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- Order of Business (14 Dec 2012)
Pearse Doherty: A Cheann Comhairle-----
- Order of Business (14 Dec 2012)
Pearse Doherty: I object to proposal No. 3. It is unacceptable that the family home tax legislation is to be rammed through the Dáil, with the debate on Second Stage to conclude by 6 p.m. and all other Stages to be taken on Tuesday. Even though there is an additional sitting next Monday, the Government does not see fit to allow this House to debate one of the most draconian pieces of legislation we...
- Order of Business (14 Dec 2012)
Pearse Doherty: It is absolutely appalling that the same families that were hit by the reduction of €325 in the respite care grant will be hit by a property tax if this legislation is passed next Tuesday. The one in four households that cannot pay their mortgages and the families already in poverty will be slapped with this tax by the Labour Party and Fine Gael. It is another broken promise. The...
- Order of Business (14 Dec 2012)
Pearse Doherty: This is not the way to deal with legislation. Members of the Labour Party and Fine Gael should stand up and say this is not acceptable on their watch.
- Order of Business (14 Dec 2012)
Pearse Doherty: We want to object to the way the business for Monday's sitting has been ordered. We have no objection to the House sitting on Monday, Indeed Sinn Féin called for such a sitting in order that an additional debate on budgetary matters might take place. The proposal before the House indicates that Monday's sitting will be mostly taken up by the debate on the expert group report. People...
- Order of Business (14 Dec 2012)
Pearse Doherty: There are very-----
- Order of Business (14 Dec 2012)
Pearse Doherty: -----few families which are doubled over with laughter in their homes this morning.
- Order of Business (14 Dec 2012)
Pearse Doherty: They are reeling from the fact that the Social Welfare Bill has been passed by this House and that the Government plans to ram through, with little or no debate, a family home tax which is going to impose a further burden on them.
- Order of Business (14 Dec 2012)
Pearse Doherty: We have heard about Deputies wrestling with their consciences in respect of the cuts to child benefit and the respite care grant. The families to which I refer are going to be expected to pay the family home tax.
- Order of Business (14 Dec 2012)
Pearse Doherty: What is happening is absolutely appalling. There should be a sitting on Monday and we should take the opportunity it offers to debate the family home tax. In addition, there should be an Order of Business, Leaders' Questions, a Topical Issue Debate and Question Time. That is the form a proper sitting should take. What we will probably get is another glib response from the Minister, Deputy...
- Credit Institutions (Stabilisation) Act 2010: Motion (14 Dec 2012)
Pearse Doherty: In his statement, the Minister pointed out how successful the banks have been in deleveraging, attracting and retaining deposits, as well as how well recapitalised they are and how they have been able to access moneys in the international funding markets without the guarantee. All of this is true and some of it is to be welcomed. The Minister, however, did not address how those who fund the...
- Finance (Local Property Tax) Bill 2012: Second Stage (14 Dec 2012)
Pearse Doherty: Yesterday two truly shocking documents landed on my desk. They also landed on the desk of every other Deputy in this House and those of Senators. The first of these documents includes the Central Bank's residential mortgage arrears and repossessions statistics for the third quarter of 2012, while the second is the Society of St. Vincent de Paul’s response to budget 2013. Anybody who...
- Finance (Local Property Tax) Bill 2012: Second Stage (14 Dec 2012)
Pearse Doherty: Are responses to parliamentary questions false?
- Finance (Local Property Tax) Bill 2012: Second Stage (14 Dec 2012)
Pearse Doherty: Has the Minister for Finance misled the Dáil through responses to parliamentary questions?
- Finance (Local Property Tax) Bill 2012: Second Stage (14 Dec 2012)
Pearse Doherty: No, we have not.
- Finance (Local Property Tax) Bill 2012: Second Stage (14 Dec 2012)
Pearse Doherty: The figure is accurate.
- Finance (Local Property Tax) Bill 2012: Second Stage (14 Dec 2012)
Pearse Doherty: That is not even a parliamentary question. The point I was going to make, if the Minister of State had listened, was that there were other proposals that could have been considered. Reference was made to increasing taxes on higher income earners. What about a gambling levy? When I was young, I used to walk to the bookmaker's for my father to place a bet. If one bet €10, one had to...
- Finance (Local Property Tax) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (18 Dec 2012)
Pearse Doherty: A number of amendments have been ruled out of order, and I am not challenging the ruling of the Ceann Comhairle in that regard. There is, however, a need for clarification for future legislation. This is not a property tax. The Minister knows what property is. It is not just a home. It also includes other assets, such as stocks and shares, gold, savings and so on. The Bill proposes a...
- Finance (Local Property Tax) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (18 Dec 2012)
Pearse Doherty: Section 1 deals with when the Act will come into operation and the Title of the Act, which deems it a local property tax. That is an offence to what is contained in the legislation because it is not a local property tax. Property is far more than a family home. If the Government really wanted to introduce an assets tax or property tax, it would have proposed something similar to what I...
- Finance (Local Property Tax) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (18 Dec 2012)
Pearse Doherty: Deputy Bannon has not read the Bill.