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- Finance (Local Property Tax) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (18 Dec 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It is not a tax on assets.
- Finance (Local Property Tax) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (18 Dec 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Along with Deputy Mitchell.
- Finance (Local Property Tax) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (18 Dec 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Who is Groucho Marx now?
- Finance (Local Property Tax) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (18 Dec 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I did.
- Finance (Local Property Tax) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (18 Dec 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I thought we were told the troika was ruling.
- Finance (Local Property Tax) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (18 Dec 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The troika has slipped the Minister's memory.
- Finance (Local Property Tax) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (18 Dec 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: A Leas-Cheann Comhairle, I was called to speak.
- Finance (Local Property Tax) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (18 Dec 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It is ironic that the Minister would ask for five minutes to reply, when he has ruthlessly guillotined the debate.
- Finance (Local Property Tax) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (18 Dec 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: -----because he would be better off working for them than designing taxes like this. This is farcical.
- Finance (Local Property Tax) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (18 Dec 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: These amendments highlight how farcical, how unfair and how full of anomalies, holes and injustices the Bill is.
- Finance (Local Property Tax) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (18 Dec 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Earlier this evening, the Minister revealed the prejudice that lies under his humour and intelligence, because he is funny and intelligent. Underlying his earlier comments was a deep prejudice. He said some people get up for work in the morning and walk past houses where other people do not get up for work in the morning, and why should they not make a contribution too? That gets to the...
- Finance (Local Property Tax) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (18 Dec 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: They are out of work through the reckless behaviour of bankers and speculators and the mismanagement of the State by Fianna Fáil and by the Opposition who did not raise a voice against Fianna Fáil's facilitation of those developers, bankers and speculators. That is why they are out of work, not in a position to pay this tax and in negative equity. They had to pay enormous sums of...
- Finance (Local Property Tax) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (18 Dec 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: This point has been raised with the Minister time and again. He gives us a comic routine in response.
- Finance (Local Property Tax) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (18 Dec 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It is not funny for the people who cannot make these payments. Government party Deputies do not like it now. They put the guillotine on.
- Finance (Local Property Tax) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (18 Dec 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Government is breaking our economy and families and destroying lives and livelihoods. They do not like it when they cannot give a smart answer back.
- Finance (Local Property Tax) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (18 Dec 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Minister also made an erroneous comment about funding local government. He did not answer the point that local government will be charged. Local authorities will get nothing from the property tax this year but they will be liable to pay for every council house in their ownership and they will load that cost onto the rents of local authority tenants. Even if they get money, they will...
- Finance (Local Property Tax) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (18 Dec 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The revolution in Russia was spurred on when the peasants joined up with those in the cities who were faced with injustice.
- Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Charges (18 Dec 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will consider a rebate to small businesses who go out of business but are still liable for rates for the full year if they are in business the day the rate was struck. [57092/12]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Public Sector Staff (18 Dec 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: To ask the Minister for Health in view of the commitment in the PSA to full engagement and detailed consultation with the Irish Medical Organisation and Irish Hospital Consultants Association with regard to changes in work practices that involve their members in the Health Service Executive, if he is satisfied that these requirements have been adhered to in the case of the HSE's recent...
- Order of Business (19 Dec 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I also object to the guillotine being imposed on this legislation. It is clear that the banks are not willing to engage in the sort of debt write-down that is necessary to deal with this suffocating burden of distressed mortgage debt. In that context, serious questions need to be asked and teased out about whether this legislation will achieve the aim of dealing with the problem of mortgage...