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Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 9 - Office of the Revenue Commissioners
Chapter 17 - Tax compliance interventions
Chapter 18 - Tax relief on film production (28 Nov 2019)

Shane Cassells: The point on quantifying is interesting. It was analysed by Dr. Brian Keegan in The Sunday Business Poston 3 November under the headline "Taxing times ahead at TDs' clinics". I am sure Mr. Cody read it. On the point of quantifying the figure, again on the record, in response to a parliamentary question, the Minister said it is not possible to quantify accurately the anticipated increase in...

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 9 - Office of the Revenue Commissioners
Chapter 17 - Tax compliance interventions
Chapter 18 - Tax relief on film production (28 Nov 2019)

Shane Cassells: I would like to follow up on the interesting point that Mr. Cody has made. During my interaction with the Minister on Question Time in the Dáil Chamber two weeks ago, I asked about the desktop study for a very specific reason. Obviously, it is a very hot topic. The largest zinc mine in Europe, which employs 620 people, is in my home town. I told the Minister that I had travelled to...

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 9 - Office of the Revenue Commissioners
Chapter 17 - Tax compliance interventions
Chapter 18 - Tax relief on film production (28 Nov 2019)

Shane Cassells: I ask Mr. Cody to trust me when I say that if I made it out, he would make it out. It is okay. I issued that invitation to the Minister and to Mr. Cody in the context of my query about whether this was a desktop study or whether those involved had actually been to this location. When a person who is doing a desktop study sees the list of allowances that are being claimed for, he or she...

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 9 - Office of the Revenue Commissioners
Chapter 17 - Tax compliance interventions
Chapter 18 - Tax relief on film production (28 Nov 2019)

Shane Cassells: Is Mr. Cody intimating that that is where this should go? If so, it worries me. Potentially, there is a change coming. Is Mr. Cody intimating that the Minister should interject on a policy basis to protect the income of the workers? Am I able to draw that inference?

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 9 - Office of the Revenue Commissioners
Chapter 17 - Tax compliance interventions
Chapter 18 - Tax relief on film production (28 Nov 2019)

Shane Cassells: Okay.

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 9 - Office of the Revenue Commissioners
Chapter 17 - Tax compliance interventions
Chapter 18 - Tax relief on film production (28 Nov 2019)

Shane Cassells: Okay.

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 9 - Office of the Revenue Commissioners
Chapter 17 - Tax compliance interventions
Chapter 18 - Tax relief on film production (28 Nov 2019)

Shane Cassells: They are not comparable to the conditions in any of the other sectors out there.

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 9 - Office of the Revenue Commissioners
Chapter 17 - Tax compliance interventions
Chapter 18 - Tax relief on film production (28 Nov 2019)

Shane Cassells: As a Member of the Oireachtas, I was not saying to the chairman of Revenue that it should be done subjectively. I was asking about the study that was being done to assess the tax code. I was looking at the application of the interpretation of the list I have in front of me. The Minister has said that it is a question of interpretation. That is why the invitation was extended. It was done...

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 9 - Office of the Revenue Commissioners
Chapter 17 - Tax compliance interventions
Chapter 18 - Tax relief on film production (28 Nov 2019)

Shane Cassells: I invited the Minister and Mr. Cody to see the facility at first hand. Any review of any subject matter should involve looking at it at first hand to experience it.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (3 Dec 2019)

Shane Cassells: At a meeting last week of the Committee of Public Accounts, I questioned the Chairman of the Revenue Commissioners on the issue of the removal of flat rate allowances as the Taoiseach and the Minister for Finance had told me in this Chamber that this was not a matter for them, even though it impacted some 600,000 workers and many hundreds of miners in my home town of Navan. Last night, on...

Confidence in the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government: Motion [Private Members] (3 Dec 2019)

Shane Cassells: We are here yet again to debate a vote of no confidence in someone belonging to the Government, a Government so sick it is in need of home help, if only there were the staff to provide it with home help.

Confidence in the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government: Motion [Private Members] (3 Dec 2019)

Shane Cassells: It is okay, a Leas-Cheann Comhairle, I have a special fan club in Sinn Féin.

Confidence in the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government: Motion [Private Members] (3 Dec 2019)

Shane Cassells: It is a Government in need of some special tutoring to show it the errors of its ways, if only there were the special needs assistants to help it in that regard and to give it some moral guidance while they are at it. It is a Government in need of shelter from the storms it faces on a weekly basis but we all know there is no hope of roof over one’s head. However, there is a festive...

Confidence in the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government: Motion [Private Members] (3 Dec 2019)

Shane Cassells: I am getting to the serious point.

Confidence in the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government: Motion [Private Members] (3 Dec 2019)

Shane Cassells: Trust me, Patrick, I am getting to the serious point.

Confidence in the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government: Motion [Private Members] (3 Dec 2019)

Shane Cassells: The Prime Minister speaks of their special relationship when-----

Confidence in the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government: Motion [Private Members] (3 Dec 2019)

Shane Cassells: -----he says, "l love that word 'relationship'. Covers all manners of sins, doesn't it? I fear that this has become a bad relationship."

Confidence in the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government: Motion [Private Members] (3 Dec 2019)

Shane Cassells: He continues, "A relationship based on the President taking exactly what he wants, and casually ignoring all those things that really matter to [us]." A bit like Hugh Grant and Billy Bob, there is no doubt that nights like tonight, for the Minister of State, Deputy O'Donovan, and the debate we are having make us examine our relationship.

Confidence in the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government: Motion [Private Members] (3 Dec 2019)

Shane Cassells: It is one that afforded the party opposite, with its Members who are heckling and ought to take stock of themselves-----

Confidence in the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government: Motion [Private Members] (3 Dec 2019)

Shane Cassells: The relationship is one that has afforded the party opposite that most trusted of positions of forming a Government to tackle the biggest issues of our day, and no issue has bedevilled our country more than that of housing. However, it has not lived up to that trust, it has failed our people and it has not delivered on that very basic issue of providing homes for people. If a State is...