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- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Business of Select Committee
Ex-ante Scrutiny of Budget 2018 (Resumed): Minister for Finance (27 Sep 2017) Joan Burton: The Minister is too sweet.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Business of Select Committee
Ex-ante Scrutiny of Budget 2018 (Resumed): Minister for Finance (27 Sep 2017) Joan Burton: If I may make one general comment at the beginning of my contribution, I am really disappointed that there are no women at the top table of the finance team. In this day and age, I get fed up that myself, Deputy Madigan and a small number of others are very often the only women in the room. I understand that the Minister and his officials as individuals possibly have nothing to do with...
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Business of Select Committee
Ex-ante Scrutiny of Budget 2018 (Resumed): Minister for Finance (27 Sep 2017) Joan Burton: I understand from the Minister's statements that he will provide for the refund of water charges this year out of current resources. Can he confirm that?
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Business of Select Committee
Ex-ante Scrutiny of Budget 2018 (Resumed): Minister for Finance (27 Sep 2017) Joan Burton: I have seen no indication that he would do otherwise.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Business of Select Committee
Ex-ante Scrutiny of Budget 2018 (Resumed): Minister for Finance (27 Sep 2017) Joan Burton: Also, he has to provide for the Christmas bonus out of current year resources. Effectively, we are talking about a great deal of money coming through simply because of the growth in the economy, notwithstanding that the income tax profiles are behind. Moving on to another area, as the previous speaker said, if we are going to expand services to the level that the Minister spoke of, he may...
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Business of Select Committee
Ex-ante Scrutiny of Budget 2018 (Resumed): Minister for Finance (27 Sep 2017) Joan Burton: I raised the issue last year of the extraordinary amount of tax losses built up by the banks and by the construction industry. In this context, why would the Minister not introduce a minimum effective corporation tax and other tax rates, even including relevant capital taxes, in order that people who have very good advisers to help them to avoid and evade, not withstanding whatever schemes...
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Business of Select Committee
Ex-ante Scrutiny of Budget 2018 (Resumed): Minister for Finance (27 Sep 2017) Joan Burton: Can I just say-----
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Business of Select Committee
Ex-ante Scrutiny of Budget 2018 (Resumed): Minister for Finance (27 Sep 2017) Joan Burton: I would say to the Minister on that point that the evidence shows otherwise. I would recommend that he develops courage around this. His two Fianna Fáil predecessors as Ministers for Finance agreed with me. They eventually commissioned a report on the cost of tax breaks. It took a little while longer to get that published but people were astonished at what it showed. This committee...
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Business of Select Committee
Ex-ante Scrutiny of Budget 2018 (Resumed): Minister for Finance (27 Sep 2017) Joan Burton: I cannot see any reason that it should not apply across the corporation tax front. I am talking of a minimum tax rate. We are talking about fairly low rates, which we would put forward, in a progressive way, and monitor, along with the annual reports on evasion and avoidance, in order that citizens can have the services that they would like to have.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Business of Select Committee
Ex-ante Scrutiny of Budget 2018 (Resumed): Minister for Finance (27 Sep 2017) Joan Burton: I would add just one brief comment.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Business of Select Committee
Ex-ante Scrutiny of Budget 2018 (Resumed): Minister for Finance (27 Sep 2017) Joan Burton: I do not believe that as a society we can stand over corporations which are approaching or have exceeded €1 billion in recovered profits and which have in the notes to their balance sheets tens of billions of euros in terms of potential tax write-downs, meaning that for a considerable period of time they will pay no tax at all. That is beyond the comprehension of most ordinary...
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Business of Select Committee
Ex-ante Scrutiny of Budget 2018 (Resumed): Minister for Finance (27 Sep 2017) Joan Burton: Will it be increased?
- Questions on Promised Legislation (28 Sep 2017)
Joan Burton: My question is in respect of the blueprint for maternity services in Ireland, to which the Government is committed. Ireland has one of the lowest breast-feeding rates by new mothers-----
- Questions on Promised Legislation (28 Sep 2017)
Joan Burton: It is in respect of the maternity strategy that the Government has published and supported. A key part of that strategy is supporting the expansion of breast-feeding by new mothers. I was both disappointed and shocked at the withdrawal of funding from the baby-friendly health initiative, which is supported by the UN and the World Health Organization, WHO, and which involves going into...
- Questions on Promised Legislation (28 Sep 2017)
Joan Burton: It was receiving budgetary support of €50,000 a year from the HSE.
- Questions on Promised Legislation (28 Sep 2017)
Joan Burton: It was a key part of the strategy that was laid out.
- Questions on Promised Legislation (28 Sep 2017)
Joan Burton: Like many other people, I was shocked-----
- Questions on Promised Legislation (28 Sep 2017)
Joan Burton: -----to find that the HSE has arbitrarily axed all of the funding to the point where this internationally supported initiative has closed down.
- Questions on Promised Legislation (28 Sep 2017)
Joan Burton: This is very important.
- Questions on Promised Legislation (28 Sep 2017)
Joan Burton: I am talking about the maternal health strategy, which-----