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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government (14 Sep 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: Okay. I will withdraw it but I want to speak on the topic now that the Minister is talking about bank-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government (14 Sep 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: Okay. I will speak after that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government (14 Sep 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: Could we go on to pillar 2 while the Minister is here?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government (14 Sep 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: I have a question on the issue of mixed tenure. I want to respond to what the Minister said.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government (14 Sep 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: The Minister did not answer a lot of my questions. For example, I asked about meeting Fingal County Council. I asked many questions on the homeless problem.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government (14 Sep 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: Chairman, sorry-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government (14 Sep 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: It is a bit blasé, if you do not mind me saying that. Homelessness is concentrated in a number of locations. My frustration stems from the fact that 40% of Dublin's homeless are in my constituency but the Minister has not prioritised meeting that local authority and asking why it has no plans to deal with the situation or explain what he can do to help them. It is a bit blasé for...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government (14 Sep 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: Here we go again. The Minister is talking about many elements that come under pillar 2, but we cannot ask about items under that pillar.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government (14 Sep 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: That is a separate issue.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government (14 Sep 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: No. I wanted to raise that aspect but I was not allowed to do so.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government (14 Sep 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: There is an increase in landlords and rent. The Residential Tenancies Board figures show that-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government (14 Sep 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: What day is the next meeting?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government (14 Sep 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: What time?
- Written Answers — Department of Finance: VAT Rate Application (16 Sep 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: 261. To ask the Minister for Finance the amount that could be raised by applying the standard rate of VAT of 23% to financial services. [25340/16]
- Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (16 Sep 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: 262. To ask the Minister for Finance the amount that could be raised by applying a financial Activities Tax as proposed by the IMF. [25341/16]
- Written Answers — Department of Finance: Universal Social Charge Data (16 Sep 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: 263. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide a breakdown of the amount of USC that was raised annually for each year since its introduction from employees' wages, self-employed income, and unearned income such as rent, respectively and estimate the amounts likely to accrue from each in 2017, in tabular form. [25342/16]
- Written Answers — Department of Finance: Universal Social Charge Data (16 Sep 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: 274. To ask the Minister for Finance the full year cost of abolishing the universal social charge in 2017. [25353/16]
- Written Answers — Department of Finance: Universal Social Charge Data (16 Sep 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: 275. To ask the Minister for Finance the full year cost of abolishing the USC on employee wages in 2017. [25354/16]
- Written Answers — Department of Finance: Universal Social Charge Data (16 Sep 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: 276. To ask the Minister for Finance the full year cost of abolishing the USC on single employee wages under €90,000 in 2017 and on couples earning less than €150,000. [25355/16]
- Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Collection (16 Sep 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: 264. To ask the Minister for Finance the amount that could be raised by increasing Corporation Tax to 20%, the standard rate of PAYE for workers. [25343/16]