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Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Revenue Raising Proposals: Minister for Finance and Revenue Commissioners (20 Sep 2016)

Joan Burton: I have only a couple of points. The Minister said there was no real roadmap in relation to the risk the country faces. He also stated he wanted to have a low-risk budget. It is extraordinary that all the representatives of the various interest groups that appeared before the committee, including trade unions and employers, focused on the current very low levels of capital expenditure which...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Revenue Raising Proposals: Minister for Finance and Revenue Commissioners (20 Sep 2016)

Joan Burton: I did not suggest it would start this year. My understanding from the Minister's statements-----

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Revenue Raising Proposals: Minister for Finance and Revenue Commissioners (20 Sep 2016)

Joan Burton: I understand from memory that the capital programme will run until 2021. The Minister did not say whether he believed, in light of population growth and demographic pressures, whether it is necessary to invest in schools and facilities for older people, in other words, the built economy as opposed to employment of staff and so forth. Our road infrastructure and public transport, particularly...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Revenue Raising Proposals: Minister for Finance and Revenue Commissioners (20 Sep 2016)

Joan Burton: May I ask the witness from the Revenue Commissioners a brief question?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Revenue Raising Proposals: Minister for Finance and Revenue Commissioners (20 Sep 2016)

Joan Burton: Can the Revenue Commissioners give us here or subsequently details of the capital losses that have been built up in the Irish taxation system since the crash, specifically with regard to banking and finance and secondly in construction? I presume that at this point in time, with people returning to profit, some tax is now being paid. I am a long-standing proponent of a minimum effective tax...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Revenue Raising Proposals: Minister for Finance and Revenue Commissioners (20 Sep 2016)

Joan Burton: Perhaps some of the distance between us is the Taoiseach's constant explanations and praise of the new politics, much of which includes total frankness. That is what we are told by the Minister's colleague.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Revenue Raising Proposals: Minister for Finance and Revenue Commissioners (20 Sep 2016)

Joan Burton: To return to the Revenue Commissioners, the issue of the knowledge box and the Minister's comment about more companies than multinationals establishing here - we all know many new Irish companies and start-ups have established - to what extent are Irish start-up companies versus multinationals and other Irish companies availing of the knowledge box? Will the Minister give me those figures?...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Revenue Raising Proposals: Minister for Finance and Revenue Commissioners (20 Sep 2016)

Joan Burton: They overpay it.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Revenue Raising Proposals: Minister for Finance and Revenue Commissioners (20 Sep 2016)

Joan Burton: I also asked about the knowledge box.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Revenue Raising Proposals: Minister for Finance and Revenue Commissioners (20 Sep 2016)

Joan Burton: Does Mr. Howard have a profile on it for next year?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Revenue Raising Proposals: Minister for Finance and Revenue Commissioners (20 Sep 2016)

Joan Burton: This is a question for the Minister. There have been many references in the newspapers to his desire to reduce inheritance taxes. I have seen a value of €75 million attached to a potential reduction in inheritance tax in some of the presentations we got here. Is the Minister thinking of that or would he prefer if that there to happen over a period of time? It seems an awful lot in...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Revenue Raising Proposals: Minister for Finance and Revenue Commissioners (20 Sep 2016)

Joan Burton: Does that run contrary to what the Minister said earlier, namely, that he was not in favour of indexation in relation to either social welfare or other issues? That seems contrary to that view, given that it would be a very large cost at a time when we are very stuck. I totally agree with this being pegged to inflation. That is fine and I believe that was done last year and year before...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Current and Capital Expenditure: Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (21 Sep 2016)

Joan Burton: I also welcome the Minister. Does he accept that Ireland has one of the lowest ratios of public expenditure to GDP among the 28 member states of the European Union? In that context and to take up the Minister's previous comments, during the lifetime of the previous Government the story on capital expenditure certainly was that much of it was dictated by demographics and population growth....

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Current and Capital Expenditure: Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (21 Sep 2016)

Joan Burton: Can I just-----

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Current and Capital Expenditure: Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (21 Sep 2016)

Joan Burton: I missed that.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Current and Capital Expenditure: Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (21 Sep 2016)

Joan Burton: It is kind of hard to do that when there is no headquarters for the units of cars-----

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Current and Capital Expenditure: Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (21 Sep 2016)

Joan Burton: My other question pertains to correspondence I received today. I was asked to raise this specifically with the Minister, but it is an issue for everybody involved in politics.As a new mother who is returning to work in the next six weeks I am looking at the cost of €1,000 a month to pay for child care for my baby. Add this to my mortgage on a property I bought ten years ago which is...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Current and Capital Expenditure: Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (21 Sep 2016)

Joan Burton: The Minister probably shares my concern on the following issue as I know he is very familiar with it. We are facing into another round of bus strikes at the end of this week.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Current and Capital Expenditure: Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (21 Sep 2016)

Joan Burton: It is to do with the Minister's role on public expenditure and reform. The Ministers, Deputy Donohoe and Deputy Varadkar, and Deputy Kelly, when they were Ministers in the Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport, worked night and day to ensure that, where there were issues, those issues were resolved.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Current and Capital Expenditure: Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (21 Sep 2016)

Joan Burton: Yes, absolutely. What I want to know in regard to the budget is what proposals there are to ensure that the hardship which is being suffered at the moment in Dublin, particularly on the northside, by those such as pensioners and others who have hospital appointments, and also the traders in Dublin city, who every day coming up to Christmas lose a day's trade-----