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Financial Resolutions 2013 - Budget Statement 2013 (5 Dec 2012)

Pearse Doherty: The Taoiseach said it was morally wrong, unjust and unfair to tax a person's house. He has sat opposite smirking at the fact he will introduce this same type of tax, asking people to pay it who cannot even pay their mortgages and who are struggling to get by.

Financial Resolutions 2013 - Budget Statement 2013 (5 Dec 2012)

Pearse Doherty: It is morally wrong, unjust and unfair. Those are the words of the Taoiseach. During the 2011 election campaign, the Tánaiste, Deputy Gilmore, promised not to introduce a family home tax on residential homes. He said, "We have to remember that many people have already paid a family home tax on their residential home in the form of stamp duty". Shame on the Taoiseach and Tánaiste...

Financial Resolutions 2013 - Budget Statement 2013 (5 Dec 2012)

Pearse Doherty: The Government wishes to tax people for having a roof over their heads, even if they have contributed already and are continuing to contribute to economic recovery.

Financial Resolutions 2013 - Budget Statement 2013 (5 Dec 2012)

Pearse Doherty: Most people’s houses are owned by the banks and most people must pay massive mortgages. For those who bought in the last decade, they are essentially paying dead money in payments on a house that is worth half of what they borrowed. So many young families bought houses because they were encouraged, cajoled and bribed into doing so by politicians, the Government and banks. Many of...

Financial Resolutions 2013 - Budget Statement 2013 (5 Dec 2012)

Pearse Doherty: The Government is not in a position to tell low or middle income families that they can manage without €10 a month in child benefit for each child - the figure is higher for subsequent children. I cannot imagine any of the Ministers opposite having to look into the recesses of their kitchen cupboards to try to find enough ingredients to put together a meal for their children, as many...

Financial Resolutions 2013 - Budget Statement 2013 (5 Dec 2012)

Pearse Doherty: -----that set out an investment strategy to create thousands of jobs. We showed how a €13 billion investment could be funded through the National Pensions Reserve Fund, NPRF, the European Investment Bank, EIB, and the private pension industry and by not cutting the capital budget. Instead, the Government has reduced the capital budget by €500 million. The Taoiseach would be as...

Financial Resolution No. 2: Tobacco Products Tax (5 Dec 2012)

Pearse Doherty: While Sinn Féin acknowledges that there are public health arguments behind each of these resolutions - the resolution that increases excise duty on alcohol products and the resolution that increases excise duty on tobacco products - we have been here previously. I do not want to rehearse the arguments that were made last year. The motivation of Government in this regard is not the...

Financial Resolution No. 5: Excise (5 Dec 2012)

Pearse Doherty: It is not agreed if Opposition Members are to be denied time.

Financial Resolution No. 5: Excise (5 Dec 2012)

Pearse Doherty: Yes.

Financial Resolution No. 5: Excise (5 Dec 2012)

Pearse Doherty: This group of financial resolutions deals with VRT, farmers' tax and motor trade tax. I will deal with the VRT and motor trade tax issues first. The reality is that many people depend on their cars to get from A to B. I listened to what the Taoiseach said about the drop in income in terms of revenue. The statistics bear that out. We moved to a CO2 model post-2008 and car manufacturers...

Financial Resolution No. 5: Excise (5 Dec 2012)

Pearse Doherty: In the majority of cases it will be smaller farmers who will fall into this category. I do not say it is small farmers exclusively. We can agree on that. A farmer who sells an animal for €100 is currently entitled to €5.20 on top of that under the VAT rules but the Government wants to reduce that to €4.80. It is not a fair tax. Let us be clear. The Government is...

Other Questions: Equality Issues (11 Dec 2012)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality his plans to reassure those with potential equality claims that their cases will continue to be processed in an effective way by the new Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission and by the Workplace Relations Commission, into which the Equality Tribunal is to be merged; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54483/12]

Confidence in the Government: Motion [Private Members] (11 Dec 2012)

Pearse Doherty: I move: That Dáil Éireann has no confidence in the Fine Gael and Labour coalition Government; which has failed to fulfil its obligations to make political decisions and choices which benefit the citizens of this State.It is disappointing that there is no senior Minister present for the debate. This is a simple motion which states that the House has no confidence in the Government...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Human Rights Issues (11 Dec 2012)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the International Labour Organisation’s Convention No. 29(1930) and Article 4 of the European Convention on Human Rights requires forced labour to be punishable as a criminal offence; in view of the fact that there is no law here that makes forced labour a criminal offence, his plans to...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Banking Operations (11 Dec 2012)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Finance the number of personal and or commercial loan accounts in Irish Bank Resolution Corporation, in which he is the shareholder of 100% of the shares, were found to have been charged interest rates in excess of those permitted by contractual arrangements between bank and customer and the amount of money and or credit that was refunded to such accounts in 2009, 2010...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Banking Operations (11 Dec 2012)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Finance if the Irish Bank Resolution Corporation or its predecessor repossessed property and or appointed receivers to assets of any account holder who was charged interest rates in excess of those permitted by contractual arrangements between bank and customer. [55097/12]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Banking Operations (11 Dec 2012)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Finance the number of personal and or commercial loan accounts in Allied Irish Banks, in which he is the shareholder of 99.8% of the shares, including the Educational Building Society, were found to have been charged interest rates in excess of those permitted by contractual arrangements between bank and customer and the amount of money and or credit that was...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Banking Operations (11 Dec 2012)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Finance the number of personal and or commercial loan accounts in Permanent TSB, in which he is the shareholder of 99.5% of the shares, were found to have been charged interest rates in excess of those permitted by contractual arrangements between bank and customer and the amount of money and or credit that was refunded to such accounts in 2009, 2010 and...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Public Sector Receipts (11 Dec 2012)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 227 of 27 November 2012, if he will provide a breakdown by Department and scheme of the expected public sector receipts from the EU budget in 2012 and 2013 of €1.85 billion and €1.7 billion respectively. [55388/12]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: National Asset Management Agency (11 Dec 2012)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Finance further to publication by the National Assets Management Agency of a report into the purchase of a property under its control by a former employee, if he will provide details of the two independent valuations of the property which NAMA previously claimed had been undertaken; specifically the dates of the valuations and the valuation amounts or ranges. [55389/12]