finance (Local Property Tax) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (18 Dec 2012)
Michael Noonan: I do not have the time to go into it tonight but everybody knows that property is a fixed asset. If one taxes property it is more dependable. It is not a transaction tax. It is good for the tax base and people who have assets should be taxed. This is a tax on assets and they are being taxed on this.
- Finance (Local Property Tax) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (18 Dec 2012)
Michael Noonan: It is a fair tax and all those people who do not contribute on this occasion will contribute to a smaller amount. Everybody talks about fairness.
- Finance (Local Property Tax) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (18 Dec 2012)
Michael Noonan: I will tell you what my concept of fairness is. A different concept of fairness is being propagated by certain sections of the House which is that there is a small discrete group of extraordinarily wealthy people, and if one only took a lot of tax from them no one else would have to pay anything. This is the thesis. Fair enough, the wealthy should pay. This is why we are insisting on...
- Finance (Local Property Tax) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (18 Dec 2012)
Michael Noonan: We are all in the same profession, and Deputy Mattie McGrath knows what is regarded as extremely unfair in housing estates is where the local authority comes in and buys a house and puts in a person in need of social housing who pays rent there as a tenant while everybody along the road is paying mortgages. When it comes to property tax I believe everybody on the road should pay a small...
- Finance (Local Property Tax) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (18 Dec 2012)
Michael Noonan: The Deputies are propagating an argument that everybody should not pay. Go to a big corporation estate in any city. Are the Deputies telling me that people who have been on tenant purchase and have reached 85% or 90% are the only people who should pay because they are the owners and those paying rent and who are not tenant purchasers should not pay anything?
- Finance (Local Property Tax) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (18 Dec 2012)
Michael Noonan: Everybody should pay. At the end of the day everybody should make a small contribution. This is fairness.
- Finance (Local Property Tax) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (18 Dec 2012)
Michael Noonan: Deputies Higgins and Boyd Barrett in different ways tried to rally people to some revolutionary cause. I heard Deputy Boyd Barrett last week getting very impassioned. He was calling people to the barricades. He was throwing the little streets upon the great.
- Finance (Local Property Tax) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (18 Dec 2012)
Michael Noonan: The only problem with this call to revolution is I do not think they will get a big crowd of revolutionaries rallying behind the banner of opposing property taxes. This was never a great slogan for the left. The Deputies' ideological position seems to owe far more to Groucho Marx than Karl Marx because they are taking up ridiculous ideological positions. If Lenin heard what his successors...
- Finance (Local Property Tax) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (18 Dec 2012)
Michael Noonan: The Deputies have put themselves in an absolutely ridiculous position.
- Finance (Local Property Tax) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (18 Dec 2012)
Michael Noonan: I am all for raising debate. What is wrong with many people here tonight is they are disappointed the Government's programme is working.
- Finance (Local Property Tax) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (18 Dec 2012)
Michael Noonan: They are building political careers on failure and the misery of the people and hoping the difficulties will continue. They got a shock today because as well as the internationally trading economy going well, the domestic economy has lifted and in the third quarter of this year there was growth in the domestic economy. GDP is growing again and it will grow stronger this year than estimated...
- Finance (Local Property Tax) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (18 Dec 2012)
Michael Noonan: We are developing a strong society once more-----
- Finance (Local Property Tax) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (18 Dec 2012)
Michael Noonan: -----and we are keeping people at work.
- Finance (Local Property Tax) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (18 Dec 2012)
Michael Noonan: More than 1.8 million people are still at work and I refuse to increase income tax on them because if one taxes work one will get less of it.
- Finance (Local Property Tax) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (18 Dec 2012)
Michael Noonan: The commitments we made in the programme for Government-----
- Finance (Local Property Tax) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (18 Dec 2012)
Michael Noonan: -----were not to increase rates, reduce credits or increase the bands and a separate commitment was made not to increase the marginal rate of tax.
- Finance (Local Property Tax) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (18 Dec 2012)
Michael Noonan: We did not do so in the previous budget and we did not do so in this one. It is working because we are not taxing work and more people are going back to work.
- Finance (Local Property Tax) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (18 Dec 2012)
Michael Noonan: I have not heard one coherent argument tonight with one exception; Deputy Donnelly is always right. I heard no idea tonight worth anything to me as Minister for Finance.