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Written Answers — Ministerial Staff: Ministerial Staff (8 Mar 2005)

Joan Burton: Question 327: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the number of persons employed in her private office and her constituency office; the annual amount paid in respect of salaries and expenses in regard to each such office; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7929/05]

Written Answers — Ministerial Staff: Ministerial Staff (8 Mar 2005)

Joan Burton: Question 366: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of persons employed in his private office and his constituency office; the annual amount paid in respect of salaries and expenses in regard to each such office; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7930/05]

Written Answers — Ministerial Staff: Ministerial Staff (8 Mar 2005)

Joan Burton: Question 416: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the number of persons employed in her private office and her constituency office; the annual amount paid in respect of salaries and expenses in regard to each such office; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7931/05]

Written Answers — Ministerial Staff: Ministerial Staff (8 Mar 2005)

Joan Burton: Question 435: To ask the Minister for Defence the number of persons employed in his private office and his constituency office; the annual amount paid in respect of salaries and expenses in regard to each such office; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7932/05]

Written Answers — Ministerial Staff: Ministerial Staff (8 Mar 2005)

Joan Burton: Question 449: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the number of persons employed in his private office and his constituency office; the annual amount paid in respect of salaries and expenses in regard to each such office; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7933/05]

Leaders' Questions. (9 Mar 2005)

Joan Burton: Will the Taoiseach allow a debate tomorrow?

Leaders' Questions. (9 Mar 2005)

Joan Burton: Will we have a debate tomorrow?

Order of Business. (9 Mar 2005)

Joan Burton: The Taoiseach has indicated he wishes to respond.

Finance Bill 2005: Motion to Recommit. (9 Mar 2005)

Joan Burton: I move: "That the Bill be recommitted in its entirety to a committee of the House." The Minister has introduced a major change to the Bill by way of amendment No. 58 and there is a complete absence of opportunity for the House to debate this section in any detail owing to the presence of a guillotine. In the Bill as amended on Committee Stage, there is a section 141 which deals with the...

Finance Bill 2005: Motion to Recommit. (9 Mar 2005)

Joan Burton: I ask that the Bill be recommitted in its entirety to the Select Committee on Finance and the Public Service so that we can fully debate amendment No. 58. As it stands we will never reach amendment No. 58, which comes at the end of the Bill and this debate is to be guillotined.

Finance Bill 2005: Report Stage. (9 Mar 2005)

Joan Burton: I propose that amendment No. 58 be grouped with amendment No.1 for the purpose of enabling the Dáil to debate this important amendment. Because there is a guillotine attaching to this Bill, there will be no opportunity for the House to debate amendment No. 58. The least we are entitled to is that my proposal be facilitated.

Finance Bill 2005: Report Stage. (9 Mar 2005)

Joan Burton: This Bill will be guillotined at 1.30 p.m. tomorrow, which leaves us a relatively short time——

Finance Bill 2005: Report Stage. (9 Mar 2005)

Joan Burton: We are talking about an amendment which deals with tax evasion.

Finance Bill 2005: Report Stage. (9 Mar 2005)

Joan Burton: I move amendment No. 1: In page 11, between lines 13 and 14, to insert the following: 1.—The Ombudsman shall include in her annual report a special report on the overpayment of tax by PAYE taxpayers, and on the take up of credits by such taxpayers, and the branch of her office dedicated to ensuring that the take up of credits is readily available to all taxpayers, and refunds made as...

Finance Bill 2005: Report Stage. (9 Mar 2005)

Joan Burton: On that basis, the Minister should accept amendment No. 1 from the Labour Party. It is a minor amendment but it would at least balance the scales in terms of tax justice in favour of PAYE taxpayers.

Finance Bill 2005: Report Stage (Resumed). (9 Mar 2005)

Joan Burton: On the day the Travers report has been published, highlighting and justifying the work of the Ombudsman in vindicating the rights of citizens in respect of nursing home charges, it is ironic that the Minster for Finance will not accept a modest amendment which proposes that the Ombudsman be given the power, authority and duty to produce a report, in the role of taxpayers' advocate, on the...

Finance Bill 2005: Report Stage (Resumed). (9 Mar 2005)

Joan Burton: I am glad the Minister has at last opened his mouth on the issue because his silence was very telling. Only time will tell when we have had an opportunity to analyse it. According to the Revenue Commissioners' figures there were overpayments of tax by PAYE taxpayers of €306 million in 2003, €267 million in 2002 and €193 million in 2001. It is estimated that approximately €170 million...

Finance Bill 2005: Report Stage (Resumed). (9 Mar 2005)

Joan Burton: I move amendment No. 3: In page 11, between lines 13 and 14, to insert the following: 1.—The tax bands, exemption limits and tax credits relating to income tax set out in the Finance Act 2004 are hereby increased by such rate as would maintain the real value of those bands, limits and credits in terms of changes in the cost of living since 2003. The purpose of this amendment is to restore...

Finance Bill 2005: Report Stage (Resumed). (9 Mar 2005)

Joan Burton: Yes, he did. The Minister should check the facts.

Finance Bill 2005: Report Stage (Resumed). (9 Mar 2005)

Joan Burton: We also need low rates of capital gains, capital acquisitions, inheritance and other taxes. If the Minister checks the facts, he will find that rate was agreed during Ireland's Presidency——